Focus on Responsible Tourism “Holi Days”€¦ · the Dutch village Giethoorn. Their local hosts...
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SIETAR Europa Congress 2017: 21st Century Waves of Change Cultural Dexterity for Turbulent Times [email protected] Focus on Responsible Tourism “Holi-Days” by Randi Steinberger (53 min) Thursday, 25t h of May 2017, 10.00 – 11.30 Why do we visit pilgrim’s places, art capitols and tourist’s paradises en masse? Travelling from Jerusalem via Florence to Las Vegas, Steinberger takes the answers to these questions to an increasingly general plane. In Jerusalem, we see tourists visiting the holy places, buying souvenirs and putting themselves through torments that Jesus Christ once endured. What they are looking for is elucidated in short statements by pilgrims, tour operators, church leaders, guides, scientists, souvenir vendors, etc. All these opinions put forward a few basic ideas. Tourism and commerce overgrow religion. Sacred places and objects give people the feeling that they are part of some higher order. In the same way, we look at Florence, where tourists drink in the prime of Renaissance Art. The (street) interviews allow the same conclusion as in Jerusalem. People feel dumbfounded and overwhelmed. The countless tourists and the massive trade in souvenirs ‘have turned the city into a congealed moment in time.’ The climax of this film journey is reached in Las Vegas. In this city, 36 million people a year enjoy replicas of famous cities and monuments, cinematic reconstructions of historical moments, spectacular shows and dazzling gambling palaces. Here, the reality, which people also look for in Jerusalem and Florence, is better and more typical (and even more soulless) than in reality. After the screening: extended discussion with the audience Moderator : Maura Di Mauro
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Focus on Responsible Tourism “Holi-Days” by Randi Steinberger (53 min)
Thursday, 25t h of May 2017, 10.00 – 11.30
Why do we visit pilgrim’s places, art capitols and tourist’s paradises en masse? Travelling from Jerusalem via Florence to Las Vegas, Steinberger takes the answers to these questions to an increasingly general plane. In Jerusalem, we see tourists visiting the holy places, buying souvenirs and putting themselves through torments that Jesus Christ once endured. What they are looking for is elucidated in short statements by pilgrims, tour operators, church leaders, guides, scientists, souvenir vendors, etc. All these opinions put forward a few basic ideas. Tourism and commerce overgrow religion. Sacred places and objects give people the feeling that they are part of some higher order. In the same way, we look at Florence, where tourists drink in the prime of Renaissance Art. The (street) interviews allow the same conclusion as in Jerusalem. People feel dumbfounded and overwhelmed. The countless tourists and the massive trade in souvenirs ‘have turned the city into a congealed moment in time.’ The climax of this film journey is reached in Las Vegas. In this city, 36 million people a year enjoy replicas of famous cities and monuments, cinematic reconstructions of historical moments, spectacular shows and dazzling gambling palaces. Here, the reality, which people also look for in Jerusalem and Florence, is better and more typical (and even more soulless) than in reality.
After the screening: extended discussion with the audience
Moderator : Maura Di Mauro
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Director(s) biography
Randi Malkin Steinberger (b. 1960) is an American photographer and documentary filmmaker, whose work has been shown around the world over the past 25 years. Randi Steinberger’s experience as a photographer and filmmaker was shaped by her studies in Italy, where she lived for 10 years while launching a photography school and art gallery to show photography. Randi Steinberger’s documentary films include the insightful portrait of the modern traveler, Holi-days, which shot in Jerusalem, Florence and Las Vegas, and aired on the Sundance Channel.
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Focus on Tourist Awareness "NI HAO HOLLAND – The Chinese are Coming" (9min) and “Framing the Other” (24min) by Willem Timmer & ilja Kok
Thursday, 25t h of May 2017, 12.00 – 13.30
Ni Hao Holland is a documentary film in which two tourists swap their Chinese megacity for the Dutch village Giethoorn. Their local hosts work hard on catering for the authentic tourist experience.
Cherry has long dreamt of swapping her home city Beijing for the Dutch village Giethoorn. She has heard and read a lot about this mythical place. The day arrives that she and her friend hop on the plane in search of adventure.
In the meantime, entrepreneurs from Giethoorn work hard behind the scenes to cater to this ‘Holland experience’. They want to make the most of the fast growing flow of Chinese tourists in their village. How is this authenticity created by some and experienced by others?
