Talking Revivalism
CultureTalking Revivalism our Heritage, Thursday, 14 October , 2021 on Power 106 (106.1 FM) – 2:00-5:00pm
| READ MOREBuild Resilience of Caribbean SIDS to Disasters and Climate Change through Enhancing the Culture Sector’s Disaster Preparedness for Effective Response
Activity FinancingThe Jamaica National Commission for UNESCO has been contracted by the UNESCO Cluster Office for the Caribbean to facilitate the pilot initiative in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport. The proposed duration of the project is five months commencing in August and ending in December 2021. | READ MORE
CONGRATULATIONS JAMAICA
CultureJamaica was today (4 June 2021) elected to the Intergovernmental Committee on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, 2022-.2025. | READ MORE
IFCD approves 72,197 USD for “Validating Jamaica’s Cultural & Creative Industry through Economic Impact Assessments and National Statistical System”
CultureThe Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions has approved the application submitted by the Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) to implement the project entitled “Validating Jamaica’s Cultural & Creative Industry through Economic Impact Assessments and National Statistical System (JAM NSS-CCI)” (in Decision 14.IGC […]
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UNESCO Culture & Public Policy Tracker | Issue 5
publicationstracker_2.0_issue_5_en on the creative economy
| READ MOREInternational Scientific Committee of UNESCO’s Slave Route Project
CultureDr. Sonjah Stanley Niaah Appointed Member, International Scientific Committee of UNESCO’s Slave Route Project Posted: December 04, 2017 The International Scientific Committee (ISC) of the Slave Route Project now has a new UWI representative. | READ MORE
Watt Town Pilgrimage, March 2020
culture“According to Oral History the site at Watt Town in the Hills of St. Ann has been in operation before Emancipation. | READ MORE
The workshop on UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property/UNIDROIT Convention
cultureThe workshop on UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property and the UNIDROIT Convention was held in Kingston, Jamaica, from 2-5 March 2020. It provided a platform for exchanging practices and identifying measures to help Caribbean Member […]
| READ MORECommunity-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage: wrap up workshop
other-projectsA wrap-up workshop of the project “Community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage” was organized in July in Kingston, Jamaica five months after its launching. Since March, members from three communities of Kingston were invited to join capacity building workshops on community-based inventorying and conduct inventorying of their living heritage. | READ MORE
Pilot Community-based Inventorying of Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Urban Context of Kingston, Jamaica
other-projectsThe African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank (ACIJ/JMB), in collaboration with the Jamaica National Commission for UNESCO and the UNESCO Cluster Office for the Caribbean, coordinated a pilot, community-based, training workshop on the inventorying of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in the urban context of Kingston on March 11, 2019 […]
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