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GAME
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Events Enterprises, Inc.
Ardeevin; Red Lane; Glen of the Downs
County Wicklow, Ireland
Ireland:
00(011 )35 31 287-1174 - Cell: 00(011) 35 38 680 31262
Los
Angeles (00)1-310-576-9217 fax (00)1 310-576-0897
Email: vickibeth@aol.com
Irish
Press/Publicity contact: Rachel O'Connor: 086 839 47 97.
Email: rachelo_connor@hotmail.com
September
12, 2000.
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
The
Guardians of the Millennium Web site (www.theguardians.com) will host
the biggest ever live interactive World Game webcast played by schoolchildren
all around the world on September 21st 2000.
This
exciting event will be seen as a live streaming video event on the
Guardians Web site and broadcast on a large screen at the Hanover
World's Fair for the European Commission's World's Fair Education
and Culture Day.
Teachers
and students can watch and play The World Game live during the Web
cast from The Guardians of the Millennium Web site on www.theguardians.com.
The
event will originate live from London at the Dome with five hundred
school children from the London Borough of Redbridge . Also the event
will also originate live from Arthouse Multimedia Centre in Dublin,
Ireland with students form various schools around Dublin.
Students
from around the world will be able to play, participate and answer
questions about the areas of the earth and space that belong to us
all and that need protecting. The Oceans, Antarctica, Information,
Weather and Outer Space which according to the United Nations are
Global Commons and belong to us all.
Vicki Lynn, Creator and Executive Producer of The Guardians of the
Millennium Web site said: "My vision has always been to create a world
game where children of the world can come together to create 'what
if' scenarios to help safeguard the planet's future."
This
event including parts of The Guardians site shows work and student
projects made by and for kids. This event is being shot LIVE by YCTV,
a student organization in London, which trains young people in all
aspects of co ntemporary television production. Performing LIVE are
five hundred students from various schools of London Redbridge and
students from various schools in and around Dublin. The Guardians
' project has also been working with the global co-ordination of students,
from Nation 1, which is part of the Junior Summit and MIT Media Lab,
from The Global Youth action Network and IEARN which are international
student Internet networks sustained by and for kids in over 100 countries.
The
Guardians of the Millennium World Game is being sponsored in part
by The Information Department of the European Commission's Office
of Education and Culture; by Servecast; Europe's leading audio and
visual content delivery network and Camvista; Europe's leading Web
cam experts.
Working
with Vicki Lynn, of Satellite Events Enterprises, Inc. the Executive
Production Company, are a team of experts from live television, computer
graphics, multimedia, game shows, Sink Digital Media, The Guardians'
Web design company, and with video streaming provided by Servecast.
To
see the event live on the Internet please go to The Guardians of the
Millennium Web site on www.theguardians.com and click on the World
Game, please download in advance the RealPlayer: it will take approximately
one hour to do this, and instructions are on the site. You can then
watch the event live from the Guardians site.
If
you have Realplayer and want to link directly to the video stream:
www.servecast.com/webcasts/guardiansmil/guardian.ram
Time:
Dublin/London: 4.30pm.approx
Hanover/
Paris: 5.30pm. approx
New
York: 11:30am approx
Los
Angeles: 08.35am. approx
Toyko
12:30 Sept 22 approx
Date:
Thursday 21st September 2000.
LIVE
Venue: The Dome in London and Arthouse in Dublin, or www.theguardians.com
Please
arrive at the venue half an hour in advance of the live event.
To
attend the event live at the Dome in London, or at Arthouse in Dublin,
please contact Vicki Lynn or Rachel O'Connor (Dublin)
Irish
Press/Publicity contact:
Rachel
O'Connor: 086 839 47 97 or Email: rachelo_connor@hotmail.com
Executive
Producer:
Vicki
Lynn.
Satellite
Events Enterprises, Inc.
Email: vickibeth@aol.com
Ireland:
00(011) 35 31 287-1174 - Cell: 00 (011) 35 38 680 31262
L.A. (00)1 310-576-9217 Fax (00)1-310-576-0897
UK: London + (0207) 806 1000.c/o Covent Garden Hotel as of Sept 17th
www.theguardians.com
click on World Game for the World's Fair
If
you are going to the Dome please confirm attendance with Vicki Lynn.
To get to the Dome by tube, please go via the Jubilee Line to North
Greenwich station.
For
PRESS: the entrance is The Media Centre outside North Greenwich tube
Station.
For
VIP GUESTS: please use Passholders entrance at Building A which is
on the left as you make your way to the turnstiles.
Anyone wishing to park should pre-book spaces with Rachel
Faulkner on 0208 293 8754
If
you are going to Arthouse please confirm attendance with Rachel O'Connor.
Note
to editors:
The Guardians of the Millennium has been an umbrella project of the
European Commission's Netd@ys 1999, which reached more than 50,000
classrooms in Europe as well as distributed as a global project through
the United Nation's Cyberschoolbus Network reaching classrooms in
more than 100 countries, the Teams Distance Learning Network within
the US that reaches classrooms across thirty states, the UNESCO network
and various other student networks around the world including Nation
1, I EARN, and Youthlink.
ENDS