"By the time we got to Woodstock, we were half a million strong and everywhere was song and celebration. And I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shotgun in the sky, turning into butterflies above our nation."

Performers, artists, DJs, musicians, producers, music venues and festivals from around the world can have a very special role in cocreating world peace and transformation through music and the performance arts when they join Musicians and Fine Artists for World Peace, MFAWP.

Our 3100+ members in 57 countries include Donovan, Patti LaBelle, Melba Moore, Pete Seeger, the New Rascals, Willie Nelson's Peace Research Institute, the Dalai Lama, Holly Near, Country Joe, Wayne Dyer, Patch Adams, Jean Houston, Dennis Kucinich & Barbara Lee. See full list at www.butterflyspirit.org/projects/mfawp_list.php

After reading this, we are hoping you will respond and have us list you on our website as a member if you resonate with our mission statement & goals.

Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace was founded by Alan Moore in 1999 to help produce, promote and support worldwide and regional cultural events, concerts and festivals that champion basic human rights, nonviolence, world peace and environmental awareness.

Our events will lend support to election reforms such as campaign financing, clean elections, the reform of the Electoral College system and Congressman Dennis Kucinich's proposal for a cabinet level Department of Peace that is being promoted by the Peace Alliance, www.thepeacealliance.org
We are working to support a U.S. cabinet level Department of Peace because its goals include the creating of a national peace and nonviolence curriculum for school children and adults, programs to address the cycle of abuse and violence that threaten domestic and community environments, as well as finding new solutions to resolve international conflicts.

Our events will also support the overall raising of global consciousness in order to
1. protect the earth and its natural resources, including the preservation of rain and old growth forests
2. end the cycle of violence and abuse rooted in our male dominated culture,
3. raise corporate responsibility and oversight
4. help indigenous people's causes and the preservation of their culture
5. establish an international treaty banning space based weapons,
6. increase funding for art and music programs
7. acknowledgment those artists and musicians who uphold the planetary virtues important to transforming and improving our lives, our culture and society at large.

Our current projects are:
40th Anniversary Woodstock - We are working with our members and producers to organize a 40th Anniversary Woodstock events in 2009 in true spirit of what Woodstock was all about. We also would like to promote and link with many of the festivals that want to celebrate the 40th anniversary with us as well.
Please see http://passion.edu/elearn/mod/resource/view.php?id=1712

Our event for San Francisco's Golden Gate Park is planned for Sunday, October 18, 2009. We are also doing the Green Zone at this event. Interested vendors and sponsors should contact me at bflyspirit8@aol.com Please also see the producers page at http://www.2b1records.com

Peace Full Sail - On March 8th, 2008 the Beige Flor, a 54 foot sailing vessel with Skipper Detlef Kowalewski of Germany and his International crew/band will set sail from off the coast of Africa and Europe for a two month trip known as Peace Full Sail for EuroRock.
EuroRock, founded by LouRicca is a tour for Peace working with Musicians and Fine Artists for World Peace that has toured America with musicians from all over the world and has been going on three years as of now. EuroRock's mission is to show the world we can all work together despite differences in color, nationality, religious or political beliefs. EuroRock expands with Peace Full Sail with known musicians from all over the world to help bring peace across the Atlantic Ocean and hopefully the world. EuroRock's land tour is scheduled for the fall of 2008.
During the Peace Full Sail journey, the crew/musicians will write songs inspired from the travel about peace and getting along in the word. The trip will hopefully (if equipment is sponsored) be broadcast live and streamed on the Internet every day from the boat as it sails to its destination bringing a message of Peace to the world. The crew is also filming the journey for a documentary to be aired on many International broadcast stations.
More at http://www.myspace.com/peacefullsail

International Day Of Peace - Concerts in Geneva with B1Nation and with the International World Peace Tour at the United Nations in New York City.
Please see www.b1nation.org and www.internationalworldpeacetour.org

Please see this list of board members at http://passion.edu/elearn/mod/resource/view.php?id=1671
Info on joining and our CD at http://passion.edu/elearn/mod/resource/view.php?id=1673
Musicians for Peace on MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/musiciansforpeace

