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Thursday 8th October
Pre Festival Talk
6pm slt Theoretical biologist & microbial evolutionist Lynn Margulis @ Virtually Speaking with Jimbo Hoyer
New InWorld Amphitheater
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtually%20Speaking/167/100/25
FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER 2009
10am GRAND IMAGINE FESTIVAL OPENING FOR EUROPE AND AFRICA
at the new Imagine Nest by AuraKyo Insoo at Four Bridges.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Four%20Bridges%20North/178/170/999
Live Music from junivers Stockholm and Al Hofmann, poetry
Make your wishes for our future
Join the Walk for the Future
Be part of the Universal Embrace
Catch the Dream, Be the Change!
Free to visit all week and throughout festival
11am Dr Andrew Wallace, University of Umeå
Money makes the world go round but its all made up and leading us around and around towards certain disaster! So, if we agree we can not sustain our current system then what sort of system can we sustain? Dr Wallace presents one possibility for a future sustainable society - Talk: Four Bridges
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Four%20Bridges%20North/178/170/999
12 noon IMAGINE EXHIBITION OPENING - UTSA PRESENTS: FUTURE OF WEATHER
Imagine the Future of Weather at UTSA (University of Texas at San Antonio) Art Space
http://slurl.com/secondlife/UTSA%20Roadrunner%20II/126/146/25
Opening & Introductions
Meet the prominent SL participating artists: Alizarin Goldflake, Apollo Reinard, Artistide Despres, Bryn Oh, Cogito Ultch, Eshi Otawara, Gary Kohime, Glyph Graves, Misprint Thursday, Rob Balder, Sabrinaa Nightfire, Sene Kappler, Spiral Walcher, and UB Yifu
Free to visit all week and throughout festival
1pm -3 pm: AREA City Space - Ecologia Island - visit the City of experimental architecture project- Is another world and economic and social order possible? - Discussion
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ecologia%20Island/128/128/21
3.30pm Opening of the Imagine Peace Tower commissioned by Yoko Ono. The Tower will be unveiled and officially opened on Imagine Peace Island at 3:30pm SLT, Friday 9 October. Yoko will be taking part from a real life visit to Iceland.
5pm GRAND IMAGINE FESTIVAL OPENING for North and South America
Poetry of Serene Bechir and music by Torben Asp will spin you into the heady world of Imagine - Catch the dream at Imagine Nest by AuraKyo Insoo, Four Bridges
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Four%20Bridges%20North/178/170/999
6pm Louis Volare - Solo piano. Louis has a passionate belief that music is the most significant and likely medium to bring peace and harmony to a weary, and war-torn world. He realized a few years ago, stylistically it's his own music - the solo compositions that bring him so much joy and peace - that resonates deeply with his audience. Come fall under his spell
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Four%20Bridges%20North/178/170/999
7pm Why we believe what we believe – Talk, Millay Freschi
Why do we react to things the way that we do and is it possible to change our thinking and our experiences by understanding why we believe the things that we do? Lets tear apart some mental models and find out. It's time to rethink thinking!
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Four%20Bridges%20North/178/170/999
8pm HatHead Rickenbacker performs jazz, blues, funk, soul and electronica - often all at the same time. Open your mind and let him weave you into his inspired set.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Four%20Bridges%20North/178/170/999
9pm Transformative Justice in Drum Circle
Transformative Justice seeks to transform the relationships between community, victim, and offender by examining not only a crime or injustice but also the causes. It seeks to heal the relationship by getting to the root cause of crime and injustice and to heal from that vantage. Join as us we talk about the implications.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Four%20Bridges%20North/145/117/27
10pm - 3 am Friday Night at The Pocket - extends to join with the Imagine Festival
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Freestar%20Bay%20Isle/229/18/22
SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2009
7am Imagining World Peace - A Discussion - What are 10 ways that we can further world peace in our RL and SL? (brainstorming question) - Facilitated by Any1 Gynoid from Afghan SL Peace - Join us at Peace Park
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berard/81/37/35
9am AFRICA LIVE Sky box
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Estings/111/142/145
9 am Opening - Eden - This is the Future. Open Your Windows. As long as we live we can Change, we can Grow. Live Music by Junivers Stockholm.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Estings/111/142/145
9.15 am Open Cafe – presentation by Szavanna Anatra – The OpenCafe is a South African initiative that introduces open source software and open content materials.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Estings/111/142/145
10am Beautiful Africa collects and shares stories from bloggers from Africa and all over the world – posts that tell you about the magical cultures and traditions, amazing people, colorful art works, and music that is as vibrant and colorful as the rainbow cultures of the continent.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Estings/111/142/145
10.30 am Seba SIDEWAYS – Live Music. Seba's been playing Tenor Sax for more than 14 years; His repertoire in SL includes different music styles, as jazz, ballads, bossa nova, blues, Funk, reggae roots.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Estings/111/142/145
11am AFRICA – Discussion around the Baobab Tree : Tales and legends of Africa with Artemesia Mathy
African Dances and Drums Session.
