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World
Expositions Snapshot June 2007
Welcome
to the Tenth Edition of World Expositions Snapshot - by Foundation Expo
'88 - Your Australian World Expositions Gateway. WORLD
NEWS......
BIE NEWS
http://www.bie-paris.org BIE DELEGATION TO TANGIER, MOROCCO, FOR THE TANGIER 2012 WORLD EXPOSITION BID The President of the BIE His Excellency Mr Wu Jianmin, and Secretary-General Sr Vicente González Loscertales, have led a BIE Delegation to Tangier, Morocco, for the Tangier 2012 World Exposition Bid. Meetings, Seminars, and Cultural Performances featured as part of the several-day visit. The theme for the proposed Exposition, to be held at the new Port of Tangier Mediterranean, is 'Culture and Routes of Travel'. Read the BIE Press Release here:
http://www.bie-paris.org/main/popup.php?a=277 HISTORY OF WORLD EXPOSITIONS
CONFERENCE IN TANGIER
As part of the BIE Delegation to Tangier, Communications Officer Ms Martine Leyrat officiated at the "World around Expos - Expos around the World" BIE Conference, one of the many BIE and Tangier Bid events for Expo 2012. View the Conference details and fascinating World Expositions snailshell timeline - featuring Foundation Expo '88-designed icon-logo for the 1988 World Exposition - featuring the symbol tower and sunsails of the Expo. Read the BIE Press Releases here:
http://www.bie-paris.org/main/popup.php?a=264 CITIES URGED TO PARTICIPATE AT
SHANGHAI 2010
Keeping in line with the Shanghai 2010 theme of 'Better Cities, Better Life' and the growing rise of the City-State, Cities on the world stage will have a unique opportunity to host their own representation at the Expo. Focussing on the concept of world's best practice and urban development, the 'Urban Best Practices Area' will allow Cities around the world to showcase their best in challenges provided in 21st century urban development. Read about this exciting
innovative project at the BIE Press Release here:
http://www.bie-paris.org/main/popup.php?a=262 BIE PRESIDENT AND
SECRETARY-GENERAL VISIT MILAN, ITALY, FOR THE 2015 MILAN EXPOSITION BID
BIE President His Excellency Mr Wu Jianmin and Secretary-General Sr Vicente González Loscertales have visited Milan, Italy, for talks with the President of Italy, H.E. Mr Giorgio Napolitano, Prime Minister of Italy the Honourable Mr Romano Prodi, and the Mayor of Milan, the Honourable Ms. Letizia Moratti for the 2105 Milan World Exposition bid. The theme for the proposed Exposition is 'Food and Energy for the World'. EXPO 2008
ZARAGOZA SPAIN 14 JUNE TO 14 SEPTEMBER 2008
http://www.expozaragoza2008.es WATER AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
In a year's time Expo Zaragoza 2008 will commence - what are the other important events that are happening now? Read about the Water Tribune - its chief pinnacle role in the three-base foundation for the Expo - Pavilion - Arts - and Conference. Read about the Expo Zaragoza 2008 Water Tribune
here:
http://www.expozaragoza2008.es/index.jsp?seccion=81&seccionRaiz=77&seccionDesplegar=80&idioma=en_GB Read here about how the Zaragoza Charter will
define the planet's 21st century water challenges. An in depth
interview with Director of Zaragoza's Water Platform and Expert Sr
Eduardo Mestre.
http://www.expozaragoza2008.es/index.jsp?seccion=44&idioma=en_GB&id=200705070003 What are some of the performing arts programs
featured at the Expo?
