850,000 people at Downsview Park Canada's largest urban park - World Youth Day

1. Introduction
2. Age of Aquarius
3. The Inspiration
4. Message to G8 Leaders
5. Concert Program
6. WOODSTOCK '69 Connection
7. Spirit of Woodstock '69 returns
8. John Lennon Connection
9. Our Social Commitment

Introduction Artist David Kam has join forces with legendary producer of Woodstock '69 Artie Kornfeld (the father of Woodstock), to bring you the IMAGINE - music and arts festival, a 2-day charity event unlike any other, to change the world from ME 2 WE. Since music is a universal language that unites people, we hope to bring over 1,000,000 dreamers to IMAGINE. We also plan to broadcast IMAGINE to 300 million people worldwide.

The theme of IMAGINE is "2 days of Love and Music to Change the World" and is being dubbed "Woodstock for the WE Generation".

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The Inspiration

IMAGINE is inspired by John Lennon's song of the same name and is also being infused with the spirit of WOODSTOCK '69 (and LIVE8), to create a “SPARK” for massive environmental and social change.

John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Bedin for Peace in 1969

Imagine Imagine all the people...
Living life in peace...
A brotherhood of man...
Imagine all the people...
Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer...
But I'm not the only one...
I hope someday you'll join us...
And the world will be as one...
                     John Lennon

Join us and the world will be as one!

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Message to the G8 World Leaders

G8 World Leaders Meeting 2007

IMAGINE takes place around the same time as the G8 World Leaders Meeting in Canada.The G8 World Leaders Meeting is a meeting of the world's richest nations (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the UK and the US), representing 14% of the world's population, and 65% of the world economy. The combined G8 military spending was US$850 billion, representing 72% of the world's total military expenditures and accounting for 96-99% of the world's nuclear weapons.

IMAGINE is part of the visionary open source EARTHSHIP Summit, the world's largest happening for environmental and social change. This is an alternative people's summit to complement the G8 World Leaders Meeting. We plan to invite to the EARTHSHIP Summit, 200 of the world's poorest nations aka non-G8 nations, non-profit organizations, green businesses, and concerned citizens of the world. Citizens worldwide will be able to share the beauty of art, listen to music and deal with issues such as: poverty, peace, sustainability, health, the extinction of species, equal rights, the environment, and the future of our planet. Along with the concert, there will also be conferences, exhibitions, sustainability competitions, talent search, and happenings across the world dealing with social and environmental issues. We plan to produce a summary report of the world's concerns for submission to all the G8 World Leaders.

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Concert Program

We also hope to make IMAGINE into a movie and show it at movie festivals worldwide.

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Artie Kornfeld at age 26, was one of the four original founders who organized the world famous WOODSTOCK '69. Woodstock was a music festival, billed as An Aquarian Exposition, which took place at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969.

WOODSTOCK '69 turned out to be one of the world's largest and greatest cultural (counterculture) events of the 20th century. Attended by half a million people, the festival exemplified the counterculture of the late 1960s – early 1970s, known as the "hippie era". WOODSTOCK '69 had thirty-two of the best-known musicians of the day, including Jimi Hendrix, the Who, Janis Joplin, Santana, Grateful Dead, Joe Cocker, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young... The event was captured in a successful 1970 documentary movie, Woodstock, an accompanying soundtrack album, and Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock", which commemorated the event and became a major hit for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Artie Kornfeld was the soul of WOODSTOCK '69, seeing it as a way to end the Vietnam War, and to support civil rights, while Michael Lang saw Woodstock as a new, relaxed way of bringing business people together. The other two partners John Roberts, and Joel Rosenman put in the seed money to finance the project. There has been a few attempts to cash in on Woodstock '69 with other music festival, including Woodstock II and Woodstock III, but Artie Kornfeld was never involved with the organization of any of them. Artie proudly says he was not involved with Woodstock II or Woodstock III. Even Neil Young said, "other music festivals were not the same, without Artie Kornfeld..." The Woodstock Preservation Alliance acknowledged that Artie Kornfeld was the soul of Woodstock by naming him the "Father of Woodstock"...

We invite the entire Woodstock Nation to bring back the spirit of Woodstock '69 to the world. People are dying from poverty, the planet is polluted, numerous species are facing extinction, there is still war and injustice. Join the green movement, and share the vision for a better society.

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The Spirit of Woodstock '69 returns with IMAGINE

Half a million people at Woodstock in 1969

Artie says, "we will unite four generations to bring back the spirit of Woodstock '69 to change the world from ME 2 WE. I believe that what we did at Woodstock in 1969 helped the civil rights movement, and eventually ended the Vietnam war; it also set the stage for Obama to be elected President of the United States and I am so proud of that".

Artie later became Vice President of Capital Records (East Coast Division), helping to write, and produced an astonishing 100 platinum records. He become friends with Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, Frank Zappa, Blondie, Sonny and Cher and among other rock royalty... To learn more about Artie Kornfeld, click here

Artist David Kam also invited Michael Lang, the other original organizer of Woodstock '69 to join the team for IMAGINE, but he declined due to other commitments.

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The John Lennon "Imagine" Connection

Aritie Kornfeld wrote songs for others and even had his own brief stint as a pop star in 1965 and ‘66 when his group, the Changin’ Times, had one of two hit versions of his song “Pied Piper,” a tune that John Lennon singled out as a favorite in interviews at the time. With that hit, Kornfeld toured the U.S. as an opening act for Sonny and Cher. Years later, he had occasion to meet Lennon when they were using adjacent recording halls.

“I was in the restroom, leaning over the urinal snorting coke. Without his glasses on, Lennon couldn't’t see a thing, and all of a sudden I felt this wet stream running down the back of my leg. I turn around and go, ‘Oh, my God, John Lennon! And, by the way, you’re peeing on me.’ “He said, ‘Who are you?’ I identified myself, and he said, ‘I know you’ but didn't’t say anything about Woodstock. Instead, he told me that ‘Pied Piper’ was one of his favorite songs. That made me feel real good, because then, in the early ’70s, people only knew me as Artie Woodstock.”

By 1968, Kornfeld was Capitol Records’ East Coast Vice President of Artists and Repertoire. He helped sign the Band, Debbie Harry’s first group and other acts to the label; assisted Paul McCartney in setting up the Beatles’ Apple Records; hung out with Frank Zappa; had a “drug friendship” with Jimi Hendrix and otherwise comported himself in the manner of the times. How times have changed, Artie is now living a life as clean as a whistle, with focus on meditation and a healthy lifestyle. Artie became good friends with Lennon near the end of his life... Although John Lennon has passed away, but his dream lives on. Come join us dreamers for a chance to experience 2 days of Love and Music to Change the World.

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