Painting in Kashmir

This holiday is designed to offer you leisurely painting time in some of India’s most spectacular scenery.

The architecture and scenery alone as subject matter are a painter’s delight, but this trip will also provide you with an insight into the varied cultures and people of this wonderfully mysterious and romantic country. During the hot summers of the northern plains, Moghul emperors retreated to the far more pleasant climate of Kashmir. Of the green valleys and wild flowers on the slopes, a poet said, “If there is paradise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this”.

Text 6. A Conference in Lisbon

The city educational space in the new millennium

(Proposal and justification for the theme of the VI International Congress of Educating Cities – the Year 2000)

The themes of the Conference:

- The space of the city: planning and practices

- Memory and identity of the city

- Local development, solidarity and interdependencies

- Diversity as an educational resource for the city and school: new participation and citizenship models

- Education, training, employment and leisure: the strategic role of the city

Lisbon, active member of the Educating Cities movement, signed the Educating Cities movement, signed the Educating Cities Charter – 1990 Declaration of Barcelona;

- is a member of the International Association of Educating Cities since its foundation;

- participated in all the congresses held to this date and has presented experiences developed by both public schools and municipalities;

- has been actively involved in the International Data Base Experiences of the Educating Cities since 1990;

- participated in the General Assembly of the association held in Chicago, October 1996;

- has informed other Portuguese municipalities of the principles of the Educating Cities Charter, by organizing debates and meeting on the themes present in the charter, in both political and technical terms.

Welcome to Lisbon!

Dates:

November 2000

Congress Centre

Centro Cultural de Belém, Praça do Império

1449-003 Lisboa

Official Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, French and English. There will be simultaneous translations in all sessions.

Attendance Certificate: available for everyone registered.

Final Date for Regisration: 1 November 2000.

Accomodation

Rooms have been reserved in various hotels with a range of prices and conditions. Please see the hotel sheet for further details.