Fantasy a hidden Reality

Flash of mauve . . .
Splash of puce . . .
Fool and king . . .

Ghoul and goose . . .
Green and black . . .
Queen and priest . . .
Trace of rouge . . .
Face of beast . . .
Faces . . .

Podcast Link for iSTART2 @Radio2Day - Monday 25 June 2012 - 

Host : Pierre du Toit below.

Link: http://pierre64347.podomatic.com/entry/2012-06-25T22_31_34-07_00

iSTART2 @Radio2Day - Monday 25 June 2012 - Host : Pierre du Toit - Imagine a new future together (http://pierredutoit.blogspot.com/).
A “sustainability-through- arts” global movement in which communities will participate in re-imagining and implementing solutions towards ensuring sustainable
footprints for our children. (http://pierredutoit.blogspot.com/).
Pierre du Toit hosts iStart2 on Mondays at 18h30pm (GMT+2). The programme is repeated at 19h20 (GMT+2) on Thursdays.

Radio Today broadcasts on 1485 AM in Johannesburg and nationally on DSTV audio channel 169. Radio Today also streams on its website www.1485.org.za and on cell phones on 1485.mobi.

 Radio Today the station that cares. Radio that delivers!

Quiet Love ...

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.

~ Bruce Barton

The iStart2 Journey Continues...

Podcast Link for iSTART2 @Radio2Day - Monday 18 June 2012 - Host : Pierre du Toit below.

Link: http://pierre64347.podomatic.com/entry/2012-06-18T23_28_08-07_00

iSTART2 @Radio2Day - Monday 18 June 2012 - Host : Pierre du Toit -  Imagine a new future together.  A “sustainability-through- arts” global movement in which communities will participate in re-imagining and implementing solutions towards ensuring sustainable

footprints for our children. 

Pierre du Toit hosts iStart2 on Mondays at 18h30pm (GMT+2). The programme is repeated at 19h20 (GMT+2) on Thursdays.

Radio Today broadcasts on 1485 AM in Johannesburg and nationally on DSTV audio channel 169. Radio Today also streams on its website www.1485.org.za and on cell phones on 1485.mobi. 

Radio Today the station that cares. Radio that delivers!

We don't need another Hero

Ephesus, Istanbul, Atlanta, Robben Island, Soweto. The places where heroes lived. Places where we learn about sustainability... places where we learn about dreams. The philosophical foundation of the iStart2 Journey...

(Art by Barbara Kruger)

 

 Podcast Link for iSTART2 @Radio2Day - Monday 11 June 2012 - Host : Pierre du Toit below.

Link: http://pierre64347.podomatic.com/entry/2012-06-11T22_44_56-07_00

iSTART2 @Radio2Day - Monday 11 June 2012 - Host : Pierre du Toit -  Imagine a new future together (http://pierredutoit.blogspot.com/).

A “sustainability-through- arts” global movement in which communities will participate in re-imagining and implementing solutions towards ensuring sustainable
footprints for our children. (http://pierredutoit.blogspot.com/).

Pierre du Toit hosts iStart2 on Mondays at 18h30pm (GMT+2). The programme is repeated at 19h20 (GMT+2) on Thursdays.

Radio Today broadcasts on 1485 AM in Johannesburg and nationally on DSTV audio channel 169. Radio Today also streams on its website www.1485.org.za and on cell phones on 1485.mobi. 

 

Radio Today the station that cares. Radio that delivers!

One decision

Slave to the wage? All it takes is one decision...

 

Podcast Link for iSTART2 @Radio2Day - Monday 4 June 2012 - Host : Pierre du Toit below.

Link http://pierre64347.podomatic.com/entry/2012-06-04T16_40_48-07_00

iSTART2 @Radio2Day - Monday 4 Juney 2012 - Host : Pierre du Toit -  Imagine a new future together.

A “sustainability-through- arts” global movement in which communities will participate in re-imagining and implementing solutions towards ensuring sustainable footprints for our children. Pierre du Toit hosts iStart2 on Mondays at 18h30pm (GMT+2). The programme is repeated at 19h20 (GMT+2) on Thursdays.

Radio Today broadcasts on 1485 AM in Johannesburg and nationally on DSTV audio channel 169. Radio Today also streams on its website www.1485.org.za and on cell phones on 1485.mobi. 

Radio Today the station that cares. Radio that delivers!

Amsterdam...

The first radio show on the iStart2 Journey: Ne Me Quitte Pas... Shift Happens.

I arrived with my suitcase in my hand in Amsterdam ... six years ago... little did I know, it would be the most interesting "shift" I could have ever imagined... the "start" of the search to find the spirit of the great heart...

(Art by Barbara Kruger)

Podcast Link for Jozi Today 22 May 2012 : iSTART2 @Radio2Day - Monday 28 May 2012 - Host : Pierre du Toit below.

