 Ladies and gentlemen good morning. This concludes our cultural program, rich cultural program with many diverse sessions. The purpose was to show how art permeates not only culture but also science and technology even economics and politics. Artists are an inspiration for new thinking and innovation and also with this last session we would like to be a little innovative. It's very difficult to introduce Sara Jones. She is a multi-talent, playwright, actress, poet. She has received many awards and is a UNICEF ambassador and its official spokesperson on violence against children. I am sure you will enjoy her performance. Please welcome Sara Jones. Thank you so very much for that introduction and good morning everyone. It's extraordinary actually to see you here on this Saturday morning. I think you must be quite committed to this theme of the new global village and I first want to say how grateful I am to be here to be participating in this meeting. Honestly it's my first time in Davos and it's so breathtakingly beautiful and I mean it literally also takes your breath away. It's nearly the end of the meeting and I'm still adjusting to the altitude but I think it's also the heights to which this meeting has brought me personally and I do multi-character performances in the theatre as some of you are aware. So I portray people of various different ethnicities and I did that in for example a one-person show that was called Bridgetunnel which I did on Broadway in the United States. It was an extraordinary opportunity, garnered me a Tony Award there in the United States. It was it really gave more to me than I ever could have imagined but when I was asked to perform here I thought right I had to think these are sort of the preeminent business leaders of the world right politicians, scientists, philanthropists, artists and what could I possibly have to say that would be sort of worthy of my participation in something like that and so I thought perhaps a very erudite sounding English accent, British accent might help things a bit and then I thought no no I just have to get up there and be myself and talk the way I really talk after all this week for me are you all checking to see you're all awake can you tell the difference between the flat American and the British I'm impressed I'm impressed but I will say that for me this week has been all about this it's indescribable the opportunity to hear these leading and authentic voices from around the world and so here I am talking the way I really talk besides I do speak the Queen's English I am from Queens New York but the theme of this performance is the new global village and so I'd just like to introduce you to a few of my very own inventions or villagers they're all so excited to be here they've each prepared their own remarks okay good morning good morning everyone thank you so very much for having me here I can't see you yet but I can feel that you're wonderful people there you are okay yes you look wonderful as well that's good I'm here because of the young girl Sarah Jones who some of you have met and she's a very nice young black performer from America yeah well you know she calls herself black yeah she's really more like a caramel color if you look at the skin but I don't quibble anyway this is such an international gathering I feel I should say my name is Lorraine Levine me I'm all Lorraine Levine mucho gusto bonjour je m'appelle Lorraine Levine he hides a Lorraine Levine I'll stop there it only gets worse okay anyway I teach people that of all my languages my English is only the one starting to come along after 80 something years on this planet but anyway what I will say is you know even for someone my age this has been a once in a lifetime experience I mean my children can't get over the fact that I'm here my grandchildren my great-grandchildren I'm a legend now in my family and as I say once in a lifetime and it's a good thing too because I don't mind telling you I nearly strangled myself the first day trying to get myself into the first session there so I think for the next Davos you might want to include a session on chiropractors around the world for the badges but I'm just grateful that you all are so committed here to me making a better world and as you know it's it's a concept that is more profound than it might seem I'm grateful that you're all here participating and frankly I'm just so impressed congratulations on being masters of the universe your parents must be very proud enjoy the rest Mazel tov on all the success may it continue well so as you heard that was Lorraine and like everyone else you're meeting today she's based on various real people from my real life so they might be friends neighbors family members I come from a multicultural global village of my very own and in fact Lorraine Levine is loosely based on a real relative a few people I like to say I create composite characters so that we protect the innocent and especially the guilty but on my mother's side of the family that multicultural picture looked like my grandmother who was Irish American and a mix also with German American there were both Christians and Jews on that side of the family it's a long story filled with intrigue and interfaith guilt as we always say and then there were Caribbean relatives on my grandfather's side Latino roots on that side the different islands and my father's side African American also with Caribbean roots so on top of all of this as confusing as that was for a small child my parents sent me to the United Nations school for further complication and there at age 11 I began meeting students and teachers from everywhere I'll introduce you to a few and imagine what they would experience if they could be here and I was a German teacher of Sarah Jones we will only I won't take a lot of time here but she had 3 years in the gymnasium she was learning German in school for 3 years and she had all this forgets and she has forgotten everything so now I wish I can tell her back in the past one day you will be at Davos and you will wish that you had done your house of garden it means homework okay and then of course we have a lot of different for example I had a teacher a French teacher I let her speak for herself of course okay it's very important well you know Sarah Jones she was one of my students well I want to say first that I am proud that she's at Davos well not that her French is perfect it's com si com sa mais I just really believe at this time where we need more of this dialogue plus d'espoir plus ok what I want to say is that the more we can understand each other I believe especially you know if we are remembering even on recent weeks that really we need that understanding of each other it's a matter of really security that we can communicate together better understand each other and maybe that we can use you more you more as the bridge that we can work better together okay well I want to only add