April 2008 - Second Annual!!
Celebration of Youth Service and Global Healing
We are planting sunflowers around the world!
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Click here to see the 2007 map of sunflowers!
Click here to see a listing of 2007 concerts!
JOIN young people of all ages around the world in April 2008 in a musical celebration inspired by the life and ideals of renowned physician, musician, theologian, and Nobel Peace laureate Dr. Albert Schweitzer.
These events celebrate what Dr. Schweitzer considered the basis of all true ethics: our human capacity to experience and act on a sense of Reverence for all Life.
This initiative was launched in April 2007 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first use of modern global telecommunications for environmental and peace advocacy – Dr. Schweitzer’s April 23, 1957 Declaration of Conscience, written at his Hospital in Africa and broadcast worldwide over Radio Oslo, which sparked people throughout the world to mobilize successfully to demand an end to the atmospheric nuclear test explosions that were then poisoning the planet.
JOIN US as we launch similar outpourings of public support for change through MUSIC, uniting people worldwide to:
Avert Climate Change, safeguarding the thousands of species whose existence is jeopardized by global warming
Abolish Nuclear Weapons, forever ending the threats of nuclear terrorism and nuclear war
Achieve the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s), eradicating severe poverty and related disease
For more information on Advocacy in these areas, click here.
PRELUDE: APRIL 1-21, 2008
In early April, musical and other events throughout the world will be dedicated to building a groundswell of grassroots support for the overall Reverence for Life, Music for Life initiative, leading into Earth Day (April 22) and Global Youth Service Days (April 25-27), the largest annual celebration of youth service in the world.
Any individual or organization can dedicate a concert or other musical event (or any other artistic, service, or advocacy activity) by registering their event here.
MAIN EVENTS: TUESDAY, APRIL 22 (EARTH DAY 2008) THROUGH FRIDAY-SUNDAY, APRIL 25-27 (GLOBAL YOUTH SERVICE DAYS), 2008
Reverence for Life, Music for Life
A Global Celebration of Music Uniting the World
People of all ages, in musical groups large and small, including youth orchestras, bands, and choruses throughout the world, will join in creating a global celebration of music, with concerts in the Marshall Islands (site of 1950’s nuclear test explosions), Australia/New Zealand, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and across time zones through Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Europe/Africa, and North and South America.
Anyone in the world can participate simply by playing music on behalf of Reverence for all Life and signing up here.
POSTLUDE EVENTS: MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2008 and BEYOND
Abolish Weapons of Mass Destruction,
Mobilize Tools of Global Healing
The Postlude period will welcome any additional musical events dedicated to the Reverence for Life, Music for Life initiative. To register your event, click here.
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