On Sunday April 28, 2019, a symposium was held in Montreal Canada dealing with the unified growth of Cultural optimism and beautiful art and real economic development as it is being manifested today with the New Silk Road in Asia, Africa and beyond. Presentations were given by a pianist, a dancer, a painter and a scientist which will uplift and inspire. In this third presentation, the new paradigm of true development for Africa through the extension of China's Belt and Road Initiative is introduced and contrasted with the true "debt trap" of IMF-World Bank neo-colonialism that has spread only death and war in Africa for over 50 years.
Seminar Outline
- Opening Remarks https://youtu.be/Bjm55TQDWK4
- Presentation 1: Hope and Beauty: The Power of Classical Culture in Shaping the Future by Christine Corey, pianist https://youtu.be/0sK-vGM0eNc
- Presentation 2: The New Silk Road and a New Hope for Africa by Matthew Ehret, illustrator
- Presentation 3: The embrace of dance and optimism in a transformed Kenya by Nicholas Jones, Dancer (La Grande Ballet de Montreal)
-Remarks by a world citizen on a transformed China 1980-present