something here which is first of all good morning ladies and the gentlemen's I think you will say please excuse me I don't know if you are speaking good Russian well I try no it's not good enough so okay good morning ladies and gentlemen but for the Russian context Sarah Jones is bringing me here I she's a friend of my daughter and to watching these girls playing together one is so different for the other and yet they are the same maybe not the same hair very different hair but otherwise the two girls they can be like sisters so I love that we come together here we look each other's culture even you had here I am enjoying so much all of the different sessions which you are having yes all of the different sessions my only complaint you are having too many different sessions it's not possible to go in everything and but I don't complain and I thank you for this Russian outlook and we are in a new global context so I suppose this will be like a new Russian outlook my husband teaches me now I am older Russian so maybe I have to adjust but still was very stimulating even for this old Russian context here thank you thank you I enjoy the rest of the meeting so also I met people who enlarged my my vision of the world for example well I just wanted to take a brief moment to say that as a woman coming from the Middle East meeting the young girls like Sarah Jones explaining to her what is it means for someone like me for example working in behalf of the rights of people from the region that we are still hopefully working all towards the same goals even whether I am covered wearing hijab which I was when I met Sarah Jones but it does not mean that we cannot have the common ground as you would say and I am teaching as much as I can my students to recognize the benefit of step outside stepping outside their own context to make space for the empathy for the other person and even if they do not care at all about the empathy you know they are teenagers they may not care about as much the empathy as their iPhone but at least I can tell them come participate at least I will give you extra credit that seems to work a bit better as a motivation so we do what we must to push these ideas forward with time I think it becomes more natural that we will empathize with each other and not be the enemies for each other so I also met people who showed me well I'll share her own perspective and let her speak for herself well you know when I first met Sarah Jones I tried to explain to her first of all I want to apologize that I am speaking a little bit faster but the problem is that as I explained to people coming from the Latin American context first of all that when I first met Sarah Jones I was telling her you know for not only am I coming from the different backgrounds that I have in my family so many different people not only from the South America but also from the curry it's a very complicated story but that you know I am trying to explain to people that there is no such thing as a combo how would you stay a monolith do you understand what I'm saying monolith I know that when I have with my accent it can be difficult for people but you are trying your best I can see that especially at this hour of the day but anyway I try to just participate as much as I can even though that sometimes it will make me a little bit nervous perhaps some of you here can relate to this that the more I am getting nervous it's difficult I'm feeling nervous and I start to talk very fast and then no one can understand anything that I'm saying in any language and that's very very difficult so with that I will try to just give maybe the translators a break I'm so sorry about that but I did the best I can this was my slow tempo which Sarah Jones asked me to as slow as possible I did the best I can which is a much gracias this has been a very stimulating and I hope that I will be able to join you the next time and that perhaps I will remember to bring a little bit warmer clothes this was quite the experience gracias well one person who taught me a great deal is a woman who was the mother of again friends and I think this really goes to just illustrate how important it is to have diversity within our lives not just as a concept but as a real kind of component of who we are culturally around September 11th I met a Chinese American woman and several other women actually but this woman in particular first of all I want to thank all the people gathered here today and during this meeting in doubles I have been very happy to be here but first I want to say as a non-native English speaker this woman who was just speaking before it was so fast so very fast I started to feel heart palpitations and a little bit shortness of breath too difficult but I think just to make that effort to understand one another even if it's not easy not my mother tongue I try to explain to people that you can have more productive meeting I am in business with my husband we have a company textile company but we do trade of course with United States many firms there I go to New York and I tell people listen more carefully before you just listen to accent really try to pause learn something about that culture not only how you want to do the business but also who are the people it may sound simple but can make huge difference to have the right attitude and I will tell you after the September 11 I remember one vendor small vendor I was working with they said I heard I heard them they did not know I can hear this I don't know how to do business with these people they said and we have too many immigrants here in America and I think if Statue of Liberty can talk today she will say too much no more we have no more room if you want to come you should come earlier so this woman does not know this have a impact maybe wrong kind of humor for me but I encourage people learn more so that whatever you bring to that conversation our discussion is more open more includes inclusive of people all people no matter how good is their English or not thank you I appreciate this opportunity chair chair so now you've met several of my global villagers and I will also say that as I became a good will ambassador for UNICEF which was at one of the high points of my career I continue to meet people around the world who again expanded my understanding of what empathy and humor can bring to crucial conversations about our geopolitical moment this new global context I'll give you one example I will just start by saying that I find that this meeting you know it's so gratifying to be here first of all as a human rights lawyer I am heartened by the way that the conversation continues to become further and further deepening into these notions of how do we really commit to a better world right so that is great stuff and I met Sara Jones when she is touring India doing that part of her UNICEF work she's a nice woman a bit tall but other than that we really see eye to eye if you know