VILLAGE GREEN…10,000 Hours of Arts & Entertainment in Two Years!
 
Village Green – An Awesome Arts/Net Challenge - Our Mission: Set a new benchmark for the quantity, quality and diversity of arts and entertainment by emerging and established performers in sundry styles, produced and presented onstage, and webcast live to a global audience, from one primary location during a single two-year period.
 
Village Green will be a community arts oasis located in the heart of Old New York, equipped with state-of-the-art technology, where pre-set remote-control cameras, lights and sound will allow a single operator to stage-manage, transmit and record an event on high-definition full-bandwidth video. Since all shows will be archived online, the performances will be readily available anywhere anytime. It will be a full-service professional theater center and interactive video studio with the smallest possible footprint, including sound stages, recording studios, rehearsal space, dressing rooms, set, costume, pre- and post-production facilities. We will create an eclectic 24/7 schedule of regular series, special events and festivals to appeal to current as well as develop new audiences for stimulating programs of live, streaming and taped arts and entertainment. The operation will be a model of green tech, a dynamic demonstration of economical, ecological, community-conscious synergy. Through innovative, efficient use of our space and time, we will maximize access to our stages, plus produce a digital cornucopia of creativity, transmitted on all popular platforms and preserved for posterity. In addition to Village Green’s home space, we will launch Green To Go, a mobile van designed and equipped to travel to other venues and locations, where we will record and transmit performances with the same cost-effective efficiency and creativity.
 
Village Green’s central theme will be an exploration and celebration of popular culture over New York City’s 400 year history. One principal production will be an original DocuDraMusical, Banjos & Bugles: New York’s Civil War in Song, Scene & Spectacle, which we consider a compelling candidate for NYC’s Official Sesquicentennial Project.
 
The city, nation and world’s creative communities will embrace this opportunity to present their work live on an intimate, affordable New York stage with perfect acoustics, reach a global audience online, and produce professional video to advance their careers. Further, Village Green will attract performers, arts lovers and tourists from around the globe, contributing significantly to the neighborhood and entire city’s economies.
 
This is an era when an unknown Scottish singer went from virtual obscurity to the top attraction on You Tube within 24 hours. With New York’s rich talent pool and steady stream of visiting performers, we are confident we will discover hundreds of Susan Boyles, world-class artists who may be off the radar now, but deserve broader exposure. Village Green intends to become You Too’b for live performances, a talent greenhouse, where a broad range of solo artists, music, dance, drama and comedy groups present their work before a live and worldwide net audience with professional production values and promotion. We will also edit our finest arts and entertainment into a variety of broadcast-quality programs and series for the global television, home video and mobile markets, creating an important new revenue stream for performing artists.
 
How Much Talent Does it Take to Produce and Present Great Performances Online 24/7?
It Takes a Village…a Global Mobile Village… http://www.VillageGreen.Mobi!
 
Why? It’s all happening online, so creative and performing artists must stake our claim.
 
What? Village Green is a two-year project with an ambitious mission: Set a new benchmark for the quantity, quality and diversity of arts and entertainment produced and presented live and online, with the smallest possible footprint and lowest possible budget.
 
Where? The capital of creativity, community, and communications…Old New York - The City That Never Sleeps is the ideal place to launch this 24/7 global arts gathering.
 
Village Green’s signature production will be The Green Room, a daily live one-hour interactive webcast on the arts, hosted by a rotating roster of wise witty personalities, addressing timely topics. In-studio performers will exchange ideas/tips/secrets with a range of emerging and established talent worldwide. One regular segment will be multi-media/continental/cultural jam sessions, exploring internet collaboration’s vast potential. Village Green will provide accurate lists and links to arts events worldwide, making it easier for performers to reach a live audience and develop an online following. We are confident our fresh daily arts feast will become an essential service embraced by artists and arts-lovers both in New York and around the world, and frequently accessed by a substantial global audience craving this contemporary, cutting-edge SOHO connection.
 
Who? It takes a talented team, helmed by a group of seasoned artists and producers with a track record of success, and motivated pool of fresh writers, performers, designers, cast and crew up for this high-profile world-class challenge – our team is ready for primetime!
 
How? Village Green policy will encourage the most innovative exploration of art and technology by the gamut of artists and performers; those living near or visiting New York will be able to appear live on our shows, perform, promote current projects and interact with the studio audience, while solo artists and groups around the globe will be invited to upload photos, videos, contribute and connect online. In addition to our daily webcasts, Village Green will produce and present a full program of theater, music and dance events, live and streaming, and be the leanest, greenest theater/webcast operation anywhere.
 
When? In 20 years the internet has changed the way we live, will play an even larger role in the future, and is the primary way people living under repressive regimes make contact with free world arts and ideas - it is vital for anyone who values independent, alternative and progressive perspectives to ensure that our voices are heard. The time is NOW!
 
How much will it cost? We have the right team primed to apply expertise, sound business principles and entrepreneurial moxie to live/video production, ready to rally our troupes and resources, employ barter, product placement et al, and deliver this media milestone for $100,000 a month, proving: There’s Still More Bang per Byte in The Big Apple!
 
A Global Arts Audience Awaits Online - Mobilize Now!  http://www.VillageGreen.Mobi