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Call for Participation to NCCA-NCCEd's 2009 INFACE Forum Series

The National Commission for Culture and the Arts' National Committeeon Cultural Education (NCCA-NCCEd) announces the convening of a seriesof island-clustered Forum on Informal, Non-Formal and AlternativeCultural Education (INFACE) on January 8-9 (Cebu City); January 19-20(Davao City); and January 22-23 (Manila).

The two-day forum series is part of a nationwide constituency- basedconsultation on previous and current INFACE efforts by community-basedartists, cultural workers, educators, local government units, NGO artscouncils, and culture-oriented people's organizations. As conceived,the project hopes to mainstream, replicate and support best practicesin INFACE program initiatives through the NCCA's Philippine CulturalEducation Program (PCEP).

The project will undertake an enquiry on the history, nature andprocess of engagement of community-based cultural education work inthe regions and identify modalities and operative frameworks whichPCEP could adopt for its INFACE programming. it is hoped that bestpractices in the grassroots level will be mainstreamed and replicatedand resources could be shared between an engaged network ofGO-LGU-NGO-PO partnership.

The NCCA NCCEd has invited representatives of selected culturalnetworks as official participants but a limited number of slots isstill open to other artists' organizations, local LGU and NGO arts andculture councils, local government units' culture, arts and tourismoffices, and other networks of cultural educators with at least threeyears of sustained cultural education work for specific sectors.

Interested parties may send application enquiries on participationdetails and eligibilities with a brief profile of theirorganizations/ networks' history, extent and coverage of culturaleducation work in the communities, and name and brief profile ofnominated participant- representative.

Each confirmed participant will be provided meals and sharedaccommodations for the duration of the Forum and reimbursement ofround-trip fare subsidy to and from the venue of specificisland-clustered forum. .

For application enquiries and submission, please emailhttp://us.mc506.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=inface2009%40gmail.com. The organizers reserve the right to select andinvite qualified participants.