what I'm meaning but we share the same goal of just committing to helping the populations to help themselves the most vulnerable obviously we are focusing much of the time on the women and girls and well I want to say I'm grateful that is something here everyone is also committed to especially the women hello there you three four five no no I'm teasing it is getting better and better okay we want to encourage that right we are pleased with that but I release you all to the rest of the meeting I have learned so much I look forward to continuing that and there's just so much to take in as we have heard but I have to say also of course I am normally here to be quite serious but I believe the one of the most memorable parts of the Davos is the cracking good parties they are throwing so I'm pleased that we all made it here this morning but enjoy all of it we deserve that okay great and then there are the people I meet who definitely make me want to improve the world for all of us and make sure that we that we don't lose sight of what's most important but I'll let this person explain hi guys I'm first of all my name is Bella and I am just like so excited to be here right now I just wanted to quickly take like a selfie for my Instagram and my Twitter you guys should totally tweet me and you should totally tweet Sarah Jones too okay one second it's like world economic forum with all these like awesome people that you can see they're like amazing okay this is like totally all amazing it's like the time is even different here like people are like I saw you three Davos is ago it's awesome okay okay sorry I just wanted to like capture the moment and like I feel that like you guys are like so rad because you realize that like there's like a digital world revolution that like happened already I'm like I feel that like and I'm I'm really happy to say this but like it's so overwhelming how you guys like most of you were like born before the 90s I'm like you're still like doing it you're really like committed and I love that like even your session with the title of like I share therefore I am I totally get that yeah and I just feel that like you're obviously like super smart and like amazing people but also like yeah I don't think that you're older I mean you're not that you're old I just think of you as like chronologically advanced people and like that's why like I feel if you can like continue what you're doing like keeping it out there on Twitter Instagram if it's uncomfortable totally ask your kids they'll totally help you and like I'll see you there and I just feel that this whole thing has opened up my mind because I thought like you know like I came here and there's world leaders here like I totally met will I am so like I just think that's so awesome that you brought him like you're not this like gathering that's like restriculous which is like a word that I made that means like so strict it's ridiculous you guys are like totally open so I think that's really rad and amazing I'm totally gonna go to eat it right now bye guys so so I want to say you know sometimes on Sarah Jones will save me for you know towards the end I'm the only dude up here that she brought with her I don't know if that's a statement my name is Rashid she got me up here wearing a skirt I guess that's part of the new gender parody working on or whatever but you know me myself I heard the girls just mentioned will I am you know I'm a rapper myself I know I'm not the typical dude you will see here Davos you know I'm saying normally I'm in Brooklyn it's a little bit different but the traffic is starting to be the same though the traffic is starting to be the same but you know I just feel like first of all y'all could see that what I do I'm a rapper I hold the microphone in the official MC posture y'all can see that right there that's a dead giveaway rapper right there all right but you know for me actually I got a lot of passion for all these causes the environment the sustainability all that what y'all talking about I think that's real important you know I'm saying but also I'm not gonna lie this right here this is an environment I would like to sustain you know I'm saying for myself so I'm just very happy to be here for the opportunity we talked about all the things that's important to people all around the world so my homeboys whether they you know I'm saying wherever they might be in the world if you say peace I say peace y'all Lape or whatever like that you know I'm saying oh I'm working on it I'm working on the languages this is it's in development I got an app for that I got an app for that all right y'all enjoy the rest of the meeting peace yeah Lape La Paz all right and and there is one voice I did not want to miss I thought the opportunity to be here was too great and so in my remaining few moments I want you to meet someone who has changed my life and I think I think she's really grateful that you all have changed hers this week I'm gonna start by saying that I have never seen anything like this in my life if you had told me a little African American girl who was not allowed to drink from the water fountain like the other people the white people where I came from that one day I will be here in this crowd of distinguished people I would never believe you and I know we have to talk about comedy and humor it can I heard Sarah Jones say it can cleanse your palate so that you won't be afraid to taste a little bit of what's bitter and difficult and I've been living on the streets a long time you know I don't have teeth like y'all beautiful people anymore and that is a lot of people like me out there in the world most people out there in the world where there's real degeneral or Joe Henniesburg or Paris Shanghai I know this all places y'all seen before in real life I only seen it in a picture but I'm gonna tell you that to me that's my global village is everybody who have to live like me and if I could say one thing to you while I'm here I want you to know whether you call it Paul or homeless we human beings and now I think homeless the wrong word for it anyway because long as I know I am part of the human family I am part of the global village I'm always gonna have me a home inside I don't have no place to go at night but that just make me houseless I believe we could change this so everybody has access to real opportunity and I pray with all y'all scientists whether you pray or not whether you call it God or science I hope that something including people like you will have to change this world so that we all know our true home and that we are our neighbors in this global village fellow villagers some of us didn't get opportunity like others but we deserve our place in the village as well thank y'all for giving me a chance to speak on this stage I'm honored thank y'all and I echo miss lady I am deeply honored to have been here thank you for giving me this time thank you so much for this meal