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  • Pangea Day, Just Pay It Forward

    Live cinema was shown all over the world for 4 hours, in India the timing for telecast was 11:30PM to 3.30AM. I watched the events at ThoughtWorks office in Pune. People started coming by 10 o’clock, as their was lot of time before the event so we sit watching the IPL match between Chennai Super Kings and Kings XI Punjab.

    At 11 o’clock the organizers showed the video of Jehane’s unveiling the plan for Pangea day at TED event. Though event was also telecast live on Star World, we watched it live on Web.

    While watching the program, I kept thinking about the technical aspect that made Pangea day possible, the amount of co-ordination required to synchronize events from six different locations. I thought if only I could also be part of technical team that made all this possible, alas for now I would have to be content with being a passive viewer.

    Their were many prominent speakers, some beautiful and thought provoking movies, but my takeaway from the event was the Eboo Patel’s closing statement

    Take different action, Tell different stories.

    -Eboo Patel, Executive Director Interfaith Youth Core

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  • Pangea Day : Wish To Reality

    Jehane Noujaim, wanted to use films and photographs to create a powerful emotions in the heart of people watching them, and entice them to do something together to achieve world peace.

    So in Nov 2006, on TED platform she wished for a day in which the world will come together through films, she named it Pangea day. She was granted $100,000 TED Prize to fulfill her wish.
    She called it Pangea because, Pangea means entire earth in ancient Greek, was super continent that existed before it was split into current continents .

    I wish to bring the world together for one day a year through the power of film.

    Her acceptance speech at TED
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    On Saturday, May 10 her wish will become a reality. On this day live events in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro will be converted into a 4 hour program that will be broadcast live to millions of people worldwide via internet, television and mobile phones.

    Starting at 18:00 GMT(23:30 IST), the event will be broadcasted with subtitles in Arabic, English, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese and Spanish.

    During the four hours we will see 24 short films(out of 2500 submissions) , Queen Noor of Jordan, Christiane Amanpour of CNN, Bob Geldof an musician and Hypernova an Iranian rock band.

    Pangea Day will be broadcasted by following Broadcasters

    • Canal +/Planete – France
    • City TV – Colombia
    • Current TV – USA
    • DigiTurk – Turkey
    • Globosat – Brazil
    • KW Networks – Mexico
    • Mediacorp – Singapore
    • Metro TV – Indonesia
    • MGM Networks Latin America – Latin America
    • TVNZ – New Zealand
    • OnceTV – Mexico
    • Rwanda TV – Rwanda
    • Sky Indie – UK
    • Star TV – 60 countries in Asia
    • Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation – Tanzania
    • TVR Televiziunea Româna – Romania
    • V-Me TV – US Hispanic

    Pangea Day will be broadcast live from:

    • The Pyramids, Cairo, Egypt
    • Jali Gardens, Kigali, Rwanda
    • Somerset House, London, United Kingdom
    • Sony Pictures Studios, Los Angeles, USA
    • National Center for Performing Arts, Mumbai, India
    • Morro da Urca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Note: you can email pangeadaytickets@gmail.com to get the a free ticket to one of these locations.

    After Pangea Day, organizers of pangea day will connect inspired people to other inspired activists and organizations, so that they can work together to solve the challenges that we face. A Pangea Day documentary will also be created to catalyze future activities.
    I just wanted to end this post with,

    Movies can’t change the world. But the people who watch them can.

    In other words, we can change the world around us, and Pangea day is one such event, from one such person’s dream.

    Let’s Do Something.

  • Pangea Day, Saturday May 10

    I am reproducing the Newsletter that i received from TED regarding Pangea Day. This is my way of letting people know about it.

    Dear Friends of TED,

    Wherever you will be on Saturday May 10, Pangea Day, you are warmly invited to join me and countless others around the world for a powerful, first-of-its kind experience.

    Gathered in homes, movie theaters and larger venues, we will participate in a remarkable program of films and talks — a kind of super-charged, marathon TED session — celebrating our common humanity. If you think of yourself as something of a global soul, it could be one of the year’s highlights. And in fact you could play an invaluable role in helping it realize its full potential…

    If you don’t have time to read this now, please just calendar Pangea Day for Saturday, May 10th (11am-3pm US West Coast, 2-6pm US East Coast, 7-11pm in UK, 8pm-midnight in Europe and much of Africa, 9pm-1am in the Mideast, 11.30pm-3.30am India, etc.).

    On that day, we invite you to gather around a screen with your family, friends and neighbors, preferably from more than one country. Pangea Day will be available on TV in many areas of the world. In the US, the full four-hour program is being carried live on Current TV, available in 40m homes on cable, DirecTV and Dish Network. Current TV pioneered the vision of citizen-empowered media, and we’re delighted to be partnering with them. We have similar agreements with the massive satellite network Star TV in China/India/Asia, with MGM in Latin America, with Sky in the UK, several partners in the Mid-East, not to mention Indonesia, Mexico, New Zealand and many more. Full details will be posted on our website next week.

    And thanks to partnerships with Akamai and MSN, we will also be available on a live, full-screen web-stream everywhere with a broadband Internet connection.

    The best way to watch Pangea Day is not just as a normal TV show or web-stream. It should be watched as a community event. We want the sense of the great global village gathering around a campfire. We already know of more than a thousand self-organized screenings taking place in homes, clubs, and movie theaters. We expect thousands more come May 10.

    As many of you know, the day is the result of the combined efforts of countless TED supporters around the world, inspired by the TED Prize wish of film-maker Jehane Noujaim. She dreamed of a day when people around the world could share the the same film experience at the same time. The idea has grown into a giant global project… thanks to you. To get a sense of the scale of ambition, please take a minute to watch this beautiful trailer.

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