* What is the CIMF?
The CIMF is one of the chun cheon's fantastic festivals.
This festival is the only one in Asia that can be compared with 'London International Mime Festival' in England and 'Mimos Festival' in France. It is held with two kinds of form, bare performance (art) and feast (razzle-dazzle) by Nongovernmental Organization who has made steady and consistent efforts for the present Chuncheon.
* Mime is mind, festival is blessing.
Have you ever heard this phrase, mime is mind, festival is blessing ?
It is slogan of the CIMF. When you think mime, what comes to your mind first?
I guess most of you regard mime as a dificult thing. But it's not true.
Mime is a performance that stimulates spectators' imagination and invites them to the whole new world, using gestures and body movements without words. At the present time of alienation and discontinuation in spite of so many words and images, the reason why mime is valuable is that it can communicate with each other by only gestures and body movements, overcoming the differences of race, language and nationality. With mime, you don't need any words, you can just feel your mind.
*Various programs in the CIMF.
As the CIMF is the world-famous feast, there are various programs. In the performance part, we can't miss the invitation performance. The best of the best performances are played, you can expect it. In addition, free performance is played by domestic performer as well as foreign performer. Except performance, we can meet various extra programs such as Mime play ground, mime post office, mime therapy. It will make the festival fruitful. If you visit 고슴도치 island this weekend, you can realize my words. For the last, there is the most important and the most interesting program, which is 도깨비 난장. It is a small feast of the CIMF, we can enjoy non stop from Saturday night to Sunday morning. Beginning this year, the new program crazy Friday(미친 금요일) will instead 도깨비난장's role, and 도깨비 난장 will change its character.
* Kka bi, the precious people who help to make the festival.
In the CIMF, all volunteers are called as kka bi. The word 'Kka bi' is from 도깨비 난장 which is a highlight of the festival. As 도깨비 난장 is the center of the festival, 깨비 is also the center of it. I was 깨비 2 times. At the first year, I volunteered in a technical team and made the stage. It was not that easy. I complaint all the time because I had to do hard work. However, on my effort, the stage was built and mimest could perform on there. At that time, I felt so nice. It was fruitful labors.
I think the good point of being a Kka bi (volunteer) is that I can be one part of the festival. It is the best way to enjoy the festival~!
* Let's enjoy the CIMF!
The festival is on now! You can enjoy it anywhere around you, like in the campus, in 고슴도치 island, in house of mime and in the downtown. You are not familiar with mime though, the atmosphere of the festival will make you ease and then you can feel to be on with mime!