“Os filmes sozinhos não podem mudar o mundo, mas as pessoas que os assistem podem. Se você tivesse a atenção mundial por cinco minutos, que história você contaria?”

Pense no Pangea Day como um centro dos tempos atuais. Um momento, onde paramos, reunimos, e ouvimos cada um contar suas histórias – estórias contadas com uma das mais poderosas tecnologias: o Filme

Um ótimo site com várias curtas-metragens de diversos países incluindo Brasil, países da África e Ásia. Vale a pena conferir : http://www.pangeaday.org/

We collected $125 in donations to KIVA entrepreneurs during the Pangea Day event. Thanks to everyone who donated, and hopefully you’ll continue to support KIVA and spread the word about their innovative approach to economic and social development.

We chose to split the donations between 3 different entrepreneurs in 3 different areas:

Sokhang Loeu – Fruit Seller – Preak Thom Village, Cambodia: $50

Alma Ahmi – Cattle – Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina: $50

Pardali Normurodov – Farming – Shahrituz, Tajikistan: $25

We’ll continue to post updates here as these loans are repaid and the money is reinvested. Thanks again to everyone who participated in a great event – hopefully we’ll put something else together in the near future.

 The Ball by Orlando Mesquita 2001

Can film change the world?  Probably not.  But those who watch them can.  I was recently introduced to Pangea Day, an organization who’s aim is to “use the power of film to strengthen tolerance and compassion while uniting millions of people to create a better future.”  Through the power of film this organization seeks to eliminate borders and help people see themselves in others.

Among the many short films on Pangea’s site you can watch, I was captivated by Orlando Mesquita’s The Ball.  Mesquita is from Mozambique and an award winning filmmaker. Since 1984, Orlando Mesquita has edited, directed, and produced over 20 films, including features, educational programs, and documentaries. His projects explore the many facets of Mozambican life such as the role of women and war, refugees, and demobilized soldiers.

The Ball is a football story, in which the children have found a very interesting way to make a ball using condoms.  It pays homage to the creativity of poor children, many of them orphans in Mozambique’s central region.  As you enjoy the short film Orlando Mesquita wants you to think about how mistaken our statistics are in relation to condom use.

Pangea Day will facilitate community-building activities around the world connecting inspired viewers with numerous organizations which are already doing groundbreaking work.  I encourage you to visit their site for more information.

Watch other short films here.

Pangea means entire earth. The supercontinent of 250 million years ago before the land masses separated into today’s configuration. At that time the world was one. Today it’s still one, of course, and we are all of the human race. But we have so far to go when it comes to tolerance, understanding and embracing each other’s differences.

Pangea Day 2008 took a small, but meaningful step towards bringing us together through the international language of film. The idea took flight in 2006 when filmmaker Jehane Noujaim won the TED Prize (Technology, Entertainment Design). 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 would come together through film.

On the Pangea Day web site they define their mission and purpose as follows:

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.

My description for Pangea Day? Sundance with a cause.

May 10th was Pangea Day. Films and speeches were streamed to a worldwide audience. Over 2,000 films were submitted for consideration. The broadcast was a 4 hour wonder for the eyes, ears, heart and mind. Here is one of my favorite films, shot entirely with a Nokia cell phone by Sumit Roy.

Follow this deep link to see all the films one at a time. To see the full show go here. Don’t have 4 hours for the entire show? View a one hour highlight reel here. Find ways you can take action and push this cause even further here. Hollywood, wake up. There is so much more you can do.

Pangea Day a fost un eveniment mondial care s-a intamplat sau s-a vazut si in Iasi in timp real (+- buffer). S-a transmis din mai multe orase (Kairo, Londra, Kigali, Los Angeles, Mumbai etc.) unde mai multe multimi de oameni s-au adunat impreuna ca sa “bring the world together through film”.

La Iasi s-a petrecut in Sala Gaudeamus a Casei de Cultura a Studentilor tot pe 10 mai, de la ora 21 pana tarziu in noapte. In acelasi timp, in fata Casei de Cultura se canta zgomotos “din cauza” Festudis-ului. Primele 30 de minute au fost cu probleme de organizare (chiar mi s-ar fi parut normal sa faca un test conexiunii si posibilitatii de streaming inainte), dar care s-au rezolvat chiar in momentul in care lumea s-a mai “diluat”. Cu alte cuvinte, oportunistii nerabdatori au plecat enervati si au ramas cei care chiar vroiau sa participe la eveniment.

Ce-am vazut

Am vazut aproape toate filmele, majoritatea spoturilor si discursurile “speakerilor” vizionari (cum explica site-ul PangeaDay.org.

Ce mi-a placut
Toate filmele si “interstitiale” dintre filme (dar si alte inregistrari) le gasiti pe PangeaDay.org. Scurt-metrajele au un fir de care trebuie sa te agati ca sa te prinzi in final (sau mai devreme, in functie de frecventa de ceas a fiecaruia).

Cel mai mult mi-au placut urmatoarele:
Telefonul fara fir
Palma
si asta:

J’Attendrai Le Souivant (I’ll Wait for the Next One)-Philippe Orreindy

Manu Santos no Centro Municipal de Referência da Música Carioca nesta quinta feira, 22 de maio

Foto: Divulgação

Manu Santos se apresenta no Centro Municipal de Referência da Música Carioca, na Tijuca, na Quinta-Feira, às 18:30. Manu foi atração do Pangea Day, evento de música e curtas no Morro da Urca, transmitido para 180 canais de TV no mundo todo, promovido pela Nokia, onde também se apresentou Gilberto Gil. Foi Vencedora da II Mostra de Talentos do Carioca da Gema, e é também integrante do grupo vocal Seresta Moderna. No show, leva Samba, Baião e Coco entre outros ritmos brasileiros. No repertório, além de canções
inéditas, traz Sivuca, Cartola, Monsueto, e um inesquecível Maria Maria, de Milton Nascimento. O grupo é composto por Denny Kessous (arranjos e violão), André Estrella (violão), Radamés Lago (Percussão) e Giló (percussão).

