Dear musician, performer, artisan, producer or venue:
ADVENT OF THE BUTTERFLY RAINBOW MILLENNIUM
An Invitation to Help Usher in World Peace
Dear musician, performer, artisan, producer or venue:
The Butterfly Gardeners and Woodstock Nation Foundation are inviting you to check out Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace and Transformation (MFAWPAT).
Performers, artists, DJs, musicians, producers, music venues and festivals from around the nation, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, can have a very special role in cocreating world peace and transformation through the performance arts.
Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace is an outgrowth of Performing & Fine Artists for World Peace. We started a sister organization to focus on wider political issues, thus allowing Performing & Fine Artists for World Peace to keep its focus on educational programs and within the original vision of its charter.
In addition to our interest in the environment and peace, we will be
working to support campaign and election reform, including the abolition
or democratization of the Electoral College, campaign reform, supporting
Congressman
Kucinich's proposal for a cabinet level Department of Peace
, reforming the criminal justice system and the three strikes law,
making the office of public defender an elected position, corporate responsibility,
raising global consciousness, supporting and developing sustainable communities,
helping indigenous causes,
increasing funding for art and music, and making life easier for artists
and musicians who are an important ingredient to transforming and improving
our lives.
We would also like to help get artists and musicians the contacts, grants,
sponsorships, and funding they need to continue their work so that we can
cocreate a new culture of peace on Earth together. We plan to use
our members to organize a series on concerts and a "Party for the Planet"
that we
hope may rebirth the spirit of the 60's in this new millennium.
What we are really talking about here is a seed for a Woodstock Rainbow
Butterfly Revival for the entire planet!!!
Benefits of membership
Besides supporting a good cause, your endorsement will offer many benefits.We
will promote the artists, musicians, performers, venues and producers that
join, publicize gigs on our events calendar, carry out media and public
relations campaigns, issue critical news releases on our efforts, create
a
network of party activists and party goers to support the musicians
and venues, and provide decorations and art for all our events. We
even plan to make banners, artwork, and other decorations, made by member
artists, that can be left behind at selected venues for the pleasure of
your music and performance patrons.
All members will also have a link on this page!
A brief history
Performing & Fine Artists for World Peace was founded in 1986 by Howard Shapiro. As a songwriter and performing artist, Howard has always believed that he should use his creative gifts to support others in their work. That was the reason he created PFAWP, a nonprofit organization to do just that.
Howard sees the artist in society as a powerful force to bring about
positive social change. In our first brochure we stated that our
organization "emphasizes the arts as a means to promote certain ideals."
These include harmony between the earth and its inhabitants, respect for
the human rights
of all people and the equitable sharing of the earth's resources so
that all people will have the necessities of life."
Our mission is to establish a global network of performing & fine
artists who dedicate their work to peace, promote freedom of expression
through the arts and oppose governmental repression of creativity; preserves
the diverse cultures of the world through cultural exchange; support environmental,
human rights, world hunger and peace education organizations with their
work; and
support the goals of the United Nations and other international bodies
addressing global issues.
In 1987 we received the Peace Messenger Award from the United Nations. I mention this because, although we were and still remain a small grassroots organization, this recognition supported our efforts to network with other organizations across the US and internationally.
Since our inception in 1986, we have sponsored art exhibits, concerts, festivals and workshops. Some of these have included the International Month of Peace, Caring for the Earth Month, The Dream Lives On: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the International Day of Peace Art Exhibit. I have had the honor of representing our organization at a number of international conferences where I have shared the work of our organization and performed my original music.
One our most successful programs is Earth-Friendly Schools Hawai`i-Int. This program not only promotes caring for the earth, but the values of respect, responsibility, commitment and service. It was created on the island of Kaua`i in 1992 and has since expanded to include schools across the state of Hawai`i, on the mainland US and internationally.
We are currently working with a number of national and international organizations. These include the LifeLink Foundation, Pathways to Peace, M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence and KIDSFACE(For a Clean Environment).
We furthermore are closely working with the Butterfly Gardeners Association, Authors for a Positive Millennium, and other organizations that plan to collectively make this happen by promoting this concept with the proposed Patch Adams Centers for Peace and Justice. We look forward to working with them on projects that foster love for the earth and caring for humanity.
As an organization that focuses on the arts and the role of the artist in society, our projects with the Butterfly Gardeners Association will be in that area with special emphasis on music i. e. concerts, recordings, radio programs etc.
As founder and director of the Butterfly Gardener's Association, I will be working with Howard in putting together a directory of environmental, peace, and spiritual individuals and organizations working on global healing and transformational projects.
