Free voices

What is the common denominator between Isabel Alliende, Sean Penn, Nick Cave, Robert Thurman, Douglas Oronto, Wang Dan, Marina Silva...? They all have had an innovative, creative, or humanistic impact on the international public. Thus they are well placed to answer questions on pressing issues from the global public with a perspective that hopefully can challenge conventional thinking, inspire conversation and encourage further inquiry.
For the Table of Free Voices event in Berlin on September 9, 2006, Dropping Knowledge will bring together 112 inspiring individuals to drop their knowledge at 100 of these questions; the answers will be filmed, generating some 600 hours of footage. The "ask yourself" campaign, Table of Free Voices and other DK activities exemplify the practice of asking and answering questions. Together, these activities pave the way for participation in a "Living Library".
In a world of complexity and contradiction, apathy has become a sort of survival technique. How could you face the evening news without it? Another famine, another flood, another terrorist attack - if we truly identified with the pain and suffering of others, it would paralyze us. And so our apathy extends not only to those on the other side of the world but to our families, friends, neighbors, selves. Ask yourself: "When was the last time I questioned the way things are? The last time I refused to accept the unacceptable? The last time I turned my apathy into activity?" Ask yourself.

Drop your question(s) on the Dropping Knowledge website