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Registration for the 28th FACP Annual Conference at the Marina Sands in Singapore, November 25 - 28, 2010 is now open.

Exciting activities, engaging sessions, entertaining performances await conference participants. Visit the uploaded Conference and download the registration form.

Participants who register as an FACP member get a free exhibition space at the Marina Sands and the opportunity to advertise in this website. Starting the 28th FACP Conference, members will be able to nominate Governors for their respective city or country and vote for the next leaders of the organization.

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About FACP

The Federation for Asian Cultural Promotion (FACP) is an association for individuals or corporations who are involved or interested in the performing arts. FACP is a non-profit, non-political organization which works to promote networks for performing arts managers in the region and to foster understanding of the rich cultural heritage of Asia around the world.

 A group of professionals, impresarios and performing arts managers from Manila, Taipei, Seoul and Tokyo founded the FACP in Manila in 1981. It now draws participants and observers from almost every city in the region and from every corner of the world which share an interest in the development of cultural exchange in the Asia-Pacific.

The FACP holds an annual conference hosted each year by a different Asian city. The annual conference is aimed at facilitating international touring and artistic issues and challenges facing the arts industry. It provides a friendly meeting place and platform for arts and artist managers, cultural entrepreneurs and leaders.

History of FACP

During the midsummer of the year 1979, Dr. Lucrecia R. Kasilag, the then chairman of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex and Mr. Hsu Po-Yun, President of New Aspect Promotion Corporation, had an in depth discussion about the cultural interactions on performing and visual arts amongst regions in Asia, and realized that many of the communications were limited with rare alliances or networks. In particular to the cross-continental activities between the east and west, the exchange at that time was very low; therefore, the effects of cultural events were minimal, costly, and inefficient. The flow of communication between each Asian region was of great deficit when compared to the interactions between Europe or America, and needless to say, the promotion of Asian cultures to the west was very scarce. Hence, Dr. Kasilag and Mr. Hsu initiated the organization of  the “Federation for Asian Cultural Promotion”, and set out to propose their mission to important people in Asia in the cultural promotion industry, and they hoped that a kinship between these members could be formed. Mr. Hsu was in charge of connecting the areas of North Eastern Asia. Dr. Kasilag was in charged of the South Eastern regions. In a two year  span, they had visited Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and also cultural sectors of the United Nations. On August 11, 1981 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex, the Federation for Asian Cultural Promotion was officially formed. Its founding representatives included Dr. Kasilag of Manila, Mr. Hsu Po-Yun of Taipei, Mr. Tadashi Yokoyama of the Nippon Cultural Center, Mr. Seong-Tae Kim of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, and also Mr. Apratty, representative from UNESCO. In the meeting, they came up with the following six prominent decisions:

  • They came to agreement that the organization will be named Federation for Asian Cultural Promotion (FACP). FACP shall be a non-political and non-profitable international cultural organization.
  • The Constitution was drafted by Dr. Kasilag and Mr. Hsu. The content was passed during the 2nd FACP meeting in Taipei. The final version was set after an editing and drafting process that took three years to complete.
  • Due to special and complicated political and economic situations affecting different regions and nations in Asia, it was a resolution that the Federation would be culturally based. Each region would be represented by its capital city in order to avoid controversies due to political associations.

    Dr. Kasilag was nominated as the first chairman with Mr. Hsu as the secretary general, Mr. Kim as the international governor and Mr. Yokoyama as the treasurer. Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines was invited to be the Honorary Chair. Each position had a term in office of three years.

    Dr. Kasilag was elected again to be the chairman for the second term. Dr. Jeanne Tchong Koei Li of Taipei was elected for the 3rd, 4th and 5th terms. Mr. Kang Suk-Heung of Seoul was elected for the 6th term followed by Mr. Baltazar N. Endriga of Manila for the 7th term, Mr. Yoshiro Kambara of Tokyo for the 8th term and Mr. Zhang Yu of Beijing for the 9th term and Mr. David Lee of Seoul for the 10th term. As Mr. David Lee passed away while in office, Mr. Hsu Po-Yun was nominated by the Board of Governors to complete the former's term. In the past 30 years, Mr. Hsu Po-Yun, Mr. John Duffs of Hong Kong, Mr. Tadashi Yokoyama and Mr. Martin Lopez were appointed as the secretary generals respectively.
  • To assertively encourage important guests of honor and observers from Europe, America, Africa, Australia to participate.
  • To fortify the interaction between regions in Asia.
  • The second annual conference would be held in Taipei, the 3rd in Tokyo, and the 4th in Seoul.

In the following years, FACP membership increased exponentially with members from Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Macau and Jakarta. In 1983, Beijing appointed two observing guests to take part in the 3rd annual conference in Tokyo. Melbourne applied to become a member in 1985. After 5 years of vigorous discussion, the region’s membership was finally approved and their representative welcomed at the 9th annual FACP conference.

In the 90’s, an annual, mid-term governors' meeting was implemented. These meetings would take place in a different city each time. Some of the hosting cities included Bali, Lisbon, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo and Gyeongju. With the advancement in technology, this mid-term meeting was replaced by fax and e-mail correspondences.

In 2001, the region of China with Beijing as the regional representative officially became an FACP member. FACP then began to include many subjects for discussion on Chinese cultural events, resources, information, and developments. FACP also expanded its connections with even further eastern Asian regions with the hosting of an Annual Conference in Urumqi, the site of the old Silk Road and the addition of Ulaan Bator in Mongolia to the FACP membership. The representatives of FACP hope that with these developments, a modern, cultural silk road can be created.
 

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The Federation for Asian Cultural Promotion (FACP) is an association for individuals or corporations who are involved or interested in the performing arts. FACP is a non-profit, non-political organization which works to promote networks for performing arts managers in the region and to foster understanding of the rich cultural heritage of Asia around the world.

 A group of professionals, impresarios and performing arts managers from Manila, Taipei, Seoul and Tokyo founded the FACP in Manila in 1981. It now draws participants and observers from almost every city in the region and from every corner of the world which share an interest in the development of cultural exchange in the Asia-Pacific.
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