Beyond School

This is pretty amazing.

From Jenny Luca and the students at Toorak College, an all-girls high school in Melbourne:

Yes, today is Friday and time for the customary school’s out post. This week it’s different, because school is definitely on for me and my students tomorrow as we stage our Project Global Cooling concert. Tune in to ustream (streaming live 3.00pm to 5.00pm Melbourne, Aust. timezone) to see the result of my student’s efforts. The concert has been organised with a budget of zero; our students have convinced artists to appear for free and many people in our school and wider community have given their time and donated goods to ensure that the concert can take place. The students are pumped - one has even just posted a comment on this blog to let me know how excited she is. Today we received an email from Peter Garrett, environment minister for our Australian Labor Party (current party holding government) and former lead singer of Australian iconic band Midnight Oil. Here’s what he had to say to us . . . . [click here to read the rest]

They only started organizing this event less than two months ago.  Here are the world times for the uStream of their two-hour event. I hope you can find time to give them a visit, check out their event, and leave a “well done.” (We’ll be posting the concert video on the PGC website World Music Gallery soon, knock wood.)