You don’t have to be a savvy political strategist or a forward-thinking fashion insider to conclude that higher education students pretty much determine the future state of the world because they will be the ones running it a few years after they graduate.
In my quest to fight worldwide hunger by raising awareness to its elimination and prevention, it make great sense to bring it to the attention of students worldwide because they will influence or will be the next political, corporate and society leaders.
Right now, a young person who is destined to become a key policy maker is studying at one of the thousands universities or colleges around the world.
That’s why my world tour will definitely include a “campus tour”.
I won’t be the first performer to go on a campus tour but I am certainly the first artist ever to announce the first worldwide campus tour ever.
The project’s premise is simple to understand: to make appearances in the many universities, colleges and other types of tertiary educations on the planet.
No matter the economic or political climate, every country in the world has one or more higher education institutions. You name the country and I will name a university. Don’t take my word for it. Check out this page on Wikipedia: List of universities and colleges by country.
This worldwide campus tour will consist of DJ performances at select universities in conjunction with hunger awareness campaigns and possibly fundraisers. With the campus tour, I would rather focus on raising awareness over raising funds because I would rather plant a seed in students’ brains than try to get them to part ways with their limited funds.
Anytime of the year, you can turn the news on and you will watch students around the world making their voices heard over many issues and some are even losing their lives doing it.
University students have a lot of time, will and risk-taking on their hands compared to say a working professional with a family to feed. Students are the perfect people to fight hunger and make it history within their generation.
I would say that most my friends and fans who are students attend McGill University. And that's without mentioning the alumni. So any guesses as to where the very first show of the world's biggest worldwide campus tour ever will be held?*
Now on the logistics side of things…
Pulling it off seems pretty headache-free from initial conceptualization. I must say that the whole “worldwide campus tour” project was born after a discussion that I had with a hunger relief agency professional who told me to get in touch with Universities Against Hungers while on tour in North America.
Initially, I had thought of making appearances in areas where students converge but the discussion prompted me to go straight to the heart of the action: the campus.
I remember in my university days that there were performers that used to show up on campus for promotional or other purposes and they used to draw a crowd no matter how unheard-of they were.
They key to making the “worldwide campus tour” interesting and attention-grabbing will be to add an extra something to it. Of course, I have jotted down more than a few ideas on my mind that I am 100% sure will make the tour an attraction no matter higher education campus.
And of course, I will apply for a Guinness World Records to make sure that it goes down in history as being the first and longest which is also another way to get it more media worthy and thus attract more students’ attention.
It’s pretty ironic because I thought that I was done with university when I dropped out almost ten years ago and here I come back in a big, big way!
– Photo: pdbreen
