WORKSHOP ON SAFEGUARDING OF THE INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE The Directorate of Art and Culture will be organizing a workshop on Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO in Goa on April 27 and 28, 2015 from 9.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. at the Sanskruti Bhavan, Patto, Panjim.
The workshop aims to educate the participants on the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and to initiate a methodology to develop a State Inventory List on ICH in Goa. Experts working in the field of Cultural Heritage in Goa will be accommodated in the workshop. The two days workshop programme will include: Introduction of the UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention in brief; Discussion of the concept, various approaches and methodologies of inventorying; Formulating the format for inventorying ICH for Goa and Guidance on the process of community participatory field survey. The facilitators for the workshop are Dr. Shubha Chaudhuri, Associate Director General (Academic), Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies, Ms. Ananya Bhattacharya, Director, www.banglanatak.com and Ms. Moe Chiba, Section Chief and Programme Specialist for Culture at UNESCO New Delhi.... Shubha Chaudhuri shubhac[at]yahoo.com Ananya Bhattacharya, Director and Vice President-Projects, is an Electrical Engineer (Jadavpur University, 1989) and a Commonwealth Scholar with Masters in Sustainable Development (Staffordshire University,UK, 2004). Ananya specializes in gender, culture & development. ananya[at]banglanatak.com Moe Chiba m.chiba[at]unesco.org
