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Intangible Cultural Heritage

Latvian National Centre for Culture will celebrate the new values of the national intangible cultural Heritage List

on November 15, Joseph Wheatall at the Latvian Academy of music will be presented with testimonials regarding the inclusion of new values in THE LIST of NKM.

October 17 – International intangible cultural Heritage day!

October 17 has been declared International intangible cultural Heritage day. Throughout the day on Facebook, it's possible to keep track of a common intangible cultural heritage...

Two values will add to the national list of intangible cultural Heritage

On Friday, October 11, the Council of intangible cultural Heritage of the national cultural Centre of Latvia evaluated and approved applications for supplementation of the national intangible Heritage List....

Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is a source of cultural affiliation, identity and self-awareness. It includes forms of customs, games and oral expression, knowledge and skills, and related instruments, objects, artifacts and cultural spaces, which are recognised by the communities, groups and, in some cases, individual, as part of their cultural heritage.

Fishing nets on the west coast of the Gulf of Riga (2024)

The skills of fishing networking occupations are considered to be the basis for the cultural and historical heritage and identity of the Community, since over the centuries the occupation of...

Oral tradition and expressions, including the language as an intangible cultural heritage carrier; Traditional craft skills;

Making of traditional Latvian waistline fabrics (2024)

The traditional Community of waistline fabric makers is made up of people who make waistline fabrics without using looms and have mastered these skills from...

Traditional craft skills;

Piebalga cultural space (2023)

The cultural space of Piebalgs is made up of less than six thousand inhabitants. The refreshments have a pronounced sense of belonging to the place and space where they live and are represented....

Other area; Oral tradition and expressions, including the language as an intangible cultural heritage carrier; Customs, rituals, festivals; Games/performatīvās mākslas; Traditional kitchen; Traditional craft skills; Knowledge and customs related to nature and the universe;

Card-weaving tradition in Northern Latgale (2023)

The waistbands (knee belts, knees, knee shoes, knee handkerchiefs) have taken their name from knee tables – boards in which I pull...

Traditional craft skills;

Collection and use of mushrooms (2023)

Mushrooms traditionally include harvesting wild mushrooms, which usually take place in the forest, as well as further processing and preparing harvested mushrooms for immediate use...

Traditional kitchen; Knowledge and customs related to nature and the universe;

Bārta cultural space (2023)

The Barta cultural space is an important cultural and historical place in lower Courland where traditions are preserved and maintained alive. Barta's cultural space is made up of a Community of residents who...

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