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INDEX PAGES Welcoming speech of the President of UNIMA Page 3 Agenda Page 5 New Honorary Members Page 6 Report of the Executive Committee written by the General Secretary Page 7 Financial Report on the preceding term, 2008-2011 Page 9 Provisional Budget for the forthcoming term, 2012-2016 Page 18 Report of the Auditing Commission Page 23 Report of the Elections Committee Page 25 List of the Candidates for the next Executive Committee Page 26 CV of the Candidates for the next Executive Committee Page 31 Reports: (Take note that the alphabetical order was done from the English name or word, whatever the version of dossier may be) Commissions: Africa Page 39 Amateurs Page 42 Asia - Pacific Page 45 Cooperation Page 53 Cultural Exchange Page 59 Education, Development and Therapy Page 62 Europa Page 66 International Festivals Page 68 Latin America Page 71 North America Page 74 Publication & Communication Page 76 Research Page 83 Research of New Economic Resources Page 85 Statutes Page 86 Professional Training Page 87 Women Page 89 National Centres: UNIMA Australia Page 94 UNIMA Austria Page 95 UNIMA Belgium Page 97 UNIMA Bulgaria Page 102 UNIMA Canada Page 105 UNIMA Chile Page 107 UNIMA China Page 109 UNIMA Croatia Page 111 UNIMA Czech Republic Page 114 UNIMA Denmark Page 116 UNIMA Estonia Page 119 UNIMA Finland Page 121 UNIMA France Page 124 UNIMA Greece Page 127 UNIMA Netherlands Page 130 UNIMA Hungary Page 132 1 UNIMA Iceland Page 133 UNIMA Indonesia Page 134 UNIMA Iran Page 135 UNIMA Ireland Page 135 UNIMA Italy Page 136 UNIMA Ivory Cost Page 138 UNIMA Japan Page 141 UNIMA Lithuania Page 145 UNIMA Mali Page 148 UNIMA Mexico Page 151 UNIMA Norway Page 153 UNIMA Philippines Page 157 UNIMA Poland Page 159 UNIMA Portugal Page 161 UNIMA Russia Page 164 UNIMA Slovakia Page 167 UNIMA Spain Page 170 UNIMA Sweden Page 189 UNIMA Switzerland Page 192 UNIMA Togo Page 195 UNIMA Turkey Page 197 UNIMA U.S.A Page 199 Representations: Representation UNIMA in Costa Rica Page 202 Modifications of the Statutes and/or the Rules of Procedure Page 205 Presentation of candidacies for the hosting of the next Council 2014 Page 205 Presentation of candidacies for the hosting of the next Congress 2016 Page 213 Motions Page 222 Miscellaneous: National Centres to exclude More Candidates proposed by the National Centres for Executive Committees Proposal of the UNIMA Netherlands to modify/improve the procedure of election for EC The UNIMA General Secretariat thanks all the people that helped for the preparation of this document. All the National Centres and Commissions that have sent their reports (sometime in two languages) and the people that has spent a lot of hours to help in the translations, particularly Idoya Otegui from Spain. 2 UNIMA 21st Congress CHENGDU CHINA, 29th May 2012. UNIMA councillors, members, puppeteers attending the festival your excellences and guests. Four years ago in Perth - Australia, you voted for the next congress to be held in Chengdu - China. Here we are now at the Threshold of the 21st UNIMA Congress and International Puppet Festival; the second such UNIMA event in Asia, in this beautiful and historic city of Chengdu, known as the land of abundance and the country of heaven. I welcome all of you who have travelled far and wide to attended this congress, which I’m sure, will have something special for all of us gathered here today. As I mentioned earlier, what has kept our organisation alive for 83 years, as one of the oldest International theatre organisations in the world, is your enthusiasm and love for puppetry. Many stalwarts have left their mark on this profound, expressive and loveable art form, some of them have passed on, others present, and many other masters around the world that need to be discovered and brought into the forefront of our organisation. UNIMA salutes these individuals, some of them working in adverse conditions, who keep the art of puppet theatre alive in their own country’s. In the past four years we have had many new National centres and our number has grown to 73 National centres and 8 representatives, in countries around the world, there are some national centres just in name who need to be activated or re-energised, remember it is one thing opening a national centre with enthusiasm and fervour, but totally another in keeping it alive with activities and budgets to do so, specially as all our work is on a voluntary basis. I ask you, why would a young puppeteer would want to join UNIMA ?. Are we creating and setting examples of systems where they would eventually be able to benefit from the network of colleagues around the world, personally I think yes, UNIMA