LOMBA KERATIVITAS SENI DAN BUDAYA SEAMEO QITEP 2015

BAGI SISWA SMA/SMK YANG MEMILIKI BAKAT KESENIAN SEPERTI TARI, DANCER, MENYANYI, DLL, MONGGO DIIKUTI LOMBA PEKAN BUDAYA YANG DIADAKAN OLEH SEAMOE QITEP. LOMBA INI TERBUKA BAGI SIAPA SAJA SISWA YANG MEMILIKI KEMAMPUAN DI BIDANG SENI DAN BUDAYA. BERIKUT INFORMASINYA:

Greetings from the SEAMEO Secretariat and the SEAMEO Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts (SEAMEO SPAFA). As announced during the SEAMEO Centre Directors' Meeting 2014 and 2015, SEAMEO SPAFA and SEAMEO Secretariat are jointly organizing "SEAMEO Cultural Week 2015", as part of the Golden SEAMEO 50th Anniversary Celebrations. With the kind support of SEAMOLEC, this programme, adopted as a SEAMEO-wide initiative within the framework of the SEAMEO Strategic Plan, will result in the creation of an online platform of video documentation, knowledge-sharing and comment-exchange on intangible cultural heritage practices from across the Southeast Asian region, to be published on youtube.com.

The project's objectives are to:
1. Enhance the understanding of Southeast Asia's cultural diversity and traditions;
2. Strengthen collaborations between schools, education ministries, and SEAMEO centres across the region in promoting interactive platforms for the youths of Southeast Asia to appreciate the region's cultures;
3. Create an interactive media platform for the youths of Southeast Asia to exchange knowledge and information on each other's respective cultures; and 4. Engage schools in the development of video documentation on their respective cultural heritage, which can be utilized as resource materials in the future.

Through an open call for submissions sent via SEAMEO Centres and the Ministries/Department of Education of SEAMEO member countries, schools across Southeast Asia are invited to submit videos that show local forms of intangible cultural heritage, such as:

1. a traditional dance performance,
2. a traditional song performance,
3. traditional craft-making,
4. cooking a traditional dish,
5. story-telling through art, or
6. playing a traditional game.

In this regard, SEAMEO Secretariat and SEAMEO SPAFA would like to ask for your Centre's kind cooperation in disseminating the information related to the call for video entries across your Centre's network.

In addition, in order to ensure multi-country participation in this project and to promote inter-centre collaboration, the latter having been highlighted during the 2015 HOM and CDM meetings, we would like to hereby invite your Centre to collect videos from at least two local schools within its network.

Videos submitted will be published on SEAMEO SPAFA's Youtube Channel, which already benefits from a strong viewership worldwide. Upon publication, SEAMEO SPAFA and SEAMEO Secretariat will initiate and moderate discussions by posting 'mini-essay' questions on selected videos through Youtube's comments platform in order to engage viewers (Southeast Asian youths) to participate in a dialogue on cultural heritage.

Through the exchange of video documentation on Southeast Asia's diverse and shared forms of cultural heritage and the creation of a platform for discussion, this project aims to promote sustainable development in the region and to enhance mutual respect among communities, groups and individuals. The knowledge of each other's intangible cultural heritage is key to embracing shared cultural expressions and cultural diversity, and to developing mutual appreciation and respect.

Ten (10) awards of $200 each will be disbursed to the schools of the students who post winning answers/comments to the various 'mini-essay' questions. Each winning school will also obtain a "Winning Certificate". In addition, all participating schools will receive a "Certificate of Participation".

Kindly confirm your Centre's participation by:

1. Submitting the name of a focal contact assigned to this project within your Centre to spafa@seameo-spafa.org by 20 July 2015.
2. Completing the attached "Video Entry Form" (minimum 2 entries per Centre), using one form for each school that your Centre plans to assign to this programme, and returning it via e-mail to spafa@seameo-spafa.org by 31 August 2015.

For further information, kindly refer to the attached documents (Programme Information Note and Project Guidelines) and announcement poster, or please contact Mr. John Paul Itao, Communications Officer, via e-mail at john@seameo-spafa.org.

UNTUK BERKASNYA BISA DIUNDUH DI SINI BERKAS CULTURAL WEEK SEAMEO 2015