Lavash: Traditional Armenian Flatbread and Culture
Lavash is a thin flatbread baked in a tandoor and prepared by Armenian women as a community tradition.
Chinese Shadow Puppetry: Ancient Folk Performance Art
An ancient Chinese art form in which puppeteers manipulate intricately carved silhouette figures behind a backlit translucent screen, making them appear…
Yama, Hoko and Yatai: Japanese Float Festivals
Kyoto’s Gion Festival, held each July, centers on two grand processions of decorated floats rooted in Shinto purification rites, accompanied by three…
Flower Carpets of Corpus Christi: Polish Floral Art
Polish communities create ephemeral flower-petal carpets on streets for Corpus Christi processions, a tradition that merges devotion, artistry…
Indonesian Batik: Traditional Wax-Resist Textile Art
Indonesian batik uses wax-resist dyeing to create intricate, multicoloured textile patterns through repeated cycles of application, immersion…
Timkat: The Ethiopian Epiphany Festival and Ritual
Timkat, Ethiopia’s most exuberant Christian festival, celebrates the baptism of Jesus through nocturnal liturgy, water blessing, and processions…
Harissa: Traditional Tunisian Pepper Paste Heritage
A fiery Tunisian chili pepper paste combining roasted peppers, Baklouti peppers, garlic, spices and olive oil—harissa embodies centuries of culinary…
Social Media for Heritage Events: A Practical Guide
Social media reaches potential visitors where they already spend time — but only when posts are visual, tied to real event schedules, and written in a…
Cataloguing Heritage from Below: A Twenty-Five Year View
Most of the heritage record was built from the top down. The overlooked sites survive because someone independent decided they mattered — a quarter-century of cataloguing from below.
The Long Tail of World Heritage: Overlooked Places
Everyone knows Machu Picchu. Most of the 1,200-plus UNESCO World Heritage sites go overlooked — and which ones is not random: transnational, serial and industrial heritage fall through the cracks.