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Dear musician, performer, artisan, producer or venue:

The Butterfly Gardeners and Woodstock Nation are inviting you to become a part of Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace
(MFAWP).

Performers, artists, DJs, musicians, producers, music venues and festivals from around the nation, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, can have a very special role in cocreating world peace and transformation through the performance arts.

I am hoping you will respond and have us list <you> on our website as a member for free if you resonate with our mission statement & goals. You can see a list of our 500+ members at Member List.

If you decide to be linked, might you be able to make a small optional love donation for our efforts? You can also join as a regular member if you like.
Please see our membership info at the end of this email.

In your reply please include your name and the name of your band or performance group, including your address, phone number (specify if its home, office, or cell), website address and any group affiliation or position you hold.

If you don't wish to give out your complete mailing address or phone number, please send us at least your city, state and zip code as that helps us to regionalize our mailing list. We can then either send you our Bay area events calendar or keep you abreast of any special happening in your area of the country.

Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace is an outgrowth of Performing & Fine Artists for World Peace. We started a sister organization to focus on wider political issues, thus allowing Performing & Fine Artists for World Peace to keep its focus on educational programs and within the original vision of its charter.

We have been endorsed by Congressman Dennis Kucinich to promote a concert to support his proposal for a cabinet level Department of Peace (Please see
www.butterflyspirit.org/projects/US_Department_of_Peace.htm and
www.house.gov/kucinich/action/peace.htm

On January 24, 2002, the board of Musicians for Peace endorsed the initiative to ban Space Based Weapons after being asked by the Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS) to extend our proposed concert to endorse the Space Preservation Act and Space Preservation Treaty. It would ban space-based weapons in all 190 Nations and is also sponsored by Dennis Kucinich.

On January 4, 2003, the director of ICIS Vancouver, Alfred Webre, had this to say. "We totally embrace and support Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace and your concert to raise awareness for U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich Department of Peace Act. As you know, Dennis recently spoke here in Canada at the CUSP Conference in Toronto. His "Sacred Mission" speech endorsed the Space preservation Treaty Conference, banning all space weapons.
Please see: http://www.peaceinspace.com

We are also working to help promote and organize a benefit with the Citizens' Campaign for Old-Growth Preservation
to help save what remains of California's old-growth Redwood forests and with Suraj Holzwarth of the GrandMother Drum Project.
The GrandMother Drum is the first intertribal, international "world drum" traveling the world with the message of Unity, Peace and Life with the theme, "The Heartbeat of One Family, One Earth."
The GrandMother Drum will be the centerpiece, the very heartbeat of creating multicultural, multimedia performances, workshops, ceremonies and celebrationsthat cultivate a deeper understanding of the connection of personal and community wellness with environmental stewardship.

In addition to our interest in the environment and world peace, our campaign will also cover election reforms such as campaign financing and the abolition or reform of the Electoral College, reforming the criminal justice system and the three strikes law, making the office of public defender an elected position, raising the issue of corporate responsibility, protecting the Earth and old-growth forests, raising global consciousness, supporting and developing sustainable communities, helping indigenous causes, increasingfunding for art and music programs,
http://butterflyspirit.org/projects/ending_abuse_and_violence.html
ending the cycle of violence and abuse that is rooted in our male
dominator culture, and acknowledging artists and musicians as an important ingredient to transforming and improving our lives. We will also be working in collaboration with Project Chrysalis.

Project Chrysalis is a program to bring performers, musicians, dancers, artists, clowns, story tellers, puppeteers, and mimes into hospitals, hospices, schools, juvenile youth facilities, senior centers and other institutions that can use joy and healing entertainment for adults as well as children.

We also plan to use other therapies such as horticulture, drumming, healing touch and massage, comedy, and theater as well. We believe that love and caring can be powerful therapeutic tools. Our members offer this through performance arts and other means. We will go wherever there is a calling.

We would also like to help get artists and musicians the contacts, grants, sponsorships, and funding they need to continue their work so that we can cocreate a new culture of peace on Earth together. We plan to use our members to organize a series on concerts and a "Party for the Planet" that we hope may rebirth the spirit of the 60's in this new millennium. What we are really talking about here is a seed for a Woodstock Rainbow Butterfly Revival for the entire planet!!!

The Vallejo Performing Arts & Conference Center is now the new home of Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace & the Butterfly Gardeners Association. I have become the director of the center. We are looking to book shows, concerts, dance events, workshops, meetings, conferences, exhibitions, weddings and banquets at our facility. We have two ballrooms with 10,000 square feet of space, a dance studio and a full size 16 x 26 foot commercial kitchen for food preparation and catering.

We also have many work/live rooms and offices available for performers, musicians, artists, therapists and healing practitioners. We are going to transform the Old Masonic Temple into a community of resident artists, performers, educators and healers dedicated to global peace, love and transformative performing arts and healing.

Benefits of Membership

Besides supporting a good cause, your endorsement will offer many benefits.