Dia : 22 de maio, Quinta-Feira
Hora : 18h:30
Valor do ingresso : R$ 20,00 inteira e R$ 10,00 meia.
Endereço: Rua Conde de Bonfim, nº 824 – Tijuca
Telefone: (21) 3238-3880

I have already mentioned my predilection for bubbling over and this blog entry couldn’t help but effervesce a few profoundly nourishing moments that have occured over the last few weeks.

Pangea Day

Well there were both snacks and cuddling up in this household. It was an incredible event and as predicted I did get through many a kleenex during the 4 hours. For those of you who wanted to be part of it but couldn’t you can still view the films that were shown at Pangea.org. For those of you who did watch they have posted more award winning films to the line up. I HIGHLY recommend that you take some time to watch a selection and take part next year. It was heart warming to see the audiences around the world, even the British audience who were gathered outside Somerset House in the middle of the night were dancing to the closing ‘World Drum circle’. Scholar and writer Karen Armstrong closed the event with a call to action, “Look into your own heart and discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse under any circumstance what so ever to inflict that pain on any body else”.

Serious Play

This was a nourishing highlight that had me giddy with anticipation. Three days of inspirational speakers, rope jumping and yummy food and goodies. This biannual event held by Art Center College of Design covered topics as vast as the next rover that is going to land on Mars, the intelligence of crows, what it is like to live a full and curious life as a double amputee, the coke and mentos guys, Origami as science, and visionary architecture, all under the guise of PLAY a necessary part of who we are. It was a mind expanding gathering of topics and people that will keep me on a high for weeks. But the nourishing story here is the topic of Play in our lives, Stuart Brown the Founder of the National Institute for Play stated that the opposite of play is NOT work it is in fact Depression. So if you feel you haven’t played recently, try it on, you will feel so much better for moving, laughing, going fast, twirling around, communicating playfully or bonding with others on a team. Children do not have the monopoly on play they just do it so well! Act like a child just once this week and feel your heart soar.
National Institute for Play.

Spring Cleaning

Yes really, in fact we will be having a nourishing conversation on this very subject very soon. In the meantime I wanted to share that we had several spring cleaning conundrums; firstly was the disposal of our 9 year old sofa. It has served us so well across four moves in three states, it has been with us through the arm waving days of Dawsons Creek, the heady days of Gilmore Girl romance, seen us be held in suspense by Aaron Sorkin’s West Wing and it now sits to witness all the drama of Grey’s Anatomy. It has also endured a few xbox ’sit ins’, many thrills and spills and a burrowing puppy. It really is ‘time’ yet given all we had been through together we now seem to be hanging on to it out of sentimentality compounded by the graphic visual of our sofa balancing on the top of a landfill. Our much considered solution was to contact greendumptruck who are going to responsibly remove our old faithful (with ceremony) to make way for our new ‘green’ construction hemp sofa which brings me both to my point and the link that I have promised to share with many of you. The Story of Stuff, the animation on this site takes around 20 minutes to watch but it is well worth it if you want a recap on what the manufacturing and disposal chain really looks like or to consider your role as consumer, to help with some of your own spring cleaning decisions and more importantly to share with less enlightened souls than yourself.

I did however recently enter full blown consumer mode when buying the cleaning products to take on said cleaning. Having tried many green cleaners and using baking soda in the tub (it works!) I finally decided to convert all our products to Mrs Myers, our house will be smelling of lemon verbena some time soon, no really it will…..

Another area that saw a clean out was the make-up drawer. Just over a year ago I was made aware of ‘Skindeep’ the cosmetics database and I have to admit that even after reading about the lethal chemicals that were regularly making contact with my skin when they really shouldn’t even be coming within 2 feet of me, I still clung on to that Dior mascara and that Urban Decay sparkly green eyeshadow. So have I thrown everything out? No. But I have made a considerable dent, pretty much have my ‘chemicals of choice’ under control and a renewed commitment to making sure what comes into the house and gets lathered onto our faces or bodies is harmless. To see what might be toxic in your products check out Skindeep.

The last element I want to include in this topic was the question ‘Where was all our electricity being used?’ We finally made a concerted effort to go around the house plugging and unplugging all our appliances until we got our electric meter disc to spin at a speed that was a lot more satisfactory to our pockets and the planet. This has included actively unplugging all our chargers when not charging a phone, headset or computer and turning our computers off (not just to sleep) and unplugging them EVERY time they are not in use. It has made an incredible difference to our bill!

The awareness of what stuff we have in our house (yes there is still more to tackle, the comic collection REALLY needs to be sold – hint) but the first phase clean out has made me feel lighter, I have a sense of accomplishment and I am more able to concentrate on some of the priorities in my life. It is amazing what the benefits of a clean out can be.
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Coachella

I didn’t make it out there this year but as a result of this West Coast desert festival we had a group of good friends come visit with us before they traveled back East. For me being able to kick back with good friends around the BBQ is very high on my list of nourishing things. Marc and I have decided that one of our nourishing intentions for the summer will be to have many stress free BBQ’s and make the most of our home.

How do you want to remember Summer ‘08 and what are you doing to make it so?

Have a fabulous week…
With warmth and sparkle
Candice

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