Our fundraising will also support the work of the Butterfly Gardens Association and Project Chrysalis

The Butterfly Gardener's Association seeks to foster an appreciation of hummingbirds, butterflies and other invertebrates, and to promote the establishment and conservation of habitats in urban communities and natural areas across the country. It also plans to develop butterfly education programs for children in schools, including the raising of butterflies in the classroom, encouraging the planting of butterfly gardens in schools and the use of butterfly books in reading programs and Earth Day events featuring the release of butterflies by school children

Project Chrysalis is a program to bring performers, musicians, dancers, artists, clowns, story tellers, puppeteers, and mimes into hospitals, hospices, schools, juvenile youth facilities, senior centers and other institutions that can use joy and healing entertainment for adults as well as children. We also plan to use other therapies such as horticulture, drumming, healing touch and massage, comedy, and theater as well. We believe that love and caring can be powerful therapeutic tools. Our members offer this through performance arts and other means. We will go wherever there is a calling.


Benefits of Membership

Besides supporting a good cause, your endorsement will offer many benefits. We will promote the artists, musicians, performers, venues and producers that join, publicize gigs on our events calendar, carry out media and public relations campaigns, issue critical news releases on our efforts, create a network of party activists and party goers to support the musicians and venues, and provide decorations and art for all our events. We even plan to make banners, artwork, and other decorations, made by member artists, that can be left behind at selected venues for the pleasure of their patrons. We will offer those in the San Francisco Bay area a special discount for events held at our venue in Vallejo too!

We would also like to help get artists and musicians the contacts, grants, sponsorships, and funding they need to continue their work so that we can cocreate a new culture of peace on Earth together. We plan to use our members to organize a series on concerts and a "Party for the Planet" that we hope may rebirth the spirit of the 60's in this new millennium. What we are really talking about here is a seed for a Woodstock Rainbow Butterfly Revival for the entire planet!


A brief history

Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace (MFAWP) is an outgrowth of Performing & Fine Artists for World Peace. We started a sister organization to focus on wider political issues, thus allowing Performing & Fine Artists for World Peace to keep its focus on educational programs and within the original vision of its charter.

Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace has been endorsed by Congressman Dennis Kucinich and Congresswoman Barbara Lee to promote concerts in support of a cabinet level Department of Peace (Please see www.thepeacealliance.org www.butterflyspirit.org/projects/US_Department_of_Peace.htm

On January 24, 2002, the board of MFAWP endorsed the initiative to ban Space Based Weapons after being asked by the Institute for Cooperation in Space (IIS) to extend our proposed concert to endorse the Space Preservation Act and Space Preservation Treaty. It would ban space-based weapons in all 190 Nations and is also sponsored by Dennis Kucinich.

On January 4, 2003, the director of ICIS Vancouver, Alfred Webre, had this to say. "We totally embrace and support Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace and your concert to raise awareness for U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich Department of Peace Act. As you know, Dennis recently spoke here in Canada at the CUSP Conference in Toronto. His "Sacred Mission" speech endorsed the Space preservation Treaty Conference, banning all space weapons. Please see: http://www.peaceinspace.com

On April 19, 2003, Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace organized a nude peace photo made of 53 couples spelling out the message Make Love Not War. This occurred on Baker Beach in San Francisco exactly one month to the day that the War on Iraq first began. Please see http://passion.edu/elearn/mod/resource/view.php?id=1669 for story and pictures.

In 2007 Alan Moore was elected by the board of Atlanta: City of Peace to chair a Global Peace Concert, GPC, which was to commemorate the 45th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream Speech." The GPC soon after became an official project of Musicians for Peace until Moore resigned his chairmanship.

Within a short time Musicians for Peace regrouped, formed a new board and began to focus on cooperative events productions with B1Nation, The International World Peace Tour, The International Day of Peace, the Gandhi Peace Tour, EuroRock, and EarthDance.

We furthermore are closely working with the Butterfly Gardeners Association, Authors for a Positive Millennium, and other organizations that plan to collectively make this happen by promoting this concept with the proposed Patch Adams Centers for Peace and Justice. We look forward to working with them on projects that foster love for the earth and caring for humanity.