We will promote the artists, musicians, performers, venues and producers that join, publicize gigs on our events calendar, carry out media and public relations campaigns, issue critical news releases on our efforts, create a network of party activists and party goers to support the musicians and venues, and provide decorations and art for all our events. We even plan to make banners, artwork, and other decorations, made by member artists, that can be left behind at selected venues for the pleasure of their patrons. We will offer those in the San Francisco Bay area a special discount for events held at our venue in Vallejo too!

A brief history

Performing & Fine Artists for World Peace was founded in 1986 by Howard Shapiro. As a songwriter and performing artist, Howard has always believed that he should use his creative gifts to support others in their work. That was the reason he created PFAWP, a nonprofit organization to do just that.

Howard sees the artist in society as a powerful force to bring about positive social change. In our first brochure we stated that our organization "emphasizes the arts as a means to promote certain ideals." These include harmony between the earth and its inhabitants, respect for the human rights of all people and the equitable sharing of the earth's resources so that all people will have the necessities of life."

Our mission is to establish a global network of performing & fine artists who dedicate their work to peace, promote freedom of expression through the arts and oppose governmental repression of creativity; preserves the diverse cultures of the world through cultural exchange; support environmental, human rights, world hunger and peace education organizations with their work; and support the goals of the United Nations and other international bodies addressing global issues.

In 1987 we received the Peace Messenger Award from the United Nations. I mention this because, although we were and still remain a small grassroots organization, this recognition supported our efforts to network with other organizations across the US and internationally.

Since our inception in 1986, we have sponsored art exhibits, concerts, festivals and workshops. Some of these have included the International Month of Peace, Caring for the Earth Month, The Dream Lives On: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Day of Peace Art Exhibit.
I have had the honor of representing our organization at a number of international conferences where I have shared the work of our organization and performed my original music.

One our most successful programs is Earth-Friendly Schools Hawai`i-Int. This program not only promotes caring for the earth, but the values of respect, responsibility, commitment and service. It was created on the island of Kaua`i in 1992 and has since expanded to include schools across the state of Hawai`i, on the mainland US and internationally.

We are currently working with a number of national and international organizations. These include the LifeLink Foundation, Pathways to Peace, M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence and KIDSFACE (For a Clean Environment).

We furthermore are closely working with the Butterfly Gardeners Association, Authors for a Positive Millennium, and other organizations that plan to collectively make this happen by promoting this concept with the proposed Patch Adams Centers for Peace and Justice. We look forward to working with them on projects that foster love for the earth and caring for humanity.

As an organization that focuses on the arts and the role of the artist in society, our projects with the Butterfly Gardeners Association will be in that area with special emphasis on music i. e. concerts, recordings, radio programs etc.

As founder and director of the Butterfly Gardener's Association, I will be working with Howard in putting together a directory of environmental, peace, and spiritual individuals and organizations working on global healing and transformational projects.

We would welcome receiving information about your projects and the good work that you are doing. We strongly believe in forming partnerships between organizations addressing social and environmental issues. You are welcome to include a short bio about yourself and your work and possibly one of your CDs that best expresses this shared dream.

Your support of Musicians and Fine Artists for World Peace will be greatly appreciated. If you would like to get actively involved, please let me know.
You might help with the visioning, organizing and birthing of this
organization by joining our advisory committee. You may also help by offering to perform at an upcoming benefit, or by helping to sponsor one if you are in a position to do that.

Another easy way to help us immediately would be to forward this message to your email contacts and ask them to help by doing the same.

I really appreciate your interest in our project and hope that together, by spreading the word on the Internet, we can make our shared dreams come true.

My story, Butterfly Magic & the Moody Blues, was published by Arielle Ford in her book Magical Souvenirs-True Spiritual Adventures from Around the World.

We look forward to hearing from you in the near future.

Our warmest alohas,

May Peace Prevail on Earth!

Alan D. Moore
Butterfly Gardeners Association & Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace -
Director and founder
Vallejo Performing Arts & Conference Center - Director
International Association of Educators for World Peace - Western States
Program Director
Authors for a Positive Millennium - Co-director
707 Marin Street, Vallejo, Ca 94590
Send mail to: POB 1511, Vallejo, Ca 94590
415-424-723
bflyspirit7@aol.com

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I Want to be a Charter Member of Musicians for Peace

• __ Struggling artist  $1-15  Get member listing 
• __ Individual   $25  Includes our peace CD
• __ Group/Band  $35  CD & new member listing on calendar
• __ Sponsor  $50  CD & sponsor listing on calendar & webpage
• __ Gold Sponsor $100 All above & your logo on our page for a month.
• __ Angel. $500 All the above & a life pass to all our events.

Make checks out to
Butterfly Gardeners Association
and mail to

Musicians for Peace,
PO Box 1511,
Vallejo, Ca 94590

We also welcome comments, sample CDs and press packages.at this address.

As a member, you'll receive a listing on our webpage, a blessing from the butterfly devas and one of two bumper stickers. Specify either I Brake for Butterflies or Butterflies Not Bombs or add two bucks and get both.

See MFAWP Member List