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Basic Background Information
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This next "KidCast For Peace" gathering, will bridge many live, interactive 
events around the world on April 22nd, 1998. It begins a series of CU-SeeMe 
Netcasts to culmanate in a special awards ceremony during Siggraph98 in  
Orlando, Florida. 

KidCasting involves the kid-in-you making art (drawings, websites,
VRML worlds) that describe how to make this a happier, healthier and safer
world. Then joining in a video conference where participants hold up their work 
to the cameras, and interact with everyone else in the CU-SeeMe reflector network.

A live Natural Instrument Jam and realtime MIDI Music Jam Channel will melt the
language barrier. Participants will direct us to their web site/world displaying 
their PRE-CONSTRUCTED submissions (if possible).  We encourage YOU to get your
submission to us before April 17th.  Send your URL and be linked to KidCast Central,
and to our VRML EarthStation currently circling cyberspace.

We ask that you help give the leaders of tomorrow a place for making
their feelings and ideas known today to inspire and educate. V.A.R.I.O.U.S., 
is primary sponsor of the event.  We believe the children who shall inherit the earth,
should have a voice in shaping it...that the "adults" could stand to learn a thing or
two from the innate wisdom embodied in the "child" within. 

While this event is targeted at K-12 and youth, we encourage EVERYONE to let 
the "kid-in-you" out for this onging event.


 
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Goals Of The KidCast Project
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KidCast For Peace Web Sites on servers all over the planet will remain as a 
repository of wisdom of the people of planet Earth...the VRML EarthStation,
a time capsule circling cyberspace, is ready to be added to on an ongoing basis.

There are many solutions to the personal and global challenges that face us
in these dynamic days of change....wisdom comes from a higher source. We believe
that people of all ages--tapping into the creative force--can turn things around in
a "second" and transform a world that has been constantly at war,  fighting the 
ravages of starvation, homelessness, disease, poverty, and fear...into a world of 
synergy and PRONOIA.



KidCast For Peace is designed to tap into this great wealth of our most abundant
resource...the children, and the creative spark in all of us! Participate and share
your hopes and dreams for a more positive future.  We encourage you to organize
your local community, gather in schools, cybercafes, art centers, etc., and join
those in homes participating in our global KidCast Community Forum.

Please pass this information on to those whom you think would appreciate it.





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JOIN the "KidCast For Peace; Solutions For A Better World" Mailing List!
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Greetings friends of the earth. We are "moments" away from our next event.
Please click on the link above to join our coordinating community of corporate 
executives, cybercafe's, concerned individuals and organizations who have 
participated in past KidCasts, or those new folks wanting to join us?

We hope you will convert your curiosity into action, liberate your creative
self and participate fully with us. We emplore corporate and philanthropic
members of this list, to assist us in acquisition of funds to establish a system of
economic support that will grow KidCast For Peace into a mainstream event and
planetary PEACE PLACE on the Internet!

If you haven't yet registered your participation, now is the time to do so!
Send your pledge to organize at least yourself and create a KidCast
for Peace page with *your* creative genius and suggestions for improving
things. Send it's URL to us (as well as any other communication for fellow
kidcast'ers to kidcast@envirolink.org.

"KidCast For Peace; Solutions For A Better World" is our way to
facilitate a geographically and economically divergent community of
"kids-of-all-ages" to express their views on how to make this a happier,
healthier, safer peaceful world...our focus is on K-12 students and Youth.

You can be a "Storyteller of the New Millennium" and potential leader of
our future world. This project is designed to give "kids" a strong voice in
shaping the world they will inherit. We encourage you to participate
in this project; thereby demonstrating your support of a harmonious Humanity!

KidCast For Peace began in 1995 as the dream of one concerned global
citizen. It was made real by agreement and participation from many of you. 
Your continued active participation is required for the success of this event.

We welcome *you* as a fellow evolutionary agent.  Our hope is that you will 
allow the child in you to SPEAK OUT and PARTICIPATE in presenting *your* 
HEART and your ART!

We are excited to be able to join with so many of you to build this PEACE
PLACE on the planet. Our commitment to making a positive difference in each
other's lives and the world-at-large is what keeps us going. PRONOIA is the
keyword here at Creativity Cafe (http://creativity.net/pronoia.html). Please
SIGN OUR GUESTBOOK and let us know you care?

