Parliament of Worlds Religion 1999 Capetown SA

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

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1999 PARLIAMENT OF THE WORLDS RELIGIONS
OPENING DAY
The Opening Day will be a long and exciting one, with several events in different venues.
9:45 - 10:00 AM Opening of the International AIDS Memorial Quilt at Company Gardens. This is in recognition of International AIDS Day. and of the urgency of this worldwide crisis.
12:00 PM District Six Ceremony - District Six Stage
Welcome by former residents • Ceremony of blessing and healing
Greetings and blessings from international religious leaders
10:00 AM Quilt Opening Ceremony -- Company Gardens • Addresses by Government Ministers • Addresses by AIDS activists and community leaders • Blessings from religious leaders
1:00 PM Lunch a Taste of District Six," with foods and crafts available from local vendors Muslim call to prayer, area mosques
1:45 PM Participants begin to move to the Good Hope Centre
11:00 AM Procession, with religious leaders and all participants (and Capetonians joining in): down Government Avenue into Adderley, into Darling past Cape Technikon, into Kaizersgracht to District Six
2:00 PM Opening drumming begins
LOOP
Botha
Long
Old Marine
Kloof
Adderley
2:30 PM Opening Plenary Session begins . Welcome and Introduction to the 1999 Parliament • Presentations on South Africa, Cape Town, and District Six
Blessings and Greetings from South African and international religious and spiritual leaders • Musical performances
(Tentative) Keynote address by President Thabo Mbeki
Darling
Plein
Government
Oswald
Annandale
Prow
Buitenkant
Canterbury
Roeland
Tennant
4:30 PM Opening Plenary Concludes After participants break for their evening meal, the Parliament schedule will continue to unfold.
Jutland
Eastern Blvd. - NZ
DISTRICT 6
Keizergracht
De Waal - M3
1 Company Gardens 2 Cape Technikon 3 Good Hope Centre 4 Civic Centre 5 Old City Hall
7:00 - 7:30 PM Interreligious Celebration at the District Six Stage The first in a series of moving interreligious gatherings designed to give expression to the common ground shared by all religions, while celebrating the diversity and the uniqueness of each.
8:00 - 10:00 PM Evening Plenary Session The first in a series of seven gala presentations, with religious leaders from Africa and around the world, music, dance, jand video.