Lilith Fair has announced Mosaic, a traveling art project which, in addition to giving patrons a chance to create their own work of art, will also raise money for a select non-profit community arts center in each market that the tour visits.

The following is a listing of the non-profit community arts center in each market that will be the beneficiary of Lilith's fundraising.

TSUNAMI has found a vital focus in nurturing young talent providing increasing opportunities for live performances, exhibitions, publishing/recording of works, study and mentoring. This non-profit society's goal is to promote and foster the development and appreciation of unsung artists and musicians. TSUNAMI's activities bridge youthful (often teenage) participation with that of older, more experienced, artists who create outside the commercial mainstream. Through the spirit, resourcefulness and energy of its family of volunteers, TSUNAMI has found "innovative and achievable ways to bring the people to art and music and to bring art and music to the people." Founded on Salt Spring Island, (geographically located in a triangle formed by the cities of Seattle, Wa. and Vancouver and Victoria, B.C.), TSUNAMI is expanding its reach to grow beyond Canada's fertile Gulf Islands into other receptive, rural and urban, communities. At the July 8 tour launch in Vancouver, TSUNAMI will invite Lilith Fair-goers to visit the Mosaic tent for fun and inspiration. "The Lyrical Mask" creates a space for the expression of festival arts through the interactive exploration of words (poetry/lyrics) and masks (papier mache faces to be enlivened with beads, paint, sequins, flower petals, "witches hair" and other decorative and expressive materials)

Washington's contribution to this Mosaic of art, heart and celebration supports VSA Arts of Washington, a chapter of the national Very Special Arts organization founded in the 70's by Jean Kennedy Smith to provide opportunities in the arts for and by children and adults who have disabilities.

VSAAW activities encourage children and adults challenged with developmental disabilities, chronic illness, and major life changes due to injury or onset of chronic disabling diseases to use the arts to communicate where communication is difficult, to choose a new life path in the arts where an old path has been cut off, or to continue a professional career in the arts, perhaps by adapting to different media or techniques. There are so many stories that are told by professional and emerging artists of the role art has played in saving their lives and their will to live as well as of many touching arts experiences with troubled and challenged, often nonverbal persons, who use art to communicate beyond their world. VSAAW and all their sister chapters around the world know that art saves lives, feeds the soul and that everyone is entitled to an accessible opportunity to participate.

AND SO....A collaboration of VSAAW and Art Works! (An Arts in Education and Festival Art Resource, great friend of VSAAW) invite everyone to celebrate the arts by turning yourselves into moving sculptures of light and color. We'll bring the ingredients, banner cloth streamers, gold, silver, and bronzed foils, glow-in-the dark celestials, shiny headbands, tinsels, and lots other exotic, exciting materials that can instantly transform arms, heads, legs, and body into a moving swirl of color and creativity.

Kearny Street Workshop, and our youth advisory board, KSW-Next, will present a one-day 'zine workshop at the Lilith Fair's Mosaic Project, with the goal of producing a series of "mosaic" 'zines. 'Zine editors Jean Chen (print and web 'zine "Flika"), Robynn Takayama (web 'zine "nonogirl") and Sonja Hyon ("Yello Kitty") will assist all comers in producing a page for a print or web 'zine. The print pages will then be copied and bound together in booklets (we will set a limit to the # of pages in each booklet, maybe 50 or 100, but the number of booklets is unlimited. The contributor will only receive the booklet he/she contributed to.) and the resulting mosaic 'zine will be sent to each of its contributors after the fair. Bring your own images and text or create new ones at the workshop!

As an inner-city, non-profit, mural arts organization, Precita Eyes Muralists work to enrich and beautify urban environments and educate the public about the process and history of community mural art. Working with a variety of neighborhoods we nourish one's inherent creativity and celebrate the beauty of their community. A deep commitment to collaboration ensures that the creative work produced is accessible, both physically and conceptually, to the people whose lives it impacts.

The Precita Eyes Mural Arts and Visitors Center, established 20 years ago, sponsors and implements on-going mural projects throughout the Bay Area and internationally. Precita Eyes offers low-cost art classes for all ages, community mural workshops, youth apprenticeships, mural tours, and operates a discount mural art supply store. It has direct impact on arts education classes in the San Francisco/Bay Area by offering ten weekly art classes for children and youth (18 months through 19 years) and adults. These classes and community mural projects enable children and youth to develop their individuality and confidence through creative activities and to experience unifying, positive social interaction through collaboration.