Thanks to all of you who have been with us since the beginning...and especially 
to our new visitors...congratulations for being here now :-)

Aloha,
A Concerned Citizen of Planet Earth

 
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Kindling Messages For KidCast #6

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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 
From: cu-help@gsn.org
To: peter@creativity.net
Subject: Event Reservation

RE: Educational Event Reservation

Peter H. Rosen,

Your event reservation has been approved!  Your event
("Kid's" Culture Share) has been added to our event calendar
and the reflector has been configured for your date.

Please make note that due to bandwidth constraints we
can only allow 15 CU-SeeMe connections per conference.
This limitation will be changing in the near future!

Please use the below information to access our
reflector on your reserved date.  Please let us know
if your event is changed or cancelled so we can remove
it from the calendar!


Reflector Reservation Information
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Reflector Domain: video.gsn.org
Reflector IP Address: 199.106.67.100



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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 
From: Lisa Jobson <ljobson@igc.org>
To: "V.A.R.I.O.U.S." 
Subject: Re: Since you are a working with Kids and CU-SeeMe

Peter,
I've taken a look at the Creativity Cafe site and it looks wonderful!  I
will certainly pass word of your project to teachers and students across
our network.  Is there more information I should have beyond what is on the
sites?
We'd also love to get folks at the Creativity Cafe involved with global
collaborations and community building through the I*EARN network.  You
might get a kick out of looking around our site a little, and I'll also put
some information in the mail to you today.
Best wishes with your work!

Warmly,
Lisa
http://www.iearn.org/
I*EARN; Telecommunicating Youth Making A Difference


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>From: "Stapleton, Chris (UIOA)" <chris.stapleton@unistudios.com>
>To: "'peter@creativity.net'" 
>Cc: Outreach-s98@siggraph.org
>Subject: SIGGRAPH Community Outreach--Important News
>Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 
>
>        Peter Rosen
>        V.A.R.I.O.U.S. Media
>        2263 Sacramento St.
>        San Francisco, CA  94115
>
>
>> Dear Peter Rosen,
>> Congratulations, your proposal entitled "KidsCast for Peace;
>> Solutions for a Better World" has been accepted  by the Outreach Jury
>> to be featured in the Community Outreach program at the SIGGRAPH 98
>> conference in Orlando, July 19-24, 1998. We are very excited about the
>> submission and we hope this exhibit will be an important milestone in
>> making Community Outreach a strong tradition with SIGGRAPH conferences
>> well into the future. Information about your work will also be
>> published in the new conference publication called Abstracts and
>> Application Catalogue.
>>
>        outreach_s98@siggraph.org
>
>> or via courier to:
>>
>> Anne Richardson
>  sigKIDS Co-Director
>> 9549 Trulock Ct.
>> Orlando, FL 32817
>>

  MORE KC#6 Kindling Messages

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Kindling Messages For KidCast #5
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"KidCast For Peace; Solutions For A Better World"

Children Gather In CyberSpace To Assist Adults in Solving Global Issues

On November 17, 1997, "KidCast For Peace; Solutions For A Better World" an
Internet multicast, will enable a global gathering of "kids-of-all-ages" in
schools, cybercafes, at home and in art centers to suggest how "the
adults," can make this a happier, healthier, safer and more peaceful world.
They will meet in real and virtual worlds to offer creative solutions to
planetary problems. Instructions, documented sites, and the companies,
individuals and organizations supporting this event can be found in KidCast
Central (http://creativity.net/kidcast2.html), a "Peace Place" on the
Internet.

This fifth Netcast features analog and digital art, KidCast For Peace
personal Web sites, VRML worlds and interactive jam sessions using
instruments made from materials found in nature. Grab this kid-in-you
opportunity to gather with kindred spirits in a Cyberspace Cu-SeeMe
videoconference to help transform humanity's shortsightedness into
opportunities for positive evolution.

"The Internet and it's virtual communities offer fantastic new ways to tap
into our creative potential and find collaborative solutions for personal
and planetary ailments.  'KidCasting' empowers the Storytellers of the Next
Millennium," says Peter Rosen--founder of V.A.R.I.O.U.S.; Visionary
Artists Resources Including Other Unique Services, and executive
coordinator of KidCast For Peace.

