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Past World Cultural Forum
2003 (1st)
2003 (1st)
 Opera, City and Society Monday, November 10, 2003 (14:00-16:30) / Biwako Hall (Shiga Prefecture)  Ioan Holender (Director, Vienna State Opera) and the Others Opera, integrating music, drama, fine arts and many other forms of arts, has taken firm root in the European civil society as important feature of the urban city. The session focuses on the meaning of the opera, which is being disseminated to the Asian world including Japan in the ever transforming and globalized 21st century society. |
Art and Science Monday, November 24, 2003 (13:00-17:30) / Kyoto International Conference Hall (Kyoto Prefecture) Keiichi Kodaira (President, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies) and the Others Demonstrates the achievements of frontrunners in the field where art and science technology have been merged and discusses the key issues which science must face in contributing to the enrichment of the 21st century art and human life. |
 Japanese Culture & Cultural Diversity: From the Foreign Diplomats' View Points Tuesday, November 25, 2003 (14:00-16:30) / Hyogo House, Kobe (Hyogo Prefecture) Jan de Vries (Consul General of the Netherlands at Osaka-Kobe, Consulate General of the Netherlands) and the Others Foreign diplomats discuss the current world tide of cultural diversity and the charm of the Japanese culture from the foreigners' view points. |
Theater in Future - From Osaka to the World Tuesday, November 25, 2003 (14:00-17:00) / Osaka Geihinkan (Osaka Guesthouse) (Osaka Prefecture) Keita Asari (Director/Producer, SHIKI Theatre (Japan)[tentative]) and the Others Experts from the world in the field of the theater drama gathered in the city of Osaka, which has produced Chikamatsu and Saikaku, discusses how each country’s theater drama will reflect its own cultural identity and appeal to other cultures in the increasingly globalized society. |
A New Age of Cultural Diversity - The Challenges facing Museums in the 21st Century Wednesday, November 26, 2003 (13:00-16:30) / Nijo-jo (Nijo Castle) (Kyoto Prefecture) Shuji Takashina (Director, Ohara Museum) and the Others In today's globalized world it has become increasingly important for each country to promote mutual understanding and creative exchanges with one another while preserving its own cultural identity. The world’s leading museum experts have gathered in Kyoto to discuss the roles of museums in addressing this challenge. |
 Globalization and Artists' Identities Wednesday, November 26, 2003 (13:00-17:00) / Nishi Hongan-ji (Nishi Hongan Temple) (Kyoto Prefecture) Naoyuki Miura (Professor of Fukushima College / Artistic Director, Music From Japan) and the Others Since before the Silk Road, advanced cultures from various regions have disseminated worldwide. At the present time when the meaning of "globalization" is questioned anew, how do the artists' ethnic and national identities contribute to their creative process? |
Cooperation and Living Together through/of Culture Thursday, November 27, 2003 (10:00-17:05) / Yakushi-ji (Yakushi Temple) (Nara Prefecture) Ikuo Hirayama (Painter, President of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music ) and the Others Since the dawn of the civilization the Indian subcontinent has produced dazzlingly colorful cultural treasures, many of which have profound significance not only to the people living in the region but also to the human society as a whole. The session revisits the facts that these treasures have often been the products of the encounters between different cultures and searches for the possibilities that dialogues through non-political channels between different cultures might contribute to the co-existence and mutual prosperity even where the build-ups of the military strains and actual conflicts have long become the norm. |
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