WCF Newsletter Nr. 5 / June 7th 2009

The 2ND WORLD CULTURE FORUM is about to hit the mark

We’re excited that our partners are organizing the roundtable discussions in cooperation with us and we can add a new element each day. The program program is done, but until the end of July we’re open for current themes, to keep the WORLD CULTURE FORUM as up-to-date as possible. If you have any further wishes or suggestions, please send them to us until July 22nd via email , fax (+49 351-26 30 99 21) or mail. The WCF Team will be glad to receive new ideas and will try to include them in the program. Promise!

A Soul for Europe – Giving Europe a Soul

As the German project partner in the Europe-wide network “Soul for Europe,“ The “Stiftung Zukunft Berlin” wants to form partnerships with 100 counties, cities and townships to request the newly compiled EU guidelines. The goal is to form a consensual familiarity with the larger challenge of Europe, mutually confront politically responsible parts and to show every citizen that his or her respective location an equally important building block of Europe at large.

At the Third Berlin Conference 2008, people from various disciplines pointed out the use of European culture within European economics and all conceded that it can be factored in as an extremely advantageous component of the worldwide European economy. Values like social conduct, reliability, quality of products or corporate citizenship are all strong arguments in the global market.



Dr. Volker Hassemer, spokesman for the “Soul for Europe” initiative maintains that “responsible parties within the economic sphere are certainly a few steps ahead of those in politics. More communities in Germany should take on more European responsibility. With our roundtable discussion , we hope to provide the impetus and encourage our cities to familiarize themselves new EU guidelines and entrust them in the future to maintain this responsibility. I rejoice in the possibility of those responsibly engaged in local politics taking part in the WORLD CULTURE FORUM.“

Participants in the “Soul for Europe” Discussion Forum :

Susanna Marques, Portugal, Cofounder of the Portuguese Setepes Center for Art, Science and Education in Porto.
Yuriy Vulkovsky, Bulgaria, teaches cultural politics at the New Bulgarian University and the University of Sofia.
Prof. Dr. Harald Mieg, Germany, metropolitan- and innovationsresearch at the Geographic Institute at Humbolt University in Berlin.
Dr. Volker Hassemer, Germany, Initiator and Master of Ceremony. Chairman of the Future Berlin Foundation.
To Be Determined:
Member of the European Parliament
Member of the European Commission

World Parliament of Clowns

The most prominent clowns support this project (amongst others Oleg Popov, Pic, David Larible oder Dimitri, to name a few) and many personalities join the project as Clown d’Honneur, for example Nobel Laureates Desmond Tutu, director Wim Wenders, the singer Thomas Quasthoff or the actor Dietmar Schönherr. www.clownship.org

The World Parliament of Clowns is partner of the 2nd WORLD CULTURE FORUM FORUM and invites you to an emotionale discussion roundtable: “Creating the future intelligently or with stupidity”.
On October 9th the Clown Parliament will present “Planet of Smiles”. After the overwhelming success of the first performance in February in Dresden, the most famous female clowns of the world will have a get together for the first time on the stage of the Theater Wechselbad in Dresden: The Clown Gardi Hutter (Schweiz), Nola Rae (Großbritannien) Member of the Clowns Hall of Fame and Antoschka (Russia), Starclown of the statecircus und founder of the World Parliament of Clowns. Also on stage Mime Herzog from the Memenbühen Dresden, der Church-Clown Leo as well as the circus of streetchildren of St. Petersburg UPSALA.
By booking a Premium-Ticket you will automatically be seated in the front rows – otherwise you can book tickets here: www.theater-wechselbad.de

Partner Hotels

Here we would like to remind you of the reduced rates of our partner hotels. From our experience, the demand for rooms in early October is high, so the prices will naturally climb. We also advice that you book early!