What is the Festival?

What:  Brain Art Festival features Ilchi Lee, along with electrifying dance, drumming and musical performances
When:  Saturday August 15, 2009, 6:00-8:30 p.m.
Where:  Radio City Music Hall, New York City
Who:  For people interested in improving their health, beauty, happiness, peace and success
Why:  Brain Art is a concept designed to inspire every person to be an artist of his or her life

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The Brain Art Festival, set for Saturday, August 15, 2009 at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, will feature an interactive lecture by Ilchi Lee that will evolve into intensive training. This will enable the audience to profoundly open their hearts, meet their brains, and find their true selves. The audience will end the evening with a transformed awareness and appreciation of their brain’s vast potential for creation, and their soul’s vital role in giving ultimate meaning to their life.

The Brain Art Festival is a dream come true for Ilchi Lee, a world-renowned brain philosopher, educator and business strategist, who will produce, lecture and perform in this event.

Because of Lee’s commitment to world peace, a portion of the proceeds from this event will be donated, through the International Brain Education Association’s Earth Citizen Movement, to the United Nations in order to support the achievement of its Millennium Development Goals.

In imagining how to share his life-long message – utilizing the brain's full power so humanity can achieve its potential and creatively resolve the world’s serious problems – Lee came up with this festival to entertain and demonstrate how we all are Brain Artists. A Brain Artist uses their brain’s vast creative power to make their life a work of art, living to achieve the transformation of their soul, and hoping to leave a legacy that contributes to a positive and empowering world vision.

Venue: Radio City Music Hall

New York City’s Radio City Music Hall is the world’s largest indoor theater. Its marquee is a full city-block long. Its auditorium measures 160 feet from back to stage, and the ceiling reaches a height of 84 feet. The walls and ceiling are formed by a series of sweeping arches that define a splendid and immense curving space. Choral staircases rise up the sides toward the back wall. Actors can enter there to bring live action right into the house. There are no columns to obstruct views. Three shallow mezzanines provide comfortable seating without looming over the rear Orchestra section below. The result is that every seat in Radio City Music Hall is a good seat.

Radio City Music Hall opened its doors on December 27, 1932 and has been visited by more than 300 million people from around the world. Radio City is a major tourist attraction in New York City, and was granted official landmark status in 1978. In 1999, a $70 million dollar restoration project brought back the ambiance of the 1930s, along with the integration of today's technology.

Radio City Music Hall is located in the heart of Rockefeller Center at:
1260 Avenue of the Americas (between West 50th and 51st Streets)
New York, New York 10020

Congratulatory Message

San José, Costa RicaSan José, Costa Rica
16 July 2009

Dr. Ilchi Lee
Founder and President, International Brain Education Association

Dear Dr. Lee,

Please accept my heartfelt congratulations on the occasion of the Fifth International Brain HSP Olympiad at the United Nations, and the Brain Art Festival at Radio City Music Hall. I send my best wishes for you and all other participants in these important events.

There is no more appropriate way to celebrate International Youth Day than to pursue the goal of better education. In this age of stunning new technologies and groundbreaking research, far too many young people in the world today enter their local classrooms to find themselves shortchanged. They need quality teachers, books, and computers. They also need governments that strive to give every child an education that is not just adequate, but world-class, taking advantage of every tool that science places at our disposal.

Dr. Lee: that is why your work, and the work of the leaders you bring together during these events, is so important. You help unite the educators, scientists and policymakers who must all collaborate in making these goals a reality. Together, these leaders help set the bar higher for all of us.

Thank you for your leadership. I look forward to hearing about the results of these events, and seeing them translated into a brighter future for all our children.

Yours sincerely,

Oscar Arias Sánchez
President of Costa Rica
1987 Nobel Prize Laureate

I congratulate the Brain Art Festival with all my heart.
I regret that I can't participate in person, since it takes place in overseas.
I hope this event will contribute to make a better world and to enhance individual's life utilizing the infinite potential of their brain.
I wish you a good luck and have a successful festival.

Sung-yeop You
Congress man
South Korea