Big Bang Lab is a cultural-social enterprise working on creative projects across music and film to engage communities in positive social change. Next Thursday, 27 October 2011, Big Bang Lab is organizing in London one of its crowdversations, screening events to trigger open debates and conversation around culture, creativity and innovation for social change. The film screening will be followed by an open discussion and networking experience.
The award winning documentary Knowledge is the Beginning (2005) by Paul Smaczny will be projected. The film shows the birth and development of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a project co-founded by Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said, where young Arabs and Jews perform and live side by side. It is a film about what music can do; the way it can transcend cultural barriers, bring people together, defeat prejudice and overcome religious and political differences.
Sergio Lopez Figueroa, Director of Big Bang Lab, and by Leila Sansour, filmmaker and founder of Open Bethlehem, a non-governmental foundation established to promote and protect the life and heritage of the city of Bethlehem, will facilitate the event and will engage together to question the issue of culture and conflict resolution, the role of music, community participation in dealing with long term conflicts and the pursuit of peace.
What do you think? You can post your questions in advance via twitter using #bigbangnight and @bigbanglab
Booking at: http://bigbangnight3.eventbrite.com/
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