Remote Instrumentation & Data Visualizations Working Group

[Jennifer Oxenford <>]

Colleagues,

Please help us distribute this event announcement to anyone you think might be interested in your areas. Contact Kent Tonkin directly at <>  to register. 

Best,
Jennifer

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The Didgeridu : Exploring the Dreamtime with Jim Gagnon
Sponsored by St. Francis University Center of Excellence for Remote and Medically Under-Served Areas

DATE:  April 3, 2006

TIME: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST

TARGET AGE GROUP: High School Students/College and University Students

COST:  Free!

DESCRIPTION:

This exciting videoconference event will combine historical and cultural information about the indigenous Australian instrument, the Didgeridu, as well as live performance. Jim Gagnon and accompanist Jim Donovan (Founding member of the multi-platinum selling band Rusted Root and current Saint Francis University Instructor of Music) will give this interactive presentation. A question/answer session will follow the Performance/Lecture.

ABOUT JIM GAGNON

Jim Gagnon was born and raised in a suburb of Pittsburgh called, "Oakmont".  He enlisted in the U.S. Navy for four years, where he toured the Mediterranean Sea twice, and was actually on the scene for the first gulf war.  After the Navy, Jim attended and graduated from the Edgar Cayce School in Virginia Beach in '05, where he studied different modes of healing, meditation, yoga, and energy work. It was here that Jim became interested in drumming as a means of exploration and healing. During this time Jim began making didgeridus, and teaching classes and workshops. Gagnon is a free-lance writer, cultural music enthusiast, painter, and producer of four CDs, the latest being "The Great Dance", by his group Dreamtime Project.

He currently lives with his 8 year old son, Isaiah, in Charlottesville, Va.

TESTING: All participating sites must complete a videoconference test on March 30, 2006 between 2 and 4 p.m. Testing instructions will be sent to participating sites on March 29, 2006.

REGISTRATION: To register for this event, please send an email expressing interest to Kent Tonkin at . REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT CLOSES ON MARCH 28, 2006. 

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Jennifer Oxenford 
Associate Director, MAGPI 

phone: 215.898.0341
cell: 267.322.0036
fax: 215.898.9348

www.magpi.net
215-74MAGPI (215-746-2474)