Ed’s note: Today’s blog is yet another great sumbission from a reader! I like the idea and in essence the below does what SA Rocks is trying to do, we just use different media to portray a message.
Here’s a video to see in the post:
Dear SA Rocks,
I dont know if you have heard about this but it seems like there aren’t many South African events on this day.I am not even sure if any of the South African TV channels are broadcasting it.
Pangea Day taps the power of film to strengthen tolerance and compassion while uniting millions of people to create a better future.
In a world where people are often divided by borders, difference, and conflict, it’s easy to lose sight of what we all have in common. Pangea Day seeks to overcome that – to help people see themselves in others – through the power of film.
On May 10, 2008 – Pangea Day – venues in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro will be linked to produce a 4 hour program of power films, visionary speakers, and uplifting music.
More importantly, the program will be broadcast live to the world through the Internet, television, digital cinemas, and mobile phones.
Of course, movies alone can’t change the world. But the people who watch them can. So following May 10, 2008, Pangea Day organizers will facilitate community-building activities around the world connecting inspired viewers with numerous organizations which are already doing groundbreaking work.
Please take a look at the following videos for more information. I have also created a facebook group for South Africa.
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April 25th, 2008 at 9:06 am
What an incredible idea. I think that movies can be a form of gnosis – they offer the ability to get really close to experiencing the world from another unique perspective. And great ideas are like benevolent viruses that can spread and hopefully create better worlds.
April 25th, 2008 at 9:19 am
thanks for posting bro
Mandy, I suggest you signup to host an event, it will be streamed on the internet and i have asked them to give me a list of broadcasters in Africa, so check the FB group for updates.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
This Pangea Day film project was photographer and filmmaker Jehane Noujaims TED wish.
April 25th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
I thought it was panga day
April 25th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
kitchenman – is that meant to be a joke of some sort?
April 27th, 2008 at 3:52 am
Its a great idea
Im going to get a few of my japanese friends together to try and watch the event. There are some venues up north in Japan closer to Tokyo but none in the south so we are trying to get something together
Here is another good video to check out.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fZWIZX_8ub8
Its called Dear Mandela
May 12th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Hi there,
Wow, I watched the event live this weekend. Amazingly, I had had no idea what it was or that it was even happening at all until Saturday night when I attended a group screening of the broadcast. I was absolutely blown away. What an incredible idea.
I am always a little sceptical of such ideas as, usually, this kind of initiative has too direct an approach, perhaps overlooking the human element to problems, or isolating problems from their contexts, which does little to evoke empathy and to develop true compassion. This project surpassed that, highlighting the fact that suffering (or indeed happiness) may be experienced in the same universal way, even if the stimuli for the emotion is different. The process of empathising with another being on the other side of the world becomes infinitely easier when you can find commonality in emotion rather than in circumstance.
I think another success of Pangea Day (some may disagree with me) is that I think it managed to tread carefully and shrewdly the line of globalising homogenisation, which is a hazard to diversity.
I was utterly inspired, both creatively and to move to actively promote compassion and awareness of the diversity that exists on this pale blue dot.
Its such a pity it wasn’t better publicised.
May 12th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
By the way, Nic, strange coincidence stumbled onto this post. Linked straight from a Google result, I found this, and I remember writing an article for you on Diggspot for the UKZN paper about two years ago…
Its a very small pale blue dot indeed.
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