I CIOFF Niger

Cioff niger is corresponding member. Its president is Dante alhassane.

Former director of national ballet and co-director of cultural nigerian french center, dante alhassane dedicate his life to the promotion and developement of nigerian culture.
Mainly, CIOFF's niger activities concern the programmation of folk bands in festivals, in foreign countries.

II Niger and UNESCO

Niger joined the UNESCO Convention on World Heritage (1972), the Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003) and the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005)
In this sense, Niger has just presented a statement of cultural policy that seeks to preserve the national culture in its diversity in harmony with current developments

III Cultural life and festivals

Festivals:

- Meetings transshariennes arts and culture in niger, January / Niamey
- The week of "Parenté à plaisanterie", April / Niamey
Objective: "To formalize this old practice, the foundation of harmony between different communities that share the national territory"
- Festival "words of women," May / Niamey
Forum artistic expression of women
- Bijini Bijini festival, 4th Edition-June 08 / Niamey
- Pripalo festival, July
Fair artists
- Festival Gatan Gatan, international festival of storytelling and arts of orality of Dogondoutchi, October / Niamey.
- International Festival of African Fashion, November / Niamey
- The festival of the Air, December / Iférouane
Tuareg gathering

Private program:
-The project of cultural development, collection forms of popular expression and traditional practices of orality Niger. By the collective of artists Jawabi

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