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NEWS RELEASE

Jan 16, 2006

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ICAF's First International Cultural Figurines and Children's Puppets Exhibition

As part of the European Children's Festival to be held in Munich right before the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the First International Cultural Figurines and Children's Puppets Exhibition will be held at Galeria Kaufhof am Marienplatz in Munich on May 26 . June 9, 2006. Galeria Kaufhof and IDW GmbH Duisberg-Toronto are exhibition sponsors.

The exhibition will showcase global cultural diversity and unity during the European Festival, which is the first regional event organized as a prelude to the World Children's Festival in Washington, DC in the summer of 2007.

The exhibition will show how children share and interpret their culture to gain other's understanding. Children for this exhibition will make twenty figurines and twenty puppets. Two figurines and puppets each will be made in Germany and the United States. The other participating countries are: Austria, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Ghana, Great Britain, India, Italy, Kenya, Korea (South), Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.

In the United States, one figurine and puppet will be made by children in Austin, Texas under the artistic direction of Mr. Opie Otterstad, recently honored by the United States Sports Academy as the Sport Artist of the Year 2006. Students at the St. Patrick's Episcopal Day School in Washington, DC will make the second figurine and puppet.

After the World Cup, the exhibition will travel to Berlin, and then other Kaufhof department stores in Germany and Europe. A video on the making of the figurines and puppets will be shown at the World Children's Festival in Washington in 2007.

The International Child Art Foundation (ICAF) employs the arts to heal, inspire and unify children across the globe while the World Bank has become one of the largest suppliers of reconstruction and development assistance around the world.