For attendees from India and Nepal, please register using this link!
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We are excited to welcome you to Machik Fest 2021 from October 30 - November 5 for a week of global conversations on civic engagement, social innovation, and community-building for Tibet. The program kicks off with the 15th annual Machik Weekend (October 30-31) and continues on, so register today!
Due to public health concerns , Machik Fest will be virtual event. Tickets are $30 for students and jobseekers and $40 for regular entry. All sales are final and non-refundable. If you need special consideration to attend Machik Fest, please send a brief note to crew@machik.org.
If you would like to volunteer for Machik Fest, please sign up here!
Due to public health concerns , Machik Fest will be virtual event. Tickets are $30 for students and jobseekers and $40 for regular entry. All sales are final and non-refundable. If you need special consideration to attend Machik Fest, please send a brief note to crew@machik.org.
If you would like to volunteer for Machik Fest, please sign up here!
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Thank you for joining us for a week-long festival of discussion, reflection and civic dialogue on the post-pandemic world
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For the past 14 years, we've convened an annual gathering for those who are passionate about civic engagement, social transformation and the future of Tibet. From the beginning, our program called "Machik Weekend" has been a conversation about what it would take to build alternative futures in the imperfect world in which we live. Around the world, just as we all seek safe haven from the pandemic, many people are facing tremendous barriers to finding the same. In seemingly every part of the world, there are those who are welcome and those who are sharply excluded for their race, gender, cultural practices, income level and so on. People by the hundreds of thousands every day are seeking refuge, even as the pandemic pushes on. Last year, an invisible pathogen turned the world upside down and highlighted extreme inequalities within our systems. Now more than ever, we have become sharply aware of the fundamental need for safe haven for all - safety from pathogens, collapsing economies, political turmoil and the raging effects of climate change. For Machik Fest 2021, beyond merely being aware of our interdependence, we urgently need to cultivate a commitment to sheltering one another - for people and the creatures with whom we share this planet. The idea of haven is the fundamental need for the safety of shelter, whether as one's home, as refuge in another's homeland, as sanctuary for homeless animals, and so on. To explore what it means to seek and create safe haven, we welcome you to Machik Fest, a week-long festival of bilingual interactive discussion and civic dialogue with many dozens of speakers who will present at panels, workshops, civic dialogues, film screenings and in community building spaces. Panels/workshops/roundtable include:
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