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Review: Day Three - Mobilize!
- Thomas Eder
- 13:31
- Iara Lee
- Clemens Apprich
On the third day of this year’s Elevate Festival representatives of about 20 initiatives and organisations like Attac, Global 2000 and Spektral convened in the Forum Stadtpark. Under the motto Get Active! visitors were able to gather information about the possibilities of getting active on a personal level. Many people used this opportunity to get in contact with the activists and organisations.
The next topic For Environment and Health made clear how important those initiatives are in our everyday live. In recent years, two inspiring protest movements have grown in Graz and its vicinity. Both fight against ecological destructive and health-endangering power plant projects. Without resistance the health of thousands of people and the implementation of sensible climate and environmental politics, which emphasizes really renewable energy sources, are at risk.
At 15:00 CET Klaus Schönberger and Ove Sutter looked back at more then 150 years of creative forms of protest. Afterwards Clemens Apprich was talking about present and future possibilities of social networks in the World Wide Web. An audio download of the talks and presentations is available here.
In the following panel discussion Ways out of the crisis Fritz Pichelmann, Michaela Moser and others were talking about alternative ways to overcome the worst post-war economic crisis. They showed that there indeed are models to consolidate budgets and simultaneously start the urgent change towards a more just and sustainable society. An audio download of the discussion is available here.
The Austrian premiere of the documentary film Cultures of Resistance rounded off yesterday’s discourse programme and showed how different art forms still can be weapons of piece. Afterwards director Iara Lee was answering questions from the audience.
From 20:15 to 23:00 CET the literature programme offered performances of elffriede.interdisziplinäre.aufzeichnensysteme, Jörg Piringer, Lisa Spalt, Otto von Schirach and others.
At 22:00 CET DJ Dizzi & Dorian Pearce und Dub Coretette were opening the music programme, which took place in Dom im Berg and the Uhrturm-Kasematte. Artists like Robert Hood, Actress, Altered Natives and many more were following.
Photos of the third festival day are available here.
