The Ground Zero Credo

I promised to share our vision... after all, we can't get you involved if we don't.   *smile*  

•  We value the people who support art in any context:  those who enjoy art, those who produce art, and those who empower artists by encouraging them and providing them with places to engage their creativity.
• We believe that freedom of expression through art can provide common ground and has the capacity to unite people across continents, socioeconomic status, race, religion, sexual orientation or any other aspect that can potentially divide people.   
  
• We believe there are no rights or wrongs in art… it is a beautiful matter of interpretation.
• We believe in the arts community, especially in Second Life and believe that we can support each other to realize our visions and dreams without diminishing the extensive individual efforts being put forward 
• We believe that virtual worlds  allow for unprecedented  collaboration among artists and worldwide audiences.   We want to be part of that evolution because it excites us to consider all the possibilities and we want to help raise awareness of those possibilities.
• We believe that there are many people, some of whom have Second Life accounts and others who don't, who have not had the opportunity to experience the arts in the virtual domain.  We believe in helping those people find the art that will feed their soul.
• We believe in providing a variety of music and arts at our location and especially supporting those who are taking the brave step of putting their art out for public viewing or performance for the first time.. 
• We believe in courtesy and respect for others and what they are doing.  We believe in honest and respectful communication which includes constructive criticism when appropriate.
• We believe in fostering an environment where people do their best to maintain a positive outlook so the creative energy can flow. 
• We believe in empowering people to pursue their vision by connecting them to the resources that already exist for them to do so or creating resources through collaborative innovation if the methods don’t yet exist. 
• We believe that there are many others with similar vision to ours who are great contributors in their own way,  and we just need to reach out to find each other so we can magnify and enhance the individual efforts through development of a broader support network.

Our mission is to provide a place of community and resource for artists.   We want people to come and use our space – play music or do performance arts on our stage, display visual arts in our pavilion, use our sky lounge for meetings or gatherings.  We want people who are working on a collaboration to know there is a place where they can get together.  We also want newcomers, either to Second Life or to the arts therein, to have a place to start.  Whether they just want to learn about what’s out there as a consumer, or whether they want to produce their own art….  Or if they have been making music in non-virtual worlds for a long time and want to see if they can expand their audience…  and many more possible scenarios.

Our current platform is a chunk of virtual land in Second Life and a presence on the internet, but we are open to letting the concept grow and evolve over time.  Our ultimate vision is to provide the resources necessary to allow those who chose to port their art between virtual and non-virtual worlds to do so.  We are open to helping artists come into Second Life as well as the other way around.

If you have read this far, and you share any part of our vision, please contact us!  We would love to meet like minded people to join forces!!  We can only imagine what can be accomplished when committed people with shared vision are working together!