Afro Fair celebrates crafts
With a vision to be a platform where young and creative African Designers flourish, Afro Fair presents an experimental event that mixes bazaar with entertainment, hosting its second event on June 8 and 9, 2019 at Tropical Garden with more than 70 vendors in five different categories including fashion, home decor, art jewelry and leather along with live performance.
Promoting the event, Leul Tedla said “it is a unique platform for an audience looking to shop onsite and be entertained.” Based on growing trend of target group over the past years, Afro Fair Fest is an experimental design oriented event with venders in Arts, Fashion accessory, leather, textile, Crafts, African traditional dish and Performance Art presented along with various entertainments to create a unique and memorable experience.
Their aim is to become a periodic continental event where young innovative and creative African designers in all sectors directly present their work to the market along with a combination of various entertainments. Leul further stated that, the event’s objective is to create a platform to showcase innovation and creativity, build a hub for African products, entertainment and culture and empower the youth by facilitating a space for entrepreneurship.
WWF launches 450 year long live stream of decomposing plastic bottle
A plastic bottle takes more than 450 years to decompose. To highlight this stat, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is showing the decomposition of a plastic bottle in real-time – the longest live streaming ever.
The live stream was launched during earth hour on March 30, in the main square of Lisbon with the presence of several city officials and media outlets.
The live stream will continue for the next 450 years, or until the plastic bottle has decomposed.
The objective of the live stream is to raise awareness of the growing problem of plastic pollution and to raise 400,000 signatures for a petition that will be presented to key global leaders at the United Nations meeting on the environment.
According to the WWF, plastic pollution accounts for 95 per cent of the waste floating in the Mediterranean and lying on its beaches.
Plastic pollution also deeply affects wildlife with half of all sea turtles having ingested plastics and 90 per cent of seabirds having plastic in their stomachs.
The inventive live stream, created to catch the media and public attention, has helped the petition garner over 370,000 signatures and is close to WWF’s final goal.
The campaign is led by Lisbon creative firm, NOSSA.
NOSSA creative director, Nuno Cardoso said “users have a natural interest in live streaming. One proof of this is the growth of sites like Twitch, which every day gets more subscribers.”
“For this reason, we saw in this tool a possibility to show everyone how slow is the process of decomposing the plastic, in an attempt to sensitize them, to gather more people around the cause.”
