Culture
What We Do
- Promote culture for sustainable development
- Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage for sustainable development
- Conduct scientific and community-based research
- Mainstreaming living heritage into school activities through school culture clubs for development
- Development and support of creative industries through cultural villages, centres and other heritage sites for cultural tourism
- Facilitation of training and support of cultural entrepreneurship
- Conduct training on community based inventorying and documentation
- Organisation and participation in culture events at national, regional and international levels.
- Coordination and implementation of bilateral and multilateral cultural projects
- Implementation of UNESCO culture conventions at National and international levels
- Development, coordination and implementation of cultural and heritage policies
Programmes
The ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage’ means the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills – as well as the instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces associated therewith – that communities, groups and, in some cases, individuals recognize as part of their cultural heritage. This intangible cultural heritage, transmitted from generation to generation, is constantly recreated by communities and groups in response to their environment, their interaction with nature and their history, and provides them with a sense of identity and continuity, thus promoting respect for cultural diversity and human creativity.
For the purposes of this Convention, consideration will be given solely to such intangible cultural heritage as is compatible with existing international human rights instruments, as well as with the requirements of mutual respect among communities, groups and individuals, and of sustainable development (Basic Texts of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, 2022 Edition, p.5)
https://ich.unesco.org/doc/src/29818-EN.pdf
- ICH Inscription to UNESCO lists
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- Representative list of the ICH of humanity
- Oshituthi shomagongo, Marula fruit festival
- Nomination form
- Photos
- Consent of communities
- Video
- For more information visit: https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/oshituthi-shomagongo-marula-fruit-festival-01089
- Oshituthi shomagongo, Marula fruit festival
- Representative list of the ICH of humanity
- List of ICH in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
- Programmes, projects and activities for the safeguarding of the ICHOkuruuo
Aixan/Gana/Ob#ANS TSI //Khasigu, ancestral musical sound knowledge and skills
Safeguarding intangible cultural Heritage in basic Education
- Link for SAICH
- Link to 2003 Convention for the safeguarding of Intangible cultural Heritage website
Cultural tourism is defined as movements of persons for essentially cultural motivations such as study tours, performing arts and cultural tours, travel to festivals and other cultural events, visits to sites and monuments, travel to study nature, folklore or art, and pilgrimages (United Nations World Tourism Organization. It is a type of tourism activity in which the visitor’s essential motivation is to learn, discover, experience and consume the tangible and intangible cultural attractions/products in a tourism destination. These attractions/products relate to a set of distinctive material, intellectual, spiritual, and emotional features of a society that encompasses arts and architecture, historical and cultural heritage, culinary heritage, literature, music, creative industries and the living cultures with their lifestyles, value systems, beliefs and traditions. The main types of cultural tourism are purposeful, sightseeing, casual and incidental.
- Community cultural villages/ centers
- Maria Mwengere cultural centre
- Omuthiya Cultural centre
- Cultural Industries
- Heritage sites
The 1972 Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage developed from the merging of two separate movements: the first focusing on the preservation of cultural sites, and the other dealing with the conservation of nature. This Heritage Convention aims to promote cooperation among nations to protect heritage sites around in Namibia and the world at large that is of such outstanding universal value that its conservation is important for current and future generations
- School culture clubs for development
- National and international exhibitions
- Regional, national festivals and state events
The 1972 Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage developed from the merging of two separate movements: the first focusing on the preservation of cultural sites, and the other dealing with the conservation of nature. This Heritage Convention aims to promote cooperation among nations to protect heritage sites around in Namibia and the world at large that is of such outstanding universal value that its conservation is important for current and future generations
- School culture clubs for development
- National and international exhibitions
- Regional, national festivals and state events