The
OneWorldWalk cross-cultural center in Berkeley was extremely successful
in the programs that it initiated and established, but sadly fell
victim to the current economic downturn, and closed its doors at the
end of 2008.
However, we have been invited to replicate the Center and its many innovative programs in both faraway Kenya and nearby Oakland, California -- so as soon as we can raise the necessary corporate sponsorship
and donor funds, we will be announcing new inaugural events in these
locations ! Stay tuned and contact us if you would like to be involved
or help in any way with either location!
We at Listen for
Life, a global non-profit
music organization, are launching an exciting project addressed at the
current situation in Kenya. We are calling all musicians and producers
worldwide to join Listen for Life’s mission to use music as a channel
for
communication, and in this case, to make an immediate impact not only
in
the preservation of music and culture but of actual human life. Please click here for
more information.
OneWorldWalk "Global Community" Center
Welcome to the new OneWorldWalk center! Your new
cross-cultural community center in Downtown Berkeley!
Internationally renowned musician Donna Stoering
founded the global non-profit Listen for Life
in London ten years ago this month. LFL
now has affiliate production studios, outreach projects, and/or
volunteers in over 45 countries, and its projects or broadcast
productions have together thus far impacted the lives of over 9 million
people worldwide.
With Executive Director Andy Anderson coming on board in 2003, LFL moved the
global headquarters to Berkeley California a few years ago and are
celebrating LFL's
ten-year anniversary with the launch of a new project: the creation of
cross-cultural "global-community" centers (called OneWorldWalk)
that promote the use of music as a unifying force amongst all
peoples/cultures within each community, particularly those who are
recent immigrants searching for a way to maintain/share their unique
music traditions.
The "OneWorldWalk center
in Berkeley's
Arts District will
be the model for many such centers being opened throughout the world
with the help of micro-finance organizations and individual/corporate
donations in each locale. The OWW
Berkeley center
now offers a gathering space for all peoples to exchange and share
cultures, music performances, affordable music lessons on traditional
instruments, cross-cultural jam sessions, weekend workshops (i.e.
medieval singing, early-music instruments, choral group rehearsal, drum
sessions), art studios and exhibition space, and
production/post-production activities creating music-related
programming for radio, television, and all new digital media formats.
We welcome your visit, your teaching/performance, or your participation
as a donor or volunteer!