Read about 'Water Inspirations' by Director Pichón Baldinu and Performing Arts Troupe 'De La Guarda', here: http://www.expozaragoza2008.es/index.jsp?seccion=108&seccionRaiz=108&seccionDesplegar=152&idioma=en_GB Thematic Exhibitions
A new interactive digital map of the Thematic Zone of the Expo has been launched. View the Map here: http://www.expozaragoza2008.es/index.jsp?seccion=105&seccionRaiz=105&seccionDesplegar=178&idioma=en_GB EXPO 2010 SHANGHAI PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA 1 MAY - 1 NOVEMBER 2010 http://www.expo2010china.com BETTER CITY, BETTER LIFE
1060 Days till Opening Ceremony
The number of international participants at
Shanghai 2010 increases from 133 to 143 nations. Guyana, Fiji, the
Niger, Mauritius, Thailand, and Austria are among the new participants.
The Cities theme of the Shanghai 2010 Expo is
extended with the launch of a dedicated 15-hectares of the Expo site
for the new 'Urban Best Practices Area', where selected cities from
around the world will be asked to present their 'best practice' in
their city's urban development. This could mean a working exhibit of a
21st century office-residential-parkland hub, a series of carraiges
from a high-speed transit authority inter-urban transport system,
including platform and interactive data timetable information services
at the stop itself, and so on - the emphasis will be on working
to-scale exhibits.
Read the Press Release and view the location of 'Urban Best Practices Area' here: http://www.expo2010china.com/expo/expoenglish/news/sen/userobject1ai41308.html The 'harmonious ecological city' shall be the
guiding precepts for the Expo 2010 site, including clean 'low emission'
energy, recycled water, mist water fountain air conditioning,
'underground' garbage collection, extra green parkland built adjoining
the Huangpu River banks, and digital wi-fi guide for mobile phones to
direct you to the Expo.
Read more here: http://www.expo2010china.com/expo/expoenglish/news/sen/userobject1ai41311.html Greek Foreign Affairs Minister visits Expo Site The Greek Foreign Affairs Minister Ms Dora Bakoyannis MP and delegation visited the Shanghai Expo Authority and met with Ms Zhong Yanqun, Authority Deputy Director and other members of the Authority. Ms Bakoyannis also viewed the Expo site. The 2,000-square-meter Greece Pavilion is located in Zone C of the World Expo Site. Read the Press Release and Goodwill Note here: http://www.expo2010china.com/expo/expoenglish/news/sen/userobject1ai41411.html Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Visits Expo Authority
Premier of the People's Republic of China Wen Jiabao visited the Expo Authority during a three-day visit to Shanghai. 'An Economic Olympics', the Premier praised the Expo Authority's progress and the Expo's City-Urban theme, which promises to launch eco-friendly development on the world's stage, and the City of Shanghai as a new economic, financial, trade and shipping world centre. Read the Press Release here: http://www.expo2010china.com/expo/expoenglish/news/sen/userobject1ai41629.html A nation-wide Poem Competition for the Expo has
been launched, for Poem Reciting at the Expo. This follows a
long-precedent of Poem Recitation at the opening of World Expositions.
Read the Press Release here: http://www.expo2010china.com/expo/expoenglish/news/sen/userobject1ai41653.html New Zealand Officials Visit Shanghai Expo
Authority
Chief Executive of the New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development Mr Geoff Dangerfield visited the Shanghai Expo Authority and met with Deputy Director General Mr Zhou Hanmin. Read the Press Release here: http://www.expo2010china.com/expo/expoenglish/news/sen/userobject1ai41658.html Australian Delegation Visits Shanghai
An Australian Delegation led by State of Victoria Treasurer and State & Regional Development the Honourable Mr John Brumby MP, visited the Shanghai Expo Authority expressing an interest in the Urban Best Practices Area, and how Australia's capital cities can best be represented. Read the Press Release here: http://www.expo2010china.com/expo/expoenglish/news/sen/userobject1ai41669.html Siemens becomes Global Partner for Shanghai
World Expo 2010