We would welcome receiving information about your projects and the good work that you are doing. We strongly believe in forming partnerships between organizations addressing social and environmental issues. You are welcome to include a short bio about yourself and your work and possibly one of your CDs that best expresses this shared dream.
Your support of Performing and Fine Artists for World Peace will be
greatly appreciated. If you would like to get actively involved, please
let me know. You might help with the visioning, organizing and birthing
of this organization by joining our advisory committee. You may also help
by offering
to perform at an upcoming benefit, or by helping to sponsor one if
you are in a position to do that.
Another easy way to help us immediately would be to forward this message to your email contacts and ask them to help by doing the same. Please feel free to forward this message to your e-mail contacts and ask them to help by doing the same.
Consider helping us to solve the following mystery;
1) What is your bliss, dream or passion?
2) What is your favorite cause and/or organization?
3) Were you or a friend ever touched by a butterfly in some personal
way?
Your story submissions are most certainly welcome and appreciated.
4) Do you have a website?
5) Where do you live?
In your reply please include your name, address, phone number (specify
if its home, office, or both), and any group affiliation or position.
If you don't wish to give out your complete mailing address or phone number,
please send us at least your city, state and zip code as that helps us
to regionalize our
mailing list. We can then either send you our Bay area events
calendar or keep you abreast of any special happening in your area of the
country.
We look forward to hearing from you in the near future. Please see our list of members following our salutation.
Our warmest alohas,
Alan Moore and Howard Shapiro
Alan D. Moore
Butterfly Gardeners Association & Project Chrysalis/Director
Patch Adams Peace and Justice Center/Founder and ad hoc Director
Musicians and Fine Artists for World Peace/Director
Authors for a Positive Millennium/Co-director
1563 Solano Ave. #477, Berkeley, CA 94707
510-528-7730 Email:
bflyspirit@aol.com
Woodstocknation Foundation Fundraising
Please also cc your responses to:
Howard Shapiro
Executive Director
Performing & Fine Artists for World Peace
P. O. Box 1050 Volcano, Hawaii 96785
(808)985-8725
e-mail: artpeac@aloha.net
Members of Performing & Fine Artists for World Peace
Bay area artists include:
Anna Kristina Session
Allen Cohen/Poet and San Francisco Oracle
Joy Crocker
The San Francisco Late Night Coalition
Disorderly Conduct Steel Drum Band
Kajira Djoumahna/Black Sheep Belly Dance
Don Duncan
Fantuzzi, Rosanna Ferrera, Fontain's M.U.S.E.
Gilding the Lily,
Gorilla Choir, Groovy Judy Band
Harmony Jones/Rasta Joy Band, Mindia Devi Klein
Debra Knox, Hali Hammer, Dave Harpe, Alexis Harte-Mentlmusic
Jana Herzen,
Ed Holmes, San Francisco Mime Troupe
Kelley Lewis/Butterfly Harpist
Bishop Mayfield, Jennifer November/Direct Action Network,
Diane Patterson/Green Eye Records Foundation
Reggae Angels, Ronnie Ray and the Timestreams Band,
Sophia-songhealer/Hidden Waters Sound
Phoebe Sorgen,
Village Culture, Vision Walker (one of the Wailers
with Bob Marley, Bunny
Wailer, and Peter Tosh!
Bay area producers, venues, and events organizers include:
Concert for World Peace/EddieGale
Cardel Daniels/Tamarack Mountain Music Festival, Diva Bands/Amy Camus
Earthdance International/Chris Deckker
Green Eye Records Foundation/Kelley Green
Groove Garden/Martin-DJDragonfly
Lite Headed Productions/Steve Bhearman(Swami Beyondananda)
Jenstar Production/JennaDahm,
Majinga/Magic Time Productions
Musicians Coalition/Dayla Soul
Musicians for Medical Marijuana/Alan Goodman
Obsidian Records/Ryan Madden
Out of Many One
Paradise Lounge.
National artists include:
Jaiia Earthschild
Gary 'Dov' Gertzweig/LovestarRecords
Jonathan Goldman/Spirit Music & Sound Healers Association
Lisa Moore,
Paul Winter/Earth Music Productions
Sponsors
Woodstock
Nation Foundation/Abigail Storm and Daniel Eggink
Synergy International's Peter
Ziegler has offered to solar power our first
events. Please visit their alternative energy site at:www.synergyii.com
Business Endorsers
Back to
the Garden Natural Foods Cafe
I really appreciate your interest in our project and hope that together,
by
spreading the word on the Internet, we can make our shared dreams come
true.
Please contact us if you would like to donate
to the The
Butterfly Gardeners
ãcopyright
1998 EGGINK
"a family business"
The Woodstock Nation Foundation web site is generously
donated by 