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

[Marife Mago]

Hello Everyone!

Pictures from Saturday's  Figment event.  It was great to see some few
'Kababayans' in the event.

http://picasaweb.google.com/103688097439406242246/OLPCNYC#


Ryan: I have some of their emails  can you add them in our list? Thanks.

Mabuhay!

@marife



On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Ryan Onell Letada
<rletada at ekindling.org>wrote:

> Hi Folks!
>
> If you are in the NYC area, come join eKindling and One Laptop Per Child at
> the eKindling event. Good times in the sun! eKindling team (Ryan and Mafe)
> will be there, so if you come, make sure to say hi. We would love to meet
> you.
>
> The information is below. 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.
>
> Cheers all,
>
> Ryan
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Holt <holt at laptop.org>
> Date: Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:14 AM
> Subject: [OLPC-NYC] Saturday OLPC/Sugar NYC Fest in the Sun! (10am - 5pm,
> June 12)
> To: olpc-nyc at lists.laptop.org, Support Gangsters <support-gang at laptop.org>,
> olpc_boston at lists.laptop.org, IAEP <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>, "
> grassroots at lists.laptop.org" <grassroots at lists.laptop.org>
>
>
>  "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 :)
> _______________________________________________
> OLPC-NYC mailing list
> OLPC-NYC at lists.laptop.org
> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nyc
>
>
>
> --
> Ryan Letada
> Executive Director (Chief Builder)
> www.twitter.com/ekindling | www.ekindling.org
>
> " A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a flame to be kindled" -
> Plutarch
>
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