Siemens, which has an 100-year strong relationship with the City of Shanghai, has become the Expo's first multinational Global Sponsorship Partner, and will provide advanced technology, solutions and high-quality products/services to the Expo, in the areas of rail transportation, building technology and healthcare. Siemens joins with other Global Sponsorship Partners East Airlines, China Mobile, China Telecom, Bank of Communications, and SAIC & GM, and other Senior Sponsors that will assist the Expo in logistics and delivery in numerous fields. Read the Press Release here: http://www.expo2010china.com/expo/expoenglish/news/sen/userobject1ai41680.html Deputy Lord Mayor of the City of London Ms Jode
Woodward visits Shanghai 2010
Following an interest in the Urban Best Practices Area, the City of London was represented by Deputy Lord Mayor Ms Jode Woodward in a visit to the Shanghai 2010 Authority. Read the Press Release here: http://www.expo2010china.com/expo/expoenglish/news/sen/userobject1ai41666.html European Union Delegation Visits Shanghai 2010
Dr Michael Pulch, Deputy Head of the European Community Delegation visited the Shanghai Expo Authority, and spoke with Mr Zhou Hanmin, Deputy Director General. Read the Press Release here: http://www.expo2010china.com/expo/expoenglish/news/sen/userobject1ai41672.html Shenzhen China International Culture Fair
Promotes Expo 2010
Shanghai 2010 has featured in the Shenzhen China International Culture Fair. Read the Press Release and view photos here: http://www.expo2010china.com/expo/expoenglish/news/sen/userobject1ai41696.html Expo to Promote Shanghai City's
Development
Mayor of Shanghai Mr Han Zheng was Guest Speaker at an International Forum on the Development of Cities held at Tongji University, Shanghai. As Mayor Mr Han noted at the Forum, "Shanghai must seize the opportunities presented by World Expo 2010 to solve the problems created by urbanization and to accelerate the city's development ... Globalisation and urbanisation .... must become more people-oriented and promote harmonious societies." Read the full Press Release here: http://www.expo2010china.com/expo/expoenglish/news/sen/userobject1ai41713.html Pavilions Construction Phase Enters
A Ceremony to dedicate the construction of the first phase of Pavilions for Shanghai 2010, for Zone Asia at the Expo, was held in Shanghai on the 21 May. This is the first zone under construction at the Expo, and shall serve as a model for the other Zones at the Expo. Read the Full Press Release here: http://www.expo2010china.com/expo/expoenglish/news/sen/userobject1ai41719.html 'Online Expo' and Wireless Shanghai Develop
An 'Online Expo' to complement Shanghai World Expo 2010, and full wireless broadband facilities for the City of Shanghai shall be among the new innovations at Shanghai 2010. Read the Press Releases here: http://www.expo2010china.com/expo/expoenglish/news/sen/userobject1ai41819.html http://www.expo2010china.com/expo/expoenglish/news/sen/userobject1ai41750.html AUSTRALIAN EXPOSITIONS AND EXHIBITIONS CONNECTIONS QUEENSLAND AT SHANGHAI 2010
The Honourable Mr Peter Beattie MP, Premier and Minister for Trade, State Government of Queensland has announced Queensland's funding for the Australia Pavilion at Shanghai World Expo 2010. This follows from an enhanced presence for the State at the Australian Pavilion for Aichi World Expo 2005 Japan. Read this extract from Press Release
from the Office of the Premier and Minister for Trade State
Government of Queensland the Honourable Peter Beattie MP.
SMART STATE FRONT AND CENTRE AT WORLD'S BIGGEST SHOW IN 2010 : PRESS RELEASE 28 MAY 2007 Queensland will have a strong presence at World
Expo 2010 in Shanghai with a myriad of Queensland ideas, arts,
services, products and cultural icons on show to the world, Premier
Peter Beattie announced today. Mr Beattie said the Queensland
Government would invest $3.6 million over the next four years to ensure
Queensland makes maximum impact at the Expo which will run from May 1
to October 31, 2010.
"The Queensland Government invested $1.4
million in World Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan with the special Queensland
Week in April 2005 attracting more than 71,000 visitors to the
Australian Pavilion," Mr Beattie said. "We are keen to lift
Queensland's profile even higher in Shanghai. Queensland has a long
standing Sister State relationship with Shanghai which will be
re-signed later this year. A strong Queensland strong presence in
Shanghai at the Expo will further strengthen those ties. We are
confident World Expo 2010 will provide a strong platform for
businesses, governments, education and research organisations to cement
existing relationships with China and ignite
new opportunities," Mr Beattie said.
