The first Earth Week Festival in Second Life builds from the world wide celebration of Earth Day on 22 April. It is organised by the Imagine Network. It embraces shared values and celebrates our efforts toward creating a sustainable human presence on the Earth.
Events held around the world recognize and honor our life-giving environment. Earth Week in Second Life reflects this excitement in many sims across our virtual world. There are discussions, concerts, art exhibits and tours.
Kick off Earth Week on Saturday April 18 at Avatar Action Centre with a whole range of events. Then enjoy the Earth Week Global Folk live music concert featuring musicians from around the world at Freestar Bay Isle. Then the spotlight moves to Better World Island and th Centre for Water Studies. On April 20 tour African mangroves. Tuesday 21 starts with events at HumLab Swedish University and the challenging and informative Green Ideation Quest by the University of Innsbruck. Then celebrate our seas with a merfolk event and underwater concert.
Earth Day itself is shared with great programmes at Etopia and the launch of the new EcoCommons sim. Aire at Ecologia hosts April 23 and Amnesty April 24. Earth Week at the Pocket takes us overnight.
Saturday 25 April the festival moves to Virtual Native Lands for live music and a talk on the pow wow.
Earth Week festivities wrap up on Sunday April 26 with tours and a celebration of Greenpeace activities to protect the environment on Commonwealth Islands.
See Earth Week SL VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kyftyMLEkM
SPONSORING GROUPS/SIMS: The Imagine Network, Amnesty International-E, Avatar Action Island, AIRE at Ecologia, Africa Live!, Commonwealth, Better World, Center for Water Studies, ECO Commons, Dream Quest Enterprises,Etopia, Four Bridges Project, FSB Showcase, SL GreenPeace, HumLab, NonProfit Commons, Oddball Studios, Real Africa Live!, Rings Discussion Group, Rockcliffe University, Some Enchanted Evening, The Pocket, The Habitat Trust, The Mermaids, University of Innsbruck, Virtual Native Lands,
ALSO IN COLLABORATION WITH / CO-PROMOTING EVENTS: World Wildlife Fund, PeaceTrain, Peace Collaborative, World Peace Now
For updates on the schedule of events, see website at https://slearthweek.wordpress.com/
For more information contact Any1 Gynoid (any1gynoid@gmail.com), Junivers Stockholm (junivers@gmail.com), Medora Chevalier (scheherazade.storyteller@googlemail.com), Namaara MacMoragh (namaara@environeticscgi.com) or Ricken Flow (rickenflow@gmail.com)
Interviews can be booked with:
Junivers Stockholm, Medora Chevalier, Delia Lake, Marc Moana (French), Artimesia Mathy (French)
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Note for Editors: The Imagine Network
The Imagine Network works for a better world, with human rights, social and environmental justice for all.
We work in Second Life, connecting people to people, group to group, and network to network.
We are about awareness and imagination, rather than fundraising.
Our events can be grid wide and multi day. We aim to identify the root causes of the big toxic global problems facing us; to help find solutions; to help people act together in cooperation.
We look to stimulate left and right brain; to seek inspiration and understanding, to use creativity and information.
Join us! Be the change you want to see!
Creativity for our planet home 
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