John Lennon Educational Tour Bus to Visit LSU

June 4 & 5, 2009

The LSU Center for Computation and Technology (CCT) and the AVATAR: Arts, Visualization, Advanced Technologies and Research campuswide digital media initiative will host the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus on the LSU campus on Thursday, June 4, and Friday, June 5.  The bus is a mobile music and audio recording studio that visits college campuses, schools and community organizations across the United States each year to give students a chance to produce their own songs and music videos, experimenting with audiovisual technology. Apple provides all of the computer and recording equipment available on the bus.

For the LSU visit, the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus will be parked on the south end of the Parade Ground, on the Union side. If bad weather prevents the bus from parking on the Parade Ground, the bus will be along the parking spaces directly in front of the Union front steps. The bus will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on these two days. Students, faculty and community members are invited to come experience the bus and use the equipment inside to produce their own digital media projects. There is no cost for this activity. CCT and AVATAR are planning to have the bus open to the general public on Thursday, June 4, and will arrange for groups to tour the bus and use it for special digital media projects such as music recording, songwriting and music video production  on Friday, June 5. If you are interested in having a group of students from your school or department participate in the special project session on Friday, June 5, please contact AVATAR coordinator Lea Anne Couvillion at leaanne@cct.lsu.edu to make these arrangements.

For more information on the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, please visit http://www.lennonbus.org .

Thanks, and we hope you will let your students and staff know about this fun and exciting educational opportunity!