C I O F F ® CONSEIL INTERNATIONAL DES ORGANISATIONS DE FESTIVALS DE FOLKLORE ET D’ARTS TRADITIONNELS ONG en relations formelles de consultation avec l’UNESCO National Section’s ANNUAL REPORT 2010 Activities of the National Sections CIOFF ® Membership Quantity Associations 497 Festivals 405 Folklore groups 4.792 Individuals 8.872 * * + 230.000 members of affiliated organizations Meetings Quantity Number of participants General Meetings 74 3.081 Executive Boards 179 1.216 Committees, councils 172 1.182 Reports received from National Sections: Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Chinese Taipei, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia FYROM, Malaysia, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Panama, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, USA, Venezuela. Corresponding Members : Cyprus Iskele and Gönyeli Municipalities 2 List of especially interesting topics discussed Albania The organization of International Festivals : - Permeti Multicultural 2010 ( minorities and ethnics groups 21 -23.06.2010, cooperation of Municipality city Permet and Ministry of Tourism, Culture, Youth and Sports - Tirana - Festival of Aulona INTERFOLK in the city of Vlore with cooperation of Municipality of city Vlora 9 –11.05. 2010 , Organization Days of Cultural Heritage in the towns Gjirokastra , Berat and Durres in cooperation with the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Exhibition of Spiritual Material Culture and traditional productions in Dita e Veres, Organization of several festivals of polyphonic song, dance doubles, the troubadour and folk music with instruments in the cities Vlora, Korca, Librazhd, Gramsh in cooperation with cultural centers of these cities. Argentina Crafts: Initiating the Registration of persons and institutions (*) Culture: Application Form "Who's Who" in CIOFF ® Argentina (**) Third Age: Cooperation with universities, clubs and institutions in activities related to folk art (*) (*) - Plan of extension to new activities (**) - Determine theoretical and human capacities of the Section. Armenia National rituals and habits education program for school children Publishing of folklore materials Austria Costumes Azerbaijan We had interesting discussion regarding development of the regional festival program where can participate all regional Caucasian countries under National and Regional festival program Bosnia and Herzegovina The regulation of mutual relations NS CIOFF ® and individual manifestations of folklore within the B & H; Popularization and ensuring respect for international rules CIOFF ® in organizing events in B & H: Strengthening of the National Commission for festivals; Strengthening of cooperation folklore experts, festivals and groups in countries in the region; Cooperation with relevant ministries in B & H in order to include CIOFF ® B&H in cultural policy development of the country. 3 Brazil Tourist Development with Social Inclusion through Culture Bulgaria Possibilities of financing travels of folklore groups to festivals Project for a Festival to EU Cultural commission Canada The name of the festival “Gigue en Fete” have been changed to the name “Couleurs du Monde” that is more descriptive of the event Chile Folklore in the stage Future CIOFF®Youth Future CIOFF® original people China Discussion about the safeguard, dissemination and excavation of the folklore, traditional arts, especially the intangible cultural heritage of the 12 Provinces of the Chang Jiang River Area. Chinese Taipei Recruitment of local folk groups as new member of CIOFF ® Chinese Taipei; Increase of the involvement in the local cultural activities Colombia Financial strategy fortify Strategy fortify Youth movement National implementation of the Festival Guides Cultural interchange with Cuba and Mexico (2011) Bilateral group exchanges with Mexico International Congress of Folklore in Cartagena Latin American Congress of Dance and Education in Villavicencio Seminary to qualify folklore groups, in Cartagena Strengthen the binational circuit between Colombia and Venezuela. Consolidate six circuits of international festivals Create the national section`s website (2011) Costa Rica Participation in CIOFF ® International Festivals. Organization of conferences, workshops and seminaries nationally and internationally. Creation of International and National CIOFF ® Festivals. Relationships with cultural associations, tourist authorities and government organizations. 