What's Your Idea Of Heaven?
Heaven is a powerfully evocative concept with transcendental connotations for most belief systems, be they secular or religious.
World Children's Festival
The world’s leading child artists will convene at the 6th World Children’s Festival on July 30th – August 1st of 2021.
At their world festival, young artists will and collaboratively produce a dozen murals depicting their visions of heaven.
VR software engineers and professors from the Rochester Institute of Technology, the University of Maryland and other institutions will turn the “heavenly” murals into an immersive virtual reality experience that could be therapeutic for the young and the old in the post-coronavirus world.
Art Gallery
Cynthia Ozick, a 92-years-old novelist says, “to imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.”
Art by: Narmina Veliyeva (age 14)
Azerbaijan
Heaven has always been and will forever be the ultimate human experience.
Art by: Akhtoty Nurtanova (age 8)
Kazakhstan
Heaven is a powerfully evocative concept with transcendental connotations for most belief systems, be they secular or religious.
Art by: Linda Kholobekian (age 11)
Nigeria
Adults tell children if heaven exists or does not, what it is and is not, but no one asks the children what they think of heaven and how they visualize it.
Art by: Jonathan Stearns (age 12)
California, USA
Walt Disney said, “our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.”
Art by: Sherry Atef Georgy (age 12)
Egypt
Ashfaq Ishaq, the founder and chair of the International Child Art Foundation, says “the collective imagination of the world’s children is the most powerful force in the universe.”
Art by: “Children’s World Mural”
co-created by child artists from 59 countries at the World Children’s Festival
ICAF seeds children’s imagination, cultivates their creativity, and grows mutual empathy through the arts— their native and universal language.
Since 1997, ICAF has served American children as their national arts organization and the world’s children as their global arts organization. An independent, apolitical 501(c)(3) nonprofit with Federal Tax I.D. # 52-2032649, ICAF is ranked among the Top 25 Children’s Charities in the United States by an unaffiliated parents organization.
Do you have a Heaven inside you?
You could join the children at their 2021 World Children’s Festival across from the U.S. Capitol. You can be an angel today and support the VR Heaven with a tax-deductible donation.
VR Heaven can:
- Bring joy and comfort to US teens who feel depressed because of covid-19 and everyday tensions.
- Alleviate pain and bring solace to patients at some of the 5,534 hospitals in the U.S.
- Provide comfort to some of the 2.5 million patients at the 14,000 or so treatment centers in the U.S.
- Be a part of palliative care for some of the 1.3 million Americans in the 5,500 hospices and 15,500 nursing homes.
- Bring hope to some of the 2.3 million people incarcerated in the U.S., especially the 48,000 youth in juvenile detention.
VR Heaven can also:
- Facilitate interfaith discussions at schools and colleges
- Initiate parlays on spirituality
- Nurture a sense of community in multicultural and multi-religious workplaces
- Foster futures thinking as an antidote to short-termism
You may contribute through JustGiving.org, NetworkForGood,PayPal, or visit ICAF for more giving options. You can also send a check to ICAF, PO BOX 58133, Washington DC 20037.
Team
Founder/Chair, International Child Art Foundation
Professor at the University of Washington and Chairman of the Virtual World Society
Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, Penn State University College of Medicine
Director, Virtual and Augmented Reality Center, Mount Vernon Presbyterian School
College of Art and Design, Rochester Institute of Technology
Co-founder, Media Modifications and Lecturer at Harvard University
Founder of the Alliance for Enlightened Judaism and former Madison Avenue Creative Director
President of Virtual Reality Medical Center, and CEO of Interactive Media Institute
If you are a subject matter expert in areas relevant to VR Heaven, please consider applying to become a VR Heaven Advisory Board Member. The responsibilities of Advisory Board Members are: Advisory Board Member. The responsibilities of Advisory Board Members are:
- to adopt VR Heaven as their charity project and make a reasonable donation upon joining.
- to contribute ideas and help plan VR Heaven by volunteering a couple of hours a month until VR Heaven is released.
- to participate in the 6th World Children’s Festival on July 30th – August 1st of 2021.
- Advisory Board Members serve as pro bono advisers, assume no fiduciary responsibility, and cover their own travel and VR Heaven related expenses. They actively explore partnerships with universities, federal government agencies or departments, research centers, private philanthropies and global businesses.
- to help market VR Heaven to targeted beneficiaries.
Advisory Board Members serve as pro bono advisers, assume no fiduciary responsibility, and cover their own travel and VR Heaven related expenses. They actively explore partnerships with universities, federal government agencies or departments, research centers, private philanthropies and global businesses.