Feedback – “UNESCO Living Heritage draft submissions” – a JMO event – at 11:00 and 18:30
We need your input on the draft submissions for morris dancing and related activites
The JMO (*) has been working together to prepare our submissions, and we now need your input as part of the morris community, as community consent is a crucial part of the UNESCO submission process.
You can see our draft submission text at tinyurl.com/JMO-LH-Draft-202603 . If you have any feedback, please email us at ich@thejmo.org by Tuesday 24th March.
If you wish to join us to discuss the draft submissions, we’re opening two zoom calls as opportunities for discussion on Friday 20th March at 11:00 and 18:30. If you’d like to join us, please email ich@thejmo.org
The JMO needs to enter the submissions by Friday 27th March. There will be another window of opportunity for submissions in mid 2027.
Thank you from your JMO Living Heritage team – Emma Melville (Morris Ring), Jen Cox (Open Morris) and Jenny Everett (Morris Federation).
To register
If you wish to join us to discuss the draft submissions, we’re opening two zoom calls as opportunities for discussion on Friday 20th March at 11am and 6:30pm. If you’d like to join us, please email ich@thejmo.org and state which time you would like to attend. We will send you a Zoom link a couple of days before the event. Open to all.
Resources
15 Expressions of Interest (EOI) were entered in January 2026 by the JMO on behalf of our memberships:
- Appalachian Step Dancing;
- Border Morris Dancing;
- Clog Step Dancing;
- Cotswold Morris Dancing;
- English Country Dancing;
- Fools and Beasts;
- Longsword Dancing;
- Maypole Dancing;
- Molly Dancing;
- Mumming and Guising Plays;
- North West Morris Dancing;
- Plough Morris Dancing;
- Rapper Sword Dancing;
- Stave Dancing;
- Step Dancing.
To see the full text of the EOIs, see: https://www.morrisfed.org.uk/resources/unesco-living-heritage-eoi/
Here is the full list of Expressions of Interest (EOIs) entered to the UK inventory from everywhere: https://livingheritage.unesco.org.uk/get-involved/elements. Where there are duplicates, the DCMS will bring contacts together to make a single ‘submission’.
Queries? Any queries, please contact the JMO Living Heritage team at ich@thejmo.org
(*) JMO = Joint Morris Organisations
