The main purpose of the Centre “Ikuo Hirayama” is to deepen contacts and interactions between communities and individuals: people concerned with the arts, scholars and professional people, students and children from Japan and Bulgaria. Japan and Bulgaria are one of the most easterly, and one of the most westerly countries of the Silk Road. On the brink of the Third Millennium and in the context of global processes bringing anxiety and real danger for the future of humanity, the mutual opening and exploration of different cultures and cultural values in an atmosphere of tolerance and respect is a necessary process for the attainment and preservation of world peace.
The Centre “Ikuo Hirayama” in Sofia will be a symbolic lighthouse sited at one of the European points of the Silk Road, rediscovered through Ikuo Hirayama’s paintings. It will disseminate some basic ideas of his conception For World Peace through “The Red Cross Spirit for Cultural Heritage”. Following these ideas, a new initiative, Schools for Arts and Cultural Dialog “Ikuo Hirayama” in Bulgaria in unison with UNESCO Inclusive Education, is in a process of developing in Bulgaria, and later going to expand across the Balkans. It will express Ikuo Hirayama’s message for preserving the cultural heritage of peoples and making them better known, and for peace and non-violence among people with different religious beliefs through the power of knowledge, soul and cultural development and refinement, and mutual enrichment.
The Bulgarian Presidency has approved and undertaken to support the founding and activities of the Centre “Ikuo Hirayama”, mentioned especially by the Bulgarian President in his message delivered at the opening ceremony of Professor Ikuo Hirayama’s exhibition “Cultural Exchange between East and West”, Sofia – 2003, and published in the Exhibition Catalogue.
The Centre “Ikuo Hirayama” in Sofia will be a symbolic lighthouse sited at one of the European points of the Silk Road, rediscovered through Ikuo Hirayama’s paintings. It will disseminate some basic ideas of his conception For World Peace through “The Red Cross Spirit for Cultural Heritage”. Following these ideas, a new initiative, Schools for Arts and Cultural Dialog “Ikuo Hirayama” in Bulgaria in unison with UNESCO Inclusive Education, is in a process of developing in Bulgaria, and later going to expand across the Balkans. It will express Ikuo Hirayama’s message for preserving the cultural heritage of peoples and making them better known, and for peace and non-violence among people with different religious beliefs through the power of knowledge, soul and cultural development and refinement, and mutual enrichment.
The Bulgarian Presidency has approved and undertaken to support the founding and activities of the Centre “Ikuo Hirayama”, mentioned especially by the Bulgarian President in his message delivered at the opening ceremony of Professor Ikuo Hirayama’s exhibition “Cultural Exchange between East and West”, Sofia – 2003, and published in the Exhibition Catalogue.
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