The November event set the stage for this Earthday98 KidCast. Which in turn
will point the energy toward the SigKids area of SIGGRAPH'98; an International
Computer Graphics Convention in Orlando, Florida in July.  A special
KidCast there will be interactive TO THE MAX!  Find the latest updates in
Creativity Cafe's Community Forum.

Have fun! Make some art! Share your Heart!!

Those wishing to join us and make art LIVE on the spot 
at KidCast Creation Stations, may do so at "Creativity Cafe for a day:" on Maui 
and elsewhere, locations to be announced.

Let your imagination run wild and begin now to express your visions of
peace. Plan to build a personal KidCast Web Page and/or VRML World in time
for our global gathering and videoconference on the Internet (send us the
URL).  The CU-SeeMe KidCast, will facilitate a global "Living Gallery"
where participants hold up their art and interact with each other. We
encourage local volunteers to step forward immediately to help with the
organization where ever you are? Organize children in your area and guide
their participation in our CU-SeeMe Netcast.

To continue these exciting programs, V.A.R.I.O.U.S. relies upon
generous community and corporate participation and sponsorship. 
To make a tax deductable donation or become a sponsor, contact:

V.A.R.I.O.U.S., 2263
Sacramento St., #2
San Francisco,  CA  94115
various@creativity.net.

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******** "KidCast For Peace" ********
is but one project of Visionary Artists' Resources
Including Other Unique Services (V.A.R.I.O.U.S.)(sm) (a not-for-profit,
community benefit and educational association founded in 1980).

We request your assistance to help us reach OUR GOAL; creating 
a network of "New Schools For the Next Millennium."  Let's ground
the vision of a network of Creativity Cafe's around the world that are live
and cuberspace networking salons featuring educational entertainment 
and electronic cyber-theatre. A fun place where people gather for play 
and work; where creative people using the marriage of art and technology
learn from each other and have a forum for showcasing and innovatively
marketing their work, talents and skills.  Since 1980 we have been creating
demonstration physical environments and events where "Strangers, are 
just friends...who haven't yet met."

Members of V.A.R.I.O.U.S. have created many physical demonstrations of 
Creativity Cafe's highly interactive environment and innovative networking salon
in physical and virtual realityies.  During the day CCs will serve as a:



 Combination CyberPlay Space and Creativity Camp for kids and their families
 Venue for artists to create, perform and market their work, and enable exciting corporate presentations and trainings
 Digital Storytelling Parlor
 Communications and cultural resource center that fosters global
community and Neighborhood unity.
  Gathering place for the curious as well as those on the cutting edge
of art and technology
 Environment for healthy libation, facilitated networking, and random
schmoozing.

...and much much more. We are developing CREATIVITY.COM to offer economic support of the creative soul, searching for right livelyhood, especially in the United States (which falls far short of Europe's support of talented and creative people).


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In the evening, Creativity Cafe (and associated networks)
transform into Location Based Entertainment emporiums offering

 

 
Interactive theater experiences mixing live performance with
state-of-the-art digital technology
 
 A forum for spontaineous group interaction with art and performace
being the catalyst
  
 A broadcast venue designed to multicast with other cyber cafes,
performance sites, and homes connected to the internet.
  
 Dancing to live and recored music accompanied by large screen
projections of visual art provided by audience members for realtime
cooperative control and manipulation

Creativity Cafe is being launched in San Francisco and elsewhere. We exist in
cyberspace and touch down frequently in physical reality.  We invite your participation 
in both CC's business and creative expansion. It is the desire of those affiliated with CCs 
to further the role creative people can play using the latest technology (metal based 
and human based) for personal evolution and environmental benefit. Explore other
areas of Creativity Cafe in our resource center: 

http://creativity.net/resources.html .


Address inquiries and requests for sponsorship (KidCast) and
investment (Creativity Cafe) oppportunities to:

      V.A.R.I.O.U.S. Media
      2263 Sacramento Street #2
      San Francisco, CA 94115
      415.776.0821
      various@creativity.net