PLURIVERSUM – Diskurse für eine gerechte Zukunft

In the organizer's words:

The 'Pluriversum' program is a unique multimedia event that combines modern development policy impulses with high-quality music and fascinating projections.

Under the motto "What urgently needs to be done to change the world and make it a fairer place", important topics will be addressed that correspond to the guest speaker's broad range of activities and research focuses:

In franz.K, the young Colombian activist Yuvelis Natalia Morales will join us.

Together with freelance journalist Sandra Weiss, Alberto Acosta and Grupo Sal are inviting a relevant personality from another region of the world to present and discuss forward-looking thoughts, ideas and concepts. The audience will also have the opportunity to ask questions of all participants.

The thematic presentations will be musically framed by the Grupo Sal sextet and embedded in an aesthetic context of visual and thematic condensation by the projection artist Johannes Keitel.

As a prominent representative of the "Buen Vivir" movement and as a former minister and president of Ecuador's Constituent Assembly, Alberto Acosta has dealt intensively with economic and development policy issues and alternatives to conventional models.
Sandra Weiss, an experienced journalist and author who has been reporting from Latin America for over 20 years and has won awards for her work in areas such as politics, the environment and organized crime, inspires with her profound knowledge and passion for controversial political issues.
The sextet Grupo Sal touches the soul with its music, stimulates thoughts and builds bridges between the diverse musical styles of Latin America and current social issues. They lead us through a world full of Latin American poetry and playful musicality that opens our eyes and ears to the world and enchants us. Through a unique combination of portraits and visual projections, Johannes Keitel creates a special live performance that fascinates the audience. His projections transform the stage into a captivating pluriverse and create moments of beauty, insight and joy.

Yuvelis Natalia Morales is one of the most important young voices in the Colombian environmental movement. The 22-year-old fights against fracking and campaigns for the protection of important wetlands in the region of her birthplace. Morales comes from Puerto Wilches, a town on the Magdalena River in Colombia's northern province of Santander. Despite a nationwide ban on fracking that has been in force since 2018, fracking pilot projects have already been launched in this region. Pilot projects such as that of the local energy company Ecopetrol in the Magdalena Valley are still exempt from the ban. This prompted Natalia Morales from Yuveli to found a youth activist group to protest against fracking projects in Colombia. The young Colombian woman is now also known outside Colombia as an anti-fracking activist. Morales is a member of the Committee for the Defense of Water, Life and Territory of Puerto Wilches (AguaWil), the Alianza Colombia Libre de Fracking and winner of the French human rights and environmental activist prize "Initiative Marianne". Like many other activists, she is persecuted and threatened because of her tireless efforts in her home country and had to flee Colombia temporarily.

This modern concept was inspired by "Pluriverso", a lexicon of post-development that our friend and co-host of the program, Alberto Acosta, co-published in 2019.