The World Congress will have several
components:
“From Ancestral Roots to New Routes of Artistic
Expression - Mobilizing Cultural Diversity to achieve
the UN Millennium Development Goals”
a. EXCOM 123rd Session
The Executive Committee is composed of elected senior
20 members of the ITI, UNESCO. They meet 2 days before
the Congress proper to discuss and finalize all
business matters pertaining to the upcoming Congress.
b. World Congress
The Philippines will host delegations from about 100
countries these representatives will have additional
delegates and theatre artists attending with them up
to a maximum of 10 per country as well as other
performing groups.
c. General Assembly Plenary Sessions
Three plenary sessions of the General Assembly will be
conducted where head delegates come together to
discuss the agenda items such as status of projects,
budget needs, election of officer-bearers, committee
programmes and including a comprehensive Theatre arts
and media plan to communicate the UN Millennium
Development goals.
d. Colloquium
The subject of the colloquium will be the central
theme of the World Congress with a special focus on
poverty alleviation through arts and media with
interaction visits on site and;
1. A Cultural Response to the Diaspora
2. Cultural Diversity: Indigenous People- Dialogue for
Development
3. A Broadcast Theatre Forum to reach out to the
masses, with drama through radio, TV, IT and cinema
4. Poverty Alleviation through KALAHI Cultural
Caregiving to Vulnerable Groups on site visit of
Social Transformation through the Arts, i.e. KALAHI
Peace Center of Culture for the Poor in Baseco and
Tandang Sora conducted by UNESCO Artists for Peace:
Earthsavers Dream Ensemble.
e. Committee & Project Group Meetings
There are ten (10) relevant areas of concern under the
ITI: Cultural Identity and Development, Music Theatre,
New Projects, Communication, Dramatic Theatre, Theater
Education, Playwrights Forum, Monodrama Forum, Dance,
as well as a new Young practitioners committee. These
standing committees will meet to discuss projects or
organize relevant workshops for showcasing at the
plenary.
f. Leaders Forum
The UNESCO Director General is invited to preside a
special gathering of UN Officials, Ministers of
Culture, Nobel Laureates, UNESCO Artists for Peace to
discuss UN Millennium Development Goals of eradicating
extreme poverty, and covering concerns on children,
women, health, AIDS, environment – water, peace;
partnership for development and cultural diversity. A
comprehensive communication arts program from
ancestral roots to new routes of artistic expression
as a catalyst for social change to conclude with
forging of a partnership between the UN family system
and the global theatre community of ITI and its allied
organizations.
g. Theatre Olympics of the Nations
During the evenings, the delegates will be treated to
a feast of performances which will be represented by
outstanding theatre groups from the following regions:
Asia, Africa, Arab States, Latin America & Caribbean,
North America, Europe and from the Philippines.
A special indigenous people’s component to showcase
the wealth of heritage of Asia-Europe and its capacity
and needs for cultural survival amidst globalization.
The project is being requested through the assistance
of the ASEM Foundation. The project can also
demonstrate how indigenous peoples are able to
preserve their distinct cultural identities despite
globalization and the rapid advance of technology, and
can demonstrate how their preservation and sensitive
development provides an essential safety net against
homogenization, sustaining and developing a varied,
colorful global culturescape.
h. World Festival of Drama Schools and Workshop
A World Festival of Drama Schools with complementary
workshops will be held in Manila from May 17 to 31,
2006. The event will bring about 120 participants in
12 different countries and will have a partnership
with 11 regional bases throughout the Philippines
linked with indigenous communities as well as
interaction with clusters in the National Capital
Region. The 4th World Confrernce of Theatre School
Directors will also be held concurrently by the
ITI/UNESCO Chair of Theatre.
i. FACE Broadcast Theatre, Cinema Fest
– selected works (soap opera and films mirroring the
themes).
j. Exhibits
ITI Philippines will hold exhibits that will allow
delegates to experience other features of Philippine
theatre, with a trade fair promoting indigenous
cultural industries and creative goods. Delegates are
invited to give their own exhibits of posters / books
/ masks / costumes, etc.
k. Special Events
The category of special event will cover the opening
and closing ceremonies of the ITI World Congress. It
is linked with the 10th Anniversary of the UN Platform
of Action launched in GICOS, Manila 1996 in line with
the UN Decade for Sustainable Development Education.
Another special event is the Post Congress
Eco-Cultural Tourism Package for the delegates with
the proposed destination of heritage sites like the
Cordillera or Palawan or Mountain Climbing in Mt.
Makiling, Los Banos, Laguna.
Theatre Arts as a Catalyst for Social Change towards a
Caring, Sharing, Peaceful World by realizing UN
Millennium Development Goals
• Eradicating poverty and hunger by 2015 by
eliminating corruption & promoting good governance
• Education for All especially universal completion of
primary schooling
• Environmental Sustainability: Water is Life /
climate change / disaster mitigation / equitable use
of resources
• Empowering women through gender equality
• Ensuring maternal care
• Enabling reduction of child mortality through ending
armed conflict and availability of appropriate social
services
• Enforcing health requirements to combat HIV aids,
malaria, TB and other diseases
• Encouraging partnerships for development through
debt relief to protect cultural diversity and promote
indigenous cultural industries with public
service-oriented communication technology.
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