Pangea Day NM

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(and FYI... this is cross-posted from the NM Media Events blog, the MISP events listserv and a few other places...)

We're very happy to be involved in Pangea Day -- and especially glad to be part of efforts statewide (in this worldwide event). There are two public events listed here in New Mexico (so far), with one at the Santa Fe Complex, and another from Sushi Gig (temporarily out of retirement) at the Flying Star in downtown Albuquerque. More on those below.

Pangea Day is a a global event bringing the world together through film, on May 10, beginning at noon. Locations in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro will be linked for a live program of powerful films, live music, and visionary speakers. The entire program will be broadcast – in seven languages – to millions of people worldwide through the internet, television, and mobile phones.

In Albuquerque, SushiGig is back from retirement, albeit temporarily.

Sushi Gig's Webb Johnson said, "It just needed to be done."

We have been fortunate to secure the use of the upstairs conference room at the Downtown Flying Star to offer a public venue to view these films as they were meant to be seen, simultaneous with the world, in a community environment where you can exit at any time, grab a bite to eat, a coffee or a beer and meet the other people attending.

WHAT: Pangea Day: A global event, bringing the world together through film.
WHEN: Saturday, May 10th 12:00pm - 4:00 pm
WHERE: Flying Star Downtown, 723 Silver SW, Downtown Albuquerque
HOW MUCH: No charge, but please click here to RSVP as space is limited.

In Santa Fe, join the kind folks at the new Santa Fe Complex.
Pangea Day seems a particularly fitting as one of the series of opening events for
the Santa Fe Complex, "a community, a workshop and a place for people interested in the intersection of art and science in our daily lives."
From their website:

• As a community, we are engaged in a craft, in building the tools and discovering the techniques that advance and support the craft, and teaching that craft to apprentices.
• As a workshop, we are noisy with multiple projects and activities, our walls and benches covered with the works of masters and students.
• As a place, we are an intellectual center for masters, scientists and thinkers seeking a multi- and inter-disciplinary intersection between theory and practice.

WHAT: Pangea Day: A global event, bringing the world together through film.
WHEN: Saturday, May 10th 12:00pm - 4:00 pm
WHERE: Santa Fe Complex, 632 Agua Fria, Santa Fe
HOW MUCH: No charge, but visit their site or the Pangea Day site for more information.

Starting at noon, Mountain time, locations in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro will be linked for a live program of powerful films, live music and visionary speakers. The entire program will be broadcast in seven languages to millions of people worldwide through the internet, television and mobile phones.

The 24 short films to be featured have been selected from an international competition that generated more than 2,500 submissions from over one hundred countries. The films were chosen on their ability to inspire, transform, and allow us to see the world through another person's eyes. Details on the Pangea Day films can be viewed here.

The program will also include a number of exceptional speakers and musical performers. Queen Noor of Jordan, CNN's Christiane Amanpour, musician/activist Bob Geldof, and Iranian rock phenom Hypernova are among those taking part.

Filmmaker Jehane Noujaim is the inspiration behind Pangea Day. In 2006, she 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. Click here to watch Jehane Noujaim’s 2006 acceptance speech.
More information on Pangea Day is available at their website.
To find other events near you, visit http://www.pangeaday.org/attend_map.php

Finally, a quick shout-out to TED, whose site includes high quality video of talks and presentations from many of our world's most inspiring thinkers and practitioners in technology, science and the arts... and much more. Visit them here.