The space where you can reflect freely with prestigious speakers on how to build a better world together
Know and learn. Flee from simplicities and static visions. Address the complexity of the whole. To debate. Discuss. Reflect. Visualize. Build. These are the pillars that of the Rototom SunsplashSocial Forum. It is a space for listening and speaking, free of thematic boundaries, about culture, environment, economy, human rights, peace and social movements; about conflict and, political and humanitarian crises, but also about their solutions and alternatives. Both present and future. About realities that coexist on the same planet and which are sometimes unknown to us. All this, with the help of experts, be they anonymous or not. The frontline protagonists, those people who bet on change, a change of course. Those who are the driving force behind those other possible worlds.
Many are those who have passed through the different editions of the Social Forum. Such as the Nobel Peace Prize laureates Rigoberta Menchu and Shirin Ebadi, as well as the most recent person to be recognised by the Swedish Academy and to come to the who has been at the festival: Mohamed Ben Cheikh, edition 2017; the ideologist of modernity and sociologist Zygmunt Bauman; environmental activist Vandana Shiva; Egyptian economist and political scientist Samir Amin; Christian Felber, Austrian economist and ideologist of the economy for the common good; and a broad range of journalists: Mona Eltahawy (Egypt) and Amira Hass (Israel); the Spanish Ignacio Ramonet director of Le Monde Diplomatique- and RTVE ex-correspondent Rosa María Calaf; the Italian Giulietto Chiesa or Sami Al-Ajj, Al-Jazeera journalist.
Their voices have been joined by many others, representatives of different social movements, groups, professions and ideologies, which have added diversity, plurality, to this space for debate. Voices like that of the Spanish philosopher and essayist Antonio Escohotado, known for his research on drugs that he presents ‘General History of Drugs’, a key reference in this field; and another philosopher, this time from Chile, Claudio Naranjo. Other who have spoken, and exchanged views with the public are, Tibetan lamas Thubten Wangchen and Geshe Lobsang Pende; David Couso, brother of Jose Couso the photojournalist who died in Baghdad (Iraq) in 2003 as a result of a projectile fired from a tank of the US Army; the Italian priest Renato Kizito Sesana and the Belgian priest and sociologist François Houtart. Esteban Ibarra, from the Spanish Movement Against Intolerance; the Italian mathematician and politician Furio Honsell; and Cindy Sheehan, American antiwar activist and mother of a soldier killed in Iraq in 2004, have shaped the extensive list of people to have visited the Social Forum, which continues to grow.
= Activity/Workshop = Band = Culture = Film = Music = Show = Sound System = Talk/Debate
T2 = Tent 2
T1 = Tent 1
RU = Reggae University
RS = Rasta seminar
HoR = House of Rastafari
FF = Film Festival
= Culture place
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Street vendor dignity
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Anna Palou
(Member of Stop Mare Mortum)
Cristian Palazzi
(Director of PlayGround Do)
Laia Miret
(Head of Art & Design at PlayGround Do)
Lamine Sarr
(Spokesperson of the Sindicato Mantero and member of the initiative After the blanket)
Marie Faye
(Promotional partner and administrative manager of Diomcoop)
Decolonization and freedom: the African way to democracy
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Firoze Manji
(Human rights activist. Former Africa Program Director, Amnesty International, International Secretariat)
Mamadou Dia
(Writer and activist, founder of the NGO Hahatay)
Rafael Crespo
(Anthropologist. Secretary General of the Centre d’Estudis Africans)
Saiba Bayo
(Political analyst and education consultant)
Lucía Mbomio: “We need to write, film, talk, record, and tell and nobody will interfere in our speech”
The Hispanic-Guinean journalist present her book “Las que se atrevieron” at the African Village.
A Nobel Peace Prize winner in Rototom Sunsplash
Mohamed Ben Cheikh enjoys and participates as part of the public in the different festival activities after his talk at the Social Forum.
Dialogue and consensus in the ‘Africas of Africa’ at Rototom with the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Ben Cheikh “Tunisia is a ray of hope”
The Social Forum at Rototom Sunsplash reflects together with Mohamed Ben Cheikh on the importance of dialogue and consensus in the case of the revolutions in Tunisia
Africa through the spoken word and oral tradition
Safiatou Amadou, Agnés Agboton and Boniface Ofogo share the importance of oral tradition in African education with the public at Rototom Sunsplash.