The Asia Cultural Cooperation Forum 2006 organized by the Home
Affairs Bureau of the Hong Kong government will open on Nov. 8 in
Hong Kong, announced the bureau on Monday.
At the five-day forum with the theme of "Asian Arts, Culture and
Modernity", scholars, artists, entrepreneurs, cultural leaders and
officials from around the world will discuss their experiences
tackling the modernization process, as reflected in culture and the
arts, while exploring the idea of an Asian concept of
modernity.
The forum will feature a meeting of Chinese delegations and an
Asian cultural ministers' meeting on the first two days. Following
this, a series of 12 open forums will be held based around six
thematic programs -- "Cultural Ecologies: Communicating
Contemporary Art in the 21st Century", "Measuring Creativity,
Happiness and Well Being", "Creative Education Summit", "Media Arts
in the Contemporary Society", "Experiencing Architecture" and
"Asian Arts, Culture and Modernity".
Cultural ministers or their representatives from Asian countries
and regions, including Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, the
Philippines, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan and Vietnam, will join
the forum as well as a large delegation of senior cultural
officials from the Ministry of Culture and 15 provinces and
municipals from the Chinese mainland.
The Asia Cultural Cooperation Forum was launched by the Home
Affairs Bureau in 2003. It aims to foster and enhance partnership
between governments, facilitate and promote private sector
initiatives in cultural and creative industries, and enhance Hong
Kong's profile as Asia's prime cultural and creative hub.
(Xinhua News Agency November 7, 2006)