Monterrey 2007

Universal Forum of Cultures
Monterrey 2007
www.monterreyforum2007.org
The city of Monterrey, under the auspices of the
Government of the State of Nuevo Leon and the Federal
Government of Mexico, picked up the baton from Barcelona
in September 2004, to celebrate the second international
event: the Universal Forum of Cultures Monterrey
2007.
Following along the lines of the Barcelona 2004 Forum, the showcase
maintained the three key central themes-cultural diversity, sustainability
and conditions for peace as well as its main formats: dialogues, exhibitions,
artistic events, the peace camp... adding to and reinforcing its educational
aspects and a concern for knowledge and science. The Forum was visited by
over 220,000 boys and girls with their schools.
The second edition of the Universal Forum of Cultures came to a successful
close having fulfilled its main objectives: mass citizen participation, the
recovery of a large public area for the city, highly successful children's and
youth educational programmes.
The holding of the Forum has gone in hand with urban reform and has
meant an improvement in the quality of public spaces in the Monterrey
central area.
Urban Reform
Parque Fundidora
> Parque Fundidora was significantly extended taking in the
Peñoles area.
> Restoration of industrial buildings: an exhibition centre in
the Nave Lewis,
> Steel Museum and an extension to the Centro de las Artes
(22,800 m2 of new exhibition space)
Paseo Santa Lucía
> A 2.5 km. navigable canal which is 1.20 metres deep and holds
44,000 cubic metres of water.
> Motorboat tours, fountains, cafes and restaurants, shopping
and cultural areas.
> New Museo del Noreste (MUNE).
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Parque lineal del Río de Santa Catarina
> A 7.5 km park stretching from Av. Gonzalitos right up to
Puente Revolución.
> Cycling trail and exercise trail, sports facilities and
landscape gardening with regional flora.
News Roads
> Improved circulation in the area surrounding the Zuazua
(centre), Fundidora, Madero and Constitución streets and
avenues.
Santa Lucia Riverwalk
Museo del Nordeste
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Universal Forum of Cultures Monterrey 2007:
from 20 September to 8 December
69 days of activities
Inauguration
20 September 2007
Opening
20 September 2007
Closure
Length
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8 December 2007
80 days
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Forum Site
132 ha.
3.531.647 visits
Exhibitions: 18
26,000 sq.m.
In the Forum Site (visits):
2501 Migrants
Isis and the Feathered Serpent
America Migration
Horno 3. Science and Technology
Gold and Salt
Habitat: from Risk to Sustainability
Dialogue in the Dark
Los Nuevos Leones
351,809
282,333
124,569
97,341
89,795
85,014
21,225
20,772
America Migration
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Forum Dialogues:
152,109 people, 865 speakers
Some invited speakers:
Tariq Ali . Marcos Aguinis . Jorge Bucay . Gabriel García Márquez . Jonathan
Granoff . Albert Keidel . Alexander Likhotal . Rigoberta Menchú . Mario
Molina . Moisés Naím . Thoraya Obaid Ahmed . Minxin Pei . Adolfo Pérez
Esquivel . Samuel Ruiz . Bibi Russell . Peter Singer . Lawrence Summers .
Mario Vargas Llosa . Leon Wieseltier . Michel Wievorka
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peace Camp: 4 editions, 350 boys and girls.
Invited cities:
Alcala de Henares, Arequipa, Barcelona, Beirut, Canelones, Casablanca,
Chicago, Dallas, Maputo, Medellin, Mendoza, Monterrey, Montevideo,
Naples, New Delhi, Saltillo, Salvador de Bahía, San Pedro de Sula y
Valparaíso.
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Site visitors' origin:
Mainly Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, USA and Spain.
2,300 artists from 77 countries
1.126 workshops
220.000 visit schools.
«Isis and the Feathered Serpent» Exhibition
Theatre for Children
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City Forum
City Forum: 933.231 participants
Dialogues
Exhibitions
Cultural expressions
City Exhibitions (visits):
The Children of Mexico.
“You See... We Are the Same”
Frida*
BANG
Buddha Guanyin. Treasures of Compassion
Images of the Natives in the Art of New Spain
Entrance to the Present
Journey of Light
Alfonso Reyes….
15.965
788.076
129.190
326.662
111.114
104.722
75.885
61.525
30.328
13.011
11.560
*(from 31st August to 31st September)
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Impact
Budget for the event: 82.11 millions de euros
Income from public administration
Income from private sponsoring
Other sources of income
(ticketing)
87.45%
10.82%
1.73%
Volunteers: 800 people
Employment generated: 550
Hotels
Room occupation: 75% (monthly average)
Increase in the room occupation level: 8%
Sales in restaurants of Paseo de Sta. Lucía, Macroplaza and Fundidora:
+50% (regarding the same period of 2006)
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Legacy
Santa Lucia Festival
Cultural Heritage
Declarations and agendas
> Monterrey and the Earth Charter
> Charter of Emergent Human Rights
> Latin American and Caribbean Civil Society Forum - Declaration
of Monterrey
> Monterrey Declaration - “A Safe City is a Just City”
Publications
A series of publications related to the dialogues held at the Forum
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Identity and Diversity
Communication
Human Rights and Justice
Peace and World Regions
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Continuity of the Dialogues initiated in the Barcelona Forum
> World’s Religions
> Conflicts in Everyday Life
> International Conference on the State of Safety in World
Cities, UN-HABITAT - The United Nations Human
Settlements Programme
> World HABITAT Day
> Immigration, Identity, Diversity
> City, Public Space and Diversity
> Health Culture and Life Quality
> Corporate Social Responsibility
United Nation Global Compact
> Work Cultures
> Human Rights – Emergent Rights. Rights of Indigenous
People
> Global Broadcasting and Regulation
> Education and Networking
> East-West Dialogue
Cintermex-Convention Center
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Avinyó 15, 4a planta
E-08002 Barcelona
Tel: +34.933.427.894
Fax: +34.933.427.896
www.fundacioforum.org
info@fundacioforum.org
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