4 Croatia A good part of Croatian groups can not participate in many festivals for a very limited number of group members. If the rump group participates leaves a distorted picture of Croatian folk tradition Cyprus Organization of seminar about traditional dances, costumes and music instruments Financial matters Czech Republic Cooperation with NATIONAL COMMISSION UNESCO - participation. Cooperation with Folklore Association of the Czech Republic. Cooperation with Czech National Section IOV. Help to the folklore groups to participate in festivals abroad. Estonia Participation in a meeting of folklore association Baltica in Latvia (discussed topic: “The past, the present and the future of Folklore Festival Baltica”) Communication with Estonian Ministry of Culture and Estonian Open Air Museum (discussed topic: possibility of establishing the “Folklore House”) Get-together with folklore curators of counties (discussed topic: how to intensify the co-work in Estonia in the field of traditional culture Finland The organizing of third Finnish Estonian Dance Festivity in the City of Tampere in 2012 was started in 2010. France Creation of a commission about the mutualisation of the means (in the festivals). For the Folkloriada 2012, creation of a dance and music group composed of a delegation of 3or 4 different groups. Georgia The burning topics of the Georgian folk music and choreography and national dancing costumes. Performance manner of Georgian bowed instruments and the proble, of notation. Germany A request from the International Delphic Council for collaboration has been received and has been discussed. It was agreed to stay in contact with the IDC and to develop possible items for collaboration. The present situation concerning the Application to the European Project was presented A preliminary information concerning Folkloriada 2012 was given Greece Looking for new active members in the NS 5 Searching for Sponsors in all the Greek festivals Decisions for the non CIOFF ® agencies selling Greek groups Hungary Finding the balance between ‘self-expression through art’, ‘catering to the audience’, ‘serving the community’ Continued discussions/development of the National Festival Evaluation System – in folklore category 17 festivals were evaluated: 6 received ‘Excellent’ ranking (4 of them CIOFF ® festivals) Exchange of ideas and experience with our festival directors and the directors of the Ganna and Maribor festivals Festival Fotó National Photo competition results: 64 photographers 364 photographs Festival Fotó exhibit in 12 cities around the country Indonesia Sent many folklore groups to International Festivals Recruitment children folklore groups to send out Israel Ways to improve the use of cioff® network and the procedures of invitations to international festivals for groups belonging to our N.S through the N.S. Ways to influence National Sections and Int. festivals to use the services of other N.S to invite groups and get our evaluations of groups. To convince our groups and festivals to join and get the benefits of our N.S services. How to attract choreographers to participate in our in-service training program and improve their ability to present folklore on the stage. How to develop attractive projects for donors. Italy Reform of the system of requirements for admission and collaboration with the National Section Japan CIOFF ® Japan examined the international conference in Japan in 2013 Malaysia To get government ministry/agency to support CIOFF ® Malaysia activities to organize cultural and sport festival every year Mexico Establish a mandatory “no more” than 2 years term for the presidency and the other positions of the executive committee Netherlands We looked back to the recent history of industries, that disappeared in our country. 6 Our inspiration was generated by a congress from the Dutch centre of Folk Art and traditions. Also in museums there is a revival of artistic representations of industrial buildings from the 20 the century. At least one of our festivals adopted the ideas by organizing their festival in 2012 around the industry of the coalmines . The mines existed in that region from1926 untill1963. New Zealand Groups taking part in CIOFF Festivals in 2010 and 2011. Confirmation of Groups taking part in 2010 A CIOFF Festival in New Zealand. Increasing membership of CIOFF NZ. Increasing Youth membership. Finances. Fundraising activities. Holding a Festival with groups returning from CIOFF Festivals. Raffles Group interchange within NZ Panama Advisory Organization CIOFF ® Panama Organization of Regional Coordinators Organization of the working committee Paraguay Work program 2011/2012 Indian culture research work Project “SOS Indigenas” – part 2 Poland Development of the charitable concerts of Polish CIOFF® members groups. Preparation for the General Assembly of