Vietnamese celebrities raise their voice for a cooler planet with the 350 Music Night
This just in from our friend and incredible climate movement leader, Hong, in Vietnam:
Climate change awareness raising is a long-term cause, it takes lots of inspiration for the public to take action. Even when the inspiration is there, you need real good messengers to pass that inspiration forward.
And here in Vietnam, we’ve found great messengers for our 350 movement: the celebrities – people who have great influential power on the general public. Of course not every celebrity thinks green, but in the past two months of the Moving Planet campaign, we have inspired and engaged more than 20 “green” celebrities, including some top singers, composers, MCs, Miss Beauty, to be our movement’s messengers. With “green” minds, these high profile people all committed to help the campaign spread out the message, and call for the public action.
And the result of this fruitful partnership was 350 Music Night, organized at and supported by Yoko Bar, a popular place for music lovers in HCMC. The show included beautiful performances by Doan Trang, Nathan Lee, Quoc Thien, Ha Okio, Thao Trang and Pi Band, some of Vietnam’s most popular young singers. Unlike their normal performances, the songs they picked would convey a message relevant to 350 movement: Doan Trang had a beautiful song named “hand fan” to encourage people not to use air conditioner all the time. Ha Okio performed one of his latest works, “One World”, which inspires people to love the planet and take action to protect it etc…
The highlight of the event was the launch of Green Celebrities Club – Vietnam’s first club for environmentally aware celebrities. All of the celebs signed up to become the first member of the club and showed their support for 350. One of their first tasks in this role is to take part in the “Strawless” campaign to encourage people to minimize the use of plastic straws and other disposable stuffs, through a series of posters which will be widely promoted to the public this week.
