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　 By the 27th of October 2003, 32 theater people from all over the Asia got together. Thank you so much for coming to Tokyo all the way from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Iran, and Iraq. They all arrived with big luggage. Welcome to Tokyo, every one!! Some are blind, some don't eat poke. We are all deferent. I hope you can find some comfortableness in this crowded small space , and let's share our time for one week together with theater people in Tokyo. This is the cross road where unfamiliar languages meet. Do 'I', each of us, get melt in here, or get furious, or are there any encounters?

Asia is now a powder magazine of the world. We all live in Asia. Why do we gather here? For what? The 4th Asia meets Asia festival began with many questions....
and can we, or not can we find any answers to all these questions in this brief occasion ? Will your luggage weigh heavier or lighter on the way back home with those expanding questions ? Will the answers you find put more oil into the fire, or extinguish
the fire?

First of all, we would like to thank "theater", which made the encounters
with many questins possible. The7 different groups are collaborating on a tight
schedule to realize this festival, Asia meets Asia 2003. Our collaboration has already begun in confusion, and we hope it will grow wider toward the world near future. See you again, every one!

And last but not least, we would like to thank all the staffs and
volunteers for
working hard in the scene of the fire.

Thank you!

Asia meets Asia exective committee

　
　
　 The event 　 Asia meets Asia theatre festival 2003
　 Goals 　 The aims are committing to create spaces to continuing exchanges among Asian devotees of theatrical arts, and to introduce their works of contemporary theatres to one another countries. By these activities, thereby, we are wishing for promoting mutual understandings among Asian.

The forthcoming fourth festival, in view of international situation and concerns on Islamic cultural circles, there will have three theatre works by companies from West Asian and South Asian countries being invited to  perform. Furthermore, joining this festival, there also will have a collaboration performance developed from previous collaboration experiences committed mainly by both Tokyo & Hong Kong artists.
　 Schedules From 29th Oct. to 3rd Nov. 2003 in Tokyo
　 Location 　 Azabu die pratze theatre, will be the main location for most of the performances.
　 　 　 Proto Theatre in Takadannobaba will be used as other gathering and workshops, etc.
　 Participating groups foreign groups: 　
　 　 A  Centre for Asian theatre ( Bangladesh 10 members)
　 　 B The Bazy Theatre Group (Iran 6 members)
　 　 C NAAS Theatre Company(Iraq 6 members)
　 　 W The Clash Company of Hong Kong in collaborating with artists from Taiwan, Southeast Asian and Japan.
　
　 　 Japanese groups  Under construction
　 Activities 1) Performances
　 　 　 It will be a long weekend, from Saturday to Monday. Audiences and participating performers can takes chance to view performances and discuss together. Each piece of work is about hour duration.

Due to the limit of time, in between performances, there will have setting props and lighting, only simple setup are expected.
　 　 2) Symposium will be hold once;
　 　 　 after talks will be hold after each performance. The symposium will have two session, the first half will on briefing on situation of theatres by the artists of participating countries as self-introduction; second half will on chosen themes, which yet to be taken by various concerning proposals. We will try to find participants to response to question from those themes.
　 　 3) Workshop
　 　 　 each of the three participating foreign groups will conduct workshop for one-hour duration. It will take four hours, in addition with recess time. Participants would try to figure out some possible hints and ideas for working out collective theatrical attempts, by which, to intensify mutual exchanges.
　 Character of the event 　 It is directly the people to people exchange by nature, foreign participating companies will not keep a distance from local artists and audiences. Within the festival, there are opinions voicing out in discussion, exchanging practices in workshops and exchanging performing works. It will be felt like as intimate as theatre camp.
　
remarks: for a condensed schedule of having 3 performances in a day, there demand full cooperation and volunteerism among participants, in order to smoothly shifting of the productions.


Aftermath of the festival


1)Wang Mo-lin is looking for the realisation of co-hosting the festival in
Taipei, after Tokyo.
2)Recording the activities, reports of talks on theatre situation in Asia &
other ideas, to be presented in home page.
3)Gathering idea for planning for the next festival.
4)For continuing of Asia meets Asia collaboration, toward the next project,
the development should be put under serious reviews.