Aware Guide - Your Guide to Life Changing Media

The Merging of a New Future will explore a series of fantastic emerging facts – the only genuine currency of science – and a contemporary synthesis where science and soul coexist comfortably. Without such a merging, our world cannot survive. Some of the most urgent questions facing our future evolution will be addressed.  Everything will be examined from the perspectives of both sages and scientists, with a view to finding common ground.

Join the Agape Community on Sundays and Wednesdays for Live Streaming of our Services!  Since its doors opened in 1986, Agape’s active teaching and practice of the New Thought-Ancient Wisdom tradition of spirituality has expanded into a trans-denominational movement and community of 9,000 local members and 1,000,000 friends worldwide.

The essence of Agape is best described by its founder, Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith: "When I founded the Agape International Spiritual Center and community in 1986, we “visioned” it as a movement that would take a stand for love, for peace, for being a beneficial presence on the planet. That’s why it was named "Agape," which in Greek means unconditional love.

The first full-length documentary film ever made about legendary environmentalist Aldo Leopold, Green Fire highlights Leopold's extraordinary career, tracing how he shaped and influenced the modern environmental movement. Leopold remains relevant today, inspiring projects all over the country that connect people and land. The film provocatively examines Leopold's thinking, renewing his idea of a land ethic for a population facing 21st century ecological challenges. Leopold's biographer, conservation biologist Dr. Curt Meine, serves as the film's on-screen guide.

The Wisdom 2.0 Conference is a one-of-a-kind event in Silicon Valley that brings together people from a variety of disciplines, including technology leaders, Zen teachers, neuroscientists, and academics, to explore how we can live with deeper meaning and wisdom in our technology-rich age.

The conference addresses the great challenge of our age: to not only live connected to one another through technology, but to do so in ways that are beneficial to our own well-being, effective in our work, and useful to the world.

Sing Your Song is the result of a confluence of many events, things as diverse as the passing of Marlon Brando, a look back at the lives of many other unsung heroes in the fight for justice as well as the faithful love (and gentle nagging) of two daughters. Like Brando, there are many public figures who are not known, primarily, for their activism, their compassion and their dedication to human rights. Harry Belafonte is one of them:

2.00 PM – Film Panel - Pioneers of filmmaking: exposing truth without fear.

Mikki Willis                       Josh Tickell            Frederick Marx

Read more about each of our Film PANELISTS on their BIO pages.

Mikki Willis (Panel Moderator)- Founder of Elevate Film Studios and Festival

Josh Tickell - Film maker and Author

Frederick Marx - Oscar and Emmy nominated producer/director

Josh Radnor - wrote, directed, and starred in the Sundance Audience Award-winning film “happythankyoumoreplease”

Finding Joe is an exploration of famed Mythologist Joseph Campbell’s studies and their continuing impact on our culture. Through interviews with visionaries from a variety of fields interwoven with enactments of classic tales by a sweet and motley group of kids, the film navigates the stages of what Campbell dubbed The Hero’s Journey: the challenges, the fears, the dragons, the battles, and the return home as a changed person. Rooted in deeply personal accounts and timeless stories,

Bonsai People: The Vision of Muhammad Yunus, is a feature length documentary film that explores the work of Nobel Peace Prize winner  Muhammad Yunus and his vision from microcredit to social business. The latest documentary by award winning filmmaker Holly Mosher is the first film looking at his work from microcredit to social business. The film is an emotionally compelling look at his work tackling poverty from all angles. "Seeing the real people in this movie gives you the real experience," says Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Muhammad Yunus.

A new form of capitalism is arising that recognizes our ability to direct the power and efficiency of market systems toward social impact, leading to a more balanced set of “returns”.  SOCAP is a multi-platform organization dedicated to the flow of capital towards social good. Our event series connects leading global innovators – investors, foundations, institutions and social entrepreneurs – to build this market at the intersection of money and meaning.

Join visionaries, producers, directors, writers, marketers, distributors and other media professionals in this interactive dialog to inspire the creation and dissemination of transformative media, entertainment, technology and art. We'll bring together those on the forefront of this revolution to discuss the state of the industry, look at what types of projects that are being funded and distributed, delivery systems, market conditions, and other factors contributing to the growth of this sector.

Select participants have a chance to deliver a short presentation on what and how they are contributing to this movement. Among them will be:

PlayItFWD - Adil Kassim will present the vision for a digital distribution platform from the labs at Elevate Studios utilizing the power of social media to deliver quality elevated films and benefit filmmakers and causes.
Elevate Studios

AwareGuide - Gary Tomchuk will share his online “TV Guide” for transformational media connecting media makers, nonprofits and viewers seeking to change their lives and the planet. AwareGuide

The Personal Media Revolution - From this upcoming book, Jared Rosen will discuss how the new millennium has spawned a Personal Media Revolution that could fulfill Andy Warhol’s vision that in the future everyone would be famous for fifteen minutes. Personal Media Revolution

SOLD - Jeffrey Brown, Director/Producer will share his plans for using his narrative film depicting sex trafficing in India to catalyze a global movement towards irradicating the problem in India and globally. Sold

Town Hall- Andy Orgel, CEO of First Degree, will lead an open discussion on the genre of transformational media: what defines it?, what's working and why? and how we can all contribute towards its successful?

Join us monthly for this catalyzing event. Next date is tentatively set for Thursday, July 7th at The NeXus. Save the date
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The NeXus
1414 Harbour Way South, #1010
Ford Point at Marina District
Richmond, CA 94804
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