❂ Uniting the world with song, dance, DJs and drum beats from Tokyo to LA creating a new rhythm for a new game. ❂

We are going through a collective metamorphosis, and we stand at a precipice of timelines. We stand for a thriving world that is not just sustainable, but regenerative, where all beings can live vibrantly and equitably with health and happiness as a baseline.

♪ This fundraiser supports Artists in Action, including musicians, poets and performers from around the world, and their charities and causes that they support (see the causes below).

Artists in Action Unite is a 20 hour concert starting in Tokyo and ending in California, and is the opening ceremony for The Global Summit Impact Games, an interactive forum for Sustainable Development Goal solutions.

How the Concert Benefits Artists in Action and their Causes:

⋆ The Global Summit’s first Artists In Action Unite Concert directly benefits performers and their chosen causes (50% of all revenue). The other 50% through our nonprofit, Empowerment Works, will be used to coordinate at-cost production needs, year-round regenerative leadership training, and tools for local change-agents.

Why are we crowdfunding,
and why do we need YOUR support

To catalyze a ripple of positive impact and solutions around the Sustainable Development Goals, we are making this concert as accessible as possible. That means it's free to view! However, countless hours of dedicated work goes into putting this on. To support the Artists in Action, their Charities of Choice, and the Production Team, we need your help! Your donations are what make this possible! Your love, care, and support, will amplify the messages of these artists and their causes, and generate headway on the global system changes that the world truly needs. According to climate scientists, we’ve got less than ten years left unless we turn these systems around and shift into regenerative solutions. This systemic metamorphosis requires both a shift in consciousness catalyzed through music, and grounded practical projects put into place. Together, we can advocate for and actualize a thriving, regenerative world.

Our Vision
Our vision is to cultivate Artist Led Social Change. Kicking off the Impact Games of 2020, Artists In Action will Unite in a ripple of culture from East to West. The livestream will move through five time zones, showcasing during the prime time where you are, from Tokyo at 8 PM on August 9, 2020, through to Midnight in Los Angeles, California. The need for artist-led social change is nothing less than Olympic.

▲ Unified by a passion for social change, co-Hosts are curating diverse blends from Folk to Pop to Hip Hop. Artists in Action is an opportunity for artists to amplify their social and environmental impact, not only to perform in the opening ceremony but to participate as changemakers and social entrepreneurs in the five Summit Impact Teams: #Wellbeing360; #Feminomics; #Learning4Life; #OneOcean; and #ThrivingCities. TheGlobalSummit.org/Teams

Perk Pack: What you'll receive in return!

As a supporter of the Artists in Action Unite concert, everyone who donates over $33 will receive a one-of-a-kind media pack with music and visual art from the artists in action that includes:

Music from:

Climbing Poetree (NYC/Haiti/Colombia)
Chi (Tanzania)
Alessandra Belloni (NYC/Italy)
Dumi Right (DC/Africa)
Gui (Brazil)
Herbert Quinteros (Peru/India)
Rene (Harlem) featuring Xidus Pain (UK), SirHighlight (USA-NYC), & Wyze Wonda (Canada)
Maesyn (California/Bali)
Robin Liepman (Bloom) (California/Costa Rica)
DJ FrogMoose (Cairo, Egypt)
Frankie Migambile (Tanzania)
And Original Activist Artwork from Alixa Garcia of Climbing Poetree
Plus more surprises!

Charities/Causes that our Artists in Action support:

Renata Flores (Peru)

Asociación Cultural Surca, Ayacucho Perú.
The SURCA Cultural Association works with youth and children through art to make them agents of change.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Nonprofit-Organization/Asociaci%C3%B3n-Cultural-Surca-Ayacucho-Per%C3%BA-255571508107402/

Rawan Roshni (Jordan)

Impact Lebanon: Fundraising for emergency aid after the explosion in Beirut

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/lebanon-relief?utm_term=PYp7gXzyD

Impact Lebanon is a non-profit organisation that brings the community together to pursue initiatives that deliver impact for Lebanon. Our process is to encourage the brainstorming of ideas; promote the sharing of knowledge, resources and expertise; and build strong teams to turn an idea into a successful initiative.

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Climbing Poetree (NYC/Haiti/Colombia)

WILDSEED Community Farm & Healing Village

http://www.wildseedcommunity.org/
This is the direct donation link for tax deductible contributions (through Empowerment Works!) - https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/ODUzMDU=

WILDSEED Community Farm & Healing Village is a space to actively experience the change we devote our lives to, with each other as co-creators of our present reality. We are descendants of legacies of deep division and trauma, and devote ourselves to cultivating collaborative, reciprocal relationships with each other and this magnificent land as a mechanism of resilience, agency, and intergenerational accountability.

