PLEASE NOTE: This note gives highlights of the festival at the time the press info was distributed. Please visit their website for the most up to date details of the festival.

Thursday, 8 October, 2009
6pm SLT
PRE-FESTIVAL TALK: Theoretical Biologist and Microbial Evolutionist, Lynn Margulis with Jimbo Hoyer
Virtually Speaking Amphitheater

Friday, 9 October, 2009 
10am SLT
GRAND IMAGINE FESTIVAL OPENING FOR EUROPE AND AFRICA
Imagine Nest by AuraKyo Insoo at Four Bridges
* Introductions
* Live Music
* Make your wishes for our future
* Be part of the Universal Embrace
* Catch the Dream, Be the Change!

11am SLT
TALK: FOUR BRIDGES - DR. ANDREW WALLACE, UNIVERSITY OF UMEA
Exponential Growth; What it is doing to our world and how we change it.

Noon SLT
IMAGINE EXHIBITION OPENING - UTSA PRESENTS: FUTURE OF WEATHER
Imagine the Future of Weather at UTSA (University of Texas at San Antonio) Art Space
*Opening & Introductions
* Meet the prominent SL participating artists: Alizarin Goldflake, Apollo Reinard, Artistide Despres, Bryn Oh, Cogito Ultch, Eshi Otawara, Gary Kohime, Glyph Graves, Misprint Thursday, Rob Balder, Sabrinaa Nightfire, Sene Kappler, Spiral Walcher, and UB Yifu

1pm - 3pm SLT
ECOLOGIA VILLE SPATIALE
Tours and live music at the French Ecological sim

3pm SLT
IMAGINE EXHIBITION
The Pocket hosts and Imagine exhibition of art and artifacts, along with a community celebration

3:30pm
OPENING OF THE IMAGINE PEACE TOWER COMMISSIONED BY YOKO ONO

5pm SLT
GRAND IMAGINE FESTIVAL OPENING FOR NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA
Imagine Nest by AuraKyo Insoo at Four Bridges

6pm SLT
LOUIS VOLARE

Solo piano. Louis has a passionate belief that music is the most significant and likely medium to bring peace and harmony to a weary, and war-torn world. He realized a few years ago, stylistically it's his own music - the solo compositions that bring him so much joy and peace - that resonates deeply with his audience. Come fall under his spell

7pm SLT
TALK: MILLARY FRESCHI
Why we believe what we believe

Why do we react to things the way that we do and is it possible to change our thinking and our experiences by understanding why we believe the things that we do? Lets tear apart some mental models and find out. It's time to rethink thinking!

8pm SLT
HATHEAD RICKENBACKER

HatHead Rickenbacker performs jazz, blues, funk, soul and electronica - often all at the same time. Open your mind and let him weave you into his inspired set.
Four Bridges

9pm SLT
TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE IN DRUM CIRCLE

Transformative Justice seeks to transform the relationships between community, victim, and offender by examining not only a crime or injustice but also the causes. It seeks to heal the relationship by getting to the root cause of crime and injustice and to heal from that vantage. Join as us we talk about the implications.

10pm - 3am
FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE POCKET
extends to join with the Imagine Festival

Saturday 10 October, 2009
9am SLT
AFRICA LIVE OPENING - EDEN
This is the Future. Open your windows. As long as we live we can Change, we can Grow. Live Music by Junivers Stockholm.

9:15am SLT
OPEN CAFE
Presentation by Szavanna Anatra
The OpenCafe is a South African initiative that introduces open source software and open content materials.

10am SLT
BEAUTIFUL AFRICA
Beautiful Africa collects and shares stories from bloggers from Africa and all over the world - posts that tell you about the magical cultures and traditions, amazing people, colorful art works, and music that is as vibrant and colorful as the rainbow cultures of the continent.

10:30am SLT
SEBA SIDEWAYS - LIVE MUSIC
Seba has been playing Tenor Sax for more than 14 years; his repertoire in SL includes different music styles, as jazz, ballads, bossa nova, blues, funk, all with reggae roots.

11am SLT
AFRICA
Discussion around the Baobab Tree: Tales and legends of Africa with Artemesia Mathy, African dances and Drums Session. Also travels in the Benin Mangroves Bafana Beaumont. Invitation to visit lakeside village and mangroves.

12:30pm
AFRICA - JUNIVERS STOCKHOLM LIVE MUSIC
Juni plays his original music, sometimes using backtracks which he composed and played/programmed all instruments. He has a wide range of styles; some with vocals and some instrumental.

1pm SLT
IMAGINE FESTIVAL @ AN LI
Welcome to the *HIDDEN PEARL COVE* and *CHAMBER of our HEART*

1:30pm SLT
UNDERSEA MERMAID POETRY, READINGS, AND LIVE MUSIC
Paulette Felisimo & Medora Chevalier
Do you know that some of the strongest mermaid qualities are freedom and confidence? Share with them one hour of their whispered imaginations...

2:30 - 4pm SLT
UNDERSEA LIVE MUSIC AND EXPLORATION
In exploring *CHAMBER of our HEART*, come and *transform* our burning and trapped globe with activating your infinite energy...come catch your own golden heart here!
~Installation by Gamma Infinity & Paulette Felisimo~

4pm SLT
PERFORMANCE: THE UNIVERSE IS A GREEN DRAGON
Cosmology and stretching of the Imagination: Cotton Thorne, Siri Vita, Medora Chevalier
Imagine Nest, Four Bridges

5pm SLT
MUSIC, BUILD, POETRY (TBA)

6pm SLT
PENTAGON OF PEACE: NETROOTS NATION

7PM SLT
PENTAGON OF PEACE: NETROOTS NATION

8PM SLT
IMAGINE @ UTSA
Imagine the future of weather. The University of Texas at San Antonio hosts prominent SL artists who speak to the future of seasonal weather, each in their own unique way.

8pm - 1am
FREE AND OPEN EXPLORATION OF THE SEASONS
*Live Music events and or performances amidst the seasons.

Sunday 11 October, 2009
10am SLT
AWAKENING THE DREAMER
How we can create an environmentally sustainable, socially just and spiritually fulfilling human presence on our planet.
Interview and film with Cotton Thorne.
Speaker to be confirmed
Four Bridges Imagine Network Garden

Noon SLT
A CLIMATE CAROL

1PM SLT
A CLIMATE CAROL

2 - 4PM SLT
CARP - CYBERNETIC ARTS RESEARCH PROJECT PRESENTS...
Imagine Future Show: Benvolio
10 scenes of our future home, transport, consumption, nature, aging, communication, love, unity, luxury, and heaven.
Created by Velazquez Bonnetto, Josina Burgess, SaveMe Oh, Scicily Zapatero and Eros.

4pm SLT
CLOSING WEEKEND EVENT FOR EUROPE AND AFRICA
Imagine Nest: Four Bridges

5pm SLT
CREATIVE WORKSHOP ON WISHES

6pm SLT
LIVE MUSIC AT IMAGINE NEST

7pm SLT
VISUALIZING GENDER EQUALITY