"Should art set the boundaries of society, or should society set the boundaries of art?"
Today was our first real day at the IBWSC at Warwick, and it was packed- and awesome. The day started off with a plenary by Jeremy Gilley, the founder of the organization Peace One Day, which aims to have September 21 celebrated as a day of ceasefire and nonviolence. I found it incredible that in 2012, 280 million people- 4% of the world's population- were aware of International Peace Day. What's even more incredible is that number is expected to double by September 21, 2013. He shared with us the story of how he started Peace One Day, and described its journey. One of its monumental successes was having the Taliban in Afghanistan agree to allow health care officials come in to local areas on September 21, with no threat of being kidnapped or killed, and provide vaccinations against diseases such as polio. Jeremy Gilley's talk was interesting, inspiring, and I definitely plan on spreading the word about International Peace Day.
After the plenary, we broke up into our first Global Action Teams, which we will also remain with tomorrow, Tuesday. I was on the Dance Global Action Team today. We got to know each other, then talked a lot about power, as well as what constitutes dreams versus nightmares. After that, we got to dance! We as a team had the opportunity to choreograph, alongside our GAT leaders, a piece in which half the group portray dreams, and half portray nightmares. We learned almost the entire thing today, and are going to perform it on Friday!
The rest of the day was just as busy, and between an amazing plenary, a very fun GAT session, tournaments in badminton/benchball/volleyball, and just hanging out and playing card games with friends after dinner, it was a pretty great day. Can't wait for tomorrow!
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