Our 3300+ members in 58 countries include Melanie, Patti LaBelle, Melba Moore, Pete Seeger, the New Rascals, Willie Nelson's Peace Research Institute, the Dalai Lama, Holly Near, Country Joe, Wayne Dyer, Patch Adams, Jean Houston, Dennis Kucinich and Barbara Lee.
Our 40th Anniversary of Woodstock Concert, produced by WoodFest Productions in association with Musicians for Peace, will be a 3-day outdoor festival at the 60 acre Washita Hideaway in Davis, OK. We are doing a butterfly release there and it will have some of the hottest tribute bands around and happens August 14-16, the same weekend as the original festival. This project stems from the vision to play tribute to both the pure love of music and to the artists, producers and concert goers that together made Woodstock the historic and cultural event it was then and will be for generations to come.
Dear musician, performer, artisan, poet, author, producer or venue:
The Butterfly Gardeners and Woodstock Nation are inviting you to become a part of Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace (MFAWP).
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.
Our 3300+ members include Melanie, Donovan, Patti LaBelle, Melba Moore, Pete Seeger, the New Rascals, Willie Nelson's Peace Research Institute, the Dalai Lama, Holly Near, Country Joe, Wayne Dyer, Patch Adams, Jean Houston, Dennis Kucinich & Barbara Lee to mention just a few. See the entire listing at: Member List - Click Here
BTW, we are joining with people from all over the world to help make the 40th anniversary of Woodstock a true celebration of peace and love through music and collaboration. If you want to join our coordinating committee, please see http://passion.edu/elearn/mod/resource/view.php?id=1712
The event we are working on for San Francisco's Golden Gate Park will be on Sunday, October 25, 2009. It is being produced by Boots Hughston of 2B1 MultiMedia. We will be also doing the Green Zone at this event, including a butterfly release. Interested vendors and sponsors should message me at bflyspirit8@aol.com or via myspace and put Woodstock in the subject field.
I am hoping you will respond and have us list you on our website as a member if you resonate with our mission statement & goals. We ask for a contribution of at leat one dollar, but no one is refused for lack of funds. You can also join as a regular member if you like. Please see our membership below.
In your reply, please include your full name and the name of your band or performance group, website address and any group affiliation or position you hold. You may want to include your mailing address and phone number, but that is optional. Please include 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 our national and world updates and also keep you abreast of any special happening that may be in your area.
Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace was founded to produce and help promote events, concerts and festivals that support environmental, peace and justice projects and organizing with the goal of raising consciousness and global transformation. We support election reforms such as campaign financing, clean elections and the abolition or reform of the Electoral College. We also endorse and support Congressman Kucinich's proposal for a cabinet level Department of Peace (www.house.gov/kucinich/action/peace.htm), raising the issue of corporate responsibility, protecting the Earth and old-growth forests, raising global consciousness, helping indigenous causes, increasing funding for art and music programs, ending the cycle of violence and abuse that is rooted in our male dominator culture and acknowledging artists and musicians as an important ingredient to transforming and improving our lives. We organized a nude peace photo made of over 50 couples spelling out the message Make Love Not War in San Francisco on April 19, 2003 for out compilation peace CD.
Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace (MFAWP) have been endorsed by Congressman Dennis Kucinich to promote a concert to support his proposal for a cabinet level Department of Peace (Please see Department of Peace and Dennis Kucinich and The Peace Alliance
On January 24, 2002, the board of MFAWP endorsed the initiative to ban Space Based Weapons after being asked by the Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS) to extend our proposed concert to endorse the Space Preservation Act and Space Preservation Treaty. It would ban space-based weapons in all 190 Nations and is also sponsored by Dennis Kucinich.
On January 4, 2003, the director of ICIS Vancouver, Alfred Webre, had this to say. "We totally embrace and support Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace and your concert to raise awareness for U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich Department of Peace Act. As you know, Dennis recently spoke here in Canada at the CUSP Conference in Toronto. His "Sacred Mission" speech endorsed the Space preservation Treaty Conference, banning all space weapons. Please see: Peace in Space
On April 19, 2003 Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace organized a nude peace photo made of 53 couples spelling out the message Make Love Not War. This occurred on Baker Beach in San Francisco exactly one month to the day that the War on Iraq first began. Please see Make Love Not War for story and pictures.
In addition to our interest in the environment and world peace, our campaign will also cover election reforms such as campaign financing and the abolition or reform of the Electoral College, reforming the criminal justice system and the three strikes law, making the office of public defender an elected position, raising the issue of corporate responsibility, protecting the Earth and old-growth forests, raising global consciousness, supporting and developing sustainable communities, helping indigenous causes, increasing funding for art and music programs, ending the cycle of violence and abuse that is rooted in our male dominator culture, and acknowledging artists and musicians as an important ingredient to transforming and improving our lives.
We look forward to hearing from you in the near future.
May Peace Prevail on Earth!
Alan Moore
Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace - Director and founder
You can join for as little as $1. Get more info at Join and Info
In 1993 a National Geographic magazine article proclaimed that a butterfly
can with a flap of its wings, change the world and that the ripple it sends out
can spawn a hurricane. Acting in the spirit the Butterfly Gardeners Association has become a catalyst for helping to co-create a culture of world peace and global harmony by working with children and adults at a very personal level. Our common and innate love for butterflies has resulted in the bringing together of thousands of
individuals and organizations all working in concert for positive global change with a
keen focus on the interconnectedness of children, butterflies and nonviolence.
Through the development of innovative educational and community projects and
by promoting events and festivals that inspire citizens to act at the local
level, we are able to arouse consciousness to the need of conserving and creating
natural habitats for not only butterflies, but for other wildlife as well and
whose very existence depends on them.