Precita Eyes sees its role as part of a larger worldwide movement of community mural painting, and because of this, muralists from the center continue to participate in mural projects with traditionally marginalized or underserved communities.

At Lilith Fair, Precita Eyes will be conducting an impromptu "Community Mural Paint-In." All Lilith Fair guests will have the opportunity to participate in the creation of a new mural inspired by the celebration of the Fair's musical environment. Guests will get to paint! Cost is $5.00/person.

Contact Info:

For more information please contact Susan Cervantes or in her absence, Corinna Press at: Ph: (415) 285-2287 Email: pem@precitaeyes.org

Surf Diva is the world's first all-female surf school. Based in San Diego, CA, we are back for our second Lilith Fair and we are thrilled to take part in the wonderful experience again. Because we are ocean and beach lovers, our project for the Mosaic is sand castles. They will be made with natural sand, glue, and splash of glitter for the "diva" in everyone. The proceeds will benefit Boarding for Breast Cancer in honor of female surfing legend Rell Sunn (starbulletin.com/).

Rell Sunn died of breast cancer a year and a half ago at the age of 47. She had been diagnosed 14 years earlier. Rell kept surfing throughout her battle. She began surfing in her home of Makaha, Oahu at age 4, and started competing at age 14. At competitions where there was no women's division, she would enter and succeed in the men's categories. She was Hawaii's first female lifeguard. In 1975 she founded the women's professional surfing tour. Due to her efforts to teach children to surf as well as her involvement in many community programs, Rell began to be known as the "Queen of Makaha". She also kept her Hawaiian heritage alive as an accomplished hula dancer and spear fisher. Rell was the ultimate waterwomen and became a mentor for female as well as male surfers around the world. Along with her husband Dave Parmenter,several hundred surfers took a last ride with her as her ashes were thrown into the sea she loved.

Boarding For Breast Cancer (BBC) (www.twsnow.com/bbc), is a national organization working to elevate awareness among today's youth and raise funds for breast cancer research and educational projects.Through unique, youth-focused programs, BBC is able to convey a relevant message to thousands of people, while raising funds for the cause. Boarding for Breast Cancer has raised over $237,000 the cause. Proceeds have been donated to The Breast Cancer Fund and The Susan G. Komen Foundation, both national non-profits dedicated to doing a better job of detecting, treating, and curing breast cancer through cutting edge research and educational programs.

Make easy and beautiful camp crafts at Lilith Fair and help send children living with HIV and AIDS to Summer Camp. Camp Laurel, a year round educational wilderness camping program for children living with HIV and AIDS provides children with an opportunity to enjoy the San Bernardino Mountains while experiencing fun and novel activities. Summer Camp activities include canoeing, hiking, arts & crafts, archery, mountain biking and more. Through these activities, children form support groups with their peers and develop self esteem.

For more information on Camp Laurel, please call 653-5005 or visit our website.

Free Arts of Arizona is a nonprofit organization that provides the healing effects of the creative arts to abused, neglected and homeless children throughout the Greater Phoenix area. Creative volunteers share their talents in the visual arts, music, theater, creative writing, dance, poetry and other art forms with children who live in local residential treatment centers, group homes and shelters. Through the creative arts, children can work to build self-esteem and social skills, renew trust with a caring adult, and learn to express emotions in a positive way. You do not have to be an artist to volunteer! All volunteers complete a screening and training process before being placed to work with children.

To learn more, visit our web site at www.freeartsaz.org, or call us for a volunteer information packet at 602/258-8100. Art Heals!

On Thanksgiving Day, 1996, after five debilitating years of suffering and struggling with depression, 22- year old guitarist Nuci Phillips shot and killed himself. In response to their loss, the Phillips family bought and donated a warehouse in downtown Athens, Ga.to be converted into a state-of-the-art music complex/counseling center called Nuci's Space to assist musicians who often live below the poverty level. The Space will provide at very low cost rehearsal spaces, a performance area, counseling, support groups, information workshops, musical mentoring, networking, and other programs of help to the young musician.

The non-profit Nuci Phillips Memorial Foundation is raising its voice loud and clear to address the needs of the young musician. Athens is just the start.

Help us create a space to fill one left by a very good human being. At Lilith Fair, we will make "Memory Bracelets" from a wide array of lovely materials. All proceeds will help to create Nuci's Space.

