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Union Internationale de la Marionnette Organisation Internationale non gouvernementale bénéficiant du statut consultatif auprès de l’UNESCO fondée en 1929 TO ALL UNIMA NATIONAL CENTRES, COUNCILLORS, REPRESENTATIVES AND MEMBERS Charleville Mézières, on December, 16th , 2011 V/Ref: Unima Congress - Chengdu N/Ref: CHENG_DossierInvit_E Dear friends, I'm sending you this convocation letter to attend our XXI UNIMA Congress which will be held in the International Conference Hall of the Jinjiang Hotel in Chengdu (China) from May 29th to 2nd June 2012. Address: Jinjiang Hotel N° 80, 2nd Section, Renmin South Avenue 610012 CHENGDU You are kindly requested to send promptly this letter to all your UNIMA members without exceptions. It's very important that all of them receive this invitation, because, as you know, all the members of our association can attend the Congress, although, according to our Statutes, only the Councillors have the right to vote. About the world puppet festival, I remind you that it will start on May 27th with a great opening ceremony at 10 A.M (morning). So, I invite you to come to Chengdu few days before the beginning of the Congress to attend this event. It will finish on June 3rd with, also, a great ceremony. You will find enclosed, according to the item III.A.1 of our rules of procedure, the following documents: - Agenda - Report of the secretary general - Proposed activities for the forthcoming four-year term - Report of the election committee - Proposal of the locations for the next congress - Financial report - Provisional budget (We did not received any motions and change propositions in our statutes) We encourage you to attend this important UNIMA Congress and World Puppet Festival that is occurring only for the second time in Asia. We received the promise from the Chengdu organising committee that it will be outstanding. Please prepare yourselves in consulting the agenda and the full dossier. This letter should have been sent to you six months before the Congress. You might received it with a delay of a few days. Please accept our apologies. It was quite a big dossier to prepare and translate. My best regards! Jacques Trudeau Unima General Secretary UNIMA – Union Internationale de la Marionnette BP 402 – 10, Cours Aristide BRIAND - 08107 CHARLEVILLE MÉZIÈRES – France Tél: +33 (0)324 32 85 63 / Email: [email protected] / Web: http://www.unima.org 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. 18) Presentation of the candidacies to the Presidency, the General Secretariat, the Treasurer and the Auditing Commission. June 1st 2012 – From 9:00 to 13:30 19) Election of the President, General Secretary, Treasurer and the members of the Auditing Commission of UNIMA. 20) Open discussions on the programme for the next four years. (These discussions may occupy the whole session, but, upon request by the Election Committee, may be appropriately interrupted to allow the Agenda to move on from point 21 through 24). 21) Declaration of the result of the election of point 19. 22) Presentation of the candidacies and elections of the two Vice-Presidents. 23) Fixing of amounts of membership fees for the National Centres and the direct members (see R.O.P.VI.1). 24) Declaration of the results of the elections of the Vice-Presidents. 25) Installation of the new Executive Committee June 2nd 2012 – From 9:00 to 13:30 26) Creation and/or confirmation of the Commissions and definition of their objectives. Elections of the Presidents of the Commissions. 27) Miscellaneous. 28) Closing of the Congress. Administrative Report from the General Secretary on the preceding term, 2008-2011 for the XXIst UNIMA Congress, Chengdu (China) Dear UNIMA members, You can be proud of the 18 members of the UNIMA Executive Committee you have elected during the last Congress in Perth, April 2008. The last four years were extremely busy and effective as you will see in my report. Together, we contribute to the expansion and the credibility of our highly praised association. As you know the Executive Committee members were composed by the following persons: Dadi Pudumjee President Jacques Trudeau Secretary General Annette Dabs 1st Vice-President - President Commission of new Financial Resources Stanislav Doubrava 2nd Vice-President - President Commission of International Festivals Ronny Albrecht Pr. Commission of Amateurs Knut Alfsen Pr. Commission of Statutes Ana Maria Allendes Commission for Latin America (councillor) Angel Casado Pr. Commission Cultural Exchange Susanita Freire Pr. Commission for Latin America Livija Kroflin Pr. Commission Education, Development and Therapy Nina Monava Pr. Commission Europe Manuel Moran Pr. Commission North-America Onagi Tamiko Pr. Woman Commission Jennifer Pfeiffer Pr. Commission Asia Pacific Pierre Alain Rolle Pr. Commission International Cooperation Mamadou Samake Pr. Commission Africa Marek Waszkiel Pr. Commission of Formation Simon Wong Commission Asia Pacific & Cooperation (member) During those four years the Executive Committee Members proceeded to the following meetings: First Meeting (2008) Perth,Australia April 8th, right after the Congress in Perth, were present the 18 members. Second Meeting (2009) Ekaterinburg, Russia September 9-10-11. Were present all the E.C. members, except Susanita Freire and Alain Lecucq who has been replaced after his dismissal by Ana Maria Allendes. Third Meeting (2010) Council Meeting, Dordrecht, Holland From June 20th to 24th. Were present all the E.C. members except Jennifer Pfeiffer. Fourth Meeting (2011) Charleville-Mézières, France 16-17-18 September. Were present all the E.C. members except Mamadou Samake. The fifth Meeting will be held May 28th 2012,the day before the XXIst UNIMA Congress, Chengdu (China) Secretariat: The UNIMA secretariat was quite busy during the period 2008-2011, actualizing our data basis and filling the forms to get our subsidies. In spite of 3 staff changes during my mandate, and the relatively difficult economic situation of France , (particularly of the Ardennes regions, where the city of Charleville-Mézières stands,) we could keep our subsidies from the 4 political levels and increase the amount of membership fees coming from the UNIMA Centres. Fabrice Guilliot, the actual assistant, is doing a great job and his arrival was praised by all the members of the Executive Committee. Economical situation: UNIMA is in an excellent financial health. We are always privileged to be able to count on the financial support of the following 4 levels of French government: the Ministry of Culture the General Council of the Ardennes the Regional Council of Champagne-Ardenne the City of Charleville-Mézières From 4 years, the amounts were about the same ones, about 108335 Euro, except a little decrease of 1500 Euro in 2011 regarding moneys given by the city, making a total amount of 106835 Euro. May be this decrease is imputable to the fact the city of Charleville Mézières has created a new association named AVIAMA, which objective is to create a network of cities friends of the puppet. On other hand, the membership fees coming from the national Centres have increased. See the table of the last 4 years: Membership fees paid in 2008: 14076,43 € Membership fees paid in 2009: 13935,13 € Membership fees paid in 2010: 18760,96 € Membership fees paid in 2011: 19951,08 € (estimated) At the moment I am writing this report, I have not the final balance sheet for the year 2011, but, following our estimations, we should get a positive balance. On December 1st , we had in bank the following amount: 232734, 90 Euro, divided as: - Main Account: 149571,46 Euro - Remunerated Account: 76837,44 Euro - Travel Fund: 6326,00 Euro You will see in the balance sheet that thousand Euro are dedicated to the cost of both translations of the WEPA in English and Spanish and also to the rebuilding of our internet site National Centres: The UNIMA, today, November 29, 2011, is present in 80 countries with 72 Centres, 8 Representatives spread on the 5 continents, that constitutes a substantial increase because in 2008, under the last administration, the UNIMA had 68 centres.