• Session 1: World Creativity Summit: Launch and Public Dialogues
• Session 2: Living Urban Heritage
• Session 3: Culture Core Values and Chinese Modernity
• Session 4: Popular Culture

Opening Ceremony of ACCF 2007 Open Forum cum
Opening Ceremony of the World Creativity Summit (WCS)

The World Creativity Summit aims to design cultural and educational strategies capable of responding to the global challenges of our time. The Summit will bring together outstanding innovators from the realms of education, arts, science, politics and policy-making, trade, industry and journalism into intimate dialogue to design strategies and partnerships that will advocate and institutionalize the creative pedagogies of the 21st Century.

The foundations of the World Creativity Summit were laid during the 2006 UNESCO World Congress for Arts in Education. A key element of that Congress was the announcement of a Joint Declaration between:

- the International Drama/Theatre and Education Association (IDEA)
- the International Society for Music Education (ISME)
- the International Society for Education through the Art (InSEA)

who agreed to found a World Alliance for Arts Education (WAAE) to share resources, research efforts of art education practices, develop interdiscinplinary international projects and broaden the political will to implement arts based pedagogies throughout the world.

The Summit has been designed as an intimate and informal working meeting where leading experts will offer short provocative keynotes in one of four strategic areas – the development of human creativity, advocacy, industrial partnership and policy – which will be debated by a plenary roundtable. Summit speakers will then be invited to present and develop proposals based on their experience at their own roundtables towards the development of a 5 year strategic plan. The Summit will be structured into four steps:

1. Building a forum of cooperation and innovation
2. Stimulating new questions and experimental proposals
3. Identifying key resources and potential collaborations
4. Building and agreeing a strategic plan

Further information is available from the World Creativity Summit website: www.worldcreativitysummit.org.

Arts Education: from pedagogy to sustainable futures? Transcript

Provocative Keynotes:   Prof Ngugi WA THIONG'O Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, USA     Dr Rathna KUMAR Artistic Director, Samskriti, Society for Indian Performing Arts     Mr Paul COLLARD National Director, Creative Partnerships, United Kingdom     Prof Shifra SCHONMANN Head of Laboratory for Research, Theatre/Drama Education, University of Haifa, Israel     Mr Jooho KIM President, Korea Arts & Culture Education Service, Korea Ms Ada WONG Chair of Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture / Director of World Creativity Summit Questioner Keynotes:   Prof Graham WELCH Head of School of Arts and Humanities, University of London, United Kingdom Prof Penina MLAMA Executive Director, Forum for African Women Educationalists, Kenya     Mr Allan AGERBO Vice Principal, European Performers House, Denmark Dr Michael DAY InSEA Executive Board     Dr Dalia SIAULYTIENE Chief Officer (Arts Education, Arts Projects, Ministry of Education and Science), The Republic of Lithuania Prof William SUN Huizhu Vice-President, Shanghai Theatre Academy, China

Technological Convergence: globalisation or cultural democracy? Transcript

Provocative Keynotes:   Ms Clarisa RUIZ Head of Arts, Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia, Colombia     Prof Amandina LIHAMBA Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania     Prof Tuula TAMMINEN Professor of Child Psychiatry, University of Tampere, Finland     Dr Max WYMAN OC, Arts and Cultural Policy Advisor; Immediate Past President, Canadian Commission for UNESCO     Mr Danny YUNG Chief Executive, Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture Questioner Keynotes: Dr Victor FUNG Professor of Music Education, University of South Florida, USA     Ms Veronica BAXTER Senior Lecturer, Drama Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Ms Shanta SERBJEET SINGH Chairperson, The Asia Pacific Performing Arts Network, APPAN (INTERNATIONAL), India     Dr Mekuria ABATE Managing Director of Eastern Africa Theatre Institute / Ethiopian National Chapter, Mekuria Theatre Studio and Entertainment Dr John STEERS General Secretary, National Society for Education in Art and Design, United Kingdom     Mr Richard ENGELHARDT Regional Advisor for Culture in Asia and the Pacific, UNESCO Prof Keith SWANWICK Emeritus Professor, Music Education, Institute of Education, University of London, United Kingdom