For further information and Media enquiries contact the Premier's office [+617] (07) 3224 4500 ULURU EXPO2020LYMPIAD 4713 Days to Go
Foundation Expo '88 continues its promotion for
the Joint 32nd Summer Games Olympiad and 2020 Universal Exposition at
the City of Uluru, celebrating the 250th Anniversary of New South Wales
1770 to 2020 A.D. and the creation of a global technopolis City-State
and World Centre for Indigenous Affairs and Public Policy. The
Exp0lympiad - the first proposed Joint Olympiad and Universal
Exposition since 1900 Paris and 1904 St Louis - also introduces a new
term into the parlance of the Olympic Games and World
Expositions with a new Joint Summer Olympic Games and
Universal Class Exposition Category I.O.C. and B.I.E. Event (coined by
Foundation Expo '88) - an 'Exp0lympiad' - with the '0' central
to both events, referring to the fact that this new scheduled Joint
Olympiad and Universal Class Exposition can only occur every
20 years - at an '0' ending Summer Games Olympiad, commencing
with expo2020lympiad uluru, and then continuing every duo-decade 2040,
2060, 2080, 2100, 2120, and so on.
expo2020lympiad uluru in specific celebrates the annexation of the Eastern Australian continent by Captain James Cook and His Majesty's Barque The Endeavour at Possession Island, Cape York Peninsula, in the name of King George the Third 21 August 1770 A.D. 2000 persons from every nation on earth will be asked to become dual citizens of the City of Uluru, which will grow at a rate of 2000 citizens per week from 2018 A.D. to 2020 A.D. - creating a super elite state of some 400,000 to 600,000 persons - in a city created from the ground-up that will comprehensively use technologies embedded into every fabric of the City's fibre, a blueprint for harmony in technology and society for third milliennium Earth and beyond. Exposition Theme: Respect and Preservation of the World's Indigenous Cultures. Subthemes: People Born of the Land - the Original Inhabitants. People Born of other Lands - The New Arrivals. People of a New Land - The Original Inhabitants and the New Arrivals - Together - in a New Land. VIEW THE EXPO2020LYMPIAD ULURU PAGE AT HTTP://WWW.FOUNDATIONEXPO88.ORG/EXPO2020LYMPIADULURU/. UPCOMING MEETINGS AND EVENTS - FOUNDATION EXPO '88 AND THE FRIENDS OF THE PAGODA ASSOCIATION 'PAGODA ON SUNDAYS GUIDED TOURS' OF THE NEPAL
PEACE PAGODA for continue through to ATE07 and Queensland Week
Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays at 2pm. Meet at the Nepal
Peace Pagoda Front Forecourt. Join John McGregor, Founder of Foundation
Expo '88 and The Friends of the Pagoda Association, in exploring the
rich World Expo '88 and Nepalese heritage of the Nepal Peace Pagoda, as
well as promoting the Pagoda's Second Level as venue for the World Expo
'88 Museum. Admission by Admission Ticket only, at venue, please arrive
at the Pagoda five minutes before the Tour commences. To pre-book,
contact John McGregor, on 04397 34018, or email information@foundationexpo88.org.
And remember, you can make a donation after your visit -
supporting Association goals and Nepalese charities. For more
information, and to make a donation, visit The Friends of the Pagoda
Association pages at http://www.foundationexpo88.org/friendsofthepagoda/.
'THE WORLD EXPO '88 BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL
PANORAMA PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION AND WORLD EXPO '88 MEMORABILIA CABINET'.
Continues through to ATE07 and Queensland Week June 11. A first-ever
hanging during Queensland Heritage and ICOMOS International Museums
Week, and launch of the re-vamped Pagoda Display Cabinet - a select
selection from the Foundation World Expo '88 Museum collection. Edition
2.0 of the Brisbane World Expo '88 Network Guide Pamphlet and Activity
Sheets also feature. An exciting step into the Pagoda's mysterious and
iconic art forms and stories.
***** VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! THE FRIENDS OF THE
PAGODA ASSOCIATION Volunteers are needed to help man the Pagoda. Can you help? Contact John McGregor, mobile 0439734018, or email information@foundationexpo88.org, to register your interest and find out more information. General hospitality skills required - and an interest in the Pagoda and World Expo ' 88. Read more information at The Friends of the Pagoda Association pages at http://www.foundationexpo88.org/friendsofthepagoda/. ****** NEXT GENERAL MEETING - THE FRIENDS OF
THE PAGODA ASSOCIATION
Next General Meeting - The Friends of the Pagoda Association: Sunday 2pm to 4pm Sunday 24th June 2007, Café San Marco, South Bank Parklands, Brisbane. All welcome. R.S.V.P. to John McGregor, Secretary, at friendsofthepagoda@foundationexpo88.org, or tel 04937 34018. OTHER NEWS.....UPDATES
TO THE FOUNDATION EXPO '88 WEBSITE AT HTTP://WWW.FOUNDATIONEXPO88.ORG
***** Gift Shop. You can now order World Expo
'88, Foundation Expo '88, and 20th Anniversary of World Expo '88
commemorative souvenirs - In Store at Image Plus Digital Imaging at
Indooroopilly Shoppingtown, or online at http://www.foundationexpo88.org/giftshop/.
A special 20th Anniversary of World Expo '88 collaborative project - a
small percentage of your purchase supports Foundation activities. Read
more information at http://www.foundationexpo88.org/giftshop/.
***** View the Queensland Heritage and ICOMOS
International Heritage Week Photo Journal at The Friends of the Pagoda
Association pages at the Foundation Expo '88 website, at http://www.foundationexpo88.org/friendsofthepagoda/.
***** ATE07 and Queensland Week. Delegates to
Australian Tourism Exchange 2007 and visitors to the Pagoda during
Queensland Week, view information regarding activities and exhibits at http://www.foundationexpo88.org/queenslandweek/.
***** New branded Entrance theming. A new
branded Entrance theming greets you at entrance to the
foundationexpo88.org website, featuring the three principal logos of
the Foundation, Association, and the 20th Anniversary, including, the
20th Anniversary Countdown Clock.
***** PAGODA GUIDED TOURS - DONATION FACILITY. Did you enjoy your Guided Tour of the Pagoda? Express your support for Association goals by making an online donation - now at The Friends of the Pagoda Association pages at http://www.foundationexpo88.org/friendsofthepagoda/. That's all for now! Best regards ------
John R McGregor Founder and Foundation Executive Director - Foundation Expo '88 http://www.foundationexpo88.org executivedirector@foundationexpo88.org Founder and Secretary - The Friends of the Pagoda Association http://www.foundationexpo88.org/friendsofthepagoda/ friendsofthepagoda@foundationexpo88.org Founder and Director - The World Expo '88 1988-2008 20th Anniversary Celebration http://www.foundationexpo88.org/20th 20th@foundationexpo88.org AOL and AIM Chat ScreenName FoundationExpo88 ThePagoda PO BOX 232 MOOROOKA BRISBANE QUEENSLAND COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA 4105 TEL (+617) [07] 3277 1751 SMS/MOBILE (+614397) [04397] 34018 FAX (+617) [07] 3277 8283 Celebrate World Expo '88 - at the 1988-2008 20th Anniversary Celebration Purchase a Gift - and Support Foundation Goals - at the Foundation Expo '88 Gift Shop In Store at Image Plus Digital Imaging, Indooroopilly Shopppingtown, or Online at http://www.foundationexpo88.org/giftshop/ Become a Member of The Friends of the Pagoda Association -
Celebrating the Nepal Peace Pagoda's rich World Expo '88 and Nepalese
Heritage
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