Report of 2006 exhibition

In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

اين السبب المتصل بين الارض و السماء

September 4^th 2006 was the most important Monday for youth group of Islamic Research & Information Center (IRIC) because of the third “The Global Hope for Global Peace Exhibition”. Melal Cultural Center (in Qeytariyeh Park), Tehran Municipality’s organization of arts and culture and National Globalization Studies of Iran participated in holding this program beside the Iranian non-profit NGO, IRIC. The Global Hope for Global Peace (GHGP) is the annual conceptual exhibition of IRIC which has been held in 2004 and 2005. This year’s GHGP was the third one and held in 8 days from 17:30 to 20:30 and included 4 main stands, each of which took about 20 minutes, receiving 20 as follows:

1.      A world in turbulence

2.      Everyone is awaiting HIM

3.      A globalizing world

4.      As bright as the moonlight

After the last stand the Q&A managed by renown faculty members of Iranian universities was a stand for any probable question of the audience. In addition, an interesting section with meaningful games and stories for children named “KIDS ZONE” was setup and a reason of tranquility for the parents who visited the exhibition. An evaluation form had been prepared and was dedicated to the visitors for future programs and exhibitions.

Nearly all of the visitors understood, remembered and felt what the exhibition was trying to say. By the way, the 3^rd GHGP is only a memory now but the effects of it that everyone saw, will be never forgotten. Tears were the common visible feelings that most of the visitors had while leaving the exhibition especially after the last stand where our forgotten father was being introduced. Saying HELLO to the ONE who is always with us and waiting for HIM in a proactive manner was the issue of the 4^th stand. The tours finished with a bookmark conveying:

HOPE IS ALIVE, ACT AND AWAIT, BRIGHTEN OUR LIVES WITH HIS LOVE!

ü      Qeytariyeh Park had never faced such a conceptual exhibition till then. There were too many questions about the pictures, material, decorations and cooperation of this friendly group which was actively increasing after any second.

ü      38 tours were handled during the 3^rd GHGP in this year’s exhibition.

ü      About 600 entered the first stand but because of many reasons did not continue on. More than 480 continued the exhibition to second and third stands but only about 350 persons completely toured the exhibition.

ü      Everyday up to 5 tours visited the exhibition with an average of 12 to 14 people in them. It has to be mentioned that in some tours we were not able to receive more participants for limitations in space and actually most of them were really shocked.

ü      Most of the visitors emphasized that they had never seen such a program before.

ü      Always significant ovations made by foreigners except few Iranians and also there were a lot of suggestions and comments on any issue which is a characteristic of a LIVE IRANIAN.

ü      Almost all foreigners asked for the package of articles of the exhibition. There were also many who wanted the Farsi translations of the contents for their own researches and activities.

ü      Only 70% of evaluation forms were filled out completely and most of them are filled without any attention.

ü      Hayat News (www.hayat.ir / Sep. 3rd), Municipality’s International Department of Tehran (www.tehransama.ir / Sep. 3rd), ISCA News (www.iscanews.ir / Sep. 3rd), Ayande Roshan (www.bfnews.ir / Sep. 7th), Asre Eghtesad Newspaper (Sep. 3rd / Cultural column & Sep. 12th / page 3 short news), Dar Shahr program of Tehran Channel 5 (Sep. 7th 22:00), Al-Alam & Sahar TV channels covered the news of exhibition.

 Visitors

Statistics of GHGP III

*Not absolute statistics. All are taken from the tour managers and witnesses while holding the exhibition in each tour.