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05/06/09

World Village Festival 23th to 24th of May 2009

Cultures from all over the world meet in Kaisaniemi Park and on the Railway Square 23 and 24 May 2009. The festival offers world views and possibilitites, as well as music, circus, dance, theatre, art and activities. 2009 is a special year, as World Village Festival will be organized for the 10th time. The event offers new perspectives on tolerant multiculturalism, development cooperation, global issues and expanding one's possibilities for affecting everyday life. http://www.maailmakylassa.fi/english/home

The main organiser of World Village Festival is the Service Centre for Development Cooperation, KEPA, the umbrella organisation for over 270 development organisations or other NGOs working on issues concerning development and globalisation.

Finland - South Africa Association takes part in the event with its own showroom (G721 at the Mahdollisuksien tori -tent). FSAA is also part of the factual programme on Sat 23th 12-12.15 at the Taiga-stage when the Chair of FSAA Arja Alho and Jarmo Hyytiäinen, the Head of Communications at the Federation of Finnish Enterprises discuss about the Power of Micro Entrepreneurialism in reducing poverty. (in Finnish)

This year poet Vonani Bila, one of the top SA poets, takes part in the festival. http://www.maailmakylassa.fi/english/program/factual_program_and_literature/1541

Sat 23.5.2009 16:40-17:00, Mekong-stage, Vonani Bila: Poems
Sat 23.5.2009 18:20-18:40, Amazon-stage, African Poems: Shailja Patel and Vonani Bila
Sun 24.5.2009 13:40-14:00, Amazon-stage, Postcolonial Literature in Africa: Shailja Patel, Vonani Bila and Mohammed Umar

On 16th May Vonani is in Tampere Social forum, 17th May Poetry Marathon' of the Lahti Poetry Week and on 25th May his poems can be heard in Hämeenlinna.