FAIR WEALTH: DEBATING THE JO'BURG MEMO
Daily Theatre play with subsequent debates on the themes of
the Jo'Burg Memo
Date: daily August 26 - September 2
Time: 18h00-20h00
Venue: Boell Forum at the Global People's Forum +
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What will be the legacy of the Johannesburg World Summit on
Sustainable Development? Will it be remembered as an ”historic”
watershed, as we now regard the 1992 Rio Earth Summit? Will Johannesburg
generate results that will be worthy of celebration, or will it
lead to yet another meaningless global photo opportunity?
Every evening during the World Summit, the Boell Forum will witness
an unusual combination of two events: a short theatre play
and a subsequent debate on the themes of the Jo'Burg Memo,
featuring the key challenges for the World Summit itself. The same
play will be performed every day, while the debate will have a different
focus each evening. The themes will be drawn from the Jo'Burg
Memo and discussed by two to four speakers. The themes are:
The theatre play "Fair Wealth" by the Sibikwa
Community Theatre Project will will use song, music, narration
and visual presentation to tackle the question of the relationship
between the developing and industrialised countries. Issues that
will be highlighted are: wealth distribution, waste and destruction
of natural resources, the widening gap between the increasingly
few rich and the poor. As a way forward the play will suggest, that
the rich should rethink their way of production and their lifestyle
and that to uplift the poor and improve their living conditions
the rich in industrialised as well as in developing countries have
to give up privileges and share wealth.
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