Tuesday 5 June is World Environment Day – the United Nation’s most important day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the protection of our environment, which began in 1974 and has grown to become a global platform for public outreach currently celebrated in over 100 countries.
This year’s theme is “Beat Plastic Pollution”, which urges governments, industry, communities, and individuals to come together and explore sustainable alternatives and urgently reduce the production and excessive use of single-use plastic polluting our oceans, damaging marine life and threatening human health.
Drawing attention to World Environment Day in Durban are Pragna Parsotam-Kok – Founder and Congress Director of Nature, Environment & Wildlife Filmmakers Congress (NEWF) a festival of films and documentaries taking place in Durban Botanic Gardens from July 16 – 18. They are inviting emerging documentary makers to pitch their ideas to the NEW Pitch Competition – designed to fund the production of documentary-shorts to kick-start the next generation of nature, environment, wildlife and adventure filmmakers. Deadline for entries to NEW Pitch is 10 June.
Pictured with Pragna, is Tyla Coppinger from the organising committee of ISEA2018 – the 24th International Symposium on Electronic Art, the first ISEA to be held in the African sub-continent which comes to various venues Durban from 23 – 30 June. One of the major areas of focus for ISEA2018 is the public social artistic commentary on a myriad environmental issues – with interventions, research, film screenings and exhibitions with an interesting environmental / conservation / green / eco theme.