has a lot to offer, and you a lot to give to the organisation. I would love to see a UNIMA where puppeteers can easily travel and meet without the reign’s of political and personal agendas, but this is far easier said then done. Given the present conditions in many national centres and country’s, we at UNIMA have tried our best to reach out and work within systems prevailing in many of them. UNIMAS major work WEPA the World Encyclopaedia of Puppetry Arts, a contribution by many scholars, and puppeteers, for almost 30 years, came to life between Perth and Chengdu in its French edition, we now look forward to the English and Spanish versions of this seminal work, which is being translated, updated and edited by the committee concerned. Our geographical, educational/research and various commissions ,for the first time received budgets to advance their projects and work, publications, awards and work in progress have been dedicated through these commissions and budgets, and I’m sure will grow in time. This has also caused immense goodwill amongst various organisations and publications that we have collaborated with. Soon we should have a new web site, which is user friendly, and interactive, this I’m sure will attract many more prospective puppeteers to UNIMA. Our General Secretary’s report will give you a detailed account of the activity’s and achievements in these last few years, we at Charleville Mézières and the executive committee have tried our best to full fill our mandate given to us in Perth. 3 At this congress we will elect the next venue for the 22nd Congress, I ask you to revue all the conditions and practical ground work needed for this event before voting for the country, It is great pride to have got the mandate for the same, but the country elected has four years in which to get their systems, budgets and collaborators in place, in order to have a smooth and organised event of this scale, specially when dealing with artists , groups and individuals the word over. I thank all the Executive committee members for their support and understanding, above all our Secretary General Jacques Trudeau, at our secretariat in Charleville Mézières, Fabrice Guilliot, the Institut International de la Marionnette, the Worldwide Puppet festival in Charleville Mézières, our very important supporters and sponsors, the City and Mayor of Charleville Mézières, the Conseil Général des Ardennes, the Région Champagne Ardenne and the French Cultural organisations and Government who year after year acknowledge our work and art. To the many sponsors in the various country’s supporting their own national centres. I thank all of you, our members and friends attending this congress, but above all on behalf of UNIMA I thank the officials and government of Chengdu city and UNIMA China, who have worked hard in making this event a grand success. I wish you all a friendly, constructive and good UNIMA 21st Congress. Dadi D.Pudumjee President UNIMA 4 UNIMA CONGRESS – CHENGDU, May 29th – June 2nd, 2012 AGENDA May 29th 2012 – From 9:00 to 14:00 1) Opening of the Congress by the President of UNIMA. Welcoming speech by the President of the hosting National Centre. Other official greetings. 2) Reading of the Agenda by the General Secretary. 3) Election of the managing President of the Congress and of two minuting Secretaries. 4) Election of the supplementary independent Councillors, with the aid of the Election Committee. (See Statutes §3.a.4.4. and R.O.P. III.B.5) 5) Presentation, of the list of new Honorary Members , by the President of UNIMA, on behalf of the outgoing Executive Committee (see Statutes §2.6 and R.O.P. II.3). 6) Report of the Registration Bureau (see R.O.P. III.A.4) and presentation by the General Secretary of the list of Council members. 7) Report of the Executive Committee by the General Secretary. 8) Report of the Auditing Commission (see Statutes §3.d and R.O.P. III.E). 9) Declaration of the result of the elections of the additional Councillors. 10) Vote of final discharge of responsibility of the outgoing Executive Committee. 11) Report of the Elections Committee (see R.O.P.III.B.2 and 3) May 30th 2012 – From 9:00 to 13:30 12) Reports from National Centres, Commissions, International Groups (see Statutes §3.e.6 and R.O.P. III.F.4) and Representatives. May 31st 2012 – From 9:00 to 13:30 13) Election of the Executive Committee. 14) Possible modifications of the Statutes and/or the Rules of Procedure. 15) Presentation of candidacies for the hosting of the next Congress followed by a vote on the acceptance of one candidacy. 16) Motions included in the Congress-file. 17) Declaration of the results of the elections of the new Executive Committee.