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1416 Events
6-9 September 2022
The city of Quebec (Canada) will have the honor of hosting the 16th World Congress of the OWHC, from September 6 to 9, 2022. The theme, “Enhancing Livability in World Heritage Cities,” is particularly pertinent to consider emerging new lifestyles, how ways of inhabiting cities are changing and the wants and needs of various city users (inhabitants, but also elected officials, technicians, ...
5 September 2022
Presented by Tai Kwun – Centre for Heritage and Arts in collaboration with UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education (UNESCO Bangkok), this series of conversations explores innovative strategies for integrating urban heritage into the wider goals of sustainable development. With a regional focus on Asia and the Pacific, it aims to inspire local actions and creative solutions as ...
25 August 2022 - 3 November 2022
The International Centre for the Interpretation and Presentation of World Heritage Sites under the auspices of UNESCO (hereinafter the WHIPIC) will hold the 2022 Online Lecture and Webinar Series on Understanding World Heritage Interpretation, which consists of five sessions from 25 August to 3 November. In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, the WHIPIC ...
16 August 2022
The 50-year Anniversary will be acknowledged at a small celebratory morning tea at the first Riversleigh World Heritage Advisory Committee meeting in August ...
15 August 2022
From 11 June to 16 November 2022, WHITRAP Shanghai will organize a series of 6 monthly online World Heritage Dialogues including a WHITRAP Herit-AP Chat, in July, hosted by the College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) Tongji University (Shanghai, China) to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, which was ...
11 August 2022
On 11 August 2022, the final restitution workshop for the pilot implementation of the UNESCO Thematic Indicators for Culture in the 2030 Agenda (UNESCO Culture|2030 Indicators) was organized by the Ministry of Culture and Youth and the Municipality of Alajuela in close collaboration with UNESCO. The workshop was held online, gathering more than 20 participants, including representatives from ...
10 August 2022 - 10 November 2022
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of World Heritage. Anthology 3 (Exhibition of paintings from the museum collection of modern and contemporary art). The exhibition will consist important works from the most influential painters of the Macedonian and ex Yugoslavian area, with works in the field of abstraction and enformel style.Sasho Blazheskifine art conservatorNational institution for ...
30 July 2022 - 7 August 2022
This year’s edition of the Singapore Botanic Gardens Heritage Festival is held in conjunction with the Singapore Garden Festival. From 30 July to 7 August 2022, the Gardens will bring you through a heritage journey with activities such as concerts, guided tours, DIY trails, and virtual activities! Join for fun-filled programmes curated to celebrate the Gardens' rich heritage: ...
23 July 2022
The goal of the activity is to include the World Heritage site in many of local community activities, and to establish seasonal activities that draw visitors on a regular basis.Active heritage marches across the streets of different cities in homeland Palestine and in all parts of the world, decorated with traditional Palestinian dress for all segments of society, drawing a Palestinian ...
20 July 2022
As Curonian Spit is one of the most vulnerable places in Lithuania and the Baltic sea area, where global warming may cause irreversible change, it is the appropriate place to discuss climate change. Surrounded by waters and buffeted by harsh winds, this narrow piece of land has suffered extreme forces of nature. However, people have never given up on adapting to life here, initiating massive ...
15 July 2022
On 15 July 2022, the final restitution workshop for the pilot implementation of the UNESCO Thematic Indicators for Culture in the 2030 Agenda (UNESCO Culture|2030 Indicators) was organized by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia and the District Secretariat of Culture, Recreation and Sports of Bogota in close collaboration with UNESCO. The workshop was held at the Aurelio Arturo Auditorium of ...
14 July 2022
As part of the monthly Wright Virtual Visits Series, an online program bringing you virtually to Frank Lloyd Wright-designed public sites, we will feature the eight sites that are part of "The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright" UNESCO World Heritage site. We will review the Outstanding Universal Value for each site through a pre-recorded video segment followed by live Q&A ...
13 July 2022
The scientific data concerning coral reefs is now very alarming. Under the current emissions scenario, all 29 World Heritage-listed reefs are expected to experience annual severe bleaching from 2040. This month’s online meeting with marine World Heritage managers will highlight the best practices and latest innovations to monitor, prepare for and manage coral bleaching. The latest IPCC ...
7 July 2022
Peace is one of the pillars of UNESCO. In an unstable world, the future of nations does not depend only on their economic capital or their natural resources, but on their collective capacity to promote peace, the active participation of each in the new world public space is a condition for peace and development. The current moment we live in, it is essential to use World Heritage as a ...
7 July 2022
Peace is one of the pillars of UNESCO. In an unstable world, the future of nations does not depend only on their economic capital or their natural resources, but on their collective capacity to promote peace, the active participation of each in the new world public space is a condition for peace and development. The current moment we live, with the war in Ukraine and in other parts of the ...
5 July 2022 - 31 December 2022
A museum display at the Eswatini National Museum on Lion Cavern, the world's oldest mine. Lion Cavern is on the tentative list for World Heritage. It is an ochre mine dating back well into the Middle Stone Ages in Africa and is dated to 43 000 years ago. Ochre was, and is, used for symbolic purposes in Southern Africa, and the mine remains a sacred site to shamanic healers. There was research ...
4 July 2022 - 2 January 2023
50th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention - Celebrating Queensland’s World Heritage Properties: Great Barrier Reef, K’gari (Fraser Island), Riversleigh, Gondwana and the Wet Tropics of Queensland.For more information:Toni ThwaitesExecutive Officer K'gari[Department Environment and Science QLDtoni.thwaites@des.qld.gov.au
1 July 2022 - 30 December 2022
Raising awareness on World Heritage site management, Risk Disaster Management and Sustainable tourism development to the provincial government agencies, district authorities agencies and high schools around World Heritage sites.Paxa NYORDSAVANHAacademic OfficerMinistry of Information, Culture and Tourism of the Lao PDRnyordsavanh@yahoo.com
30 June 2022
The challenges experienced by the World Heritage properties are the symptoms of crises of global magnitude. The solution-oriented discussions around the future of our World Heritage therefore, require expertise well beyond the realm of heritage. UNESCO launches “50 Minds for The Next 50” to convene fifty leading, innovative, bold, respected thinkers of our times from diverse disciplines for ...
30 June 2022
In the context of the HUL Call for Action and building on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the World Heritage Cities Programme organised a meeting with UNESCO Chairs and Category 2 Centres (C2C) Representatives on the topic "Implementing the HUL Recommendation: a common approach" on 30 June 2022 at 12.00 - 14.00 (CEST).  The event brought together 38 participants from ...