Andean cosmovision of the Kallawaya
The Kallawaya are itinerant Andean healers who have practiced an integrated system of plant medicine and cosmological knowledge for over 1,000 years, tracing their lineage to pre-Inca cultures.
Mauritian sega
A complete performance art uniting music, storytelling, and traditional dance rooted in enslaved and Mauritian Creole voices. Sega persists as living island identity across the Indian Ocean.
Greenbelt Cinema
A Streamline Moderne cinema opened in 1938 at Roosevelt Center, rescued from closure in 2002 and restored as one of Maryland’s rare nonprofit two-screen theaters.
Kosiv painted ceramics
A Hutsul pottery tradition from western Ukraine, distinguished by hand-painted designs and complex firing, producing tableware, tiles, toys and decorative objects.
Nell Gwynn House
A ten-storey Art Deco residential tower completed in 1937 on Chelsea’s Sloane Avenue, designed by G. Kay Green and standing alongside his earlier Sloane Avenue Mansions.
Balfour Building
An Art Deco tower in downtown Toronto, named for the author of the 1917 Balfour Declaration, historically linked to the city’s Jewish clothing industry.
Granada, Tooting
A masterpiece of 1930s Art Deco cinema design in south London, Granada Tooting remains one of Britain’s most spectacular surviving picture palaces and the first 1930s cinema to achieve Grade I listing.
Ftira
Ftira is a ring-shaped leavened Maltese bread filled with sardines, tuna, potato, tomato, and olives, with distinct regional variations between mainland and Gozitan traditions.
Yeondeunghoe lantern festival
Yeondeunghoe is Korea’s lantern-lighting festival honoring Buddha’s Birthday, where paper lanterns symbolizing light, hope, and unity illuminate temples and streets each fourth lunar month.
Space of gong culture
In Vietnam’s Central Highlands, gongs are sacred vessels housing deities, central to ritual life among the Rade, Jarai, Bahnar, Mạ, and Koho peoples.