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30/06/2026
🌍 Festival Season Has Officially Begun!
The world is dancing, singing, and celebrating Intangible Cultural Heritage once again, and we want YOU to take us along for the journey!
This festival season, the CIOFF® International Youth Movement and members of our Commissions will be shareing moments from festivals across the globe, giving you a front row seat to the friendships, traditions, and cultural exchanges that make the CIOFF® family so special.
📸 Performing at a CIOFF® festival?
🎭 Hosting a group?
🤝 Making new international friendships?
🎶 Celebrating your culture?
We want to see it all!
From performances and parades to workshops, local traditions, and lifelong friendships, show us your festival through your eyes.
Tag:
🌎 Your CIOFF® Group
🏛️ Your CIOFF® National Section or Partner Member
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Use for a chance to be featured on our official social media channels!
Not yet part of the CIOFF® family? With 229 CIOFF® festivals and 893 folk groups featured on the CIOFF® International website, our worldwide network is dedicated to safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage through festivals, cultural exchange, and friendship. Contact your CIOFF® National Section or Partner Member to learn more.
📝 Festival Organizers: Please remember to complete the official CIOFF® Post Festival Survey when your festival concludes.
🌍 Now it’s your turn!
📍 Tell us which festival you’re attending.
🌎 Which country are you representing?
📸 Tag us in your photos and videos.
🤝 Tag three festival friends to join the celebration!
Happy Travels & We looking forward to your festival being featured next!
IntangibleCulturalHeritage
🌍 The Answer Is... Serbia! 🇷🇸
Did you guess correctly?
The dance featured in our latest Guess the Country challenge was Strandžanje, a traditional folk dance from Serbia. Like many folk dances of the Balkans, it brings people together through music, movement, and shared tradition. Performed at celebrations, festivals, and community gatherings, dances like these help keep cultural knowledge alive from one generation to the next.
Did you notice how the dancers move together as a group? In many Serbian folk traditions, the collective experience is just as important as the individual steps. The dance becomes a way to strengthen community, celebrate identity, and create a sense of belonging.
This connection between people and tradition is at the heart of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Serbia is home to several elements inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, including Slava, the celebration of a family's patron saint, and the Kolo, a traditional collective dance practiced across the country.
Intangible Cultural Heritage is not just preserved in museums. It lives through the people who practice, share, and pass on their traditions every day.
What gave Serbia away for you? The costumes, the music, the dance style, or something else?
And if there's a traditional dance from your country or community you'd like us to feature, send us a message. Your dance could be featured in a future edition of Guess the Country!
05/06/2026
CIOFF® International is honored to participate as an invited guest at two landmark cultural events in the Kyrgyz Republic: the VI International Children's Folklore Festival "Nariste" and the III Bishkek Forum of Cultures, taking place from 29 May–8 June 2026.
Set against the beautiful landscapes of Bishkek and Lake Issyk-Kul, these events celebrate living heritage, youth engagement, and international friendship through culture.
🤝 At the III Bishkek Forum of Cultures, cultural leaders, artists, and experts from around the world come together to:
• Strengthen intercultural dialogue
• Foster international cooperation
• Share best practices in safeguarding traditional culture and developing Ultimate Festivals 4 All Europe
🎭 At the "Nariste" Festival, young performers showcase their traditions through music, dance, and crafts, demonstrating how cultural heritage continues to inspire future generations.
"Folklore and cultural heritage possess a unique power to transcend borders, fostering lifelong friendships and deep collaboration."
CIOFF® extends its sincere gratitude to our hosts in the Kyrgyz Republic for their warm hospitality and commitment to promoting cultural exchange and mutual understanding.
How well do you know the world’s living traditions?
Something new is coming soon to CIOFF International.
Discover the stories behind traditional dance, music, and living heritage from cultures around the world through a new interactive global challenge.
Watch closely. Test your knowledge. Celebrate the diversity of living traditions.
COMING SOON!
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