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| Tell a Friend Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:37 am Post subject: One World Beat 2005 |
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Join the One World Beat Music Festival 2005: Make A Difference for Youth in Need in Africa, Asia, and Haiti!
One World Beat Global Music Festival 2005 is open for business, and we are inviting you to join us!
On the first weekend of spring - March 18-27 2005 - thousands of musicians will unite to make a difference through their music. Together with volunteers, fans, and friends around the globe, we will raise funds to help street kids, HIV/AIDS orphans, and vulnerable children get an education in our Give A Child A Chance project. And join our special help project, Beat the Wave, which will provide aid to children struggling in the wake of Asia's devastating December 2004 tsunami. See http://www.oneworldbeat.org for details and to sign up!
You can participate as:
- musician or band
- music venue or club
- promoter
- organization or school
- sponsor or partner
- volunteer
We already have concerts in preparation in England, United States, Canada, Australia, Thailand, Japan, Denmark, Switzerland, Slovakia, Spain, The Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Poland, Nigeria, and many more countries. Musicians and volunteers are joining us every week. One World Beat 2004 united artists in over 180 events in 46 countries.
Latest news:
One World Beat is proud to announce a partnership with two "on the ground" nonprofit organizations, both of whom work with underprivileged children, providing an education, material needs, and hope. Our Give A Child A Chance project will donate festival proceeds to Liberation Through Education, which works in Haiti with children in extreme poverty, and Outside the Dream, which helps to provide an education in Uganda and India for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. Please see http://www.liberationthrougheducation.org and http://www.outsidethedream.org for more info about these projects.
In response to the Asia earthquake/tsunami tragedy, we are also organizing a special relief project, Beat the Wave, for musicians who would like to contribute their talents and proceeds from concerts to this cause specifically. For more info and to sign up, please see http://www.oneworldbeat.org. All proceeds from donations of gigs and funds will go to Save the Children (http://www.savethechildren.org), an international development organization which works in 44 countries to provide relief, resources, and hope to children, families, and communities in need.
Musicians and nonprofits in developing countries are asked to contribute 25% of any profits (if concerts are done for fundraising purposes) to One World Beat for its designated charities (so that there is a sense of unity and shared purpose). 75% of any profits can stay "local", to benefit people and organizations in need in your own communities. Events for awareness-raising only are most welcome and needed too.
Drumming Up Support: We would also like to hear from anyone interested in a possible drumming event we might organize, where drummers (and drums of all kinds) might join as one in a collective "roll" (or 200!) heard 'round the world. Please contact us and see the website for updates.
We hope you will join us for the OWB Global Music Festival 2005! Music making a difference...never so needed, and it's never sounded so good!
Thanks so much, and here's Beating human-development challenges as One!
One World Beat Team info@oneworldbeat.org |
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