For Further information Contact:
Linda V. Phillips, President Nuci Phillips Memorial Foundation
404-377-7178
1-888-480-3822
e-mail: buddha12@mindspring.com

Girls on the Run is an innovative program for 8 to 14 year old girls that blends the physical challenge of training for and participating in a 5K running/walking event with the experiential life skills lessons that enhance emotional, social, mental and spiritual development. Its mission: to educate and prepare girls for a lifetime of self-respect and healthy living. Its hope: to provide a nurturing and productive environment where girls are simply free to be themselves regardless of body size, skin color or economic status. Its dream: to create an entire generation of women who are comfortable with their place in this universe and who are strong enough to not be knocked down too easily from that spot.

Plants grow... people grow! At Lilith Fair, we will create mosaic necklaces with a variety of materials such as seeds, wood, and grains. Concert-goers will create their own patterns and designs using the many textures and natural materials available.

Art-O-Matic is a grass-roots organization dedicated to creating opportunities for D.C.'s visual, literary and performance artists who often have difficulty being recognized amidst the more established federal arts establishment in the city. Our "Women's Work" project was created specifically for the Lilith Fair Festival at Nissan Pavilion this year. The project will help illustrate the fact that regardless of American Women's progress in the work force in the last fourty years, women still retain the primary responsibility for household chores. Participants will be invited to write a line about laundry or women's work on a kerchief square, and then "wash" the square in colored, soapy water. They may then hang the square to dry on the clothesline in the adjacent area, or take it with them. The lines written by participants will also be logged on sheets, creating a larger poem about "women's work."

For information, contact Stacy Bond @ 202-624-2549

Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts (RCCA) serves the regional community with a year-round calendar of high quality exhibitions, performances, events and arts education activities that promote a full understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of the visual, performing and media arts and that foster integration of the arts in all aspects of life. RCCA's Arts Education Enrichment Program serves 15,000 disadvantaged children and youth in Camden City with a diverse program of both visual and performing arts activities.

On July 30th, RCCA will facilitate two wearable art projects which will add a festive fashion element to Lilith Fair. Concert-goers can create cloth belts, bandannas and two-dimensional art works on paper using a block printing technique. A variety of block images will be available -- African Adinkra symbols, Asian-inspired designs and many other interesting shapes. Lilith Fair attenders may also create necklaces, bracelets and bangles from clear plastic tubing filled with colorful sand or glitter. All proceeds from these two wearable art activities will benefit RCCA's Arts Education Enrichment Program for Camden City children and youth.

Mountain Meadow is committed to providing a summer camp experience for young people from diverse economic backgrounds, and we therefore charge tuition on a sliding scale basis. In order to effectively serve a population of kids from alternative families, we believe that it is essential to recognize the economic challenges that members of our communities face. The bulk of our budget comes from foundation support and individual donations are also essential to keep us afloat.

You can visit our webpage or contact us at enzyme@umich.edu. Our telephone contact number is (215) 848-7566 and our mailing address is 7042 Greene Street, Philadelphia, PA 19119.

Our mission; to present artistic programming to the public as a vehicle for engagement, understanding and exploration of our contemporary culture, psyche and social condition. The Laboratory for the Arts will serve as a testing ground for new, temporary presentations of visual arts, performance, film, video, design and evolving art forms. Recognizing the schism and alienation which has created a chasm between contemporary art and the public at large, we recognize that contemporary issues mandate a contemporary response in the form of new and innovative strategies in presentation, education and community based programs. Through experimental curriculum and creative presentation strategies we will deeply engage new and existing audiences in a journey of exploration, collaboration and participation.

We are excited to present FRANKENDEITY an exploratory activity which engages participants in crafting a cross cultural mythical entity. Borrowing symbolic body parts in the form of paper cut outs, we will deconstruct and recombine popular deities and mythic characters from across the universal pantheon and reconstruct a new one to suit our needs. In exploring world myth and beliefs, we gain a deeper understanding of our own human needs and social beliefs. The goal of this project is to cut through the rigid, isolated representations of superhuman characteristics and forge a custom tailored FRANKENDEITY capable of handling the complexities of your life. Be the first on your block to construct a personal deity you can use and that make sense for your busy modern lifestyle.

"Everything must have a beginning...and that beginning must be linked to something that went before. The Hindus give the world an elephant to support it, but they make the elephant stand upon a tortoise. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creatin out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances but cannot bring into baind the substance itself... Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject and in the power of molding and fashioning ideas suggested by it."

- Mary Shelley, Marlow, September 1817 from the introduction to her novel- Frankenstein

The Laboratory for the Arts, Boston contact: Mauricio Cordero (617)424-7139 address: 567 Tremont St., #15, Boston, Ma 02118 e-mail: macordero@aol.com