UNESCO’s ICH facilitator Paritta Chalermpow Koanantakool gives lectures.

Taking the practice of multinational nomination as an example, Wang Fuzhou, vice president of the Chinese National Academy of Arts and director-general of the China National Center for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage, said ICH safeguarding workers need to preserve cultural richness from the perspectives of traditional thoughts and values, and strive to find new methods for ICH safeguarding.

China actively contributes new ideas to the rules for multinational nomination and has always made efforts to help establish a complete system for its ICH safeguarding endeavor, Wang added.

CRIHAP’s director-general Liang Bin said the workshop serves as a platform for exchange for all parties involved, adding he looked forward to seeing close cooperation between trainees in multinational nominations in the future.

UNESCO’s ICH facilitator Suzanne Ogge gives lectures.

During the four-day online workshop, UNESCO’s ICH facilitators Paritta Chalermpow Koanantakool and Suzanne Ogge introduced to trainees the importance, purposes and mechanisms for multinational nominations on ICH, and also vital details in nomination documents that require special attention.

Paritta Chalermpow Koanantakool discussed the rich, shared heritages in Southeast Asia and their historical development from ecological, historical and cultural perspectives.

In her talk, Nguyen Thi Hien, a former member of the Evaluation Body of UNESCO, focused on common questions concerning nomination documents and the criteria for ICH evaluation. She stressed cooperation between communities deserves full attention and presentation in nomination documents.

Nguyen Thi Hien, a former member of the Evaluation Body of UNESCO, talks at the workshop.

The workshop brought to trainees not only a wealth of knowledge but also vivid examples of successful nominations, allowing the trainees to get familiar with the whole process of multinational nomination on ICH.

Therefore, to this end, CRIHAP invited Bamo Qubumo, a researcher with the Institute of Ethnic Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Mohd. Syahrin Bin Abdullah, director of the World Heritage Division at the Department of National Heritage of Malaysian Ministry of Tourism and Culture, to talk at the workshop.

They each gave detailed lectures about two elements on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity 2020: The Ong Chun/Wangchuan/Wangkang ceremony, rituals and related practices for maintaining the sustainable connection between man and the ocean, jointly nominated by China and Malaysia, and the Pantun, a form of Malay verse used to express intricate ideas and emotions, jointly nominated by Malaysia and Indonesia.