Workshop “Community-based Inventorying of Intangible Cultural Heritage” was held from 24 to 31 October in the Ministry of Culture in Cetinje, organized by the Ministry of Culture and the UNESCO Venice Office. Eight-day training will be devoted to the list of intangible cultural heritage in Montenegro and run by UNESCO experts in this field.
The workshop will be opened by the Deputy Minister of Culture for Cultural Heritage Ms. Lidija Ljesar and the Head of Culture Unit of the UNESCO Venice Office Mr. Anthony Krause. Moderators of the workshop will be UNESCO experts in this field Saša Srećković from Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade and Chiara Bortolotto from „Université Libre” in Brussels.
Representatives of the national and local institutions, which will deal with the protection of intangible heritage, as well as representatives of non-governmental organizations engaged in this filed will take part in this workshop.
Intangible cultural heritage represents one of the priority fields of protection of the cultural heritage, and administrative framework for systematic approach to intangible heritage was created with the adoption of set of laws regarding this field, and by ratification of the Convention. UNESCO experts will assist national experts in mapping of key elements of intangible heritage in Montenegro and creating of appropriate methodological framework in defining further steps. The workshop will be an introduction to an important work which follows and which is related to creating the Register of Intangible Cultural Property kept by the Directorate for the Protection of Cultural Property.
UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage was adopted in 2003 and mostly based on the local communities as holders of elements of the intangible cultural heritage, for which the workshop taking place in Cetinje was dedicated to the community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage.
The workshop will be closed on 31 October by the Advisor for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Ministry of Culture Ms. Milica Nikolić and Matteo Rosati from the Culture Unit of UNESCO Venice Office.