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Life Onboard |
LAST UPDATE
April 4, 2008
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| March 19, 2008 |
In Pictures – Photo Tour III of Life Onboard |
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As 2008 marks the centennial anniversary of the first Japanese immigration to Brazil, Peace Boat welcomed Nobuo Yanai, the head of the Japan-Brazil Cultural Institute, onboard from Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Aires. Mr Yanai lectured on the difficulties, successes, and identity issues that Japanese immigrants to Brazil have faced during the past 100 years. Additionally, Mr Yanai introduced Brazilian music like samba, chorro, pagode and bossa nova in an onboard FM radio show. |
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To create awareness and share ideas about how our lifestyles affect the environment, how we can be more environmentally conscious, and how we can reduce our ecological footprint on the earth, the 60th voyage’s Eco Team organized an “Eco Café” onboard. The team encouraged people to carry their own cups, chopsticks, and shopping bags with them in their daily lives to avoid using disposable products, and taught how to sew handmade chopstick bags. Additionally, the team organized a booth where people could exchange items they didn’t need anymore, encouraging people to reduce waste and reconsider their consumption habits. |
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Peace Boat invited four women on the 60th voyage leading alternative lifestyles to share their life experiences and thoughts with other voyage participants in a panel-style event onboard. These four participants, at different points in their lives, with different backgrounds and different sets of values, shared some of the joys and internal conflicts of being a woman, providing the audience with the chance to contemplate their own paths in life. |
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Argentinean documentary filmmaker Myriam Angueira joined the 60th voyage to educate participants about social issues in Latin America, and to share some of her award-winning films and photographs. As the ship sailed south toward Las Malvinas / The Falkland Islands*, Ms Angueira shared her latest documentary, Malvinas, Veinticinco Años de Silencio [Malvinas, Twenty-five Years of Silence], with participants. The documentary features the stories of drafted Argentinean civil soldiers sent to the islands in 1982 by a falling dictatorship that tried to regain popular support by reclaiming the area. After Argentina lost the war, the dictatorship ordered the young soldiers to remain silent about their traumatic experiences – a silence Ms. Angueira has started to lift a quarter of a century later through her documentary.
* As an international organisation regularly visiting both the United Kingdom and Argentina, Peace Boat lists both names for these islands. |
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Participants perform a hula dance at the mid-voyage festival, an event featuring performances that were the fruit of weeks of onboard practice in events organized by voyage participants. These self-organized events play a large role in daily ship life, and provide opportunities for people to exchange their knowledge, experience and skills with each other. Events organized by participants range from activity-oriented events like soccer, basketball, dance, ukulele, tai-chi, and mahjong to events focusing on social issues like the significance of Article 9 of Japan's constitution, controversy over the country's national anthem, introduction of volunteer experiences, and feedback discussion sessions regarding port visits and guest lectures. As many as 70 of these self-organized events are held onboard daily, an aspect that makes Peace Boat distinctly different from many ordinary cruise ships, by involving voyage participants in the organization of the voyage itself. |
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The Mapuche people of Chilean Patagonia, like many indigenous peoples of the world, have faced severe oppression over the last several hundred years under European colonialism and the effects of neo-liberal economic development in their homeland. Ricardo Curaqueo, a Mapuche lawyer who defends the rights of indigenous people, joined the 60th voyage between the Chilean ports of Punta Arenas and Valparaiso to introduce Mapuche culture and history, and to lecture on land rights issues, political persecution, and other human rights issues that the Mapuche face in modern society. |
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