Location : the Netherlands & China
Click here for trailer https://vimeo.com/124978451
After screening “Ni Hao Holland” and “Framing the other”: extended discussion with the producer director Ilja Kok
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Framing the Other is a documentary about a tourist whose comfortable ideas about taking photographs of exotic tribal people in Ethiopia are shaken by her encounter with a Mursi woman.
The Mursi tribe lives in the basin of the Omo River in the south of the east African state of Ethiopia. The women are known for placing large plates in their lower lips and wearing enormous, richly decorated earrings. Every year hundreds of Western tourists come to see the unusually adorned natives; posing for camera-toting visitors has become the main source of income for the Mursi. To make more money, they embellish their “costumes” and finery in such a manner that less of their original authentic culture remains. FRAMING THE OTHER contrasts the views of Mursi women and those of Dutch tourists preparing for a meeting. This humorous and at the same time chilling film shows the destructive impact tourism has on traditional communities.
Click here for trailer https://vimeo.com/111052654
Director(s) biography
Ilja Kok is as a producer and a director at Copper Views. She is a true initiator and good at the organisation of and the logistics around a film production. For years, she has worked as a lecturer in tourism studies at NHTV Breda University of applied sciences and as a tour guide in various countries. The encounters that took place during these tours have triggered her to deepen her knowledge on relationships within a tourism context. By presenting documentaries as teaching tools in classrooms, she combines her three passions of tourism, teaching and filmmaking. When she is enjoying her spare time, you will no doubt find her in a skiff or sailing in her old flat bottom boat.
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Moderator Maura Di Mauro.
She is an intercultural trainer, coach and consultant. She works with different kind of organizations and industries, designing tailor-made management development programs. She is expert of Diversity & Inclusion process, of competence assessment and development, and of social and sustainable innovation. She is lecturer at the International Tourism Academy of Tourism & Hospitality in Cernobbio (Como Lake).
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Focus on Ireland “Father Ted” presented by David Walsh (45min)
Thursday, 25t h of May 2017, 14.30 – 15.15
Father Ted is a sitcom that was produced for Channel 4. Written jointly by Irish writers Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan and starring a predominantly Irish cast.
Set on the fictional Craggy Island, a remote location off Ireland's west coast, the show starred Dermot Morgan as the eponymous Father Ted Crilly, alongside fellow priests Father Dougal McGuire (Ardal O'Hanlon) and Father Jack Hackett (Frank Kelly). Exiled on the island for various past incidents, the priests live together in the parochial house with their housekeeper Mrs. Doyle (Pauline McLynn).
The show was critically acclaimed, raised a lot of discussion but also received multiple BAFTA (The British Academy Television Award) for Best Comedy Program or Series awards, and remains a popular sitcom in Britain and Ireland.
After the screening: discussion with David Walsh
Director of training
David Walsh is a former board member of SE. He is a native of Dublin where he lives with his wife and two children. David spent the first part of his career in the Garda Siochana (Irish Police). He completed an M.Phil. in Ethnic, Racial and Cultural studies programme at Trinity College, Dublin which explored the implications for organisational systems when interacting with an Irish society that was becoming increasingly culturally diverse. Following these studies David was responsible for the establishment of a Police unit dealing with racial and Intercultural issues in an increasingly diverse Ireland. His research is
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Published in Policing Pluralism in Cultivating Pluralism, Oaktree Press, 2001.
David is the founder of OpenMinds, a Dublin based diversity management consultancy. He has extensive experience of training, facilitating, research and coaching on diversity, inclusion and intercultural issues. He has travelled extensively on this work in Asia, Africa, USA and Europe. He has worked with organisations such as the Kerry Group, Novartis, Microsoft, Irish Life, AC Neilsen, Garda Siochana, ESB, Medtronic, Perrigo, Amgen, Allianz, Aercap, Alliance Medical, College of Surgeons in Ireland, SAP, IBM, Symantec, Johnson and Johnson, BNP Paribank, First Trust, Fidelity Investments and a range of others. He has a particular passion for working with business executives moving to or from Ireland on international relocations.
David is a certified mediator and a Fellow of the IMCA (Institute of Management Consultants and Business Advisors). He is co-author of ‘Cultural Detective Ireland’. He authored the Irish content in the TMC Cultural Orientations Indicator, he is also a cultural correspondent for the Argonaut Culture Connector profiler. He is a faculty member of Globe Business College, Munich.
