My name is MUNEZERO Ferdinand from Rwanda, I am a Culture manager and artistic entrepreneur who believes in the potential of arts to create positive change in entrepreneurship and cultural exchange.

My professional field is in performing arts more specifically in Music, Poetry, Dance and Theater. I have more than 14 years’ experience in Culture promotion and youth empowerment through mentorship and Career guidance using arts approaches, I am also the Founder of “Voice Of Generation Training Center” which has been created to empower young people through Arts Culture with the maim of becoming one of the leading expressive and artistic hub for career guidance and talent detection using arts approaches.

Kids performing for their parents

Since I participated in CPI 2016 and CPI2023 I am going to Focus on CPI 2016 learnings and experience as CPI 2016 was a motivation to apply for CPI 2023.

Participating in CPI2016 was my first wide and international experience but I learned and experienced a lot such as: Korean culture, Korean Traditional music and instruments, Korean language, Korean Dance and Korean Food. Beyond this I learned about different cultures as my CPIs colleagues were coming from different countries and by performing and leaning together with other CPIs participants and National Orchestra from NTOK it was a great experience as I learned more on networking and I have understood how music or any form of art can become a universal language that can connect Nations no matter their differences in culture.

My biggest motivation to Join CPI was because of its main and unique objective of promoting international cultural exchange by giving an open space for culture actors and arts portioners across the world to learn from one another, particularly I was very interested to know more about Korean culture.

My expectation from the program was to learn and network with other CPI participants from different countries across the world and more particularly to learn from Korean cultural and arts initiatives and explore potential collaboration with Korean culture experts.

My self and Club leaders and I after the festival Launch

I was very impressed on how the National theatre of Korea was providing music teachers (Instructors) to CPI participants and how these teachers(instructors) were very collaborative when teaching us which gave me and my CPIs colleagues an opportunity to stay motivated during the training and get more experience on Korean Traditional instruments even if language was to be a barrier.

I was also very impressed by the field trips we had during the training especially in Jindo National Gukak Center which gave us an opportunity to experience more on Korean Traditional Music, Korean Dance and Traditional instruments, more particularly I was very impressed by the great professional collaboration and guidance by our CPI coordinator Yennie Shon which made our stay in Korea a memorable one despite of speaking different languages and from different countries with different Cultures but she helped us to stay connected along the training.