Generale Czarbu (Uganda)

The Street Father Initiative

The Street Father Initiative is an outreach program based in Uganda to support street children and empower people, predominantly youth who are struggling with challenges, such as mental health, addiction and poverty.

Indosakusa The Morning Star (Zimbabwe)

Indosakusa The Morning Star, due to this Covid 19 pandemic, will love to choose a number of less privileged or elderly and buy them groceries including members of the group.

Tamara Montenegro (NAOBA) (Mesoamerica)

UUCHUL Tribe

We are a group of Non-binary and womxn artists focused on permaculture and conscious food security in the mesoamerican region.

Our aim is to grow the network of food forests, community edible gardens and reforestation initiatives.

Maesyn (California/Bali)

Orphaned Starfish Foundation

Orphaned Starfish Foundation brings technology and career training to underprivileged orphans worldwide.

https://www.osf.org/

Rene john-sandy (Harlem)

Hip Hop Loves Foundation (International)

The Hip-Hop Loves Foundation (HHLF) is a 501c3 non-profit organization that co-produces workshops, seminars and events that create a space for dialogue and exploration centered on the themes of success, youth empowerment and social justice through Hip-Hop within a global context. We look at Hip-Hop as the cultural intersection of many vibrant forms of expression, including dance, sports, visual arts, and technology. Since 2009 our programs have connected youth worldwide, while helping them to build tangible skills and a deeper understanding of the importance that education plays in each of their lives and futures.

Ivan Kuxan Sum (Mexico)

Guardians of the Forest: The Global Alliance of Territorial Communities
https://rootsthatheal.org/guardians/

"We are the Guardians of the Forest. We come together as the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities, a partnership of indigenous and local communities from tropical forests around the globe. We represent more than 1800 communities and protect more that 400 million hectares of forests. Currently, COVID-19 is posing yet another threat to our territories -already under siege from miners, loggers and land grabbers. With your support, we will continue to protect the wisdom of our elders, safeguard the forests of the planet and raise our voices on behalf of Mother Nature."

mirrah (Australia)

4E Sydney https://www.4esydney.com

4ESydney is the only festival and project of its kind, specialising in HipHop culture and multi artform, interdisciplinary practice. It acts as a meeting ground, a space where community, industry and education meet, to create unique opportunities for the growth and preservation of HipHop culture, professional development and industry sustainability. For the community, by the community, 4ESydney, now heading into its 6th year, continues to gradually build a global infrastructure and platform for HipHop in Australia.

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Parisa Soultani (Iran)

Institute for Transparent and Accountable Policing (ITAP)

Institute for Transparent and Accountable Policing (ITAP - A Revolution in Policing) is a US Non-profit organization with the mission to change policing inside out.

http://itapusa.org/

Fete Jen (South Africa)

Kgololo Academy

Kgololo Academy is a “KIPP Inspired” elementary school that opened its doors in the Alexandra Township of South Africa in 2015. The Alexandra Township is considered to be one of the most economically disenfranchised urban communities in South Africa with few options for overcoming severe poverty. The Academy hopes to serve as a model of educational excellence by providing an option of an exceptional private school education at an affordable cost. Their website is https://www.kgololoacademy.org/

South Africa Women's Day

National Women's Day is a South African public holiday celebrated annually on 9 August. The day commemorates the 1956 march of approximately 20,000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to petition against the country's pass laws that required South Africans defined as "black" under The Population Registration Act to carry an internal passport, known as a pass, that served to maintain population segregation, control urbanisation, and manage migrant labour during the apartheid era.^[1] The first National Women's Day was celebrated on 9 August 1995.^[2] In 2006, a reenactment of the march was staged for its 50th anniversary, with many of the 1956 march veterans.

Tomoko Yoshida (Tokyo)

"Maya Network Nepal" based in Nepal

Maya Network Nepal is an NGO that looks at the economy, education, culture, environment, and welfare of Nepal

comprehensively and proposes tangible solutions to the various contradictions surrounding the issues, aiming to create a more prosperous and inclusive Nepal.

