Skoll World Forum Awards Ceremony
Skoll World Forum Awards Ceremony
Oxford - New Theatre,
An emotional highlight of the week, the Skoll Foundation invites you to attend the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship to honor the 2016 Awardees and to celebrate all those who are working to create a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world. This year, we recognize Tenzin Gyatso, His Holine…
Thursday, April 14 2016
2:00 PM
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4:00 PM
Skoll World Forum Closing Plenary
Skoll World Forum Closing Plenary
Oxford - New Theatre,
Join us for the final event of the 2016 Skoll World Forum. Hear from a leading researcher who is demanding a creative, moral approach to the treatment of refugees, and an inspiring young girl who used music to escape her fate as a child bride and is now using her fame to end the practice altogethe…
Friday, April 15 2016
11:45 AM
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12:45 PM
Participant Media Film Screening: He Named Me Malala
Participant Media Film Screening: He Named Me Malala
Oxford - New Theatre,
The film, He Named Me Malala, is an intimate portrait of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai, who was targeted by the Taliban and severely wounded by a gunshot when returning home on her school bus in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. She miraculously survived and is now a leading campaigner for girl…
Thursday, April 14 2016
7:30 PM
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9:30 PM
Sundance Institute’s Stories of Change Film Screening: Bending The Arc
Sundance Institute’s Stories of Change Film Screening: Bending The Arc
Oxford - New Theatre,
Bending the Arc is a stunning documentary about a team of young people — Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, Ophelia Dahl — whose charitable medical work 30 years ago in remote Haiti ignited a healthcare movement. Their mission: to deliver basic health care to those who had no access to even the most rudime…
Wednesday, April 5 2017
8:00 PM
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9:30 PM
Skoll World Forum Opening Plenary 2017
Skoll World Forum Opening Plenary 2017
Oxford - New Theatre,
Join us for the kick-off event of the 2017 Skoll World Forum! As our community gathers, we’ll begin to explore the theme of Fault Lines: Creating Common Ground and how social entrepreneurs can navigate this landscape so marked by division while working towards peace, prosperity, and equality. We wi…
Tuesday, April 4 2017
4:30 PM
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6:30 PM
Skoll World Forum Awards Ceremony 2017
Skoll World Forum Awards Ceremony 2017
Oxford - New Theatre,
The Skoll World Forum Awards is the highlight of an exciting and inspiring week. The Skoll Foundation invites you to honor the recipients of the 2017 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and to celebrate the importance of finding common ground in advancing a more peaceful, prosperous, and susta…
Wednesday, April 5 2017
4:00 PM
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6:00 PM
Skoll World Forum Opening Plenary
Skoll World Forum Opening Plenary
Oxford - New Theatre,
Join us for the first plenary of the 2016 Skoll World Forum! This year’s theme, Fierce Compassion, will explore how effective change agents simultaneously embrace the dual, often opposing qualities of deep distress—over an unjust status quo—and deep compassion for those suffering from poverty, conf…
Wednesday, April 13 2016
1:45 PM
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3:15 PM
Skoll World Forum Closing Plenary 2017
Skoll World Forum Closing Plenary 2017
Oxford - New Theatre,
After a week of conversations and provocations around the theme of how we create common ground in a landscape of rifts and divisions, we conclude the 2017 Skoll World Forum with a performance that embodies the enduring project of partnerships that reach across great divides. The Silk Road Ensemble …
Friday, April 7 2017
11:45 AM
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1:00 PM
Participant Media's Film Screening: Denial
Participant Media's Film Screening: Denial
Oxford - New Theatre,
Based on the acclaimed book Denial: Holocaust History on Trial, DENIAL recounts Deborah E. Lipstadt’s (Academy Award® winner Rachel Weisz) legal battle for historical truth against David Irving (BAFTA nominee Timothy Spall), who accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier. In the …
Thursday, April 6 2017
3:30 PM
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6:00 PM