GLOBAL CITIZEN ADDS MUMBAI TO GLOBAL CITIZEN LIVE’S WORLDWIDE BROADCAST ON SEPTEMBER 25, 2021, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH WIZCRAFT
Hosted by Anil Kapoor, with appearances by Sadhguru, Amitabh Bachchan,
Ayushmann Khurrana, Arjun Kapoor, Ananya Panday, Bhumi Pednekar, Dia Mirza,
Farhan Akhtar, Hrithik Roshan, Janhvi Kapoor, Kiara Advani, Riteish Deshmukh,
Sara Ali Khan, Sonakshi Sinha
Performances to be announced later this week
Global Citizen Live calls on India and G20 To Reduce Carbon Emissions In Line With
Preventing More Than 1.5° C Of Global Warming
Global Citizen Live Demands Wealthiest Nations to Deliver on Promise to Give $100 Billion
Annually to Address Climate Needs of Developing Countries; Timed to
UN General Assembly and G20 & COP26 Climate Meetings
International advocacy organization, Global Citizen, in
partnership with Wizcraft, is proud to announce that Mumbai, India will
be represented in Global Citizen Live’s broadcast - a
combination of festivals, events, and performances airing from locations on six
continents on Saturday, September 25. The once-in-a-generation day of
global unity will call on world leaders, philanthropists, and corporations to
defend the planet and defeat poverty to take action on climate change,
famine, and vaccine equity.
Global Citizen and Wizcraft first
joined hands in 2016 for the Global
Citizen Festival India, which
took place in Mumbai, and more than 500,000
people across India took 2 million actions towards ending poverty. Most
recently, the organizations partnered together for Vax Live: The Concert to
Reunite the World, where they worked to include an important message in the
broadcast that called on global citizens to
help provide support to the people of
India, when Covid was spiking across the country back in April 2021.
After the success of 2016, which was attended by 70,000+ Indians, Mumbai joins as part of the global broadcast event that begins on September 25 — adding from Mumbai the list of artists who are donating their time and talent to support the Global Citizen Live campaign includes: Anil Kapoor, with appearances by Sadhguru, Amitabh Bachchan, Ayushmann Khurrana, Arjun Kapoor, Ananya Panday, Bhumi Pednekar, Dia Mirza, Farhan Akhtar, Hrithik Roshan, Janhvi Kapoor, Kiara Advani, Riteish Deshmukh, Sara Ali Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, and more. Performances will be announced later this week.
Also joining hands to
support Global Citizen for the third successive time is Venkateshwara
Hatcheries’ Venkys, as lead partners for the Global Citizen Live Campaign in
India. Venkateshwara Hatcheries, celebrating 50 years of their enterprise, are
long-term supporters of Global Citizen’s initiatives in India, having been
presenting partners of the Global Citizen Festival-Mumbai, and VAX LIVE: The
Concert to Reunite the World, which was broadcast at the height of Covid-19 and
called for global vaccine equity.
Aaditya Thackeray, Minister of Tourism and
Environment, Maharashtra said, “When
it comes to climate change, we are running out of time to reverse the damage
caused. I am confident that The Global Citizen Festival will steer a mass
movement on the world stage to fight climate change now.”
Liza Henshaw, COO, Global Citizen “Five years ago, we held our first Global Citizen Festival in
Mumbai. We were amazed at the reaction and warm reception we received
from the hundreds of thousands of global citizens, the City of Mumbai and the
Maharashtra State. Global Citizens across India are an essential part of our
movement, and we are proud to return to Mumbai for Global Citizen Live.”
Andre Timmins – Co-Founder Wizcraft “We are thrilled and honored to be working with the Global Citizen team
again. The historic moment that we created together in November 2016 with
Global Citizen Festival India moved our country to a new level of advocacy and
an understanding of how one voice, one action can make a difference. We are so
pleased to have the opportunity to be working with the team again to bring
Mumbai and India to the world with this momentous special edition in
September. There is an exciting show being planned at our beautiful and
iconic Gateway of India, for Global Citizens everywhere”
With more yet to be announced, Global Citizen
Live has revealed line-ups for its COVID-19 compliant, free-ticketed events
in:
●
LOS ANGELES (presented by Verizon) with Stevie Wonder, Adam Lambert,
Chloe x Halle,
Demi Lovato, H.E.R., ONEREPUBLIC, Ozuna, The Lumineers and 5 Seconds of Summer
●
NEW YORK CITY (presented by Citi and Cisco) with Coldplay, Billie Eilish,
Camila Cabello, Jennifer Lopez, Lizzo, Meek Mill, Shawn Mendes, and special
guest performances by
Alessia Cara, Burna Boy, Cyndi Lauper, Jon Batiste, and Lang Lang
● PARIS
with Ed Sheeran, Elton John, Doja Cat, DJ Snake, Black Eyed Peas, Stormzy,
Christine and the Queens and special guest performances by Angélique Kidjo,
Charlie Puth, and Fatma Said.
● LONDON
with Duran Duran, Kylie Minogue, Måneskin, Nile Rodgers
and Chic, and Rag’n’Bone Man
● LAGOS
with Femi Kuti, Davido, Tiwa Savage, and Made Kuti
● RIO DE JANEIRO
with Alok, Mart’nália, Criolo, Liniker, with special guests Tropkillaz, and
Mosquito, in partnership with Rock In Rio
● SYDNEY
with Delta Goodrem and more to be announced
In MUMBAI, Sadhguru,
Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Ayushmann Khurrana, Arjun Kapoor, Ananya Panday,
Bhumi Pednekar, Dia Mirza, Farhan Akhtar, Hrithik Roshan, Janhvi Kapoor, Kiara
Advani, Riteish Deshmukh, Sara Ali Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Badshah, Amit Trivedi,
Ajay – Atul, Baadshah & Tanishk Bagchi will participate.
Performances by BTS, Usher,
Andrea Bocelli, Green Day, Keith Urban, Lorde, Metallica,
and Ricky Martin will round out the broadcast that will air on
Australia’s Channel 9, Brazil’s Multishow and Bis,
France’s TF1/TMC, Singapore’s Mediacorp, ABC, ABC News
Live, BBC, FX, iHeartRadio, Hulu, The Roku
Channel, YouTube, TIME, Twitter, & others (air
dates & times to come).
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