Since awareness to ecology is essential for transformation, Maya Network Nepal is committed to working with great awareness and responsibility for the whole earth and the whole universe.

sewasadan.jimdofree.com/ngo

Synik (Zimbabwe/Portugal)

#ZimbabweanLivesMatter

#Zimbabweanlivesmatter borrows from the global #blacklivesmatter movement and has kickstarted a fierce debate over the country's human rights situation, which has also been condemned by the UN.

DJ Akio (South Africa)

Rise Up Against Gender Based Violence

Rise Up Against Gender Based Violence is a registered NPO and NPC. We are a social behavioural change organization that works in prevention programs for gender-based violence. We also provide direct support to youth and women living on the street as targeted vulnerable groups. Our organization has been providing direct support for the youth, survivors of violence and women living on the streets. Our interventions for women living and working on the streets have been to provide psychosocial support and rehabilitation options as well as to run drives to provide them with their essential needs. These include blanket drives and dignity drives where we crowd source clothes, blankets, sanitary pads, soap, towels, toothbrush and toothpaste, condoms, hand sanitizer, pepper spray for prevention of violence and a toiletry bag for storage. We also provide a warm meal at distribution points and hand out non-perishable foods. To Date we have reached over 4000 people in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban which our interventions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnVa3CGASlY&feature=share&app=desktop

Robin Liepman (Bloom) (California/Costa Rica)

Permaculture for Sustainable Communities Kenya Response to Covid-19

▼ See the Schedule, Artist + Host Bios, Patron Opportunities, & More ▼

TheGlobalSummit.org/AiAUnite

▲ ABOUT THE GLOBAL SUMMIT IMPACT GAMES

After months of reconfiguring a highly interactive face-to-face program, we are seizing the moment to amplify our movement by abstracting the Olympic games into THE IMPACT GAMES. This could be seen by some as the first impact olympiad of our modern era, whereby the 17 Sustainable Development Goals have been broken down into 5 impact teams, who are each competing for a GLOBAL PITCH to make an effective positive change in the world. We are turning the contest of sport into a global collaboration challenge!

The Five Impact Teams:

WELLBEING 360: Evolving Food, Health & Lifestyles

A healthy world starts with us. Wellbeing has taken a major hit from COVID-19 From mental health to the overwhelm of support systems, the crisis also presents opportunities in learning. And as we heal what is and was broken, we explore, and empower ourselves with the question of ‘how what we eat, drink, and do, affect the wellbeing of our living systems’. Considering new opportunities for work/life balance, and given our climate reality, how can ancient wisdom, methods, and new technologies support a healthy body, mind, and spirit? SDGs 2, 3, 6, 12, 14, 15

FEMINOMICS: A partnership in empowerment

Could mounting economic disparity be lifted by feminine values in leadership and systems redesign? A new decade is calling for empowered engagement from the bedroom to the boardroom – academic, political, business, and in the Home. Find other women and men united for equity, diversity, and inclusion. Explore how feminine values, circular business models, and high impact investing foster a thriving culture and economy. SDGs 1, 5, 8, 10, 15, 16

THRIVING CITIES: From urbanization to rural revitalization

While 60% of humanity is destined for the metropolis, is this the way we want to shape our future? What role do rural communities play? HOW can art and culture support better use of energy, waste, and water in the built environment? Drawing upon successes and challenges from the urban benchmark of Tokyo and communities worldwide, we will explore the opportunity of design to enable sustainability, access to housing, and foster meaningful work and play. SDGs 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 16

LEARNING 4 LIFE: Let the Renaissance of regeneration begin

What is the right role of education in the 21st century and how must it transform to enable a good life for generations to come? From school to the workplace to the community kitchen, we’ll explore the role of learning to drive opportunities for better livelihoods, reduce inequalities, and create the conditions for a regenerative society. Find out and create how new formal and informal education models, tools & technologies can unlock human potential supporting a world that works for all. SDGs 1, 4, 5, 8, 10

ONE OCEAN: Unifying challenge to save life on Earth

From the air we breath to the way we move around the blue planet One Ocean connects and supports all life. A special Impact Team created for 2020 in celebration of Japan’s maritime culture and seizing a critical opportunity to turn the tide of mass extinction. Contact us to co-create. **SDGs 6, 13, 11, 14

Thank you so much for supporting this vision for change in our world. Your donation goes a long way and supports the message for a thriving, regenerative world. You vote with your dollar, and your donation is a vote for a world that supports life with Planet Earth. Thank you.

Artists in Action Unite: Global Causes for Change

By Empowerment Works

Artists in Action Unite: Global Causes for Change

The Global Summit's campaign to support Artists in Action and their causes/charities

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