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Focus on Ireland “The Vikings, what business can learn from them”
presented by Joe Kearns (45min)
Thursday, 25t h of May 2017, 15.20 – 16.00
The Vikings, who eventually became the Normans, were arguably one of the most successful groups in history.
The greatest strengths of the Vikings and Normans was adaptability and pragmatism – two critical requirements of any successful business. But like any business things didn’t always go well….
They had one notable failure in Greenland and the story provides lessons for those involved in Mergers and Acquisitions.
There are also lessons for companies who have complex market relationships for example those simultaneously in competition and cooperation with other companies. Vikings often started by raiding ‘rich’ sites to steal what they could. But as their victims became stronger they learned that trade and co-operation were more profitable than sacking and pillaging in the long term.
After the screening: discussion with Joe Kearns
Joe Kearns is a former engineer and IT director who has evolved into an intercultural trainer. After 25 years in the high-tech industry, which in turn followed on work in Ethiopia as a project engineer, Joe was introduced to the world of SIETAR in 2007 and after attending the Sofia Congress in 2017, and the eclectic membership he met there, Joe became convinced of the central role culture plays in almost all human activity.
In 2008 Joe founded his own company to provide training in Intercultural awareness, Carmine Training. His interests include, among
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many, the role of culture in business, how culture impacts sport, the rich cultural diversity of Africa, often ignored by the intercultural community, and how cultural and history combine. In particular, he is interested in the central role the Vikings have played in European and world history and culture.
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You Must See This! Cinema Film Clips used to illustrate Intercultural and Diversity learning points when training business executives, presented by Matthew Hill (60 min)
Thursday, 25t h of May 2017, 16.30 – 17.30
Matthew Hill will be introducing a number of cinema film clips from US and World Cinema that can be used in the training room to provoke debate by referencing cultural conflict, hierarchical leadership in action, shocking selling scenarios and dynamic team building in business.
The session will be interactive with SIETAR attendees experiencing some of the intended learning points during the session. The screening will be accompanied by a cinema film clip resources list for the attendees to take away and use in their everyday intercultural training, coaching and teaching work
Teaser Up in the Air with George Clooney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyL7TG6SzDU
This session will be life streamed
Presenter and moderator Matthew Hill
Matthew Hill is an intercultural trainer, coach, filmmaker and author. He was President of SIETAR UK for 5 years. With qualifications in Intercultural training, Psychology, NLP, Training quality and Communication, Matthew has worked with more than 19,500 executives in 30 countries representing more than 80 nationalities. He is a senior intercultural trainer, facilitator, author, professional speaker and coach.
http://matthew-hill.com
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“Go Back to Where You Came From” by Ivan O’Mahoney
Friday, 26th of May 2017, 10.00 – 11.30
In this powerful series six ordinary people challenge their preconceived notions about refugees and travel to some of the most dangerous and desperate corners of the world, re-tracing the journey of asylum seekers. Deprived of their wallets, phones and passports, the participants are forced to live like refugees. Eventually they find themselves 'going all the way back' to war zones that refugees have been trying to escape.
After 25 days, the groups meet for a final debrief with host David Corlett. Some have changed their opinions, some have not, but it is clear that regardless of their views, not one of the participants has escaped unaffected by this intense journey
AACTA Award FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY SERIES
After the screening: extended discussion with the audience
Moderator : Nouredinne Erradi
Director(s) biography
Education
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Masters in Journalism, New York City, 2000
Leiden University - Faculty of Law, Masters in Internationale Law, Leiden, 1993
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“The Mayor, mobility is a human right”, by Bregtje van der Haak (48 min)
Friday, 26th of May 2017, 12.00 – 13.30
Mayor Leoluca Orlando of Palermo fights for the acceptance of mobility as a human right. In the port of Palermo, he welcomes all migrants from Africa, making no distinction between political asylum and economic refugees. At the Global Parliament of Mayors in The Hague, he launches his revolutionary idea.
After the screening: extended discussion with the audience, moderated by Nouredinne Erradi
Moderator Nouredinne Erradi
Noureddine Erradi was born in 1956 in Casablanca, Morocco where he studied Arabic, French and English. In 1983 he went to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. In 1989 he began teaching social skills to newcomers in the Netherlands. Erradi has been working in the field of intercultural relations and intercultural communications for over 25 years.
In an effort to promote intercultural understanding and dialogue, Erradi has directed and produced Five award-winning documentary films in which European teachers, administrators, and policy makers participated in simulated integration programme.
