Date and Time
Monday Mar 13, 2017
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM EDT
Description
Music, Citizen Engagement & Water Resource Management : panel discussion moderated by Bardo Arts Center Executive Director, Denise Drury Homewood
2:30 – 4pm in Room 130 Bardo Arts Center
Join the Bardo Arts Center for a moderated panel discussion highlighting issues at the intersection of music, citizen engagement and water resource management. Human life depends on the availability and quality of water to sustain our health, grow our food, power our homes with electricity, and stimulate our economies. However, due to overpopulation, increased demand for food, climate change and pollution, as much as two thirds of the world’s citizens may face water stressed conditions severely impacting the living and economic conditions of communities, countries, and regions by 2025. Without water, we cannot survive. How can we, as individuals, become more involved in the management of this precious and limited resource? During this panel, participants will explore ways in which music has been instrumentalized as a citizen engagement strategy to overcome political stakeholder barriers, create a common understanding between competing interests, and build constituencies for action both between and within nations where water has become an impediment to peace and socio economic development.
