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Monday
May 12, 2008
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Dear Friends of TED.com,

Wherever you will be on Saturday May 10, Pangea Day, you are warmly
invited to join me and countless others around the world for a
powerful, first-of-its kind experience.

Gathered in homes, movie theaters and larger venues, we will
participate in a remarkable program of films and talks -- a kind of
super-charged, marathon TED session -- celebrating our common
humanity. If you think of yourself as something of a global soul, it
could be one of the year's highlights. And in fact you could play an
invaluable role in helping it realize its full potential...

If you don't have time to read this now, please just calendar Pangea
Day for Saturday, May 10th (11am-3pm US West Coast, 2-6pm US East
Coast, 7-11pm in UK, 8pm-midnight in Europe and much of Africa,
9pm-1am in the Mideast, 11.30pm-3.30am India, etc.).

On that day, we invite you to gather around a screen with your family,
friends and neighbors, preferably from more than one country. Pangea
Day will be available on TV in many areas of the world. In the US, the
full four-hour program is being carried live on Current TV, available
in 41 million homes on the major cable and satellite systems. Current
TV pioneered the vision of citizen-empowered media, and we're
delighted to be partnering with them. We have similar agreements with
the massive satellite network Star TV in China/India/Asia, with MGM
Networks in Latin America, with Sky in the UK, several partners in the
Mid-East, not to mention Indonesia, Mexico, New Zealand and many more.
Full details will be posted on our website next week.

And thanks to partnerships with Akamai and MSN, we will also be
available on a live, full-screen web-stream everywhere with a
broadband Internet connection.

The best way to watch Pangea Day is not just as a normal TV show or
web-stream. It should be watched as a community event. We want the
sense of the great global village gathering around a campfire. We
already know of more than a thousand self-organized screenings taking
place in homes, clubs, and movie theaters. We expect thousands more
come May 10.

As many of you know, the day is the result of the combined efforts of
countless TED supporters around the world, inspired by the TED Prize
wish of film-maker Jehane Noujaim. She dreamed of a day when people
around the world could share the the same film experience at the same
time. The idea has grown into a giant global project... thanks to you.
To get a sense of the scale of ambition, please take a minute to watch
this beautiful trailer.

Here's the state of play:
- Out of thousands of submissions, we have assembled a fantastic
line-up of films. There are about 20 in total, ranging in length from
2 to 15 minutes (most of them around 5). They all tell powerful
stories, often without language, of what it is to be human. They are,
by turns, funny, touching, dramatic, inspiring.
- But you won't just be watching films. You'll be watching the world
watching. We're bringing in live audience images from around the
world. Watching a film about reconciliation is one thing. Watching it
while simultaneously witnessing the reactions of people who are
supposed to hate each other will be something else altogether.
- The day also features a dozen powerful three-minute talks from
scientists, film-makers, story-tellers and global visionaries. Just as
a session at TED takes us on a journey stimulating every part of our
brains, so will Pangea Day. Don't dismiss it as a warm & fuzzy peace-
fest. The project builds on the latest ideas in anthropology,
psychology and technology. We'll be revealing how.
- The whole program is being broadcast in front of a live audience of
1,000 (from more than 50 countries) at a spectacular set being built
at a Sony Studios soundstage in Los Angeles.
- It will look and feel like nothing you've seen before.

If any of this excites you, please would you consider doing something
to help the day realize its full potential. There are three specific
things you can do.

1) Make firm plans to participate on May 10th. As a friend of TED, you
can apply for free tickets to our main satellite-connected locations
in LA, London, Rio de Janeiro, Kigali, Cairo or Mumbai. If you know
you can bring a group of at least six people who will commit to being
there for the full program, please write to pangeadaytickets@gmail.com.
Or, attend one of the other screenings listed in your area here. (If
you happen to be in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can join a
screening being organized there by a great group of TEDsters. Please
write to Taylor Milsal, milsal@gmail.com)

2) Host a screening. It could be in your home with a few friends and
family. Or you could book a larger venue in your neighborhood and open
it for others to come join. You'll just need a large TV screen, the
right channel access (or a good Internet connection) and willingness
to spend four hours as a global soul. The Pangea Day website has the
details you need here. Make sure to add your screening to our fast-
expanding global map.

3) Most important of all. Please help us spread awareness of Pangea
Day. There are numerous ways to do this:

- Forward this email to your friends and colleagues... and invite
them nicely to do the same!

- Post a story on your website or blog

- Point people to some or all of the following high-impact films:

The Pangea Day website and trailer.

The series of anthems sung by one country for another
that I sent you earlier this week, e.g.

France sings for USA

Kenya sings for India

A viral Pangea Day film that debuted at TED this year.

- Make use of these ads on your website. We'd love to see millions
of banners out there promoting the day.
- Use any contacts you have to get media coverage for Pangea Day.
There are a lot of great angles to this story!
- You could even offer to take out paid advertising in your local
media. We have terrific material for print, web and TV.
- Become a fan on Facebook by clicking here

Do please write and tell us what you've done (you can write to my
colleague, TED Scribe Jane Wulf, jane@ted.com). We want to recognize
and celebrate those who make inspired contributions to the day.

OK, that's the practical stuff. Do you have one more minute? I'd like
to just say something more about why Pangea Day is worth your time and
effort.

I think we can agree our world is becoming ever smaller/flatter/more
inter-connected. An important consequence of this is that all of the
issues that matter -- war, terrorism, poverty, disease, human rights,
environment, climate change -- can only be tackled now from a global
perspective. And yet the people supposedly trying to solve them are
almost all serving narrow mandates on behalf of their nation, religion
or tribe. There's a terrifying mismatch here between the nature of the
problems and the means the world is deploying to tackle them. "The
world" itself doesn't even seem to have a seat at the table.

But there's no reason this should be so. It is absolutely possible in
the 21st century for us to begin a truly global conversation; to start
nurturing that identity we share: one humanity. Some use the language
of promoting global citizenship, or reducing cross-cultural suspicion,
or expanding our circle of empathy, or eliminating the "us/them" mode
of thinking. These goals are all linked, and any progress toward them
is, I think, a very big deal.

I was brought up in an international boarding school in India with
kids from more than 30 countries. We had a shared experience of each
others' lives. Differences in color and race gradually faded.

I'm convinced today's media have the power to humanize "the other". To
help people make the mental switch from "them" to "us". Telling
stories through film is especially powerful in this regard. At the
start of a film, you see someone strange-looking. At the end you feel
kinship. There's no moral effort involved here. It's just a natural
mental repositioning. Call me idealistic, but I really believe that
that mental shift holds the key to our shared future.

Of course, May 10th won't lead to an outbreak of world peace. But I do
think it will reveal a sense of possibility: the possibility that
there are incredible new ways of using technology as a force for good;
that peoples' minds are not locked in a dark place forever; that our
global village can start the long journey from "us/them" to "we".

As the Pangea Day website says: Films can't change the world. But the
people who watch them can.

Huge thanks from me, Jehane and Pangea Day's executive director Delia
Cohen to all who have helped make this project possible, including
scores of TEDsters, the amazing Pangea Day and TED teams, TED patrons
Shawn and Brook Byers, website-creators Avenue A/Razorfish and our
visionary sponsor Nokia.

Please join us for this final, crucial chapter.

Sincerely,

Chris Anderson
TED Curator

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