Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) encompasses the underlying fabric of our lives - those stories, skills, traditions, ways of doing things, ways of speaking, and ways of interacting with each other and the environment. It does not always leave a material record behind, but rather is passed from person to person and generation to generation.
Any photograph that represents ICH within Sakatchewan will be considered.
Examples of ICH
- Food: family recipes, use of local ingredients in food preparation, fowl/fall suppers, potlucks, feasts, funeral lunches, holiday meals
- Customs and traditions: shivarees, trick or drinking/mummering, local community traditions, weddings, graduations, funerary customs, powwows, festivals
- Environmental knowledge: hunting and fishing practices, foraging (mushrooms, herbs, etc.), berry picking, trails and wilderness knowledge, farming and ranching practices
- Play: practical jokes, playground games, card games, dances, community drama/theatre, sports and recreation
- Work: traditional knowledge of farming, hunting, mining; craft production, chores and domestic work
- Music and dance: folk songs, shanties, fiddling, drumming, square dancing, jigging, two-stepping