As an organization that focuses on the arts and the role of the artist in society, our projects with the Butterfly Gardeners Association will be in that area with special emphasis on music i.e. concerts, recordings, radio programs etc.


How it began

Performing & Fine Artists for World Peace - PFAWP - was founded in 1986 by Howard Shapiro. As a songwriter and performing artist, Howard has always believed that he should use his creative gifts to support others in their work. That was the reason he created PFAWP, a nonprofit organization to do just that.

Howard sees the artist in society as a powerful force to bring about positive social change. In our first brochure we stated that our organization "emphasizes the arts as a means to promote certain ideals." These include harmony between the earth and its inhabitants, respect for the human rights of all people and the equitable sharing of the earth's resources so that all people will have the necessities of life."

PFAWP's mission is to establish a global network of performing & fine artists who dedicate their work to peace, promote freedom of expression through the arts and oppose governmental repression of creativity; preserves the diverse cultures of the world through cultural exchange; support environmental, human rights, world hunger and peace education organizations with their work; and support the goals of the United Nations and other international bodies addressing global issues.

In 1987 PFAWP received the Peace Messenger Award from the United Nations. I mention this because, although we were and still remain a small grassroots organization, this recognition supported our efforts to network with other organizations across the US and internationally.

Since our inception in 1986, we have sponsored art exhibits, concerts, festivals and workshops. Some of these have included the International Month of Peace, Caring for the Earth Month, The Dream Lives On: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the International Day of Peace Art Exhibit. I have had the honor of representing our organization at a number of international conferences where I have shared the work of our organization and performed my original music.

One of PFAWP most successful programs is Earth-Friendly Schools Hawai`i-Int. This program not only promotes caring for the earth, but the values of respect, responsibility, commitment and service. It was created on the island of Kauai in 1992 and has since expanded to include schools across the state of Hawaii, on the mainland US and internationally.


More on Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace

We are building a database of musicians, artists, performers, producers and media people, including environmental, peace, and spiritual organizations, that are all focused on global healing and transformation.

We would welcome receiving information about your projects and the good work that you are doing. We strongly believe in forming partnerships between organizations addressing social and environmental issues. You are welcome to include a short biography about yourself and your work and possibly one of your CDs that best expresses this shared dream.

Your support of MFAWP will be greatly appreciated. If you would like to get actively involved, please let me know. You might help with the visioning, organizing and birthing of this organization by joining our advisory committee. You may also help by offering to perform at an upcoming benefit, or by helping to sponsor one if you are in a position to do that.

Another easy way to help us immediately would be to forward this message to your email contacts and ask them to help by doing the same.

I really appreciate your interest in our project and hope that together, by spreading the word on the Internet, we can make our shared dreams come true.

Please see the Butterfly Gardeners website at www.butterflyspirit.org
My story, Butterfly Magic & the Moody Blues http://passion.edu/elearn/mod/resource/view.php?id=1231 was published by Arielle Ford in her book Magical Souvenirs-True Spiritual Adventures from Around the World.

You may also want to see www.woodstocknation.org/Performing.htm

We look forward to hearing from you in the near future.

Our warmest alohas,

May Peace Prevail on Earth & In Space!

Alan Moore
Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace - Founder & director
www.butterflyspirit.org/projects/mfawp_list.php
http://www.myspace.com/musiciansforpeace
Butterfly Gardeners Association - Founder & director
www.butterflyspirit.org
Authors for a Positive Millennium - Co-director
PO Box 1511, Vallejo, Ca 94590

Please also cc your responses to:

Howard Shapiro
Executive Director
Performing & Fine Artists for World Peace
P. O. Box 1050 Volcano, Hawaii 96785
(808)985-8725
e-mail: artpeac@aloha.net



_ Struggling artist $1-15 Member listing only

_ Individual $25 Includes our peace CD

_ Band $35 CD & listing on calendar

_ Sponsor $50 All above & sponsor listing on webpage

_ Gold Sponsor $100 All above & your logo on our page for a month

_ Angel $500 All the above & a VIP pass to our events

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