Events and Press
Press
The Pangaea Project has been highlighted in numerous articles over the years which you can read by clicking the links below:
- Growing a Leader: PCC Communities Magazine, Summer 2009
- The Pangaea Project to Reunite World: Smoke Signals, 9/15/08
- Give Where You Live: Portland Family Magazine, 11/07
- The Pangaea Project: Bringing the World Back Together through Youth Philanthropy: New York Regional Association of Grantmakers, 9/07
- Pangaea Finds New Roots on the Street, Street Roots, 5/18/07
- The Pangaea Project Targets a Change for Homelessness, Street Roots, 5/1/07
Events
With the strong support and backing of the Everyone Orchestra, Slipknot Productions, and MAST Projects, The Pangaea Project has been the beneficiary of four Annual Music Benefits since the organization’s inception. Guest speakers have included:
- Julia Butterfly Hill
- Dennis Kucinich
- Johnny Dwork
Guest musicians have included:
- Matt Butler (Everyone Orchestra founder)
- Jon Fishman (Phish)
- Steve Berlin (Los Lobos)
- Billy Nershi (String Cheese Incident)
- Jason Hann (String Cheese Incident)
- Michael Kang (String Cheese Incident)
- Keith Moseley (String Cheese Incident)
- Stanton Moore (Galactic)
- Tony Furtado
- Reggie Watts (Maktub and Soulive)
- James Beaton (Storm Large & the Balls and Everclear)
- Kai Eckhardt (Garaj Mahal)
- Jeff Sipe (Aquarium Rescue Unit)
- Tye North (Leftover Salmon)
- Jamie Masefield (Jazz Mandolin Project)
- Libby Kirkpatrick
- Jamie Janover (Zilla)
- Aaron Holstein (Zilla)
- Kaveri Agashe
- Enion Pelta (Taarka)
- David Tiller (Taarka)
- Maya Dorn
- Will Bernard
- Mic Crenshaw
- Jans Ingber (Motet)
- Darol Anger
- Scott Law
- Asher Fulero
- Damian Erskine
- Members of The March Fourth Marching Band
- Axé Didé Music and Dance Group
Read about the event by clicking on the links below:
Fishman Joins Everyone Orchestra
Everyone Orchestra & Butler, Fishman, Travis, Janover Drum Workshop
Everyone Orchestra 'Conducts Second Annual Benefit Concerts in Portland and Eugene
Everyone Orchestra ‘Conducts’ Third Annual Pangaea Project Benefit Concerts
Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich on May 1, 2004
“From neighborhoods of Portland to the neighborhoods of the world, The Pangaea Project seeks to create a bridge, a bridge of awareness, a bridge of consciousness, a bridge which envelopes the power of the human spirit, of the human heart. To be, once again, Co-creators, we saw in the formation of Pangaea the essential creativity of one continent coming together, and then the splits that occurred creating so many different continents. And yet we are now recreating through this moment, through the power of so many musicians here, helping you recreate the world, bring the world back together again through a unity of awareness that we are all one.
What a great gift it is that Pangaea will give to so many inner-city young people, to be able to have the experience of moving out of their own neighborhoods and into the neighborhoods of the world, to see with their eyes their brothers and sisters and how they live 12,000 miles away. To see their brothers and sisters who speak many different tongues, many different colors, many different faiths, beliefs and non-beliefs, to come to an awareness of human unity. Pangaea is building on that advancing tide of human unity. It is helping to create it by enabling young people to achieve an experience which otherwise they would be deprived of, this experience of discovery. Every moment in our lives when we achieve discovery, it has a profound effect on us. It informs the rest of our life. So this work that you will hear tonight, this work of music, which derives from the archetype of the music of the spheres itself is the work of creativity, of creating new possibilities for the young people of this community and helping to build a new structure for peace in the world. Thank you.”