Travels in the Benin Mangroves Bafana Beaumont. Invitation to visit lakeside village and mangroves.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Estings/111/142/145
12.30 AFRICA - Junivers Stockholm Live Music. Juni plays his original music, sometimes using backtracks which he composed and played/programmed all instruments. He has a wide rang of styles - some with vocals and some instrumental.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Estings/111/142/145
1pm Imagine Fest @ An Li - Welcome to the *HIDDEN PEARL COVE* and *CHAMBER of our HEART*
http://slurl.com/secondlife/An%20Li/114/95/22
1.30pm Undersea mermaid poetry, readings and Life Music– Paulette Felisimo & Medora Chevalier
"Mermaid qualities" are freedom and confidence. Share with one hour of whispered Imaginings...
2.30pm - 4pm Undersea Live Music and exploring the installation *CHAMBER of our HEART*
Come and *transform* our burning and trapped globe by activating your infinite energy...come and catch your own golden heart !
~ Installation by Gamma Infinity & Paulette Felisimo ~
Free to visit all week and throughout festival
4pm Performance: The Universe is a Green Dragon (Cosmology and stretching of the Imagination): Cotton Thorne, Siri Vita, Medora Chevalier Imagine Nest, Four Bridges
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Four%20Bridges%20North/178/170/999
5pm Tour the dreamy world of the Imagine Nest and revel in the spirit of peace before heading over to Netroots Nation for the streaming of the LIVE event
http://slurl.com/secondlife/NetRoots%20Nation/83/220/27
6pm - 8PM Pentagon of Peace: Netroots Nation - Presented by Veterans for Peace. 5 RL Peace Activists streamed live from this event in Taos New Mexico discussing how the Pentagon could one day be an institution of peace.
8pm - 1am Continous Live Music events at - The Future of Weather
IMAGINE @ UTSA shows us The Future of Weather
http://slurl.com/secondlife/UTSA%20Roadrunner%20II/126/146/25
UTSA has sculpted a full-sim recreation of the seasons that has now come to life through the artistic impressions of a diverse group representing some of SL's most prominent artists. Each of these artists have made contributions to one or more of the seasons that speak to the future of seasonal weather in a most unique way.
The University of Texas San Antonio has provided the most compelling canvas for these artists and the University is thrilled to offer this inspired project as a part of the Imagine Festival.
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SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER 2009
10am Awakening the Dreamer: How we can create an environmentally sustainable, socially just and spiritually fulfilling human presence on our planet. "Can we rely on it that a 'turning around' will be accomplished by enough people quickly enough to save the modern world? This
question is often asked, but whatever answer is given to it will mislead. The answer "yes" would lead to complacency; the answer "no" to despair. It is desirable to leave these perplexities behind us and get down to work.
-- E.F. Schumacher" Dr. James Powell D.Phil. (Oxon) Social Entrepreneur & Shamanic Counsellor interviewed by Cotton Thorne at Four Bridges Imagine Network Garden.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Four%20Bridges%20North/199/59/24
12 noon A Climate Carol
1pm A Climate Carol
2pm – 4pm CARP – the Cybernetic Arts Research Project presents Imagine Future Show : Benvolio. 10 scenes of our future Home, Transport, Consumption, Nature, Aging, Communication, Love, Unity, Luxury and Heaven. Visioned by Velazquez Bonnetto, Josina Burgess, SaveMe Oh, Scicily Zapatero and Eros ..
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Benvolio/123/134/3602
4pm Closing Weekend Event for Europe and Africa at Imagine Nest : Four Bridges
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Four%20Bridges%20North/178/170/999
5pm Creative workshop on wishes: Four Bridges Imagine Nest
Jenaia Morane will run a creative workshop geared toward evoking and capturing your wishes for the future. These wishes will be incorporated into the Imagine nest build and woven into the tapestry of our collective consciouness projecting these wishes into the world
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Four%20Bridges%20North/178/170/999
6pm - 8pm Live Music at Imagine Nest
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Four%20Bridges%20North/178/170/999
8pm Closing Weekend Event at Imagine Nest for North and South America: Four Bridges – Live Music
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Four%20Bridges%20North/178/170/999
Exhibitions continue all week and beyond at Four Bridges, Future of Weather, Benvolio, Imagine Fest @ An Li etc.
