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Peace Day Party, Times Square, September 21st

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Strengthening the message of the International Day of Peace as declared by 193 counties of the United Nations. Good News Corporation, a nonprofit produced the event with coproducers, We Can’t Have That Foundation and the BeTerrific production team. With help from Sarabeth Corporation, Gaia Holistic. Hugg a Planets, May Peace Prevail on Earth Flags and Poles and Animoduals made the LIVE EVENT so colorful.

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Celebrating 20 Years with Good News Planet & WE, The World!! Was a MAJOR SUCCESS – Videos Here…

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PRESS ALERT | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Andrew Kaen and Planet Heart presents in association with We, The World and Good News Planet
Celebrate 20 Years with We, The World and Good News Planet 1998-2018
Interdependence Day, Day 2 of 11 Days of Global Unity
Who: Planet Heart, We, The World, Good News Planet
What: 20th Anniversary Celebration of We, The World and Good News Planet
Where: Church Of The Village, 201 West 13th St @ 7th Ave NYC; worldwide via Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/TheWeCampaign/)
When: Wednesday, Sept 12, 2018: 6:30PM – 9:30PM, doors open 6:00PM
Why: To Celebrate two great organizations that have been doing positive work for the planet for the past twenty years.
How: We are grassroots organizations that seeks the support of organizations and individuals like you to make this a WE effort.
August 12, 2018, NYC – On Wednesday, September 12, 2018 from 6:30pm sharp – 9:30pm Andrew Kaen and Planet Heart will
present an Interdependence Day Peace Party Celebrating 20 Years with We, The World and Good News Planet. Come join us in
NYC for A Very Special Evening with our Conscious Community as we gather to celebrate Interdependence and two great organizations,
We, The World and Good News Planet. Listen to Inspirational Messages, Experience Live Music Performances including the World
Premiere of the song “We, The World and a Tribute to Wilson Pickett, hear Inspired Poetry along with a Guided Meditation and
Video Presentations including a Special Video Message from Deepak Chopra (Best Selling Author and We, The World Advisory
Board Member) and a Tribute to Carole Hart (Sesame Street, Free To Be, You And Me). There will also be a Special Opening Music
Performance at 6:30PM by Dynamic New York R&B Recording Artist Al Smith. Also Featuring: Kathryn Davis (Host of Heart of
Mind Radio), Rev. Susana Bastarrica (Vigil for Peace and Ecology), Claire Diab (International Yoga Therapist, Board Member of the
Deepak Chopra Center), Rev. Deborah Moldow (Founder, Garden of Light), Alan Steinfeld (Host/Producer, New Realities TV),
Mitchell Rabin (Host/Producer, A Better World TV and Radio), Andrew Kaen (Founder, Planet Heart, Producer of Annual World
Peace Earth Day Celebration), Kaeshi Chai with PURE (Founder, Bellyqueen and Pure Urban Ritual Experiment), Kristin Hoffmann
(Singer-Songwriter), Heidi Little (Singer-Songwriter), Joumana Rizk (Peacelights) Monica Willard (United Religions Initiative) with
hosts Rick Ulfik (Founder, We, The World and the WE Campaign) and Paul Sladkus (Founder, Host, and Producer, Good News
Planet). Location: Church of the Village, 201 West 13th Street at 7th Avenue. Cost: Sliding Scale $10/20 pre-paid by Sept 11 or $15/25
(cash only at door).
For Tickets: http://bit.ly/WTW20GN and more information contact us at andrewkaen@wetheworld.org, Call 212-
222-5432.

All the proceeds go to We, The World and Good News Planet. Doors Open & Registration at 6pm. Produced by Andrew
Kaen and Planet Heart in Association with We, The World and Good News Planet.
We, The World (WE.net) is a global coalition-building 501 C 3 non-profit organization. Founded in 1998 by Rick Ulfik, We, The
World annually connects and promotes thousands of socially conscious organizations and businesses, representing millions of people,
to amplify their efforts and generate public awareness and action for peace, justice, sustainability and transformation. In 2004 We, The
World and global partners launched 11 Days of Global Unity September 11 -21 linking local awareness and action campaigns into an
inspiring international movement. Participants have included: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jane Goodall, Deepak Chopra, Daniel
Ellsberg, Amy Goodman, Bill McKibben, Eve Ensler, Ralph Nader, Arun Gandhi, Marianne Williamson, Patch Adams, Neale
Donald Walsch, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Robert Thurman, and many other visionary leaders from around the world. We, The
World has impacted the lives of more than 6 million people through Awareness and Action Campaigns like 11 Days of Global Unity –
11 Ways to Transform Your World. Good News Planet, also founded in 1998, Mission is to Find, Create, Receive Life Affirming,
Thought Provoking Good News, Entertainment and Events. Positive. Up-Beat, Not Beat Up. Good News Corporation, also a 501 C 3
nonprofit, has produced and featured over 1,000 Peace related stories and for the last several years have been producing the Peace Day
Party in places including Times Square with a live human Peace Sign celebrating the International Day of Peace each year on Sept 21,
which is the last day of 11 Days of Global Unity.
Event Link: http://www.WE.NET/20Years Facebook Event Link
Visit us at: www.WE.NET and http://www.goodnewsplanet.com/

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Louis Armstrong House Museum Celebrates Twenty Years of the Louis Armstrong Archives

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Before there was a historic house museum, there were 72 boxes of Louis Armstrong’s artifacts located at the Rosenthal Library at Queens College/CUNY in New York City. The story of how those boxes got there and grew into the worlds largest archives dedicated to a jazz musician is a true credit to both Louis and Lucille Armstrong.

