Speakers including Jane Goodall, David Attenborough and Steven Pinker will relay "stories of hope", and there's a "solutions fair" with stalls telling people how to consume less and get involved in campaigns.
Of course they wanted microcredit, Alfred Lokko, the operator of a tabletop haberdashery next to Desbordes's stall, told me — but at much lower rates.
In the cluttered bazaar of this ancient city on the Syrian border, the merchant who sells lipstick and face powder in his tiny stall tells the story of the Syrian town of Afrin.
So Tyree walked into the Giants' locker room at their Meadowlands training center Friday, found Cruz at his dressing stall, told him how much of a fan he had become and handed him a copy of his book, "More Than Just the Catch".
It's the kind of thing you'd expect to hear Stuart Maconie announcing on The Freak Zone with the news that he picked it up from a record fair in Bologna for a euro, because the bloke on the stall told him the pope's bassist engineered some of Goblin's film soundtracks or something.
The higher the number of the epidemics that any particular man experienced, the more likely he was to have risky sex, and to test positive for H.I.V. "This suggests that substance abuse is a thread in a larger tapestry," Stall told me.
It made all too much sense that, in another story Spector could never stop telling, one night in Philadelphia, in 1958, in the backstage men's room after he'd performed with the Teddy Bears on a bill with a dozen other acts, four guys pulled knives, pushed him into a stall, told him to sit down, slowly unbuttoned their jeans, and pissed all over him.
"It's antique," the woman in charge of the stall tells me.
Another vendor, Fernando Velázquez from the Gran Cazador stall, tells me lion meat can also be grilled, stewed, or served as carnitas.
Stall told me, "We were able to show that guys who do the best job of resolving internalized homophobia [or 'self-stigma,' as researchers are calling it] are the least likely to have current victimization, substance abuse and compulsive [high-risk] sex".
