点废成绿 Greening the Beige (GtB) is an eco-minded arts collective and not-for-profit community network dedicated to nurturing awareness of environmental issues. 点废成绿 GtB promotes and celebrates earth friendly artists and organizations in Beijing.
"Why are we being forced to choose between the economy and the environment? We tend to forget that without an environment we would not have an economy, as everything we consume and I mean everything comes from our environment."
~ Franke James (contemporary artist, photographer, writer)
Beijing's landfills are getting full fast! Reduce the "trash" you throw away by purchasing products with minimal packaging. Look for reusable, recyclable, and biodegrable items and remember to carry your reusable shopping bags!
Dear Desert Dancers and GtB Supporters,
All of your creative energy and positive *green* synergy at our event made for a truly pleasant oasis. Wow! Given the massive amount of fun from the evening, please prepare for a massive message of thanks.
To start off, none of the festivities would have been possible without the value and contributions of the following folks:
Contempio Temple staff for their deeply generous support; for lending their elegant space; for helping with the event set-up/close; and for running the bar at cost!
Zhiqi aka Mr Soon for bringing his mixer and turntables (below rental cost), improvising as our sound engineer, and volunteering a 2 hour DJ set that got everyone hopping, clapping, and toe-tapping!
Yangjing for her graceful bellydancing performances and volunteer dedication and support. For those of you who don't know, she also teaches lessons in Beijing and is always welcoming new students. Just let me know if you'd like to get in contact with her!
The Talented Jess Meider (http://www.blog.jessmeider.com) and the magical support of Federico Moro (Beijing Jugglers/http://www.natooke.com) for bringing their love and light!
Club Obiwan for lending us their projector to screen documentaries from the Environmental Education Media Project for permission to show their films: "The Lessons of the Loess Plateau" and "A Line In The Sand" and the EEMP for the work that they do!
MC Terra D's lyrical wizardry and water management/desertified rhymes!
DJ Blackie loaning out his CD decks and putting out a monster dnb set that was more feirce than a sandstorm!
Photographer Cindy Pi with the green eye & City Weekend Beijing for the meta-memories!
http://www.wheelmeout.com for the poster & flyer design!
Featured photographers Oak Taylor-Smith & Kjell Gryspeert for contributing their work and offering unusual angles of city water usage and desert reality.
Fanrong (Jancy) & Iris Yee's terrific outreach buzz and set-up muscles!
ABCDJ Patrick Yu for supporting Greening the Beige since its beginnng and welcoming everyone to the oasis with his fresh beats and the deep rooted sound of Beijing Techno from Mickey Zhang sending everyone home for the night!
Electric Shadows for the incredible visual trip through Beijing and beyond to the desert + recording highlights from the night we'll be sharing with everyone soon in the form of a video montage!
Ines Brun, Julien Chol, Thomas Phillips, Aisling Dunn, and Iris Yee (again) for volunteering their time and welcoming everyone to our urban oasis!
And last but definitely not least, THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT GREEN ATMOSPHERE!
Desert Dance was part of a multi-city fundraiser stretching across North America as a "Benefit Without Borders" for Burners Without Borders (www.burnerswithoutborders.org)- or BWB.
BWB gave GtB permission to collect 100% of proceeds from Desert Dance to do the following: 1) develop this website as a public communication tool, 2) launch and produce the 3rd Annual GTB: RENERGIZE BEIJING this November, 3) support and offset the costs of hosting Desert Dance.
However, ticket sales just barely covered costs (greatly due to our artists’ labor of love). So we still stand at ground zero in terms of funding all of our outlandish green dreams…
No matter! GtB isn't giving up! This is only the beginning in so many respects. Since forming in 2007 GtB has existed as a fully self-supporting volunteer organism; meaning we have strongly relied on the generosity of all those involved in building a community platform that keeps us connected and active.
GTB is selling a limited number of posters (60x90cm) for 100 rmb to further our goals to green Beijing.
GTB is also extending the Desert Dance silent auction through August 10th:
View Silent Auction Items and Bid Info Here:
http://www.greeningthebeige.org/gtb/node/107
COMING SOON...
On October 24th, Greening the Beige in collaboration with local environmental NGO partners plan to host a creative awareness event for International Day of Climate Action (www.350.org). 350 Organizer, Jamie Henn, and Art Ambassador, Kevin Buckland, were both in town and at Desert Dance to enjoy the evening with us.
Plans are now in motion for the big event which will link Beijing to over 1,000 cities around the world, culminating in the main event held at the United Nations in New York City. If you'd like to help out on October 24, please email us (info@greeningthebeige.org) and we’ll count you in.
Thanks again SO MUCH for supporting Greening the Beige and helping us to cultivate the seeds of green dreams and impossibilities...
