"Sadeh/Sada Celebration" which was jointly submitted by the states parties of Iran and Tajikistan to UNESCO, was inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity at the 18th session of the UNESCO's Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (18.COM) in Kasane, Botswana, which was held from Monday 4 to Saturday 9 December 2023. The preparation of this file was done under the management of Dr Alireza Hassanzadeh, the Chair of the Anthropological Research Centre for the Iranian Research Institute of Cultural Heritage & Tourism (RICHT) and in collaboration with Mana Naqsh Art & Culture Institute.
In this annual session, out of fifty-seven files nominated for world inscription, with the approval of the UNESCO's Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, forty-five elements were inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Out of these forty-five inscribed elements, three files of "Sadeh/Sada Celebration", "Art of illumination: Təzhib/Tazhib/Zarhalkori/Tezhip/Naqqoshlik", and "Iftar/Eftari/Iftar/Iftor and its socio-cultural traditions" were jointly submitted by Iran and the countries of the same region.
The file "Sadeh/Sada Celebration" with the attached documentation including video, photos, and consent letters of the file is available here on the UNESCO website.