THE 46664 CONCERT
27th of June 2008 - 27th of June 2008
Fundraiser for Nelson Mandela's 46664 AIDS and HIV charity that is also a celebration of his 90th birthday.
46664 is an African response to the global HIV AIDS epidemic that invites the whole world to take the fight in hand. It's our aim to raise awareness overall and educate the younger generations in particular. By gaining global backing for the cause, we will also raise funds to directly assist the many HIV AIDS projects we support. We intend to do this by using our international ambassadors to spread our messages of hope, our calls to action, our pleas for compassion and our requests for assistance and support for those living with HIV AIDS.
46664 (we say four, double six, six four) was Nelson Mandela's prison number when he was imprisoned on Robben Island, off Cape Town in South Africa. He was jailed in 1964 for 27 years for leading the liberation movement against apartheid and for his impassioned stance on the rights of everyone to live in freedom. He was prisoner number 466, imprisoned in 1964. The Robben Island prisoners were never referred to by their names, but rather by their numbers and year of imprisonment - hence 46664 was Nelson Mandela's number.
This was very much the strategy of the apartheid regime, to reduce those people fighting for the right to freedom to nameless numbers.
It was for precisely this reason that Mr. Mandela decided to use this powerful, symbolic number in the fight against HIV AIDS. Through this simple, poignant means he has demonstrated and communicated to the world that people must never be reduced to simple numbers - we are human beings, all equal, and those infected and living with HIV AIDS have the same right to live and to be treated as equals.
This is how the number 46664 became the icon for promoting Nelson Mandela's global HIV AIDS awareness campaign.
The 46664 campaign began in 2003 when Mr Mandela realised that to reach the youth of the world he needed to engage the support of the people who most appeal to them. Using the power of music, sport and celebrity to educate and empower, supported by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics, Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen and Bono. Together they managed to persuade over thirty of the world's top artists to come together to perform at a global awareness concert for HIV AIDS, held in Cape Town in November 2003 and broadcast worldwide via TV, radio and the internet.
Performing with them at the concert were Annie Lennox, Peter Gabriel, Youssou N'Dour, Johnny Clegg, Baba Maal, Anastacia, Beyonce, Bob Geldof, The Edge, Jimmy Cliff, The Corrs, Danny K, Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens); Paul Oakenfold, Watershed; Angelique Kidjo, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Miss Dynamite, Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Zucchero, Abdel Wright and Bongo Maffin
Other concerts followed - in George, South Africa (2005), Madrid, Spain (2005) and Tromso, Norway (2005) and these will be followed by further international concerts aimed at raising awareness and funds to support the 46664 campaign and the collective projects we support.
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| Location: | Hyde Park, London | |
| Website: | http://www.46664.com/1 |
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