Rio 2016 Olympic Truce Video/Song Competition Page
Victor Mutanga, one of the UNESCO Olympic Youth Pece Ambassadors trained at the London 2012 games, recently released his heartfelt call for the Truce in Africa under the IOTCs Olympic Truce theme ‘Imagine Peace’.
Now you can put your talent to work fo promote the Truce - this is your chance to put the words in the poem below to music or music and video, to win a chance to go to Rio this summer!
During the week the United Kingdom and Germany formally declared their countries were at war in the middle east Olympic Truce campaign coordinator wrote this poem and then adapted it to highlight the One Minute Silence the Peace Ambassadors are calling for at the Opening and Closing ceremony to mainstream the truce.
(The poem can be also be found from the Olympic Truce campaign page blog https://brazil2016olympictruce.wordpress.com/2016/05/28/this-summers-games-the-heaven-days/)
This Summer’s Games the Heaven Days
I’m having One Minute’s Silence
To think of my Family
Our Nations - One Race
But why all this poverty
And that child’s sad face …?
… Its Germany at war today
1200 boots on foreign soil
Tornadoes, boats for toys to play
With Britain’s Brimstones and the odd Paveway
Orchestrated by a French rage
That’s been simulated
to trumpet the Horseman coalition they called
To fight their Holy War once more
US against Them
Centuries of pain for economic gain …
… But these same visionaries, so politic
Who lead us, passionate for brutal conflict
They signed up to a holy Truce
This summer’s Games the Heaven Days
We ‘ll all sit round one fire-light
Make peace, run, swim and play
NOT! Well that’s what I heard them say
that day the Truce was signed
One eighty times
A UN Resolution
that should be the main solution
with an end to all violence
marked by a One Minute Silence …
TO ALL GLOBAL CITIZENS
IF YOUR COUNTRY HAS ESCALATED ITS WAR EFFORT, PLEASE COUNTER OUR INHUMANITY BY WORKING FOR SANITY – TOGETHER ACHIEVING AN END TO THIS GLOBAL CONFLICT BY HELPING IMPLEMENT THE OLYMPIC TRUCE THIS SUMMER, – AN END TO ALL VIOLENCE TO ANYONE - TO BRING PEACE ON EARTH IN OUR LIFETIME WITH A ONE MINUTE SILENCE AT THE OPENING AND CLOSING CEREMONY OF THE GAMES TO HIGHLIGHT THE TRUCE.
Rules
The competition will have two winners - one for best song, and one for best graphics. Entries have to be made online by 29 July 2016, the day the Truce starts. The Olympic Truce Peace Ambassadors will form a jury to judge the entries, with a decision announced on 5th August at the start of the Games. All judges decesions are final.
To enter, please post your submission on Youtube and/or send the URL to the campaign coordinator along with your entry form, which can be downloaded HERE.
