What is the Global Citizen Festival?
It’s an annual music festival established in 2012 and has been organizing music concerts in New York, USA. Mumbai happened to be one other such lucky destination for the first time in 2016. There is however a philanthropic motive behind this unique music festival, whose curator is Chris Martin himself. It is actually organized by Global poverty Project, which aims to eradicate poverty by 2030.
In 2016, the focus has been on
raising funds for rehabilitation of refugees across the world. The other causes
include funding of education, water and sanitation. This year since the
campaigning and propaganda commenced for Global Citizen Festival, a total of
1.3 million actions have been conducted form advertising to digital marketing,
to YouTube videos (by even Michelle Obama) to raise awareness about the
Festival. This resulted in announcements to the tune of $1.9 billion that should
benefit 199 million people worldwide. (www.globalcitizen.org)
Celebration called Global Citizen Festival
Celebration called Global Citizen Festival
In New York when the festival was
organized on the 24th of September, 2016, about 60,000 people
attended it. The celestial presence of
renowned Hollywood artists, rock stars and politicians helped keep the crowd
galvanized enough to feel joyful about their contributions. There were electric
performances by Demi Lovato, Rihanna, Coldplay, Major Lazer, Elle Goulding,
Usher, Metallica and Kendrick Lamar. These performances were interspersed by
Priyanka Chopra coming on stage and announcing her support for festival
partner, Google’s campaign “Made with Code”, which encourages girls to study
computer programming, and by Nancy Pelosi, Democratic House Leader, USA who
came on stage to promote the importance of voting, as US elections then were
round the corner.
In Mumbai, on the 19th of November, 2016, the festival marked India’s presence on global citizen map, with a phenomenal turnout of little more than 80,000 people. The show marked the daylong event with performances by Farhan Akhtar, AR Rehman, Amitabh Bachchan, Sonakshi Sinha interspersed by appearances made by Shah Rukh Khan and East India Comedy who were talking about issues like open defacation. The highlight of the evening other than Coldplay’s performance was the video speech made by our Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who even quoted Nobel laureate, Bob Dylan. The best part about Global citizen Festival is that it’s streamed live, so you can enjoy while cuddled in front of your TV screens.
In Mumbai, on the 19th of November, 2016, the festival marked India’s presence on global citizen map, with a phenomenal turnout of little more than 80,000 people. The show marked the daylong event with performances by Farhan Akhtar, AR Rehman, Amitabh Bachchan, Sonakshi Sinha interspersed by appearances made by Shah Rukh Khan and East India Comedy who were talking about issues like open defacation. The highlight of the evening other than Coldplay’s performance was the video speech made by our Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who even quoted Nobel laureate, Bob Dylan. The best part about Global citizen Festival is that it’s streamed live, so you can enjoy while cuddled in front of your TV screens.
Celebrations that are cause related are the norm these days, and when the mission is eradication of one the biggest problems on this planet, that being poverty, then people shelling out Rs. 15,000 for a ticket, it all seems worth it!
By:
Ms. Monica Mor
Sr. Faculty, INLEAD
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