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The TIMOTCA Cultural CentreThe 20th Century saw Earth become a global village; telecommunications shattered barriers of time and distance, and the Moon became a steppingstone to the starry realms once explored only by imagination. It is fitting that in the 21st Century the first truly global cultural center be established representing all the people of the Earth.
Celebrating the world’s extraordinarily diverse cultures, the TIMOTCA Cultural Centre will provide a permanent festival for painters, sculptors, musicians, writers, dancers, photographers, filmmakers and artisans from every corner of the globe. The Centre will present an unprecedented educational, entertainment facility and an official forum for the development of international programs to promote cultural understanding and peaceful co-existence. 
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Imparting a breathtaking experience of the universally connecting spirit of the arts, visitors to the TIMOTCA Centre will take a journey filled with choices and opportunities - a journey that offers experiences which will appeal both to casual visitors and those with intense interest in art and sharing a view of one world and one people. | ||
An unparalleled Art-Themed Entertainment Complex will offer visitors the opportunity to participate in new experiences that involve them and entertain them, as well as inspire and educate - creating an awareness of the magic of art in their lives and in their world.
The TIMOTCA Centre will offer a kaleidoscope of fun and “edutainment” for all ages. The Centre will be the most exciting - compelling - unique and entertaining place on earth ...a modern "Wonder of the World" - a place, once visited, never forgotten.
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Centre Components
Peace Monument Plaza, Interactive Visitor Center, Sculpture Gardens. The International Museum of 21st Century Arts exhibiting the TIMOTCA Permanent Collection: the original paintings contributed to TIMOTCA by each of the celebrated artists selected to represent his or her country - a timeless testimony to the spirit of the "Universal Language of Art.” Performing Arts Theaters Museums presenting rotating exhibitions of emerging and established artists representing every aspect of the creative process. International restaurants and bazaars displaying crafts of every description. Conference & Media Facilities, Library & Artist Studios, Hotels & Restaurants Several important sites of over 500 acres are presently under consideration for the location of the TIMOTCA Cultural Centre | ||
ARCHITECTURAL PHILOSOPHY
Jon Jerde - "The TIMOTCA Cultural Centre is not a building, rather it is a natural form, a quiet and anonymous "humbling machine" where global man can find humility, the kind of humility that brings radiance and humming, the kind of humility that artists have at the very moment of creation. TIMOTCA will feel like an Edo Garden; a natural setting designed with no evidence of man's role in its creation. Man is the neutral piece, and this place is a neutral place, designed for an 'us' culture. The architecture will not be 'staged', it will not be noisy. We believe spiritual places contain an architecture that you don't see, a quiet architecture. The structure will reflect the purpose to TIMOTCA's existence: to promote world peace through the arts. TIMOTCA will create a sense of tranquillity and reinforce the connection we all share with things larger than the earth-it will connect to the universe. The art will be inspired by the earth and its forces. In places the art is the earth, moving through time, a time based art. TIMOTCA will be added to as time goes on and as the global community evolves". "We find no vestige of a beginning, - no prospect of an end." James Hutton, Theory of the Earth, 1790 | ||
PEACE MONUMENT
The Peace Monument Plaza will be the helix - the meeting place - the axis upon which everything at the Centre turns. The Peace Monument and its Plaza will be an essentially interactive, state of the art, multi-sensory space with a sequence of experiences, formatted within the language of light, sound, image and energy, designed to harmonize and rejuvenate, to inform and expand the consciousness. Honoring the countries, their representing artists and visionaries around the world who participate in the realization of the TIMOTCA Centre, the Peace Monument will stand as a beacon of light, taking its place in history much like the ancient wonder of the world - the lighthouse of Alexandria. | ||
GEOSPHERE
Situated in the Peace Monument Plaza, the TIMOTCA Geosphere will be a unique application of existing technology. The Geosphere Project is a whole earth three-dimensional image created from thousands of satellite photos of earth. With a diameter of 50 feet, the Centre Geosphere will illustrate the history of art on earth and worldwide cultural linkages
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