This second capacity-building workshop has been conceived to enhance local participation and community awareness and to acknowledge research currently undertaken by a multidisciplinary team of experts.

Furthermore, the workshop complements and builds on research and training already undertaken with members of “La Tumba Oriente Brotherhood”, Santiago de Cuba. Members of the Tumba Francesa “Bejuco”, an authentic rural expression of Tumba Francesa based in the Cuban province of Holguín, will also participate.
“La Tumba Francesa”, a traditional cultural expression which was brought to Cuba in the 1790s by Haitian slaves resettling in the eastern mountains of Cuba, was proclaimed a UNESCO Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2003.

The workshop is organized in the framework of the Action Plan for the safeguarding of La Tumba Francesa, in cooperation with the UNESCO Office in Havana and the Cuban National Commission for the safeguarding of cultural immaterial heritage.

Related programmes:

• Intangible Heritage Masterpiece: La Tumba Francesa
• Intangible Heritage Convention 2003

03.- UNESCO Conventions in the field of Cultural Heritage