BELLA GAIA - Beautiful Earth - NEWS

Beautiful Earth Foundation in Brooklyn NY schools!

8/30/2023

BEAUTIFUL EARTH in BROOKLYN
Our Non-Profit 501c3 Foundation "Beautiful Earth" Received a grant from Purpose Earth. On June 7th, at the height of the smoky air, our program, in collaboration with NASA, came to life at

Edward R. Murrow H.S. in Brooklyn, NY. Nearly 700 deeply engaged Middle and High School students (as well as Special Needs and Neuro-diverse students) attended and took part in an unforgettable experience! The program included a BELLA GAIA performance and 9 hands-on activity stations curated by NASA including an Augmented Reality experience.

Check out the short Video (shot by Iki Nakagawa, edited by Rhiannon Catalyst).
Help us bring this to more kids, by DONATING to Beautiful Earth!

Special thanks to Carlos Reyes, (Assistant Principal - Science),
Valerie Casasanto and Lindsay Brine (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Rhiannon Catalyst (Catalyst Culture Labs), and of course Purpose Earth, and NY Sunworks!

Kenji Williams wins ETH bounty for Foresight Institute Book - Allison Duettmann

5/25/2023

I'm honored to have received an ETH bounty for the Foresight Institute’s new book challenge: “Gaming the Future: Technologies for Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation”.

Foresight Institute selected Kenji Williams’s contributed piece on the topic of: “What's the most important legacy institution to help humans cooperate?”
Read my submitted piece:

gaming_the_future_book_bounty_-_kenji_williams.pdf
File Size:	100 kb
File Type:	pdf

LA Convergence BELLA GAIA Live

3/27/2023

Tuesday, March 28th! 2:00pm – 10:30pm, PDT.
Join us at The Rose Room L.A. with a global family of artists, musicians, dancers, conscious leaders, movers and shakers!

BELLA GAIA will present a short 10min sample performance with Kristin Hoffmann!
Details and Tickets: https://unity.earth/la-convergence/

Alex Grey's COSM journal archive available for free download

2/10/2023

Alex Grey's Pioneering COSM journal - published nearly 20 years ago featured Kenji Williams and other incredible artists and human beings. The free digital version recently became available for download! COSM Journal of Visionary Culture
https://shop.cosm.org/pro.../cosm-journal-1-digital-download

“Worldspirit can provide a beacon of hope, an example of what is possible when people collaborate with discipline, focus and maintain a positive vision for the world. To create a harmonious world we need to visualize it, bring it into existence through art, and translate it vividly through creative vision and sound. Worldspirit is an icon for this message and does not end here.” - Kenji Williams

Search for Alex Grey Worldspirit on YouTube to check out the performance.

Featured Art 'Transfigurations' (detail) by Alex Grey

#visionaryart #alexgrey #cosmjournal #psychedelic #spiritual #spiritualawakening #cosmos

Front Cover Press at Arts Presenters Conference

1/15/2023

BELLA GAIA makes the front cover of @cadenzaartists magazine for Arts Presenters conference NY. Featuring photo of BELLA GAIA dancer and choreographer Irina Akulenko.
Thank you Cadenza! Free Download:

final_cadenza_magazine__apap_2023_sml.pdf
File Size:	24216 kb
File Type:	pdf

Evil Twin Represents Kenji Williams for Speaking engagements

7/20/2022

Joining the roster of some of the most prolific artists, change makers, and thought leaders in the world, I am excited to announce that Evil Twin booking agency will be representing me for speaking engagements and more.
I'm honored to join some of my personal heroes - Vandana Shiva, Charles Eisenstein, Edward Snowden, Android Jones, Kevin Owocki, Glenn Greenwald, David Satori, Alex Grey, and more.
Lets go Scott and Liz! https://eviltwinbooking.org/speakers/

Some of the places I have spoken over the years as a keynote speaker, panel discussion, etc...

NASA - Goddard (MD), JPL (CA), JSC (TX)
TedX Tokyo
Smithsonian Institute
Columbia University
Sony Headquarters
RMACC Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium https://rmacc.org/
Conference on World Affairs (Boulder, CO)
Future of Storytelling (NYC)
Leaders in Software and Art (LISA)
University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Maryland
Aspen Ideas Festival
Unilever (Istanbul)
Miller Outdoor Theater Houston
Planet Home
Planetworkers
Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Covid19 changes Air Traffic

7/11/2020

What you see here is a split view of EU air travel. On the left is April 16, 2020 and on the right April, 18 2019. (via ZACH BUSH MD)
It can feel overwhelming to see this macro-visual, doubting that one can change the trajectory of the planet's future. But it's actually quite the opposite.
Every day, you get to choose the 'before' or 'after' photo shown above. You decide to purchase produce from a grocery store or a local farmer (even better, buy into a CSA farm in your town). You decide to drive to work, or bike. You decide if the next piece of clothing you purchase is new or second-hand.
It's ultimately consumers who have the steering wheel. And each of these choices really just come down to caring rather than turning a blind eye. We truly can set up consumerism to put money back into detoxifying and regenerating Mother Nature. It just comes down to making ourselves more accountable.
This global pandemic has forced all of us to sit back and finally give Mother Earth the stage. The virus, in some way, was Mother Nature showing us tangible proof of our capacity to change the future. We can see it with our own eyes; there's no question anymore.
‍
If there's one message we can take from 2020 so far, it's that we can affect change when we choose to. This is an excerpt from a recent article published by @pakaapparel , a women-led small business based in the Andes Mountains, featuring quarantine reflections. Read the full article and view more remarkable comparison imagery: https://blog.pakaapparel.com/

World Oceans Day with Sylvia Earle

6/8/2020

Bella Gaia and the Pedagogical Power of the Overview Effect: An Interview with Kenji Williams

5/16/2020

"...By using media to communicate about the environment and creating an immersive environment, Bella Gaia is a form of ecomedia pedagogy that expands people’s consciousness about the state of and value of our environment...."
Read Full Article >>

2020 Earthday Digital Premier with Astronaut Ron Garan!

4/23/2020

CultureNet, a new virtual arts education platform, and BELLA GAIA, the award-winning NASA-powered arts experience, are partnering to share the first digital livestream of the groundbreaking performance in a Virtual Earth Day celebration on April 22 at 5 p.m. EDT. The digital premiere is followed by a live discussion with BELLA GAIA founder Kenji Williams and astronaut Ron Garan, author of “The Orbital Perspective” and the upcoming, “Floating in Darkness.”
As we navigate the current cultural and ecological shifts, BELLA GAIA is turning its canceled shows into a gift for the world to share a new planetary vision of unity for humanity. The family-friendly concert will celebrate the awe and wonder of witnessing the Earth from orbit, guided by the live vocals of BELLA GAIA Ensemble artist Kristin Hoffmann. A special interactive Q&A inviting viewers to share their vision for the future will follow the 20-minute livestream.
“The only way we can get through this crisis is to come together as a functioning planetary community, said astronaut and fighter pilot, Ron Garan. “Once we do that, our unity will enable us to tackle any crisis we face.”
“BELLA GAIA is wonderful and timely in light of the planetary crisis we are facing." - Sting
The event is made possible by CultureNet, BELLA GAIA, and the SINE network.