12th Intl (Shanghai) ICH Protection Forum Successfully Held
On June 6th, as an important cultural event to celebrate the Cultural and Natural Heritage Day, the 12th International (Shanghai) Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Forum was successfully held.
Guest from all walks were enthusiastic about
the 12th International (Shanghai)
Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Forum
The 12th International (Shanghai) Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Forum was hosted by Shanghai Art Collection Museum, Shanghai Art & Design Academy, and Shanghai Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, under the guide of Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism, Foreign Affairs Office of Shanghai Municipal People’s Government, and Shanghai Changning District People’s Government, and with the support from National Exhibition & Convention Center (Shanghai). The forum, as a complementary event to the 14th International Exhibition of Traditional Fine Arts, which has been held for 14 successive years, has been included in the program of building the brand of “Shanghai Culture” and in the major projects of “The Revitalization Plan of Shanghai Traditional Arts and Crafts”; it is also a key project of cultural exchange of the Shanghai Municipal Government to promote the "Belt and Road" Friendship City construction, and listed by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China as an important celebration in honour of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. The forum has been widely supported by government agencies, professional institutions, art masters, intangible cultural heritage inheritors, and other sectors of society, from more than 60 countries around the world.
Themed by "Crafting for Innovation: Diversified Expressions of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Social Participation", the forum is divided into four sections: "The Responsibilities of Relevant Institutions", "Multiple Perspectives on the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage", "Local Characteristics of the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage", and the round-table discussion. Experts and scholars from China, the UK, Japan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Syria, and the USA are invited to share their experiences and practices in safeguarding and managing intangible cultural heritage with case analyses, so as to build bridges for exchanges and cooperation in the field around the globe, as well as to put forward practical suggestions.
National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai)
Host
Host
President of Shanghai Art & Design Academy
Song Lei
Oration
Opening Speech by
Second-grade Inspector, Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism
You Haiyang
Sector I:
The Responsibility of Relevant Institutions
Vice-president of Association of China’s Museum and President of Beijing
Museum Society
Liu Chaoying
"Exploration and Practice of Chinese Museums' Participation in Safeguarding
Intangible Cultural Heritage"
Director of Shanghai Library
Chen Chao
"Public Libraries and Intangible Cultural Heritage: Preservation, Protection,
Dissemination and Transmission--Practices and Reflections of Shanghai Library"
Director of National Museums Liverpool
Laura Pye
"Intangible Cultural Heritage in National Museums Liverpool"
Director General of Sharjah Museums Authority
Aisha Deemas
"A Review of the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Emirate of Sharjah"
At the forum, Liu Chaoying, Vice-president of Association of China’s Museum and President of Beijing Museum Society, explained that the museum can not only organize exhibitions, but also dynamically display folklore, cultural arts and dances, etc. which will help to increase the public's understanding and experience of intangible cultural heritage.
Chen Chao, Director of Shanghai Library, shared the case of Shanghai Library in restoring and preserving ancient books and inscriptions as an inheritor of intangible cultural heritage. He also demonstrated his ideas of public libraries in preserving, broadcasting and protecting intangible cultural heritage and cultivating relavant inheritors.
Shanghai Art & Design Academy
Oration by Representative of Organizers
Introduction of the Forum by
President of Shanghai Art Collection Museum
Hu Muqing
Welcoming Speech by
Xu Tao
Secretary of the CPC Committee of Shanghai Art & Design Academy,
Host
Host:
Wu Penghong
the Director of Shanghai Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center
ntangible Heritage Song and Dance
by Chinese and Indonesian
Teachers and Students
Section 2:
Multiple Perspectives on the Protection of
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Director of Intangible Heritage
in Ministry of Culture, Syria
Rula Akili
"The Intangible Cultural Heritage of Syria"
President of Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association
Tjok Oka Artha Ardana Sukawati
“The Influence of Chinese Culture on the Cultural Transformation of Bali”
Rector of Institut Seni Indonesia Denpasa
I Wayan ‘Kun’Adnyana
“Balinese Intangible Values On Art Practices Belief
Systems-Exercises-Art Makings”
Finance Director of Todaiji Temple and Head of the Great Buddha Hall
Morimoto Kojo
“Conservation of Cultural Heritage of Todaiji Temple”
Section 3:
Local Characteristics of the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage
Director of the Kyoto Arts and Crafts Writers Association
Noboru Hata
“The Experience of Intergenerational Transfer of Traditional Japanese Crafts”
Head of the Cultural Heritage Maintenance
and Development Division,
Cultural Service Office of
Yogyakarta Speical Region
Rully Andriadi
“Wayang Berber Remeng Mangunjoyo And Daluang Paper: Indonesia’s Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Frame of Panji Tales”
President of the Suzhou Folk Literature and Art Association
Huai Nian
“Exploration and Practice of the Inheritance Path of Folk Handicrafts:
Take Suzhou as an Example”
Director of Archaeology Management at Sharjah Archaeology Authority
Saeed Abdulla Binyarouf Alnaqbi
“Al-Maleh in the Emirates Cultural Heritage”
Member of American Anthropological Association, Anthropologist
Wang Hailong
"American Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection: The Anthropological Perspective”
Round Table Discusion
Hosted by
Tang Tingqiang
Head of Shanghai Art & Design Academy
Makimasa Imai
Deputy Director of Kyoto Arts and Crafts Writers Association
Isnani Umi Muslikhah
Pamong Budaya (Canidate) of Sonobudoyo Museum
Zhou Nan
Director of Shanghai Arts and Crafts Society
This year is the key year for the Chinese government to achieve the goals of the "14th Five-Year Plan", so it is of special significance to hold this forum on the occasion of the National Natural and Cultural Heritage Day. Up to now, Shanghai has 63 national intangible cultural heritages, 273 municipal ones and 800 district ones; 120 national representative inheritors and 794 municipal and thousands of district-level inheritors. Among them, there are 19 intangible cultural heritage programs listed in the national catalogue of traditional craft revitalisation, and 4 relevant institutions regarded as national productive protection demonstration bases of intangible cultural heritage. These colourful wisdom and legacies have been passed down through generations, and have come to life in the new era, becoming an important connotation and resource for enhancing Shanghai's urban soft power.
The 14th International Traditional Fine Arts Exhibition, which is complementary to the forum, will be held during the forum.