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March 14, 2017

Benefits of Watching TV

One of the most common facets of entertainment that we enjoy even up to know is the Television or TV shows. Regardless if the internet has been ‘consuming’ most people, for instance the emergence of social media culture and things like that, TV has remained very influential in terms of news, entertainment and things like that.

Some of the parents are concerned with their kids’ excessive intake of TV shows, that’s why a lot of them are necessarily regretting the emergence of TV and its shows. However, there are actually a lot of benefits one could get from watching TV shows. Some of the most important being awareness of global news stories, finding new places to travel around the world, discovering new technologies etc… Here are some more benefits you might experience:

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March 10, 2017

Why Theater is Important

There are a lot of art works that are being celebrated even up to now, regardless if how old these works are. Some of these are inclined on the visual arts- paintings, sketches and the likes, others are on performing arts theater, music and others. Theater is one of the most common form of art that is still into existence even up to now.

However, because of the existence of movies, social media and other innovations of technology, theater and other performance arts’ appreciation has been slowly declining. Because a lot of people do not necessarily know the value of the art, some of us are very complacent about it.

Listed on this article are the things why theater is still important in this generation.

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March 3, 2017

The Importance of Popular Culture

Everything in the modern world reflects popular culture. Our music, the arts, the movie we watch, everything that we continuously consume today are forms of pop culture. Popular culture is a form of culture in which it is being continuously mocked and criticized as something which is senseless and illogical.

However, it is of primary importance to know what this culture is being identified as, as well as its uses in various ways.

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Follow the News published by UNESCO on Intangible Cultural Heritage

The seventh General Assembly of the States Parties to the 2003 Convention June 12, 2018
UNESCO Headquarters, Paris - Attended by 600 participants hailing from 129 countries, the seventh session of the General Assembly of the States Parties to the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage took place from 4 to 6 June 2018 to provide the States Parties an opportunity …
Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage for quality and relevance in education June 7, 2018
‘It is only through ambitious intersectoral initiatives that we can effectively safeguard intangible cultural heritage, strengthen educational relevance and thereby contribute to attaining the Sustainable Development Goals,’ stated Ernesto Ottone, Assistant-Director General for Culture, when opening …
International Assistance in action - dialogue on safeguarding living heritage June 4, 2018
UNESCO Headquarters, Paris – The central role of community members’ in safeguarding living heritage is a core principle of the 2003 Convention. Its International Assistance mechanism thus attaches major importance to the communities’ participation in ensuring effective and sustainable safeguarding of …
Tell your #livingheritage story — intangible cultural heritage through the eyes of youth June 1, 2018
UNESCO Headquarters, Paris – To emphasize the relevance of intangible cultural heritage in contemporary societies and the importance of its inter-generational transmission, UNESCO created a series of audio-visual stories on how young people nowadays engage with their intangible cultural heritage. These …
The Intangible Cultural Heritage website launched in Arabic! May 30, 2018
The Intangible Cultural Heritage website of UNESCO serves as a clearing house and key entry point to all the official information related to the 2003 Convention and its mechanisms. It is essential to make these resources available as broadly as possible, and, today, the key pages of the clearing house …
Latin America and the Caribbean celebrate their intangible cultural heritage May 29, 2018
Within the framework of the Latin American and Caribbean Week which takes place from 29 to 31 May at UNESCO Headquarters, countries from the region come together and celebrate their intangible cultural heritage through different expressions. An exhibition on the intangible cultural heritage of the region …
Building Peace and Social Cohesion through Safeguarding the Living Cultural Heritage of South Sudan’s Diverse Ethnic Communities May 17, 2018
Ten South Sudanese participants in a two‐week UNESCO workshop in Juba have been trained to lead community‐based inventories and document the expressions and practices, knowledge and skills of the diverse ethnic groups in South Sudan as part of an effort to safeguard the country’s intangible cultural …
Seventh General Assembly for the 2003 Convention May 6, 2018
The seventh session of the General Assembly of the States Parties to the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage will take place from 4 to 6 June 2018 at UNESCO Headquarters in paris. The General Assembly is the Convention’s sovereign body and meets in ordinary sessions …
Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Development in Bangladesh - Capacity-building training workshop on ICH Nomination May 4, 2018
UNESCO Dhaka Office in cooperation with the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy is convening a series of training workshops to strengthen the national institutional capacities of Bangladesh to implement the 2003 Convention under the project ‘Safeguarding Intangible Cultural …
Tunisia links its sustainable development to safeguarding living heritage May 3, 2018
A training workshop on the links between intangible cultural heritage and sustainable development was held in Tunis on 4 and 5 April 2018. the workshop emphasized the role of living traditions in the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. This workshop was followed …