Year 2009 is declared as the Year of the Ocean. Amid the multifarious and complex social and environmental issues that shall unfold during the entire year, we believe that the year shall also be a fitting time to celebrate life, nature and art.
We need to pursue our rituals for life and embrace our arts from rituals, and thus advance our engagements for nurturing nature, most specially the oceans that bring us together.
This project is envisioned as an effective and efficient vehicle to advance our positive advocacies towards conserving nature as well as for respect and protection of life. Likewise, it shall affirm the social significance and intrinsic value of art to rally the massive engagements of all stakeholders --- local, national and international --- for sustainable living. Thus, it is hoped that with the positive institutional endorsements that the project can generate, the probability of the high-level community support and ownership would be realized.
The over-all implementing methodology of the project is participatory and the identified strategies shall engender massive community involvement. As of this writing some of the details of the festival design are still open, although the major components are already described in the broadest way possible. At the outset, however, it is clear on the minds of the organizers that this Living Arts Asia Festival will not be merely a presentation of cultural events and full-packed activities. It is resolved that through this project the following calculated statements of impacts and outcomes are achieved.
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