Interact Cultural Festival 2006

For the 6th consecutive year the Interact Club of D. S. Senanayake College will host their annual International Understanding project, the Interact Cultural Festival. Sponsored by the ACCA, ICF 2006 will be held at Galadari Hotel, Colombo; on May 28 from 1.30 p. m. onwards, under the theme, 'Chronicles of cultural revolution through evolution'.

Organizers of this event, who held the project launch on May 5, 2006, at Alliance Francaise stated that ICF 2006 is brought into the illumination, as a luminous cultural eve with a distinction of its own, comparatively varying from its' previous implementations.

As Int. Nadeesha Cabral, the project chairperson said, the finalists of the event, consisting of St. Bridget's Convent, St. Sebastian's College, Girls High School, Kandy, Isipathana College, St. Joseph's College, Ananda College and Zahira College; will depict their talents in 3 sessions of competition, which would be the Multimedia Presentations, Cultural Quiz and the Cultural Performances. The schools will be demonstrating the culture of the country of their choice when par-taking at these competitions.

Also speaking at the press conference, Int. IPP. Huzaifa Cader, the Past President of the Interact Club of D. S. Senanayake College briefed up on the rewards, which would be a Rs. 25,000.00 cash prize for the winner and Rs. 5,000.00 for the 1st runner up.

The event will be graced by the presence of prominent diplomats, eminent Rotarians and even reputed celebrities in Sri Lanka while the spotlight will be focusing on the glamorous ambience of vivid cultures and creeds that will unleash the aura of a concoction of more than half a dozen cultures in harmony.

Finalizing the press conference, the panelists also said the official project website addressed www.icf2006.com open, which contains the most recent developments and facts of the event.

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What's new in ICF 2006

Unlike any other Interact Project that had been underway in the Interact District 3220, ICF 2006 will directly open its' doors for foreign interactors and will accept to host them with the assistance of Sponsoring Rotary Club (Rotary Club of Colombo-West). So, the ICF 2006 will re-define the denotation of International Understanding forever...

We've restructured the existing three sessions and added another two session into the program of ICF, which will significantly improve the productiveness of the event and will convert the event into one of the most interesting and entertaining projects ever conducted.

ICF 2006 "will go high-tech", and will incorporate cutting edge technology into some of the sessions conducted. As the theme implies, our main goal will be to combine the evolution with revolutions. The structure of these sessions will be well thought-out to increase the overall efficiency and the standard of the project extensively.

Chronicles of cultural revolution through evolution

Culture denotes the ability to structure and manipulate the environment in arbitrary ways to create a cooperative way of life. Education in this sense is the utilization of enormous human capacity to learn about and interpret the world or the environment around us.

The values that a society adheres to are derived from a culture and they change as culture evolves. If we create chronicle of any country's cultural evolution, it will be quite clear to any observer that, the culture has evolved and changed significantly throughout time.

Culture is more difficult, it has a more rigid framework and it is also more persistent. Yet, persistence in the continuity of culture should not be allowed to imperil our future. Rather, to the extent we can, our ability should structure education and change culture to increase our survivability.

Technological changes, now in the offing, are likely to open new and fascinating vistas, some of them fraught with peril. We have come close to understanding our own nature and its roots in our past. As our past is comprehended, our future will unfold. It will be for the educators of today to ensure that the cultural persistence is enlightened.

Culture, is of great value in ensuring that we do not go out on a limb from which there is no return.

It can, however, also be a hazard if it becomes too difficult to change in the face of grave threats to any culture, if cultural resiliency is reduced or lost and is not amendable to adaptation in the face of large scale technological changes.