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Intangible Cultural Heritage
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Calls for applicants for the traditional Culture Excellence Prize in the People's applied Arts sector
Applications must be submitted by 30 September 2024. 17.00.
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Baltic-Nordic project LIVIND concluded
LIVIND's concluding seminar, “living Legacy for a sustainable future,” was held in Helsinki from May 15-17.
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A competition on the theme of the folklore festival “Baltica 2025” has concluded
A total of 15 applications were received, of which the jury found the theme “language” offered by Edeite happiness to be the best.
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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.
Piebalgs 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;
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Knee belt weaving tradition in North 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;
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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;
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Barta 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...

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;
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Vidzeme Livonian Cultural Space (2022)

The Livonian cultural space of Vidzeme is formed in the ancient Livonian Metsepoli region and is still inhabited and hosted by descendants of the Livonian families of Vidzeme. Vidzeme lib...

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;
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The Nīca cultural space (2022)

The cultural space of the site can be found in the territory of modern Nietz and Otanku civil parish, about 20 km from Liepaja State capital, between the Baltic Sea, Lake Liepaja...

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;
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