Throughout his storied career, Louis Armstrong entertained countless fans around the world onstage with his show-stopping live performances. But offstage, Armstrong was dedicated to documenting the story of his life, writing autobiographical stories, recording reel-to-reel tapes, designing collages, annotating photographs and compiling scrapbooks, doing so “for posterity.”

Louis Armstrong passed away in 1971 in his Corona, Queens home. What was left with his wife Lucille was a treasure trove of artifacts. “Pops always valued anything people gave him, and kept everything so far as possible,” Lucille said in 1974. “He maintained a very orderly collection of autographed pictures, letters, cards, gold records and other awards—all the things he valued. I have them in the house in Corona.”

Lucille Armstrong passed away in 1983 and, in her will, left the contents of Louis’s collection to the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, who in turn, chose Queens College to administer it. Archivist and current Louis Armstrong House Museum Executive Director Michael Cogswell was hired in 1991 and was greeted on his first day by all 72 boxes of artifacts to preserve, arrange and catalog – and so it began.

Three years later, on May 24, 1994, jazz legend Lionel Hampton cut a ribbon and the Louis Armstrong Archives was officially open. On opening day, the Armstrong Archives housed only the Louis Armstrong Collection—everything found in Louis and Lucille’s home in Corona—but since then, it has strategically grown to include a total of eight research collections, including the monumental Jack Bradley Collection, (the world’s largest private Armstrong collection) and the Gösta Hägglöf Collection (the biggest European assemblage of Armstrong-related artifacts). The Armstrong Archives is now the world’s largest publicly held archives for any jazz musician.

In 2003, the Armstrong’s home, perfectly preserved, opened to the public as the Louis Armstrong House Museum. The Museum features regular exhibitions of materials drawn from the Armstrong Archives.

In the course of these 20 years, the Louis Armstrong Archives has played a central role in a reappraisal of Armstrong’s importance, with dozens of biographies and documentaries making heavy use of the Archives’ holdings. More than a thousand researches have logged in countless hours of research with the collections.

To celebrate the significance of the Louis Armstrong Archives, the Louis Armstrong House Museum debuts the new exhibit: 20 Years of the Louis Armstrong Archives. The exhibit features a selection of one-of-a-kind mementos from the different research collections many of which are on public display for the first time. “This exhibit is to be enjoyed by Armstrong fans ‘for posterity,’ just as Louis Armstrong intended,” noted Michael Cogswell. The exhibit, curated by Louis Armstrong House Museum’s Archivist Ricky Riccardi, runs from May 28 through October 6, 2014 and is free with museum admission.

Louis Armstrong House Museum:
The Louis Armstrong House Museum is located at 34-56 107^th Street in Corona, Queens, New York. The museum is open Tuesday – Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturday/Sunday from 12:00 noon – 5:00 pm. Travel directions and more can be found at LouisArmstrongHouse.org or by calling the museum at 718.478.8274. Thanks to the vision and funding of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, the Louis Armstrong House Museum welcomes visitors from all over the world, six days per week, 52 weeks per year. The Louis Armstrong House Museum is a member of the American Alliance of Museums, Association of African American Museums, Black History Month 5 Boro Tour, Museums Council of New York City, New York State Museums Association, National Trust for Historic Preservation, NYC & Co., and the Queens Tourism Council. The museum is a constituent of Kupferberg Center for the Arts – Queens College/CUNY.

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Yoko Ono’s “Imagine Peace” sing-a-long in Times Square part of Make Music Winter in NYC Special Edition

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On December 21st, come together and sing John Lennon’s “Imagine” at the very moment Yoko Ono’s new video IMAGINE PEACE lights up sixteen Times Square billboards at 11:57pm. Good News video of the closing evening in final editting, stay tuned. Thanks, Yoko what a special event for the world. 12/28/12

IMAGINE PEACE is Yoko Ono’s worldwide initiative of anti-violence. In the film, the words “Imagine Peace” are written in 24 languages set over the tranquil imagery of a blue-sky background. The piece has been transformed into a multi-channel work specifically for Times Square, and spreads the message of peace across Times Square’s monumental screens simultaneously.

Says Yoko Ono: “It’s Time for Action, Action is Peace. Think Peace, Act Peace, Spread Peace, IMAGINE PEACE! Together we have the power to change the world. I LOVE YOU!!”

Yoko Ono‘s “Imagine Peace” is part of the second annual Make Music Winter which, like its summer version, has free, live, outdoor music happening all over NYC on Friday (12/21). Almost all of them are participatory and you can be a part of it (some require musical skills, some do not).

Other notable Make Music Winter events include “James Holt: Thru-Line” (2 – 3 PM), where “amateur and professional string players disperse to each of the Brooklyn-bound G train subway platforms. Over the course of an hour, every time a train arrives, musicians will step in and out of the front car to give subway riders a continuous, tag-team performance of the famous Prelude from J.S. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G major.”

There’s also Phil Kline‘s ambient boombox work “Peregrine” starting at 7 PM in front of BAM and migrating through Fort Greene, Brooklyn till 7:45. Boomboxes will be provided to the first 50 participants, and if you bring your own they’ll provide you with a cassette.

There’s lots more happening with Make Music Winter, you can check out the schedule here.

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Yoko Ono’s “Imagine Peace” sing-a-long in Times Square part of Make Music Winter in NYC

editor — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 04:16:44 +0000

Says Yoko Ono: “It’s Time for Action, Action is Peace. Think Peace, Act Peace, Spread Peace, IMAGINE PEACE! Together we have the power to change the world. I LOVE YOU!!”

There’s lots more happening with Make Music Winter, you can check out the schedule here.

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