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Tuesday
May292012

6/8 Eve - Sea Speak Sphere: Message in a Bottle by Asher Jay

Celebrate World Oceans Day on Friday June 8th, 6:30-8:30pm at Green Spaces, at the premier of Sea Speak Sphere: Message in a Bottle by Asher Jay.

The installation of 100+ bottles in the shape of an ocean is a conceptual, collaborative campaign that aims to highlight displays more than 100 cross-disciplinary leaders, including but not limited to prominent: photographers, scientists, film makers, explorers, journalists, conservationists, ethologists, essayists, authors, musicians, divers, actors, anchors, artists, geospatialists and activists.

They have each contributed a personal statement to the ‘Sea Speak’ movement as they second the premise of the work, which is to reach as many people as possible about as many ocean-related concerns of our time.

Mingle 6:30-7:30/8, event program, and then party resumes! Program lineup:

Opening remarks with Susan McPherson, Senior Vice President/Director of Global Marketing at Fenton, serial connector, passionate cause marketer, writer and CSR expert

Introduction of Asher Jay, conceptual thinker, art activist, designer and writer, by Marissa Feinberg, Co-Founder of Green Spaces, marketeer, publicist and event artist

Juliet Eilperin, National Environment Reporter for The Washington Post and Author of Demon Fish for which she will speak about and do a book signing at the event

Baba Brinkman, rapper and playwright performing a short piece about the oceans

Gaelin Rosenwaks, marine scientist, explorer, photographer and ocean advocate 

 

People that will be represented by this installation: 

  • Paul Watson - Founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

  • Roger Payne President of Ocean Alliance, and author of Among Whales.

  • Sylvia Earle Director of Mission Blue and Explorer in Residence, National Geographic

  • Richard O Barry Founder of The Dolphin Project, star of The Cove, and Director of Earth Island Institute

  • Louie Psihoyos Director of The Cove, and Exec. Director of OPS

  • Leilani Munter Carbon Free Girl, Race Car Driver

  • Andrew Revkin Journalist, writer and Dot Earth Blogger for the New York Times.

  • Susan Shaw- Director/Founder of Meri Research Foundation

  • Daniel Pauly Marine Biologist, UBC Fisheries Centre

  • Edith Widder CEO, President and Senior Scientist at ORCA

  • Amos Nachoum Photographer, explorer, Creator of BigAnimals.com

  • Brian Skerry- Photographer and Explorer for the National Geographic

  • Carl Safina President of Blue Ocean Institute

  • William Trubridge World Champion Free Diver

  • Captain Charles Moore AMRF Founder and Research Coordinator

  • David E. Guggenheim a.k.a. the Ocean Doctor

  • Michelle Harris- TV host of Alive and Well with Michelle Harris, writer actor and activist

  • Chuck Pell Co-Founder of Physcient Co-Founder of Nekton

  • David Gallo Director of Special Projects WHOI

  • Kathy Zagzebski - President & Executive Director The National Marine Life Center

  • Joanna Benn Concerned Citizen, Senior Officer, International Policy, Pew Environment Group

  • Alexandra Paul Actor, Director, Activist

  • Wendy Diamond Chief Pet Officer at Animal Fair

  • David Rothenberg- Musician, and author of Survival of the Beautiful

  • Asha De Vos Marine Biologist and TED Fellow

  • Jupp Kerckerink President of Shark Research Institute

  • Martha Shaw Founder of Earth Adveritising

  • John Hourston Director of Blue Planet Society

  • Positive Change For Marine Life - NPO

  • Tre Founder of Pangea Seed

  • David Edelman neurobiologist with a vested interest in cephalopods.

  • Diana Reiss Cognitive Psychologist in the Department of Psychology at Hunter College and the Biopsychology and

    Behavioral Neuroscience Graduate Program at CUNY, the Director of Dolphin Research at the National Aquarium in

    Baltimore and Author of Dolphin in the Mirror

  • Michael Fishbach Co Director - Great Whale Conservancy

  • Charlotte Vick - Google Content Manager of The Sylvia Earle Alliance

  • Richard Wylie Co Founder & Director of Euakafa Research Center

  • Paul Greenberg Author of Four Fish and the article that changed my life-

  • Pat Dickens Founder and Campaign Manager at Seals of Nam

  • Christen Lien- Musician and advocate of the Midway Journey Project

  • Pat Wardell- President, Monk Seal Foundation

  • Bonnie Wyper CoFounder of Thinking Animals Inc.

  • Baba Brinkman Rapper and president of Lit Fuse Records

  • Anne Doubilet- Underwater explorer, freelance photographer, avid Diver and writer

  • Victor Douieb Sculptor of marine life

  • Wallace J Nichols Marine Biologist. Ph.D, Activist, Author and educator

  • Allison Jones- Project Director of No Water No Life

  • Blue Marble Initiave, BlueMarble.org

  • Gary Stokes Photographer, worked at Sea Shepherd and Oceanic Love

  • Eric Nadler- Film Maker, Director of Anthrax, Founder of Transformer Films.

  • Jayatilak Chitral Asst. VP to John Keels PLC, Head of Eco Tourism & Special Projects

  • Joe Chisholm Creator of the Waves of Action educational program

  • Margaret Roestorf Development Director SANCCOB, South Africa

  • Barbara Maas- Head of International Species Conservation at NABU International

  • Captain Eric Wartenweiler Smith Mariner, diver and Aqua Survey research vessel captain

  • Marc Bekoff Ethologist, and renowned author.

  • Gaelin Rosenwaks CEO at Global Ocean Exploration Inc.

  • Cristina Zenato - Diving Supervisor at Unexso, Specialty programs and technical training

  • Natalie Fox Founder of Chicks with Sticks and Women for Whales

  • Deb Castellana Director of Communications, Mission Blue, Sylvia Earle Alliance.

  • Colin Williams - WhaleFest 2012

  • Vicki Nichols Goldstien- Founder of the Colorado Ocean Coalition

  • Samuël Faure - Free Diver

  • Peter Hughes President of DivEncounters Alliance

  • Sarah Faire-Torres Ocean Minute producer, Post Doc Fellow at ORCA, Marine Biologist, Behavioral Ecologist,

    Oceanographer.

  • Alyssa Isakower WOD Coordinator for The Ocean Project

  • Lawrence Curtis Film Maker/ Cinematographer

  • Juliet Eilperin- Journalist for Washington Post, and Author of Demon Fish

  • Angela M.H Shuster, Editor in Chief of The Explorers Journal

  • Asher Jay- Art Activist, Designer, writer and public speaker

  • James B Wood President & CEO of Woodland Gardens LLCs, Marine Biologist, Author & Underwater photographer

  • Erich Hoyt Senior Research Fellow at WDCS, Director of FEROP

NOTE: Additional 30 to be released.

About Sea Speak Sphere

Sea Speak Sphere is a creative diaspora that advocates marine conservation. It amplifies the urgent blue memos expressed by proactive seafaring souls by lending a visual voice to their efforts and strengthening the global crusade to save Planet Ocean from further denudation. Every issue, species and solution strategy will be articulated on this platform. Sea Speak Sphere is about community, collaboration, and commitment to the cause; its meticulously curated content serves as a call to action for people from all walks of life because regardless of who you are or where you live, you owe one out of two breaths to the blue.