Intangible cultural heritage

Slava is an annual feast honoring a family's patron saint.

It's deeply embedded in Serbian ethnic identity, and it has been inscribed as such on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list.

So as my grandpa was called Nikola, of course, that I was often during '90s asked, uh, which, uh, saint patron's day my family, uh, does celebrate.

We didn't celebrate it when I was, uh, already in the elementary school.

They opened restaurants and incorporated local foods, adapted to cooking some tagine dishes in pressure cookers, and shifted Moroccan food from an immigrant cuisine to what we have today as something that is global and somewhat exotic to Western palates.

Did you know, by the way, that they actually, in 2017, UNESCO recognized Moroccan cuisine and the tagine kind of itself as a central symbol on the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage sites for humanity?

No, but they should.

I'm glad they did.

You talk about dishes that sort of represent colonized countries.

And I thought about soup jumeau as well for Haiti, which was actually added to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list.

and is a symbol of freedom from slavery.

And it's eaten, I think, the first day of each new year to celebrate sort of the freedom of Haiti.

In July 1999, Silbo Gomero was officially included into the school curriculum, ensuring that this remarkable language would be passed on to new generations.

On September 30th, 2029, UNESCO added it to their representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, recognizing it as a treasure worth protecting.

The meditative quality of listening to Silbo Gomero comes from its remarkable simplicity, the fact that complex human meaning can be reduced to nothing but melody and breath, the sound of a human voice shaped into pure song.

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Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia will jointly nominate traditional Malay dance form Zappin for UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list.

The four countries aim to submit the bid in March 2027, with a decision expected two to three years later.

It will be Singapore's first joint nomination of a performing art and its fourth UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage bid.

Zappin is believed to have reached the Malay archipelago between the 13th and 15th centuries and combines choreographed dance with traditional music.

Singapore's previous nominations include Hawker Culture in 2020 and The Kabaya in 2024.

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Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia will jointly nominate traditional Malay dance form Zappin for UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list.

The four countries aim to submit the bid in March 2027, with a decision expected two to three years later.

It will be Singapore's first joint nomination of a performing art and its fourth UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage bid.

Zappin is believed to have reached the Malay archipelago between the 13th and 15th centuries and combines choreographed dance with traditional music.

Singapore's previous successful nominations include Hawker Culture in 2020 and The Kabaya in 2024.