The First IOV Global Forum on the protection of Endangered Minority Cultures will take place in Jiuzhaigou in Sichuan Province, China from October 22 through 26, 2009.  The Congress is being organized by the China National Section of IOV, Emma Chen Hoefler, Chair, with the support of the China Ministry of Culture, the Chinese Ethnic Affairs Committee and the Chinese Center for the Protection of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Children dressed in the traditional attire of the Qiang Ethnic Minority.