Welcome to Admiring Susan Sarandon, a fansite dedicated to Academy Award winning actress and activist Susan Sarandon. Susan is best known for her roles in 'Thelma and Louise', 'Dead Man Walking', and the upcoming 'The Lovely Bones'. Admiring Susan currently provides fans with the latest news on Susan's career and activism, and, with a bit of work, will one day develop into a full archive in tribute to Susan's extensive career.
Peru’s Minister of Trade and Tourism, Martín Pérez, said that his sector is working in bringing international celebrities like Sting and Bette Middler to Machu Picchu, as part of the strategy to promote Cusco worldwide.
“Susan Sarandon’s visit had a great media coverage. Actually it was way bigger than we had expected and her visit helped us increase tourism by 7%,” he said.
“Sarandon’s photos in Machu Picchu were seen all around the globe,” remarked Perez.
The government decided to invite celebrities as a way to help rebuild tourism in Cusco, after the heavy rainfalls and floods that took place last January.
Perez said that he would also like to bring Sandra Bullock to visit Cusco.
Ever the fashion plate, Susan Sarandon was sporting a new accessory at Wednesday’s New York premiere of HBO’s biopic about right-to-die activist Jack Kevorkian, You Don’t Know Jack: a black foot bandage and crutches.
The cause? “Break dancing,” the Oscar winner told reporters in jest, before finally coming clean – and revealing that she fell while in Port-au-Prince on a recent mercy mission to St. Damien Children’s Hospital, along with Demi Moore and other stars on behalf of Artists for Peace and Justice, as the island still recoves from the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake.
“I was in Haiti and it’s the rainy season and I slipped. I mean, it’s a very boring story,” said Sarandon, 63. “It happened the night before I left. But I would prefer to say it was from break dancing or surfing or soccer. It still hurts, but it’s nothing.”
As for what Sarandon saw on her trip, “It was overwhelming, really, and very moving,” she said, admitting that she was especially touched by the children. “I’m hoping that the trip and everybody that went on it will in some way renew people’s commitment when they understand what’s going on.”
Sarandon’s visit did not mark her first contact with the pediatric hospital, which offers free medical care to Haitian children. “We had done a benefit at [SPiN New York, the ping-pong club in which she is an investor], and we sent the money to St. Damien’s, so it was great to be able to go down and recommit.”
Some of Hollywood’s biggest names teamed up with the organization Artists for Peace and Justice (APJ) to visit Port-Au-Prince, Haiti on Sunday, April 11th. The includes director and APJ founder Paul Haggis, Gerard Butler, Susan Sarandon, Demi Moore, Olivia Wilde, and Ben Stiller.
Stiller recently announced the merger between his Haitian school initiative with APJ to maximize his efforts in the impoverished island nation.
Artists for Peace and Justice encourages peace and social justice and addresses issues of poverty and enfranchisement in communities around the world. The organizations immediate goal is to build schools to serve the poorest areas of Haiti, providing an education, hot meals, clean drinking water and regular medical treatments to the children living in the slums.
A Chilean delegation of more than 200 people, including politicians, activists and NGO representatives, is headed to Bolivia for President Evo Morales’ Climate Change Summit “For the People.”
“The governments that came together in Copenhagen have failed. We must come together at a grassroots level and create a general consensus with which we can pressure our governments,” said Sara Larraín, former presidential candidate and head of Sustainable Chile, at a press conference in Santiago on Wednesday.
Next week, 7,500 delegates from over 100 countries will attend what has been called the “cool” climate change conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
The summit, initiated by Morales, aims at “giving a voice to the people” after Copenhagen’s failed climate change summit in December 2009.
In Morales’ point of view, the failure of Copenhagen and the stubbornness of “hegemonies” puts at risk “the survival of the human species.”
His conference will be attended by governments as well as NGOs, student groups, politicians and well-known activists including Canadian author Naomi Klein and American actors Robert Redford and Susan Sarandon.
Back in 2001 Susan narrated a documentary feature called The Shaman’s Apprentice, about plants of the Amazon. Whilst browsing YouTube for Susan today I found a short clip, and thought I’d post it here for you. Below are a synopsis, links to official sites for the documentary, and a clip.
