Project:Reversible..........Revealed!

Who:  All participants in Project:Reversible PLUS bring one interested friend!

When: Sunday, September 7, 7-10 PM

Where:  The Delancey Bar and Nightclub, 168 Delancey, www.thedelancey.com

The details……

Meet and Greet:  7-8:30 PM

Come meet all of the remarkable and inspired people involved in Project:Reversible!

Show and Share:  8:30-9:30 PM

Be ready for YOUR "spoke" (art direction, choreography, music, fundraising, etc.) to share a 5-10 minute summary of what you've done so far and what you're up to next to bring Project:Reversible to fruition!

Reveal:  9:30 PM

The three charities chosen through YOUR votes will be revealed!

Treat Yourself!

Food will be provided, though we ask that you buy your own drinks to support The Delancey.

 

 

listen free to new album from project:r team member

Reposted from e-mail message:

hi, good people -- ahmond, who is creating the compilation disc for Project:reversible and singing in the choir on Reversible has posted a first peek of his new album on facebook.

 

it includes the lovely (tongue-in-cheek) song "Go to Africa" which will likely end up on the Project:Reversible compilation disc!

 

also, the final track of his album appears on HBO's series Rome.

  

check out the album for free on facebook ... it's quite lovely and represents more than a year of work on ahmond's part. congratulations, ahmond!

http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/Ahmond/10259922690"

 

enjoy, 

joshua

 

 

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From: Facebook <notification+oghl1e1z@facebookmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:58 PM
Subject: Ahmond Cloud sent you a message on Facebook...
To: Joshua Aaron Guthals <joshua.guthals@gmail.com>


Ahmond sent you a message.

Subject: Exclusive 1st Listen

"Get an exclusive first listen to the entire debut album here:
http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/Ahmond/10259922690"

Ahmond has shared a Page with you. To view the Page or to reply to the message, follow this link:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?inbox/readmessage.php&t=1003776306498

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Just Voted & Hi!

Hi everyone. Just got done voting. I put my vote down for the Human Rights Campaign and the Earth one that I forgot the full name of ...Damn ...(the one that helps SOuth Africa build infrastructure). 

I look forward to hearing and working with you all.

Thanks Josh for helping to spearhead this.

Bright stars to all.

~Ahmond

Important Dates

What Will You Reverse? [Survey]

Project:Reversible Survey

Thank you for your interest in Project:Reversible! We are targeting a wondeful set of charities and causes for fundraising. This cycle, we're partnering with preexisting organizations and serving as a conduit and promoter for their fundraising needs.

Instructions: Please take a few moments and rate the causes that the 30+ strong team at P:R has shared as the causes we strongly support. We have included short descriptions of each charity within the pages of the survey; they are in the same order as the survey. If you don't need the info, simply skip to the last page to vote for YOUR favorite charity!

Click here to take the survey:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=4jKq9Z177kPoi4f21vfVqA_3d_3d

Goals: In time, we would love to see Project:Reversible grow into a full-fledged foundation capable of administering proceeds directly to the causes that we believe in. Your contribution to the success of this initial effort will get us to that goal! Again, thank you for your time and effort!!!

About us: mission, vision, goals

Project:Reversible is a network of artists committed to improving local communities by moving beyond homophobia, racism, and suicide and moving into a celebration of diversity, equality, and acceptance.

The vision: Art is even more beautiful when it inspires positive action. P:R will develop a productive network of diverse, creative souls to release a series of 'products' and programs that will enhance community discussion and enhancement around the critical social issues of race, sexual orientation, and mental health. 

The story:  Conceived in June 2008 by Joshua Guthals as a way to raise funds for organizations working to end racism, homophobia, and prevent suicide,  P:R was inspired by a song Joshua wrote in 2005 called Reversible (listen here). For more, see Joshua's "Inspiration" story on the home page.

The mission:

• to increase appreciation of and engagement in social diversity and community
• to transcend currently limited frameworks of understanding each other
• to spur local action towards these ends

Specific goals: 

• under the tagline "What Will You Reverse?", to create a series of products that encourages people to address our key issues
• to raise money and awareness for our Causes through: performing a live fund-raiser; releasing song and video of  "Reversible"; producing a P:R compilation CD
  
• to encourage artistic, fun and inclusive community-building events and initiatives 
• to raise awareness of creative entrepreneurial idealism (CEI) as a vehicle for accomplishing these goals

Our causes:  The charities benefiting from P:R's 2008 fundraising efforts were chosen by a vote of all active members of the P:R team, and represent the three areas of primary concern for the project:

§ Homophobia: The Matthew Shepard Foundation

§ Racism/Genocide: Darfur Peace and Development Organization

§ Suicide Prevention: The Jed Foundation

The significance of our causes is clear. Here are just a few current problems affecting our communities: 

International

• In the year 2000, approximately one million people died from suicide: a "global" mortality rate of 16 per 100,000, or one death every 40 seconds.
• Mental disorders (particularly depression and substance abuse) are associated with more than 90% of all cases of suicide; however, suicide results from many complex sociocultural factors and is more likely to occur particularly during periods of socioeconomic, family and individual crisis situations (e.g. loss of a loved one, employment, honou). [World Health Organization]
• Every year at least 10 million people are forcibly evicted, over and above the dramatically
  high numbers of people moved from their places of origin as a consequence of internal displacement, ethnic cleansing, refugee flows or other manifestations of coerced population movements. [United Nations]

National

• Over 32,000 Americans commit suicide each year. [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]
• More than half of the reported hate crimes in the US are motivated by racial bias; 16% by homophobia.[Federal Bureau of Investigation]

These statistics affect all of us. They affected Joshua in a particular way:

 "'Reversible' was written for a gay friend of mine whose father threatened to kill him for his sexuality when he was 14, leading my friend to throw himself out of a second-story window. He survived with two broken arms and was put into foster care and carried with him a life of fear about other people's intolerance for who he was."

"I saw an amazing film called 'Warchild' about a Sudanese man, Emmanuel Jal, who went from a child soldier of civil war to a rapper singing around the world about war, peace, and transformation. Our song 'Reversible' speaks to the possibility for changing your life. It touches listeners at our live shows and has rich potential to be a powerful motivator for transforming our communities--because sometimes art inspires in ways that newspaper stories cannot." 

We hope Project:Reversible's mission and vision mean something to you, too.