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1st World Forum for Culture and Education for Transformation: Concluding the IDEA 2010 World Congress, the 1st World Forum for Culture and Education for Transformation will be held in Belem, Brazil July 23-25 under the theme “In search of a new aesthetics of sustainable transformation”. Culminating the IDEA 2010 World Congress, the WFCET will be an intimate global forum around three clear objectives: a) How to transform every institution into a ‘sustainable project of culture and education’? b) How to transform every school into a ‘project of sustainable culture and education’? c) How to integrate an aesthetics of transformation into every local, national, regional and world forum, towards the World Social Forum of 2011? For inscription please email to forum@idea2010.art.br and for more details visit www.idea2010.art.br IDEA 2010 World Congress news: The organizers of IDEA 2010 can now confirm the themes of the 6 congress roundtables, the times of the 2010 General Council Meeting, the groups appearing in the International Festival of Theatre, the special Amazonian focus on indigenous and afro-indigenous dances and workshops, and that there will be a ‘World Forum of Culture and Education for Transformation', built into the final two days of the congress. The roundtable themes include: transforming violence in creative knowledge, practicing diversity, memory of the future, transformation of schools, and arts education after UNESCO 2010. Register now to guarantee places. More detailed information is available from www.idea2010.art.br/en/generalprogram.php IDEA Greece - The 6th Athens International Theatre/Drama & Education Conference Publication is available: The Hellenic Theatre/drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr) in partnership with IDEA and several other renowned government bodies, universities and ieducational institutions are happy to announce the Publication of “Theatre & Education at Centre Stage”, a collection of peer reviewed essays and papers proceeding the 6th IDEA conference that took place in Athens March 27-30 2008. For more information and to place an order please contact Nikos Govas, Editor of the publication or visit the website www.TheatroEdu.gr IDEA 2007 World Congress Publication available: IDEA and TEFO (Hong Kong Drama/Theatre and Education Forum) are happy to announce the publication of “Planting Trees of Drama with Global Vision in Local Knowledge: IDEA 2007 Dialogues”, a collection of peer reviewed essays proceeding the IDEA 2007 World Congress. Held in Hong Kong, the Congress emphasized on the conversation between the Global and the Local, an important dimension of this city that have been shifting and drifting between these two notions for more than an and half century. For more information and to place an order please contact IDEA Director of Publications, Janinka Greenwood. IDEA South Africa: Drama for Life’s Festival will be held from August 21-29 in Johannesburg and in Cape Town and Durban in September. This holistic arts programme is hosted by the Division of Dramatic Art at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). This year’s theme, “Sex Actually”, focuses on renewed efforts to find creative and sustainable ways of learning and building capacity in HIV/Aids education and prevention. For more information contact Lonwabo Mavuso, or by phone +27 (0)11 717 4651 or +27 (0)11 717 4606, or fax +27 (0)11 339 7601. Opportunities for members UK-India Secondary Education Conference : Aspire in association with EduExellence presents « All Our Futures » the first UK-India Secondary Education Conference, June 28-July 2 at the Oldershaw School in Wallasey, Merseyside UK. Over 50 Indian Principals and Teachers will share their expeirence and vision with local colleagues and will examin the national climate and pressures on secondary education and the ways in which secondary schools have identified local solutions to these pressures. The conference is being broadcast on U-Stream channel from 08.00hrs BST at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/aspire-trust, and for more information visit http://web.me.com/aspiretrust or http://www.youtube.com/TheAspiretrust and on Twitter http://twitter.com/AspireTrust Arts for Edcuation ! Stiftung Mercator presents “Arts for Education!” an International Symposium on Arts Education in Europe, from September 13 – 15, 2010 at the Philharmonic Concert Hall in Essen, Germany. The symposium will address the political and societal responsibility for arts education in Europe and the different forms that arts education can take. Over 300 international experts, policy makers and young people from 35 European countries will take part of this event. The Program and Registration for the Symposium can be found at www.arts-for-education.de. For more information contact Anorthe Kremers or call +49 (0)201/24522-9099. Other news The 6th International Festival of Making Theater, will be held in Athens, Greece, July 11 – 18t 2010. During a whole week of creative interaction, Theater Makers from different parts of the world will have the opportunity to share and get acquainted with new working methods and ideas, regarding the following three sectors: Acting, Movement and Voice. For more information visit www.toc.gr You are welcome to send your news and related activities information before the 21st of each month to the IDEA Director of Communication. |
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