Hi Folks! <div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers all,</div><div><br></div><div>Ryan </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Holt</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org">holt@laptop.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:14 AM<br>Subject: [OLPC-NYC] Saturday OLPC/Sugar NYC Fest in the Sun! (10am - 5pm, June 12)<br>To: <a href="mailto:olpc-nyc@lists.laptop.org">olpc-nyc@lists.laptop.org</a>, Support Gangsters <<a href="mailto:support-gang@laptop.org">support-gang@laptop.org</a>>, <a href="mailto:olpc_boston@lists.laptop.org">olpc_boston@lists.laptop.org</a>, IAEP <<a href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:grassroots@lists.laptop.org">grassroots@lists.laptop.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:grassroots@lists.laptop.org">grassroots@lists.laptop.org</a>><br>
<br><br> "FIGMENT is an explosion of creative energy. It’s a free, annual<br>
celebration<br>
of pARTicipatory art and culture where everything is possible. For one<br>
weekend each summer, it transforms Governors Island into a large-scale<br>
collaborative artwork… and then it’s gone."<br>
<br>
Come take the free ferry to NY City's beautiful Governor's Island, just<br>
off the southern tip of Manhattan, and find our OLPC/Sugar volunteer<br>
crew in "NOLAN PARK" :<br>
<a href="http://figmentproject.org/2010/events/figment-nyc-2010-event-projects-artists/" target="_blank">http://figmentproject.org/2010/events/figment-nyc-2010-event-projects-artists/</a><br>
<br>
Directions to the free ferries -- many of us will be taking the 10AM<br>
Saturday (June 12) ferry from Lower Manhattan here:<br>
<a href="http://figmentproject.org/2010/events/figment-nyc-2010/" target="_blank">http://figmentproject.org/2010/events/figment-nyc-2010/</a><br>
<a href="http://figmentproject.org/2010/events/figment-nyc-2010/getting-there/" target="_blank">http://figmentproject.org/2010/events/figment-nyc-2010/getting-there/</a><br>
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Best of all, the weather has cleared up completely morning & early<br>
afternoon too, for our New-Solar-Panel demo with our 10+ XOs and XO-1.5s:<br>
<br>
"One Laptop per Child (OLPC NYC) invites you to create your own art and<br>
music with digital paintbrushes and music makers on our rugged green<br>
laptops,<br>
and communicate wirelessly and live with other kids, using solar-power!<br>
Build a colorful photo-tapestry together with other kids around the world,<br>
or work on a piece together with your new friends at FIGMENT.<br>
Our software empowers kids to take control of their own imaginations,<br>
and just Begin Creating. We spark young minds across Asia, Africa,<br>
Latin America and North American schools making it possible for kids to<br>
collaborate freely across continents. Seize your tools!"<br>
<br>
Hope to see you there, helping to make the above art-will-set-you-free<br>
vision a reality -- look for us in "NOLAN PARK" (eastern park of the<br>
island) where we'd love you to help Marife Mago organizing and<br>
presenting Sugar activities -- for what is very likely to be thousands<br>
of visitors :)<br>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Ryan Letada<br>Executive Director (Chief Builder)<br><a href="http://www.twitter.com/ekindling">www.twitter.com/ekindling</a> | <a href="http://www.ekindling.org">www.ekindling.org</a><br>
<br>" A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a flame to be kindled" - Plutarch<br>
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