Peter Brock, a new visual artist, helps GP raise funds at his art gallery February 23, 2010

Peter Brock, a new visual artist, is helping Global Potential raise funds on February 23, 2010! Showing at a gallery in Williamsburg for 1 night only, Peter’s work “translates the paradoxes, contrasts and peculiar grace of contemporary life into a colorful and bold pictorial language”. Half of the sales of prints will go directly to support Global Potential. There will also be a great party, drink specials, live music all night, great conversations, and special guest appearances of GP youth. Invite all your friends. Enjoy!!! Click here to see the flyer!

PETER BROCK: My work channels the contrasts, contradictions, paradoxes and peculiar grace of our interconnected yet disparate world. I strive to give my emotional and sensory faculties unfettered contact with the agonizing tensions and sublime harmonies that punctuate my experience as a human being. During the act of painting, I strive to silence the intellectual chatter in my head and to let myself be as open and flexible as possible so that nuanced and elegant images might flow through me. Through this process I hope to craft images that illuminate the fringes of our visual comprehension.

You are cordially invited to the PLURAL + Youth Produced Video Festival Awards Ceremony.

Youth from around the world participated with their videos highlighting their
hopes and challenges regarding migration, identity and diversity.
PLURAL + is a project of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and
the International Organization for Migration in collaboration with many international partners.

The Award Ceremony & Screening will feature Sugar Cane Hopes (L’espwa Kan), produced and directed by 2009 GP Youth Leandro Perez, Xu Xiang, and Freddy Ogando. This film is about two Haitian migrant workers struggling to survive in a Dominican Batey while working in the sugar canefields. The film depicts parallel stories of Roberto, 18 years old, and Junior, 24 years old. Both came to the Dominican Republic with hopes of finding a better life.

On 18th December 2009, 6:00-8:00 pm
the award winning videos of PLURAL + will be
announced and screened at the PLURAL + Awards Ceremony
held at the Paley Center for Media, 25 West 52nd Street, New York City.

Please RSVP at plural@unaoc.org.

Famous Nicaraguan singer, Salvador Baltodano, will perform at our filmraiser in Boston!

Special appearance at Northeastern University School of Law, November 20, 2009, by famous Nicaraguan singer, Salvador Baltodano! Salvador endorses Global Potential’s work next summer in Nicaragua and the local and global change that our work carries out. Thank you Salvador!

Biography
My Musical Trail

I was born in Nicaragua, Central America, into a family where my grandfathers, aunts and sisters played piano, guitar or sang. Those early years were magnificent; full of color and motivation. Next, I took my guitar and my voice onto school stages, and later I jumped into traditional groups of dance and experimental music.
My first attempts at song-writing failed, so I set out to make good lyrics by reading a great deal of poetry and philosophy. It seemed that I should put music to some poem, when in fact the treatment for songwriting is different. Songs, according to my understanding, do not have to be linear. Composers play with the memories and the interests of the listeners. The public also wants to participate in singing the song and needs to listen to a refrain or phrase that is repeated. In my first years of composing, I was convinced that, without exception, all songs had to have a message, and I rejected most compositions of others’; they seemed to me too light, or lacking in depth. In time I reached the conclusion that music also is entertainment, and that four lines and a good rhythm can make a song a classic.
First it was songs with social content. Next, groups with music of diverse styles captured my interest. I competed in popular and romantic musical festivals in my country and abroad, and continued composing until the voice of love called me to the United States, where I now permanently reside.
Here in the U.S., I assume the challenge of making music in a country with incredible professional exigency, still coveting those fruits of triumph. I close this brief route of the artistic history of my life, hoping this is not the last time that you visit me.

Instrumentation
One member: Me
Two intruments: My guitar and my voice

Discography
In the past I recorded with other bands and musicians. Currently I am finishing my first solo album and all my musical material is in Spanish. I will soon dare to compose in English. In this new material you will find the songs “Asomate”, “Oh Luna”, “Tan Solo”, “Mingo” and others.

Click here to read more and hear Salvador’s unique music

November 20, 2009, Filmraiser!!

Forum Mondial de l'Action Humanitaire et Sociale

Global Potential will be representing its program at this First World Forum of Humanitarian Action in Paris, France! The event will be held from December 5 to December 8 and one of our alumni youth will also be attending.

Previous Events

Art with a Purpose, May 29, 2009

Party with a Purpose #2, December 6, 2008

Party with a Purpose #1, June 20, 2008

Art with A Purpose #1, April 5, 2008

To view our donating artists click here!

Our Partners for our fundraising events

please click on our partner’s logo if you wish to visit their website!

Art Break Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Event corporate sponsors

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