The World Social Forum 2016 as well as the parallel World Forum on Theology and Liberation areless than two months away and the preparations are moving along rapidly - and well.
You can find up-to-date information about both Forums by visiting their respective sites. They are easily accessed by googling WSF2016 and, for the other, ROJEP. The detailed program of the Theology Forum is already available at the ROJEP site.
The detailed World Social Forum program should be available very shortly. (The team is laying out times and places for the workshops today!) Both are extremely dense with content and challenge.
The World Social Forum will take place in Montreal, largely at UQAM (The University of Quebec at Montreal) from August 9-14. The World Forum on Theology and Liberation will take place at the Jean-de-Brebeuf College in Montreal on August 8 and 13 with the other days being devoted to the activities of the World Social Forum and with a full program of workshops sponsored by the World Forum on Theology and Liberation.
In order to attend the World Social Forum you need to register ($20 for the week). In order to attend the World Forum on Theology and Liberation you must do the same and ALSO register at ROJEP ($25 - which includes some meals).
Three hundred participants are expected at the Forum on Theology and Liberation and 50,000 at the World Social Forum.
This year there is a special effort to move the World Social Forum from word to action. So, beyond the 1000 workshops in three days, there will also be extensive time given to the work of convergence leading to the open-air Agora (Marketplace) on Saturday where participants will be challenged to hone their action-proposals down to five major world-wide actions to form a program for follow-up to the forum.
It should also be a very festive occasion with the prominent participation of well-known speakers, artists, film-makers and musicians.
Please do come !! - and bring your ideas and hopes with you.
