Second World Culture Forum

With 500 guests from various European countries, the 2nd WORLD CULTURE FORUM will take place in Dresden from October 8th-10th, 2009.

The Concept
The WORLD CULTURE FORUM is committed to the establishment of a healthy balance between the six facets of our culture, defined as: science, art, politics, religion, economics and media. For this reason, the WORLD CULTURE FORUM condemns the domination of any single cultural area, as it threatens our cultural balance and livelyhood.

The Main Objective of the 2nd WORLD CULTURE FORUM
The founding symposium for the WORLD CULTURE FORUM in 2007 established the predominence of economics in the cultural sphere. Especially in industrialized countries, the goal of creating and quantifying “measurable values” prevails. In issue number 31 of Spiegel, Professor Kurt Biedenkopf described this phenomenon as the “fetish of growth” and pointed out that has yet to be established whether our quality of life is necessarily increased by more economic progress.
The current world economic crisis shows, however, that we need new objectives, i.e., goals with substance that we can work on together.

Is the World Economic Crisis simultaneously a Cultural Crisis?
Our ambition is to create a „culture in balance”, an equal coexistence of mental, cultural,
religious and artistic values in addition to economical mindset

Experience first hand, how representatives from the disciplines of Religion (f.i.Mrs Dr. Petra Bahr, official cultural representative of the Evangelical Church of Germany or Aiman A. Mazyek, Secretary general Zentralrat of the Muslims in Germany), Economics (f.i. Dr. Gerhard Prätorius, Leader coordination CSR and lastingness, Volkswagen corporation or Prof. Dr. Dr. Radermacher, President federal federation for economic support and foreign economy), Politics (Prof. Dr. Kurt Biedenkopf, former minister president or Bernd Neumann, State minister for culture and media), science (f.i. Prof. Dr.Erwin Laszlo, Club of Budapest or Prof. Dr. Günter Faltin, FU Berlin, Entrepreneurship) and art (f.i. Prof. Dr. Dr. Hermann Rauhe, Honorary president universtity for music and theater Hamburg or Clown Antoschka World Parliament of Clowns ) develop a new image for the future and issue the first „WCF Culture Award“ .

Program
Thursday, October 8th 2009
5:00 p.m. – 5:40 p.m. Solitaries, Introduction 2nd WORLD CULTURE FORUM
5:45 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Introduction, Frank Richter, Director Saxony land headquarters for political education
6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Prelude presentations Concerns, visions of the WCF
7:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m. Opening reception by the prime minister of Saxony

Friday, October 9th 2009
9:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m. Culture in Balance Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Citizenship (WORLD CULTURE FORUM)
9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. Young Forum „Are you as I see you?" How German, Polish and Czech youth learn from one another.”
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Potentiality of the European City (Goethe Insitut, cultural senat in Saxony, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen)
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Family as a center of culture understanding (Europäische Wirtschafts- und Sprachakademie)
11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. Campus-Workshop: “You look different today” (Fachhochschule Kufstein)
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Iconoclasm and symbolism war The new visibility of religion in Europe (Evangelical Church in Germany)
4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. World economy Intercultural balance as a key topic
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m. Lounge-evening World Parliament of Clowns (not in all tickets included)
8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m. Lounge-evening – get together with music program Artist promotion of the FORUM TIBERIUS

Saturday, October 10th 2009
9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Management by Music The role of musical education in the construction of urban identity (Prof. Dr. Hermann Rauhe/WCF)
9:00 a. m.–10:30 a. m. Chances of the demographic change Palais im Großen Garten
9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Club of Budapest,Worldshift Network
11:00 a.m.–12:30 a.m. Creative Cities (WCF)
11:00 a.m.–12:30 a.m. The construction of Mosques and Synagogues (Central Council of Jews in Germany and Central Council of Muslims in Germany)
11:00 a.m.–12:30 a.m. Workshop Responsibility of communal actors in society and politics for the progression in Europe
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Creating the future with intelligence or stupidity (World Parliament of Clowns)
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Culture Education
1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Media, capital assets or cultural treasures?
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. "Culture lead" Management-Competence to the creating and leading of cultural institutions in Europe of morning (Egon Zehnder Int.)
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. The democratic beehive.
6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Closing panel Results of the Youth Forum, Results of the Campus-Workshop and Evaluation of the 2nd WORLD CULTURE FORUM
8:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m. Closing reception Award ceremony of the ideas competition and the first WCF Culture Awardceremony

Fonte: http://www.wcf-dresden.de/index.php?ILNK=Konferenzen_Europaeischer_Kongress&iL=2&PHPSESSID=ac35e746eb67731bd87e33467f27d5bd