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National Workshop on Intangible Cultural Heritage Jamaica
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A second national workshop on community based inventorying of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) is being organised by the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica / Jamaica Memory Bank in collaboration with the Jamaica National Commission for UNESCO and the UNESCO Cluster Office for the Caribbean.
The workshop will be held from September 4th to 13th at the Hotel Four Seasons in Kingston. The public is invited to the opening ceremony on September 4th commencing at 9 p.m.
Funded by the Government of Japan, the workshop is part of a sub-regional project being implemented in Belize, Jamaica, and Trinidad & Tobago within the context of UNESCO’s Global Strategy on capacity building on safeguarding intangible cultural heritage.
The workshop will be facilitated by two international experts, Dr. Harriet Deacon and Dr. Kris Rampersad. Focus will be placed on a) community involvement in identifying and inventorying in accordance with/as advocated by the UNESCO’s Intangible Heritage Convention; b) information gathering with communities; c) organising, accessing and updating information in inventories and d) a hands on experience in preparing field work.
Various stakeholders such as government officials, non – governmental organizations, and community practitioners will come together to partake in the 8-day workshop on the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
The Hon. Lisa Hanna, Minister of Youth and Culture; Mr. Koji Tomita, Counsellor / Deputy Chief of Mission at the Japan Embassy; Mr. Robert Parau, Officer in Charge, UNESCO Kingston Cluster Office for the Caribbean; and Mr. Everton Hannam, Secretary General, Jamaica National Commission for UNESCO will be a part of the opening panel. Cultural icon and international reggae super star Bunny Wailer will perform at the opening ceremony.
The African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica (ACIJ) and the Jamaica Memory Bank (JMB) began as independent agencies in 1972 and 1980 respectively.
In 1990, they were integrated to complement each other in fulfilling the mission to collect, research, document, analyses and preserve and disseminate information about Jamaica’s cultural heritage through the utilization of oral and scribal sources.
Since its inception, the ACIJ/JMB has released numerous publications including issues of an occasional Research Review, which feature articles highlighting diverse aspects of the Caribbean’s Culture.
In striving to fulfill its mandate issued it by its founders the ACIJ/JMB has constantly engaged in the process of discovery and validation of traditions once little understood or not generally recognized as having any importance to the sociocultural psyche of the nation.
This has led, throughout the years, to unqualified support for anthropological, historical and ethnological studies seeking a greater understanding of the cultural phenomena at the core of the nations social existence, which have for years been under valued, and hence placed outside the realm of serious and consistent academic inquiry.
Arising from this work, the ACIJ/JMB has been able to make a significant contribution to scholarship, and to creating a greater public awareness of the totality of our cultural provenance.
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