Program and Activities

10.10.10 – Humanity’s Date with Destiny

Lincoln Memorial | Washington DC | Oct 10, 2010 | 10AM – 10PM

Program Overview

10.10.10 is all about bringing forth a New World that reflects our deepest dreams and highest aspirations as human beings. The intent for the day is to create a deep, authentic experience of connectedness, hope, and genuine resolve to actually begin creating that world.

The activities below will be repeated each hour from 10am – 6pm. Times are approximate.

Main Program

9:55 & each hour	*Convene.* Gong plays to gather the people.
10:00am/top of every hour	*Welcome, Announcements, and Hourly Invitation* Announcements and hourly invitations to help spark our imagination and bring forth our dreams and aspirations for a brighter future.
:10	*Opening Call To Silence* 1 minute of pure silence beginning and ending with the sound of gong. *Opening/Closing Ceremony (10:00am and 6pm only): Musical Performance.* “Imagine,” sung by Becca Levy.
:15	*Reading of The Declaration of INTERdependence* *Closing Call To Silence* 1 minute of pure silence beginning and ending with the sound of gong.
:20	*Individual Reflection and Integration* Self-paced reflective stroll around the Mall to reflect on the hourly invitation and to imagine life in the New World.
:45	*Sharing the Many Visions as One* Sharing visions in open dialogue on the steps to Reflecting Pool, and/or record visions on camera beside the E-Pluribus Unum plaque.

Evening Program

6:00pm	*Evening Announcements*
	*The Collective Voice of Hourly Invitations* Today is the day where all of this is possible. All as One: Read, feel, and unite all these invitations into one collective voice. All present read the Imagine statements out loud together.
:10	*Opening Call To Silence* 1 minute of pure silence beginning and ending with the sound of gong. *Closing Ceremony Musical Performance.* “Imagine,” sung by Becca Levy.
:15	*Final reading of Declaration of INTERdependence*
:20	*Invitation to Silence and Lights Ceremony and New Earth Intention*
:30	*Silence and Lights Ceremony* Those gathered form circle of love and light at the foot of the steps, near the Reflecting Pool, for 20 minutes of silence to amplify the cumulative energy from the day inside us and out into the universe. Stay a few minutes or the entire 20 minutes.
:50	*Closing Remarks* Steven Lovink, Founder of Power of One.
7:00-9:55pm	*Celebration* Spontaneous music, drumming, dancing, laughter celebrating our arrival to create the New World and ringing in the era in which we will create it.
9:55-10:00pm	*Closing Circle: “Out of Many: One.”* Closing circle of Oneness and appreciation around the E Pluribus Unum plaque. Let the New World be born!