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Art Gallery raises funds to social institution (News, SL Reports)
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Written by Xavier Mohr
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Monday, 02 July 2007 |
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Wed Jun 28, 2007 18:33pm Lvis Allen
SECOND LIFE, Jun 28 – Portuguese group is organizing a gallery, which sales funds are going to social institution ARCI. ARCI has been developing educational and free time occupation projects using virtual realities, such as Second Life, with at risk teens and adults, who belong to the association Novo Futuro (www.novofuturo.org) .
Established on september 2003, ARCI is an association of people, whose aim is the establishment of activities and projects related to computers and technologies, such as in the reacreational and educational areas, software and global technologies, using partnerships and mutual help from its users. This institution also develops a partnership on what takes to C-learning (cyberlearning) to youngsters from Novo Futuro in such contexts as Second Life, which is even used as “a way of therapy leading to very satisfying results, used to occupy free time and as a way of fighting handicap”, says rocky musashi, responsible for the project.
This Second Life awareness campaign has a partnership with the contemporary Portuguese Artist Luís Mariano Alves, who agreed on giving his copyright rights of his pieces, allowing his work to join the campaign adding his art to the ones made by the members of the associations mentioned. It is important to mention that all paints cost the mere price of 100L$ (0,37USD/0,28€) and that all are unique. This gallery will last one more mouth, and more will come. people will have available a box at the place where they can make deposits.
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There are several charity organizations and other institutions without personal benefit that are now starting their own awareness campaign in the so called virtual world, aiming new ways of attracting new donors and in hope of educating wide audiences about their campaigns. Millions of people are now spending more and more of their time in Second Life. Therefore, this kind of awareness campaigns reminds them that they can't escape the problems of the real world.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Leif/107/114/22
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