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.

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art by Vitya

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.

world children's festival venue

Art Gallery

art by Vitya

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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.

Team

Dr. Ashfaq Ishaq

Founder/Chair, International Child Art Foundation

Dr. Thomas Furness

Professor at the University of Washington and Chairman of the Virtual World Society

Dr. Michael Flanagan

Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, Penn State University College of Medicine

Marie Graham

Director, Virtual and Augmented Reality Center, Mount Vernon Presbyterian School

Professor Susan Lakin

College of Art and Design, Rochester Institute of Technology

Dr. Bakhtiar Mikhak

Co-founder, Media Modifications and Lecturer at Harvard University

Rabbi Michael Shevack

Founder of the Alliance for Enlightened Judaism and former Madison Avenue Creative Director

Dr. Brenda Wiederhold

President of Virtual Reality Medical Center, and CEO of Interactive Media Institute

Join Us

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.