For more than twenty years Dr. Mark Plotkin has searched the Amazon for plants that heal. He is an ethnobotanist, a scientist who studies the relationship between indigenous people and plants. He set out on a mission to find a cure for diabetes, a disease that killed both of his grandmothers. THE SHAMAN’S APPRENTICE charts the story of Mark’s discoveries, and looks at the astonishing ability of native people to manage their environment.
People of the forest have become sophisticated chemists by necessity, utilizing plants for every aspect of their lives. Often, the entire knowledge of a tribe resides in the mind of the shaman – the tribe’s doctor and spiritual leader. But the shamans are also the most endangered species in the Amazon. Marooned in time by the loss of traditional ways, many of the native healers have no apprentices. Most are old, and each shaman’s death is a kind of extinction. It is these shamans that Mark seeks out, hoping to save their precious knowledge, for it may be vital to the world’s future.
THE SHAMAN’S APPRENTICE is a story of survival against the odds. It interweaves the luminous rain forest world of phenomena and legends with western science and the grim realities of extinction. In the story of one man’s quest to preserve the ancient wisdom of our species, we find intelligence, cooperation and hope that could save one of the most glorious places on Earth.
SEVERAL actors and musicians have been visiting the earthquake stricken country of Haiti, where they are helping to move people from the congested, flood-prone camp to a new area designated by the government about 20km north of the capital.
One of those was actress Demi Moore who was joined by Susan Sarandon at the St. Damienís children’s hospital in Port-au-Prince, where she met children on the pediatric malnutrition ward.
The 47-year-old G.I Jane actress took on a hands approach by cradling one of the malnourished children, a girl named Shakyna, and played with a child named David.
She used her mobile phone to take a photo of herself with the young boy and later posted the photo on her Twitter page along with a photo of one of the many camps set up for survivors of the quake.
The actress, who is married to Ashton Kutcher, told followers on her Twitter page: ”Yes he was burned and lost 3 fingers but his joyous spirit was untouched!”
Later, Moore and Sarandon, joined actors Sean Penn, Ben Stiller and Gerard Butler as they visited one of the temporary camps in the island’s capital and their moods looked affecting, as they all appeared sullen and sombre while they walked around the camp.
Penn, 49, has been helping with the disaster relief effort since January, working side by side with hundreds of volunteers under his Jenkins-Penn Haiti Relief Organization that is helping organise the camp.
He was seen reassuring one little boy who was unhappy about the move, even though it is voluntary.
“It is said that, despite the conditions, many of people in the camp don’t want to leave their familiar surroundings”, said Penn.
Pop star Shakira also made an appearance in Haiti earlier this week, meeting Penn at the Petionville Golf Club makeshift camp.
The Columbian star’s charity is preparing to build a school on the island and she visited a golf course, which is home to 50,000 earthquake survivors, meeting dozens of children at the site.
Her Barefoot foundation provides nutrition to more than 6,000 children in Colombia, and she is member of the ALAS foundation that advocates for children across Latin America.
Tourism Vice minister Mara Seminario says hundreds of foreign tourists have entered the famed Inca citadel following its official reopening Thursday morning. Actress Susan Sarandon took part in the reopening ceremony.
The 15th century Inca ruin is the most visited site in Latin America.
Floods in late January disrupted the only rail link from Cuzco to the ruins, trapping some 4,000 tourists, many of whom had to be rescued with helicopters. Peru lost roughly £131 million in revenue because of the closure, according to the country’s tourism minister.
The railway linking the site to the rest of the country was damaged in hundreds of places by the flooding and landslides.
The Tourism Observatory had warned that Peru stood to lose up to 0.64 percent of GDP if tourism declined, with particularly serious repercussions for Cusco, where some 175,000 people make a living in the industry.
More than 2,000 tourists from all over the world visit Machu Picchu every day, tourism ministry officials said.
After visiting Lima and Cusco, Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon arrived in Puno, where she was astonished with Titicaca Lake, last Monday, according to local press reports.
Sarandon visited Suasi Island, at Moho Province, and also the floating isles of Los Uros, to finally set sail for Huaje.
Sarandon arrived in Puno last sunday in the morning, but didn’t have any activity then to get acclimatized to the altitude.
“Fortunately Susan didn’t have any difficulty with the altitude, she was recommended to acclimatize first and then do sightseeing,” said Producer Liliana Choy to newspaper Perú 21.
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