Mads Gilbert opens Oslo World 2024!
Before the opening concert by Brazilian artist Marisa Monte at Oslo Concert Hall, Mads Gilbert will deliver the opening speech for Oslo World 2024.
Mads Gilbert is a doctor, professor emeritus, author, and solidarity worker. He has been an important and courageous witness to the unbearable situation in Gaza and Lebanon. He has come so close to the atrocities faced by the civilian population in these areas at the hands of the Israeli army that his testimony cannot be ignored. Oslo World wishes to emphasize the importance of protest and activism in our time—both at grassroots level and from positions where it might be easier to remain silent. Gilbert's uncompromising stance on humanitarian solidarity work has brought him face to face with a cruel, intolerable reality. We should listen to what he and other witnesses have to say. And we must act.
