ORCA ORGANIZATION FOR RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION OF AQUATIC ANIMALS
OCEAN BEAT
Lima, Peru joins the
American continent and the world to sing to the
ocean.
FACT: The oceans are dying. No one
can live without the ocean, not even
a cactus, not even humanity.
The Ocean Beat Overview
Ocean Beat,
an American based program founded by
Dixie Belcher, ORCA Peru Vicepresident,
that brings together students around the world via the
internet to work and sing together to
raise awareness about the state of the
world’s and
to inspire change. Born Free, a school
in Bangalore, India, brings dance, music,
painting and sculpture to slum children,
introducing them to the world of
education, and connecting them with
other Indian students. Born Free adds
art and dance to Ocean Beat ’s
musical vision and expands its mission
to care about the oceans to
include caring about humanity.
Ocean
Beat is a
growing coalition of artists, musicians,
scientists and native peoples working to
widen world views and inspire action.
ORCA in
Peru joins Ocean Beat
carrying the message of marine
conservation to schools in Lima through
our Aleta Educational Network, involving
volunteers of the ORCA Junior program,
mostly high school students, which songs
are added to complement the activities
of cleaning beaches, rescuing marine
animals affected by pollution and
bringing awareness in real time to the
problems that humans have generated in
the ocean, plus what actions can we do
altogether to solve them. ORCA is in
contact with local folk musicians with
marine mystic
to join Ocean Beat initiatives in
spreading the message of the ocean in
future international events.
Learning
to care is the core issue in both
environmental and social efforts. Our
view of the environment often precisely
reflects our view of humanity.
Throw-away garbage has expanded to
throw-away people and even throw-away
countries. Learning to care is vital to
building a world that is healthy for
everyone. Ocean Beat uses music and art to build
international friendships that promote
empathy and understanding with each
other and the natural world. A primary
goal is to raise awareness about-space issues
because the ocean is
key to everyone’s survival and its
health is affected by almost everything
we do.
Ocean Beat
is currently working to connect Alaska,
Indian and Hawaiian schools,
experimenting with singing and
brainstorming together via the internet.
We are reaching out to organizations
around the world, including the South
Africa Children’s Peace Train, the
Paraguay Landfill Harmonic Orchestra;
Jumping Cats – international
breakdancers for peace and positive
change in Uganda; Tari Saman –
Indonesian student singers and dancers
in Aceh; The Chevak Dancers – Alaska
Yupik Eskimo student performers; as well
as students in Nova Scotia (Canada),
Lima (Peru) and
Australia.
Ocean Beat
is organizing a tour of international
musicians, artists, dancers and
indigenous leaders by van throughout
Southeast Asia schools in fall 2016 to
continue the process of bringing
together students to expand their world,
build friendships and raise awareness.
Ocean Beat
is working towards performing
simultaneously from various parts of the
world via the internet December 27, 2016
at the Woodford Folk Festival in
Australia and towards an international
internet concert the following year.
Students,
teachers and schools wanting to be
involved may contact us through www.oceanbeat.org.
Ocean
Beat is a project derived from the NGO
"Turning The Tides" based in Alaska,
United States, whose founder Dixie
Belcher and Dr. Carlos Yaipén-Llanos
(President of ORCA Peru) began to
promote the integration of the public
along the coast and to promote awareness
of the human impact, mainly plastic and
its effects on the ocean's health.
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