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To the Convention on Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage

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Egil Bakka

Main editor

PROGRAM 

NGO Forum during the 7^th Intergovernmental Committee meeting

2 December 2012, Paris

(version 5 NOVEMBER 2012)

Date and time: Sunday 2 December 2012, 10 a.m. – 17 p.m.

Place: ´Maison des associations du 7ème arrondissement´, 4, rue Amélie, 75007 Paris (see map below). Building open at 9:30 a.m.

There will be no interpreters and the used language will be English.

As the number of seats is limited (60), participants are asked to register before 24 November 2012 with Jorijn Neyrinck (info@tapisplein.be), by supplying (1) first name, (2) last name, (3) institution (NGO/ State/ Centre, ...) and (4) whether attending the morning session (symposium) or afternoon session (business for NGO representatives) or both.

* dr. Albert van der Zeijden, VIE (The Netherlands)

In search of a community who can safeguard ICH. The example of All Souls in the Netherlands

* Barbara Terenzi and Giuseppe Torre - Associazione Culturale Totarella, le zampogne del Pollino - ICHNet (Italy)

(without title until now / I asked them to send us a title) 

* Stephen Rwagweri, Engabu Zo Tooro (Uganda, East Africa)

Community Participation; The results of the 2003 UNESCO Convention.

* Naila Ceribasic, ICTM (international NGO)

The issue of community and community participation on the example of women’s heritage included in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity