World Day Festival is a free open-air event for the whole family to introduce world cultures to Estonians and visitors of Tallinn. The festival promotes global education, tolerant multiculturalism and development cooperation. This year the World Day takes place on 28 May. Artists such as Baba Zula (Turkey), Galaxy (Senegal), ZumbaLand (Georgia), Bombillaz (Estonia), Svata Vatra (Estonia-Ukraine) and many others will perform during the day. There will be numerous development cooperation organizations and projects present in the festival information marketplace to introduce their work in developing countries and to facilitate workshops.
The main topic of this year’s World Day is the human rights perspective of development. In the run-up to the World Day a conference entitled “What’s it to us?: Estonia supporting human rights based global development“ will be taking place in Estonian parliament house with the audience from politicians, civil servants, representatives of NGOs and students.
All through the month of May various events are taking place. Free film screenings will be held in Tallinn cinemas, including “QADIR - an Afghan Ulysses” (Greece, 2008), ”Black Diamond” (France, Belgium, 2010) and “Banker to the Poor” (France, 2000). Various visits to schools are organized for embassies to introduce their development cooperation work all around the world. Seminars on fair trade, women and labor and many other topics are conducted as part of the World Day. Since 2005, Estonian Roundtable for Development Cooperation with the support of the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has organized the event.
Read more about the World Day Festival from http://www.terveilm.net/?id=15 and http://www.terveilm.net/?id=6.
Information provided by Piret Hirv, AKÜ
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