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NEIL YOUNG WITH
CRAZY HORSE, FOO FIGHTERS, THE BLACK KEYS TO PERFORM GLOBAL
FESTIVAL 2012 on the Great Lawn in Central Park
Free Ticketed Concert on September 29, 2012,
to Take Action Against Extreme Poverty
Also Featuring Special Guests Band of Horses and
K'Naan
The Global Poverty Project (GPP) has
announced the Global Festival 2012, a multifaceted event
culminating with a free ticketed concert on the Great Lawn
of New York's iconic Central Park on September 29, 2012.
Neil Young with Crazy Horse, Foo Fighters and The Black Keys
will headline, supported by Band of Horses and K’Naan.
The Global
Festival, which celebrates achievements made towards
eradicating extreme poverty, has been timed to create
awareness around the UN General Assembly in New York, when
world leaders will convene to debate the Millennium
Development Goals and make commitments to end extreme
poverty.
Starting
today, tickets to the concert can be earned through the new
online platform, Global Citizen (http://globalfestival.com
). Global Citizen will offer a wide cross-section of content
and actions about international health and development
issues, ranging from videos to in-depth white papers. It
will also showcase non-profit partners and social
entrepreneurs that are working in each of these areas, as
well as academics, writers, celebrity spokespeople and music
artists who are involved in these particular issues. Each
fan can simply choose from a variety of cause related
actions to complete on the website, become a global citizen
and qualify for free tickets to the concert.
While progress has been made to achieve
the Millennium Development Goals, an estimated 1.3 billion
people still live in extreme poverty, on less than the
equivalent of $1.50 per day. Among the issues the Global
Festival and Global Citizen platform will seek to impact is
the global effort to end polio, cases of which have been
reduced by more than 99% since 1988. By bringing together
thousands of people to take action, this generation can make
history and finally eradicate the disease.
“By giving every child a chance to
thrive, our generation can end extreme poverty” said Hugh
Evans, CEO, The Global Poverty Project. Tremendous strides
have been made to improve the lives of children, including
the effort to provide every child with the vaccines they
require, but there is much to be done and the need for
action is urgent.
Neil Young stated, “With at least 1.3
billion people living in extreme poverty on Earth today,
there has never been a better time to become a Global
Citizen and do whatever you can to make a difference for
your fellow man.”
The Global Poverty Project aims to
motivate a generation to take 100,000 actions by September
and take a stand against poverty. The free concert will
serve as the culmination to the Global Festival, with the
event in Central Park celebrating actions taken towards
ending extreme poverty in our generation. Global Citizen
will serve as a permanent platform by providing on-going
information and announcements for action that can lead to
lasting change.
Foo Fighters issued the following statement on their
commitment to Global Festival 2012,"We are very proud to be
lending a hand to such a creative, important event and are
looking forward to adding to the noise in the big park and
helping the effort toward reducing the global shame of deep
poverty."
Hugh
Jackman, a member of the advisory board of Global Poverty
Project, sent the following message of support for the
Festival, “This Festival will energize and inspire a
generation to work together to end extreme poverty. I am
looking forward to being at this iconic event and to being
part of this amazing Global Poverty Project initiative.”
The event
is being produced by Goldenvoice, supported by the Pratt
Foundation, and is only possible because of the critical
funding from the Sumner M. Redstone Foundation that allowed
the Festival to move forward. Art and other creative
elements of the festival will be produced by Milk and the
HOPE Campaign.
Supporting
non-profit partners include: The Earth Institute, World Food
Program USA, Pencils of Promise,
The Global Partnership for
Education, Half the Sky, Rotary International, World
Vision, Malaria No More, Rainforest Foundation and U.S. Fund
for UNICEF.
Starting today, people everywhere are
invited to sign-up and begin participating in actions to be
entered in the ticket lottery. More information about the
bands, artists, schedules, and event can be found at
http://globalfestival.com . A small number of VIP
tickets are available for purchase and all net proceeds go
to the charity.
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THE GLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT:
The Global Poverty Project is an international education and
advocacy organization working to catalyse the movement to
end extreme poverty. An Australian grown project, The Global
Poverty Project creates campaigns with the purpose to
increase the number and effectiveness of people taking
action to end extreme poverty, with the vision of a world
without extreme poverty, within a generation. Join the
conversation on
Facebook, follow@TheGPP and visit:
www.globalpovertyproject.com
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