Diversity is Power writers festival South Africa, Capetown gets to me!

October the sixth, the date we all will leave to take part into the festival in Capetown.I'm reading my lonely planet guide... yeah i know, tourist guide. But so hungry for information about this far away continent. In my vision a continent where the word forgiveness is more meaningful than anywhere else. As if the only true meaning of forgiveness can be found in South Africa, in Nelson Mandela and Bishop Tutu. As i'm dealing ,and have dealed, with my own little struggle of forgiveness in all kinds of situations, i always see him in front of me, Nelson Mandela. His calm but firm strongness, his ability to be the soulmate of his own soul, and yet so close to the nature of people, as God made them.
Soon, soon, i will be visiting "his Capetown" and that makes me feel very very special. To freely walk the paths, his light has shined upon.
Blessed man!

Diversity is Power: the poem factory2

The gap of caring

Do you care about global warming
the loss of forest
traditional knowledge
down under fading away
in one melting pot

Do you care about eco systems
the ocean, the mountains
people fishing
in poisoned waters
water..rising and rising

Do you care and still don't act
for the body you live in
the green you breath
the people you live with
and nature, who lives you

Do you. Do you act
or just sit quiet
seeing, knowing, reading
and in the fuzz of all
nature's loss
just feel paralized to act
feeling the gap of caring.

Diversity is Power: the poem factory

Searching

You wanted just to see
Me in you
And you in me
Words sounding like yours
Trusting only
the you in me

And as i speak
I see your eyes looking away
You’re hands crossing the
Way to your heart
Me not speaking the language
you know


As my voice grows stronger
My heart is filled with tears
Looking at close doors
Here, without you
While my hands touch
The many colors
of live

FESTIVAL DATE

CAPETOWN, WRITERS IN EXCHANGE FESTIVAL SURINAME SOUTH AFRICA
OCTOBER 7TH-OCTOBER 17TH CAPETOWN- SOUTH AFRICA
MORE INFORMATION info@schrijversgroep77.com

Travel arrangements South Africa

Diversity is power: travel arrangements
So as I am in charge of the travel arrangement of the participants for the writers in exchange festival in South Africa, the diversity is really getting to me and the power is really needed. Group travel is group travel but with our Surinamese diverse links in Holland it is not. So, here I am, struggling with more than eleven different travel dates. A very diverse travel plan must I say. And so I encounter a diversity in Travel prices and so diversity in Airlines. But finally, yes! Reservations, with the help of the wonderful Mala of the travel agency! A diverse travel plan as you may say. ‘Suriname Airways to Amsterdam, British Midland to London and South African Airlines to Cape town’ And yes I feel blessed with this opportunity to cross so many borders to exchange talent from different continents with different people and different opinions on different subject with different stories.. Yes very diverse and yes very energetic...a energy flow through my body. Somehow it is the diversity of it all that gets me going! Today Diversity is power!

Diversity is Power

Diversity is power! Could be or could not. Depends on how you look at it. Seeing it as a lot of diverse people, being powerful because they are diverse is not the power of diversity. Diversity comes from the insight, when you feel the diversity in yourself it can indeed be powerful and challenges you to cross boarders. The power therefore lies not in the amount of diverse people but the quality of people to recognize diversity as a part of their life.
The writers in exchange festival will be held in South Africa october 2008 with the theme Diversity is power. Writers from Suriname, The Netherlands and South Africa will exchange their creative work with the public. The theme of the festival is Diversity is Power! As part of the Suriname group I will keep you posted on the development of ideas and writing, the creative flow...for the next months. For more information on the festival www.schrijversgroep77.com

The creative industry

The strength of creativity is that people reach out to another on the deepest level of communication in the most honest way and with the most wide range of areas to reach. It is the touch of soul to soul. Not carefully marketed and not treated as an industry our leaders still underestimate the strength of the message the creative industry brings in the growth and development of people and therefore communities, countries.. the world. It is a leading part in everything you undertake. It is connected with your soul and therefore not overshadowed by ego-actions.

Whenever you invest in people you invest in the future. No nature resources as gold or diamonds or bauxiet will last long enough, and it is proven that even though countries have enough of this, it is not the clue for a better life for the people. The creative industry is not some thing of some people but it deserves a leading role in decisionmaking, in future, in life. Whenever we see children develop it is there creativity that make them do things, to undertake, to explore, to try out, to grow.