We are also exploring and researching the mystery of the butterfly's
therapeutic, spiritual and cultural effects on humanity.
Since butterflies also serve as environmental indicators, they are excellent
ambassadors for raising environmental awareness. Our programs promote the
installation of butterfly gardens, children's environmental education, reading and
nonviolence programs. Being that butterflies have these innately
inspirational and spiritual qualities, their effect on children, as well as adults and
seniors, is nothing less than miraculous.
We are working a
U.S. cabinet level Department of Peace, whose goals include the creating of a
national peace and nonviolence curriculum for school children and adults,
programs to address the cycle of abuse and violence that threaten domestic and
community environments, as well as finding new solutions to resolve international
conflicts. We are also interested in working to increase funding for school
art and music programs.
Highlights over the last 11 years have included:
Releasing butterflies at the Seventh Annual World Peace Festival with Pete Seeger in Amenia, New York for the World Peace
Prayer Society
Being invited to present the World Peace Candle to Kofi Annan at the United Nations
Involving over 10,000 children in the San Francisco Bay Area to raise butterflies as an Earth Day
project in 1999
Getting President Bill Clinton
to proclaim January first an International Day of Peace
Some of our goals include:
1) public education on the life cycle of
butterflies, what we can do to reverse butterfly decline, and how to attract
butterflies, hummingbirds & other wildlife to local gardens
2) teaching that the
stewardship of butterflies is linked to such serious issues as the misuse and
overuse of pesticides, global warming, ozone depletion, habitat and rainforest
destruction, genetically engineered food production (which may impact human health)
and have all been shown to have impacts on butterfly populations. In this
sense, butterflies have become the foremost indicator species (the canary in the
coal mine) for most of the world's environmental problems
3) to use
people love of butterflies as a means to foster nonviolent behavior and both
cultural and biodiversity in our targeted populations.
Some of our objectives are to:
1) have 50,000 men, women and children
annually attend our programs at schools, clubs, nursing homes and other institutions
2) get 1000 volunteers to plant butterfly gardens at homes, schools, parks
and other locations and to help in our outreach
3) provide plant & source lists
for establishing home or public butterfly gardens to 500 schools, 1000 homes
and 100 public butterfly gardens and exhibits
4) partner with a minimum of
250 other groups and organizations that have similar goals and projects
5) have
1000 children in the Santa Rosa School District raise and release 1000
butterflies for the Health and Harmony Festival and participate in our Art for the
Sky Project which will create a large butterfly and dove that will be
photographed from an airplane over the festival,
6) have the members of MFAWP perform
at a minimum of 500 events a year and bring our message to a larger community
audience
7) have the members of MFAWP and the BGA through Project
Chrysalis entertain at a minimum of 100 hospitals, hospices, schools, juvenile youth
facilities, senior centers and other community institutions.
If you want to contribute time or money for this please message us on MySpace or visit us at http://www.butterflyspirit.org
Message from Daniel and Abigail Storm of The Woodstock Nation Foundation
Butterfly Magic at Monterey Summer of Love 40th Anniversary
My interview with Daniel Eggink of the Woodstock Nation Foundation
is right after the clip of Wavy Gravy.
Visit the Summer of Love producer’s page at IE Artists
Also check out The Woodstock Museum
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Something In The Air But Not On The Airways
We're the Enemy by John Kasper
Hi! Thanx for the add! Just wanted to send you a big hi & my support: you're always at the top of my friends' list! I also wanted to let you know that my new cd album will be finally ready by september! In the meanwhile,"Thanksong" will soon appear on an american indie compilation,"Indie Underground", by Quickstar Productions! Ok, that's all for the moment! All the best & keep rockin'! Love & Peace, Karenza.
Hello peaceful Friends! I have been crazy busy with gigs and pushing "Ghost in your dreams ",for next Twilight movie! Wish me luck! So i can feed my passion,"World peace"! Wish I could make Woodstock,"always a dream",but will be in Europe! I will catch up soon tho! keep on rock'N,peace on earth! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxo:)
hey beautiful..hope im not bothering you....i have a clip of the new song i put up last week called "They got it right" i hope you like it! let me know what you think... have a great weekend!
Hi Musicians for Peace, Thanks for your comment. I'm not actually a musician or an artist but I shall certainly publicise your cause. All my best wishes, Bruce
By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblest sufferings, the severest truth, the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds which brave men and women are capable.
- Jeremy Taylor
have a wonderful weekend my friend , may peace ,love and light follow you always ........ HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to all .... we call DAD......much happiness and respect ...........
You are the
Shining One whose willing to work for Peace, Truth & Justice and
you are willing to do all that is necessary to bring about our New
World and for this I am grateful to you, you are in my Heart now &
Forever, thank you, love
I wish U a beautiful new week ahead, from this heart 2 yours, & let me send a melody of hope & truth your way, I know there's a huge smile in ya. God bless U, Lenny-
In 1993 a National Geographic magazine article proclaimed that a butterfly
can with a flap of its wings, change the world and that the ripple it sends out
can spawn a hurricane. Acting in the spirit the Butterfly Gardeners Association has become a catalyst for helping to co-create a culture of world peace and global harmony by working with children and adults at a very personal level. Our common and innate love for butterflies has resulted in the bringing together of thousands of
individuals and organizations all working in concert for positive global change with a
keen focus on the interconnectedness of children, butterflies and nonviolence.
Through the development of innovative educational and community projects and
by promoting events and festivals that inspire citizens to act at the local
level, we are able to arouse consciousness to the need of conserving and creating
natural habitats for not only butterflies, but for other wildlife as well and
whose very existence depends on them.
Highlights over the last 11 years have included:
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