Vision eARTh
Save the date: The 1st Vision Earth festival will be April 21 - 23, 2011 in White Plaza on the Stanford campus.
What is Vision Earth?
Stanford’s first annual Vision Earth will be a three-day art and sustainability festival based on the idea that good solutions require creative thinking, beautiful aesthetics, unconventional combinations, and a sense of passion and risk. This event is a product of the momentum created last year between An Art Affair and FutureFest that inspired a coalition between the ASSU, GAIA (Green Alliance for Innovative Action), SOCA (Student Organization Committee for the Arts), and the Stanford Concert Network. The new team have partnered to produce an integrated festival in April that will feature the work of dozens of student artists and the projects of the 7 major student environmental groups. Vision Earth will celebrate the artistic skills and creative achievements of members of the Stanford community, and spotlight interdisciplinary opportunities for student engagement in local and global sustainability challenges. Along with guest speakers, musical artists, and educational activities, Vision Earth will showcase the work of student artists and innovators.
The event will both demonstrate and explore the ways that environmental knowledge is communicated. Through exhibiting the diverse work of the art, science, and design engineering communities, the event invites both creators and viewers to design and invoke new methods of communicating important global issues such as resource depletion and social injustice. Students will have the opportunity to appreciate the achievements of their peers and mentors in these fields and understand their options for engagement in the wide array of interdisciplinary action-based projects and programs available to them at Stanford.
Vision Earth will be a “living” festival, showcasing the broad spectrum of beauty and creativity that is cultivated at Stanford and inspiring a cultural shift that keeps our community connected to the natural world.
