July 26 2010

Press Release

BELLA GAIA (Beautiful Earth) Live Media Performance to
Close Aspen Environment Forum Ceremonies

David Monsma, Executive
Director of the Forum to make Introduction and Closing Remarks for Performance
to Begin

6:30 PM, July 28^th in McNulty Room, Doerr-Hosier
Center

Aspen,
CO July 26, 2010— BELLA GAIA (Beautiful Earth) an astoundingly
moving multimedia presentation created and composed by award-winning filmmaker,
composer and violinist Kenji Williams will be performed at the Aspen Institute
Environment Forum for Closing Night Ceremonies – July 28 at 6:30 pm in
the McNulty Room, Doerr-Hosier Center.

BELLA GAIA successfully simulates space flight, and uses
live onstage musical performance, large-scale projected NASA scientific
visualizations, cutting-edge technology and a thought-provoking stream of
crucial scientific data and cultural imagery to showcase the amazing art and
cultural heritage of civilizations inhabiting planet Earth. A “Living Atlas”
journey of our planet, BELLA GAIA incorporates satellite imagery of Earth,
timelines and data to elucidate the impact on the planet of everything from
climate change to air traffic. Kenji Williams, inspired by first hand stories
of NASA astronauts deeply transformed by seeing the Earth from Space, created
the BELLA GAIA live experience says, “I wanted to simulate this powerful
experience for those of us who can’t go to space, and create a channel for a
more whole-brain, emotional relationship with our home planet in an age of
left-brain, information overload”.

BELLA GAIA also features Arctic photography of National
Geographic Photographer James Balog, and Gulf Oil Spill Photography of
Internationally recognized photographer Daniel Beltra as well animations of
Energy and Environment Forum Plastic Planet: Stemming the Tide of Waste
Speaker, Project Kaisei (Ocean Planet), Doug Woodring.

“BELLA GAIA is Just Beautiful. It really felt like I was
back in Space.”

—Piers Sellers, NASA Astronaut, Spacewalker
(STS-112 Atlantis, STS 121 Discovery)

GENERAL INFORMATION

Kenji Williams

Remedy Arts LLC
New York, NY 10029

Email: kenji [at] remedyarts.com

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