Timor Furak attended 5th World Summit on Art and Culture

Timor Furak Group Manager attended the 5th World Summit on Art and Culture held in Melbourne-Australia from 3-6 October, 2011.

With over 80 speakers from around the world and close to 500 delegates from 75 countries, the 5th World Summit on art and culture brought together Government and cultural leader to explore how artist can give voice to diverse communities and concerns through collaborations with experts in many sectors. The 5th World Summit, co-hosted by the Australia Council for the Arts and the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA), was held at the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre.

To date, five world summit have been held

•    Ottawa, Canada 2000
• Singapore, 2003
• Newcastle Gateshead, England 2006
• Johannesburg, South Africa 2009 

•  Melbourne, Australia 2011

6th World Summit to be held in Chile from 13-16 January 2014

Participants gathered at the opening day

with Sarah Gardner, the Executive Director of IFACCA

with Robyn Archer, the Programme Advisor for the World Summit

Pose with one of event organizer and speaker from Indonesia Vincensius 'venzha' Christiawan

Director / Media Artist, House of Natural Fiber 

with culture 360 team

http://artsummit.org/

III AP- CPLP 20-23 Sep 2011 in Timor-Leste

Timor Furak group performing at the III Parliamentary Assemblies of the Nations belonging to the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (III AP-CPLP) event held in Timor-Leste from 20-23 Sep 2011. The event was a very important event because it showed to the World Timor-Leste ability to host such a international conference that brings eight (8) member state of CPLP with location spread over 4 continents- Europe, America, Africa and Asia.

www.cplp.org