All my green love,
GreenLadyC
亲爱的沙漠旋律活动参加者和点废成绿支持者，
周六晚上的活动充满了激情和‘绿色’元素！感谢您亲临现场！沙漠旋律只是今年众多活动的开场。活动的成功举办，在此要表达我们的真诚谢意。
周六晚上的活动充满了激情和‘绿色’元素！感谢您亲临现场！沙漠旋律只是今年众多活动的开场。活动的成功举办，在此要表达我们的真诚谢意。
首先，要感谢以下人员，没有他们的支持和贡献，我们的活动将无法成功举办：
Contempio全体员工：感谢他们慷慨的支持，提供了优雅的空间，帮助我们筹备活动，并无偿的提供服务。
DJ志奇/MrSoon：提供了音响设备（远低于租赁的价格），并临时担当了活动的音响师，无偿担任了2小时的DJ，为活动营造了欢快的氛围！
杨静老师：感谢她优雅的肚皮舞表演和无偿的志愿者服务。您或许还不知道，她在北京是一位舞蹈老师，她非常愿意接收新的学员。如果您希望与她取得联系的话，请告诉我吧！
感谢才华横溢的Jess Meider(http://www.blog.jessmeider.com) 和Federico Moro（Beijing Jugglers/http://www.natooke.com) 的鼎力支持，感谢他们的参与和支持！
Obiwan俱乐部：感谢他们提供了投影仪及放映设施，并为我们播放了环保教育影片“黄土高原的教训”和“沙漠屏障”。
MC Terra D：感谢他充满诗情的表演和环保的宣传！
DJ Blackie：感谢他为我们提供音乐打碟机，和营造的比沙尘暴更有威力的音乐氛围！
摄影师Cindy Pi：感谢她为大家留下了绿色视野和北京周末的美好记忆！
http://www.wheelmeout.com设计了海报和邀请!
Oak Taylor-Smith和Kjell Gryspeert：感谢他们的付出，并激发大家重新思考城市水利用和城市沙化的事实。
Fanrong (Jancy)和Iris Yee：感谢他们的大力支持！
ABCDJ Patrick Yu：感谢他自点废成绿成立以来对我们的一贯支持。
ElectricShadows:感谢栩栩如生的视觉展示，我们将尽快编辑制作一套蒙太奇影片向您展示活动当晚的情景！
Ines Brun, Julien Chol, Thomas Phillips, Aisling Dunn, Iris Yee（再一次）：感谢他们贡献了自己的时间，站在门口欢迎大家！
感谢所有上述人员，以及参加活动的朋友们！我们创造了一个充满音乐、艺术的美好夜晚。
作为Burners Without Borders (www.burnerswithoutborders.org“受益无国界”的一部分，沙漠旋律活动同时在北美的8个城市举行。点废成绿获得允许将此次活动的收入用于发展www.greeningthebeige.org，以及弥补我们将于今年在北京举办
的第三届年会活动中来。
然而不幸的是，到目前为止，我们还远没有筹集到举办各类绿色活动的经费。
不过没关系!点废成绿决不放弃！万事开头难。自从2007年点废成绿成立以来，我们完全是一个自发组成的支援组织，我们拥有众多慷慨参与者，并搭建了一个强悍的团体。
点废成绿目前正出售一批数量有限的宣传我们目标的海报（尺寸60x90cm)，价值100元人民币。
点废成绿将沙漠旋律的无声拍卖活动延期至8月10日：
http://www.greeningthebeige.org/gtb/node/107
我们希望能够将它转换成一个自发的艺术家聚集会，点废成绿旨在涉及更多北京的绿色团体，支持和宣传各种绿色组织、活动、项目、比赛，并以艺术和文化的方式，展示解决中国综合环境问题的解决创意。
我们将如实现?
点废成绿正在开发的网站是一个为公众提供交流的工具；包括自制的绿色事件日历，绿色职业公告牌，论坛以及相关链接；另外，还有一个在线画廊供艺术家们展示和出售他们的作品，收入均投入环保教育和绿色项目中。
点废成绿目前正在全面筹备第3届年度活动：‘重振北京’已经开始进入最后的时间安排，包括表演、电影秀、展示会、对话节目等，当然还包括一个环保秀；所有这些活动都将生动地展示北京的环境现状。
点废成绿已经在全球气候变化行动日（www.350.org）注册，这个将于10月24日举办的活动由
JamieHenn和艺术大使KevinBuckland组织；而他们二位也参加了不久前我们举办的沙漠旋律活动，并一起沟通了10月24日活动的安排计划，它是美国纽约的一个重大的活动，而北京也将通过这个机会连接至全世界超过1000多个城市。如果您也希望为这个尽一份力，快来报名吧——请发邮件给(info@greeningthebeige.org)，介绍您所擅长和希望担当的角色。
再次感谢所有支持点废成绿、培育绿色梦想并使之成为可能的朋友们。
献上我所有的绿色之爱,
绿色女士C