Link :http://pierre64347.podomatic.com/entry/2012-05-28T18_48_09-07_00

iSTART2 @Radio2Day - Monday 28 May 2012 - Host : Pierre du Toit -  Imagine a new future together

A “sustainability-through- arts” global movement in which communities will participate in re-imagining and implementing solutions towards ensuring sustainable footprints for our children.


Pierre du Toit hosts iStart2 on Mondays at 18h30pm (GMT+2). The programme is repeated at 19h20 (GMT+2) on Thursdays.

Radio Today broadcasts on 1485 AM in Johannesburg and nationally on DSTV audio channel 169. Radio Today also streams on its website www.1485.org.za and on cell phones on 1485.mobi. Radio Today the station that cares. Radio that delivers!

Pops Mohamed and Desert Rose - iStart2 Ambassadors

Award-winning masters; LYNN HOLMES, founder of DESERT ROSE and master of crossover world music compositions with YUSUF GANIEF, and POPS MOHAMED, beloved master of indigenous music, committed to being ambassadors for the iStart2 movement.

They have become highly respected for their ingenious ability to fuse indigenous sounds, melodies and rhythms, including Islam, Sufi, Traditional African, the Koi, and others. The experience of their amazing ability to unite people from all cultures through their music and reminding us of our common humanity and spirituality, will greatly contribute to the iStart2 dream of creating a sustainable world.

Pops Mohamed is an award-winning South African musician and producer. Famed for his range of styles, which include kwela, pop, jazz and soul, and known by fans as The Minister of Music, he plays a wide variety of traditional instruments including the African mouth bow, berimbau, didgeridoo, kora and the thumb piano. He lives in Joburg and has three children.

My parents were very supportive of my music career from the beginning. My father took me to lessons. I started gigging around Joburg and Pretoria with my first band, Les Valiants, when I was about 14. We wrote original music and had a couple of hit singles. After June 1976 I needed a good reason to continue doing what I was doing. People wanted messages of hope in their music. I looked back to my roots, to the miners in the shebeens playing indigenous African instruments.

Studying traditional African instruments and music was my contribution to the struggle. They were vanishing. So, I did workshops at Dorkay House with ethnomusicologist Andrew Tracey. I started playing the kalimba and developed a certain sound, and was still playing in pop bands. I tried to recreate the sounds I heard as a child. It was the beginning of my journey.

The kind of music I make is not commercial. It's for a niche market. Internationally, it has really been appreciated, especially after 1994, when South Africa became such a focal point. The timing was right. I play at lots of festivals and travel constantly.

I keep all my plane tickets and boarding passes. I don't know why.

As a Muslim, I am semi-religious. I go to mosque and observe fasts. In Actonville, Benoni, where I grew up, there was a mix of different religions. We'd go to each other's houses. There's a lot of ignorance. It's time the world realised Muslims and terrorists are different things.

If you want to make it as a musician then stay focused. Don't get distracted. Believe in yourself. Concentrate, practise and be around musicians. Listen to all styles of music.

I'm optimistic about South Africa.I love my country. Whenever I return home, I have a big smile on my face. There's racism in all countries, especially in England, where I lived for a while. Here, we just want to carry on with our lives, get on with things. If someone says something racist, we laugh: what era are you from?

(Excerpt from Sunday Times, 12 February 2012)

iStart2 Vision, Mission & Values

Vision

 

A “Sustainability-Through- Arts” global movement

in which communities will participate

in re-imagining and implementing solutions

towards ensuring sustainable footprints

for our children.

Mission:

To provide a platform where people can take hands across boundaries and connect to create and re-imagine practical solutions for a sustainable future. 

 

Using the arts to communicate in a fun and positive way that talks to the head

and hearts of diverse communities and inspire them to use their hands in

saving water, energy and waste 

 

Building bridges and form partnerships with world leaders, their foundations

and the networks supporting them 

 

People with “all abilities”, disadvantaged communities and Indigenous Peoples

of the world will form the core of the iStart2 movement interconnected with

Artists, Business, Government, The Media, Religious Communities, Schools, Universities, Colleges, Elderly Folk (and Old Age Homes)

Main Objectives for 2012

Inspiring 1 million people in South Africa to commit to saying “I Start 2… do one thing to contribute to a sustainable world

Contribute through massive and extensive marketing to the government’s goal of placing 1 million solar geysers in homes across South Africa and reducing the countries overall power consumption.

Committing to exchange a minimum of 24 thousand light bulbs with LED lights in each suburb across 45 towns & cities in South Africa.

Using our ‘iStar’ Arts competition to highlight sustainability projects of organisations that are already making a contribution to the lives of communities across the country.

Assisting ‘differently abled’ schools in 45 Towns across South Africa by generating funding for the upliftment of school facilities.

Contribute to the creation and imagination of new sustainable solutions for a better, healthier and brighter future across South African rural areas