The Launch of Gogobot's "GO-and-TELL"!
Details
6:30pm- 7:30pm Open Bar
7:30pm- Meet Jennifer Layne Cardon, Community Manager of Gogobot and Billy Zeb Smith, Documentarian of Where The Road Ends
8:00pm- Live Music
This will be the launch of Gogobot's new event campaign, GO-and-TELL.
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The purpose of GO-and-TELL is to give celebrated travelers the ability to present what they discovered while abroad. This can be in the form of a film/ documentary, photography, storytelling or cultural activity.
Our first GO-and-TELL will be Billy Zeb Smith (http://www.gogobot.com/user/billy-zeb-smith), a passionate humanitarian, avid explorer and documentarian aiming to preserve indigenous cultures. He will be discussing his efforts to preserve the Darién region of North America. http://wheretheroadendsfilm.com
WHAT MAKES THE DARIÉN SO UNIQUEThe Darién is home to three unique tribes of indigenous people: the Emberá, the Kuna, and the Wounaan. With the absence of roads, things like television and the Internet haven’t had the capability to impact their communities, allowing them to sustain the same types of lifestyles they have for millennia. This lack of impact hasn’t just benefited the local people: with the largest population of jaguars outside of the Amazon, along with an unrecorded amount of reptiles, fish, amphibians, bugs, over a thousand species of birds, and a constantly growing encyclopedia of plants and trees, the Darién is as vital an ecological zone as any on the planet, and the last of its kind in all of North America. The fact that it acts as a corridor between the North and South American continents only magnifies its importance.
Do you have a travel story to tell? A global vision you would like to present? If so, sign up for a free account on Gogobot and tell your story through travel reviews. Email me at NYC@gogobot.com with the concept, your story and Gogobot URL.
I urge all travel lovers to come and support your Gogobot community for our monthly GO-and-TELL! Come enjoy some booze and get inspired!