[Grassroots-l] Saturday OLPC/Sugar NYC Fest in the Sun! (10am - 5pm, June 12)

[Holt]

  "FIGMENT is an explosion of creative energy. It’s a free, annual 
celebration
of pARTicipatory art and culture where everything is possible. For one
weekend each summer, it transforms Governors Island into a large-scale
collaborative artwork… and then it’s gone."

Come take the free ferry to NY City's beautiful Governor's Island, just 
off the southern tip of Manhattan, and find our OLPC/Sugar volunteer 
crew in "NOLAN PARK" :
http://figmentproject.org/2010/events/figment-nyc-2010-event-projects-artists/

Directions to the free ferries -- many of us will be taking the 10AM 
Saturday (June 12) ferry from Lower Manhattan here:
http://figmentproject.org/2010/events/figment-nyc-2010/
http://figmentproject.org/2010/events/figment-nyc-2010/getting-there/

Best of all, the weather has cleared up completely morning & early 
afternoon too, for our New-Solar-Panel demo with our 10+ XOs and XO-1.5s:

"One Laptop per Child (OLPC NYC) invites you to create your own art and
music with digital paintbrushes and music makers on our rugged green 
laptops,
and communicate wirelessly and live with other kids, using solar-power!
Build a colorful photo-tapestry together with other kids around the world,
or work on a piece together with your new friends at FIGMENT.
Our software empowers kids to take control of their own imaginations,
and just Begin Creating. We spark young minds across Asia, Africa,
Latin America and North American schools making it possible for kids to
collaborate freely across continents. Seize your tools!"

Hope to see you there, helping to make the above art-will-set-you-free 
vision a reality -- look for us in "NOLAN PARK" (eastern park of the 
island) where we'd love you to help Marife Mago organizing and 
presenting Sugar activities -- for what is very likely to be thousands 
of visitors :)