Pangea Day 2008
10 May 2008 by Stardust“Pangea Day is a global event bringing the world together through film.
Why? 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.”
Will this effort make a difference?
History
In 2006, filmmaker Jehane Noujaim won the TED Prize, an annual award granted at the TED Conference. She was granted $100,000, and more important, a wish to change the world. Her wish was to create a day in which the world came together through film. Pangea Day grew out of that wish. Watch Jehane Noujaim’s 2006 acceptance speech now.
What is hoped will happen after Pangea Day
People inspired by Pangea Day will have the opportunity to participate in community-building activities around the world. Through the live program, the Pangea Day web site, and self-organized local events, everyday people will be connected with extraordinary activists and organizations.
Many of the films and performances seen on Pangea Day will be made available on the Web and via mobile phone, alongside open forums for discussion and ideas for how to take social action.
A Pangea Day documentary will be created to catalyze future activities, and dozens of talented filmmakers will make strides in their careers.
Details on the Pangea Day films can be viewed here.
10 May 2008, on 11:04 pm
Stardust
Thank you. This is just fantastic.
I first heard of Caroline Porco in the 90’s. When the protests of sending a “nuclear spacecraft was suppposed to be some omen or some such horsesit. Anyhow thanks. She says it so well.
In reference to the photo of earth from beyond the rings of Saturn.
“In this picture we can find the very best in each one of us. We are perhaps the small troubled inhabitants of one tiny little planet. But we are the dreamers of big dreams and the thinkers and exploreers who took this picture.
A fucking men.
10 May 2008, on 11:12 pm
You are welcome, Jimmer. I was reading about it and since I hadn’t seen it on any blogs that I frequent, I thought I should put it out there. I would like to watch the whole four hours of it.
O/T are you back online at home now?
10 May 2008, on 11:34 pm
Yes, back on-line. My latest saga is a keyboard that was not letting me use the shift key therefore no @ Therefore no sign in etc. LOL.
11 May 2008, on 12:16 am
My latest saga is a keyboard that was not letting me use the shift key therefore no @ Therefore no sign in etc.
Well, glad to see you back and hope you will not have any more problems!
11 May 2008, on 12:30 am
Yes…thanks for posting this, Stardust. I was completely unaware of the event.
As Jimmer remarked about Caroline Porco; “She says it so well.”
She also, in her own significant way, carries on the important work of Carl Sagan in extending our vision of our amazing Universe.
And for me, how marvelous it is to hear Carl Sagan’s absolutely awesome, poetic…classic…and inspiring summary of what Earth means, and HAS meant, to every human who’s ever lived a life on this fragile, tiny Blue Dot. I can’t imagine a better description. I had forgotten just how incredible it was.
It’s too bad Carl wasn’t there on stage with Caroline.
Thanks to Science, we can still enjoy hearing him…and watching the Cosmos Series!
Indeed…thanks to Science, and all those who pioneer in it, for the Pangea event…
and SO many other things!
Hi to Jimmer, by the way!