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"Crossing Borders” 2016 , by Arnd Wächter (56 min)
Friday, 26th of May 2017, 14.30 – 16.00
" Crossing Borders”, follows four Moroccan and four American university students as they travel together through Morocco and, in the process of discovering The Other, discover themselves. With group travels and frank discussions, the students confront the complex implications of the supposed clash of civilizations between Islam and the West. At a time when public figures spout xenophobic prose that rejects religious and national groups in their entirety, this hopeful film demonstrates the power of curiosity and empathy to triumph over fear and judgment when people are willing to open their hearts and minds to new ways of seeing each Other and the world. The relationships formed through shared experiences contrast sharply with the media-shaped views Americans and Muslims have of each other. Humor, honesty and a willingness to be challenged all bring individuals closer to each other and the relationships that develop disarm hidden stereotypes.
Click here for trailer: https://crossingborders.education/films/crossing-bordersm
After the screening: extended Q@A and discussion with Arnd Wächter and Lyle Foster
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Director(s) biography
Arnd Wächter is an award winning filmmaker, intercultural educator and social entrepreneur. He founded the non-profit organizations Crossing Borders Education and Morocco Exchange as a creative and proactive response to 9/11. His passion for intentional, cross-cultural interactions drives him to produce professional, feature documentary films. He strongly believes that through well-crafted storytelling, films have the power to put a human face on abstract, complex social issues and make them accessible to large groups of people. This in turn builds empathy and inspires individuals to engage, dialogue and act. Arnd founded Crossing Borders Films and produced the three feature documentaries Crossing Borders, The Dialogue and American Textures. His feature films were selected at over 20 intercultural conferences and 15 international film festivals, winning several awards.
Lyle Foster
He is an accredited diversity trainer, Lyle conducts workshops and trainings on issues related to diversity and inclusion. He is also a columnist in several local newspapers. On the university level, Lyle teaches undergraduates and graduates in areas including Sociology, Social Problems, Multicultural Education, Poverty, Diversity Training, Counseling and other areas. In 2015 Lyle implemented the Tough Talks initiative at Missouri State to provide conversation threads on issues of diversity and inclusion for students and staff. Community, empowerment and inclusion are some of the main drivers in Lyle’s life. Loving life, loving people and serving community are the mottos that he lives by.
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Moderator and FF committee head Marianne van Eldik Thieme She graduated in Human Sociology at the University of Amsterdam and specialized in Intercultural Sciences. She worked as teacher Human Geography in High School, as researcher- producer for Dutch National Television. She became senior consultant & trainer/coach in (intercultural) communication and management skills in the Netherlands and abroad (Yemen). She travelled to projects in Africa, Asia and the Middle East She is still active as filmjournalist. Since 2008 she organizes the SIETAR Europa film festivals.
Moderator and assistant Mijnie Oosterom
She is an intercultural trainer and coach. She works with different kind of governmental and business organizations, as well as voluntary organizations. At the moment she is in her home town involved in a project for refugees.
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"Stranger in Paradise” 2016 , by Guido Hendrikx (70min)
Friday, 26th of May 2017, 16.30 – 18.00
"We don’t want you. We just can’t do it." In a classroom, a teacher uses math to explain to a group of newly arrived migrants what their arrival will cost society. The asylum seekers try to refute the figures. They will work, won’t they, and contribute to society? The teacher shatters their illusions: half of them will never find work. In three acts, director and screenwriter Guido Hendrikx reflects on the power relations between Europe and refugees. A blunt film essay in which the teacher receives three groups of migrants, each time adopting a different attitude: dismissive in the first part, then full of empathy and good will in the second, being dispassionate in the third. This brutally direct classroom exercise is enclosed with a buzzing prologue and reflective epilogue, stressing the absurdity of the power relation expounded upon in the film.
Click here for trailer: https://vimeo.com/203080089/17d8378f2c
After the screening: extended Q@A and discussion with the film director
Director(s) biography
Guido Hendrikx (1987) is a film director and screenwriter, based in Amsterdam. He graduated at Utrecht University (Liberal Arts & Sciences) and the Netherlands Film Academy (Directing Documentary). During film school he directed the shorts Escort (2013) and Among Us (2014) and co-wrote the script for the short narrative Fernweh (2014, Ena Sendijarevic). All of them screened extensively in international festivals winning numerous awards. After graduation he worked as a scout and curator for the Dutch video platform The Correspondent. Stranger In Paradise, which
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opened IDFA 2016 and was critically acclaimed, is his feature debute
