The World Congress of the International Council of Organizations of Folklore Festivals and Folk Art — CIOFF® was completed in Ufa, Russia, Bashkurtistan. The forum lasted 11 days and it was attended by 200 representatives of the Executive Committee and the national sections of the CIOFF® from 54 countries, including Indonesia that was represented by our President of CIOFF® Indonesia, Mr. Said Rachmat.
Since its creation, CIOFF®, sharing UNESCO’s values, aims to promote its objectives in the field of traditional culture. CIOFF® maintains formal consultative relationships with UNESCO and develops projects of common interest, safeguarding of traditional culture and folklore; more recently it got involved in the implementation of the convention on the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage. CIOFF® also promotes various actions in favour of cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue or culture of peace through the implementation of specific biennial programmes or the organization of meetings, workshops and cultural conferences.
As in the years before, the agenda includes amongst others normal formalities and preparing for the implementation of the upcoming project in 2018-2019. Russia not only become a place of this 48th CIOFF® world congress, but also become the venue for CIOFF® Folkloriada 2020 that take place in UFA (Republic of Bashkortostan). CIOFF World Folkloriada itself is the flagship event of CIOFF and become the largest international festival of traditional culture which held every four years.
During the congress, CIOFF® Youth had a successful organizations for its 3rd photo exhibition on Traditional Musical Instruments after two successful exhibition in Bitola and in Lisbon. They also introduced their works such as Coloring Book, Traditional Musical Instrument Photo Exhibition, CIOFF® Glossary and participation on #HeritageAlive contest for online journal.
The closing ceremony was held in the House of the State Assembly — Kurultay RB on September 23. CIOFF President Philippe Bossan thanked the leadership of the republic for organizing and holding the congress at a high level. The next CIOFF World Congress will be held in October 2019 in Santiago, the capital of Chile. As part of the solemn closing of the Congress in Ufa, the flag of the CIOFF Congress was handed over to the delegation of Chile.
Written and Published by : Ghina Aulia Megaputri
Quoted from :
- http://www.cioff.org/about-intro.cfm
- https://cioffyouth.org/2018/10/07/48th-cioff-world-congress/
- http://www.bashinform.ru/eng/1215404/
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