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THE BACKGROUND OF SIFF, SICE, THAILAND-CEF

Folklore Cultural Performing Art is a part of Fine Arts and it is a cultural heritage. It is an indication of international civilization of many countries. The local performance is simple and it can be varied by the condition of natural environment and the cultural society for each community of each period. It is the reflection of the society and the culture. For the new generations in different society to take for their education in order to preserve and promote so the public and the world can see.

Surindra Rajabhat University in the role of local institution that develops the community. We focus on the importance of cultural preservation and distribute the art and culture. In order to preserve and promote the local identity for the world to know. Moreover we can get the support from local community and international countries.  In order to fix up the objective and build up an academic network in art, music and performing art from all over the world. Secondly we can develop the knowledge in local wisdom to make the world to see. And lastly to create the new academic knowledge and study in depth of the artists and the scholars in art and local wisdom.

The first Surin International Folklore Festival: SIFF was organized on January 15 -25, 2006. There were 200 artists from 8 countries namely Austria, Israel, Philippines, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, China and Thailand. In this festival there are three activities.

  1. Local Art Exhibition
  2. Academic seminar
  3. Song for peace at Surindra Rajabhat University

The second Surin International Folklore Festival January 18 – 25, 2007.

The second Surin International Folklore Festival January 18 – 25, 2008.

The second Surin International Folklore Festival January 14 – 24, 2009.

The second Surin International Folklore Festival January 14 – 24, 2010.

The sixth – eleventh International Folklore Festival, there are activities to create more knowledge.  Here are five of them.

  1. The 6th SIFF
  2. International academic conference
  3. International Fabric and Fashion Show
  4. International Peace Jamboree
  5. Art Exhibition

And we have followed the objectives until the eleventh international folklore festival.

The sixth International Folklore Festival January 17-27, 2011.

The seventh International Folklore Festival January 17 -27, 2012.

The eighth International Folklore Festival January 17 – 27, 2013.

The ninth International Folklore Festival January 17 – 27, 2014.

The tenth International Folklore Festival January 17 – 27, 2015.

The eleventh International Folklore Festival January 17 – 27, 2016.

In the year 2017 there was an adjustment the name of the local culture to the internalization we changed the title from Surin International Folklore Festival to Surin International Cultural Exchange: SICE and we organized this event on January 25 – 31. 2017 at the stadium of Surin Rajabhat university.

The activities in this festival are as followed

  1. Local handwoven fabric and international costume fashion show
  2. Learning about local lifestyle, cultural tourism and food culture
  3. Music and local arts.
  4. Products for sales supported by the local community.

We keep running this activity until the 4th festival.

The second Surin International Cultural Exchange January 25-31, 2017.

The second Surin International Cultural Exchange January 25-31, 2018.

The second Surin International Cultural Exchange January 25-31, 2019.

Nowadays Thailand –CEF (Thailand Cultural Exchange Festival) we organize the second festival, and the performances will be on February 5-14, 2024 at the provincial public park. The performers are from Poland, Russia, Israel, Mexico, Italy, India, China, Laos, Cambodia, South Korea, and Thailand. The patterns of the performance based on art and cultural exchange for creating the internal relations in art, music, and performing art around the world.  This is the way we can develop the local wisdom, and make it to internationalization and exchange the continuation of art and culture. There are 6 main activities:

  1. The 2nd Thailand International Cultural Exchange
  2. International academic conference
  3. Music ban competition
  4. Local Fabric Fashion show and International Costume Fashion show
  5. The conference of art and culture from all Rajabhat Universities in Thailand
  6. Product exhibition and community products turns to be international art and cultural festival (Thailand –CEF)

Thailand –CEF joins the international network and exchange the knowledge on academic, technology and culture. This is cherish the value and creates a good image of the university that serves the strategy of the university.

The operation in the past is very successful and we have brought the fame to our university. We build an excellence distributing the art and culture and local wisdom to international level and we can activate the tourism, community economic that help the province and the country.  We do a collaboration with government and non-government organization.  This can create the soft power of Surin province.