Celebrate World Water Day with us, by joining one of the live streamed events on the Tap (Waterwheel videoconferencing & media mixing system). They are free, online events - come with a friend!
These exciting webcasts connecting people from around the world include:
- launch of the e-book 'Water Views: Caring and Daring' & opening of Balance/UnBalance Conference at the State University of Arizona with film, performances & exhibition guided tour
- for the first time, mediation for water introduced by multi-awarded carnatic singer Mahesh Vinayakram, live from Chennai, India
- 'Science in the Online Pub' with Australian pre-eminent scientists & experts, lined up by Healthy Waterways
- Panel discussion about the virtual exhibition 'HOT WATER - Water, Peace & War'
Find all details below. We'd like also to remind you that you can comment all entries in the media centre, and get in touch that way with the creators, as well as you can share any entry on social media. Looking forward to celebrating with you,
Suzon & Waterwheel Team
- go to http://water-wheel.net/taps-list and click the top-most link.
- when the event goes live, there will be an "enter" button. Click to enter the Tap.
- If you wish to make comments, ask questions, communicate with others in the chat-thread on the right, please type first a nickname. Always hit the 'ENTER/RETURN' key after each comment you type.
21-22 March 2015: WORLD WATER DAY - go to the event
This session will include the launch of the e-book 'Water Views: Caring and Daring', a film screening, performances, and program highlights from the Balance-Unbalance 2015 conference convenors Garth Paine and Sabine Feisst, and a presentation from Balance-Unbalance founder Ricardo Dal Farra. For the e-book launch, the editorial team and guest authors will comment on their highlights and read small excerpts.
This session will comprise 30 minutes to meet audience and crew in the chat, 30 minutes silent meditation for water introduced by singer Mahesh Vinayakram, then the second e-book launch event with interaction with online audience.
Science, art, ecology, community and youth respond to the theme: 'Water Views: Caring and Daring.' An astonishing number and variety of entries – 125 articles & 540 pages – makes this book a rich collection of ongoing work internationally, often with a local focus, on raising awareness and responding to water issues.
450 participants, from 34 countries across 5 continents, interacted with audience ‘live’ on the Internet & in 18 physical venues or ‘nodes’, through Waterwheel, an online platform dedicated to water. The Waterwheel World Water Day Symposium, held 17-23 March 2014, also integrated youth & inter-generational dialogue with the "Voice of the Future" strand.
26 MARCH 2015: SCIENCE IN THE ONLINE PUB - go to the event
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Join a panel of world renowned experts for an enlightening and entertaining discussion about the water cycle and where we humans fit in. Healthy Waterways' charismatic Chief Scientist, Dr. James Udy, will be your MC with Panel Members: Professor Tim Smith, University of Sunshine Coast; Amalie Wright, Landscapology, Dr Mark Gibbs, Technical Director AECOM, Board Director Green Cross Australia; Dr Adrian Volders, AR Volders Environmental Consulting
28-30 MARCH 2015: 2 'HOT WATER' PANELS - go to the event
- #1 SESSION Panelists: Leah Barclay, Ian Clothier, Molly Hankwitz, Joanna Hoffmann and Silvana Tuccio. Check your time
- #2 SESSION Panelists: at Balance-Unbalance from Arizona State University: Leah Barclay, Nina Czegledy, Ilka Blue Nelson & Eric Leonardson, and online: Lorraine Beaulieu, Molly Hankwitz & Alberto Vazquez. Check your time
International Guests of two panels will select contributions of the virtual exhibition 'HOT WATER - Water, Peace & War' as triggers to discuss with the other panelists and online audience, addressing the questions: How can art, science, design, and activism reinstate the social, cultural and environmental value of water? How can we share the responsibility of water in a positive way? How can we all preserve the right of access to water? How can intergenerational knowledge-sharing get us out of ‘HOT WATER’, end conflict and find peace?”
- NOTE: CDs recipients will be drawn from the hat at each session.
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