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Tibetan Community Center Film Screening in Portland
By admin | April 28, 2008
Last Saturday we had a wonderful event - a charity screening in Portland, Oregon at the Tibetan Community Center. It was a well attended screening with a nice mixture of Tibetans, Nepalese, and Americans. Screening the film in a Tibetan place of worship was wonderful and hopefully our karma was enhanced more as we raised several hundred dollars for the education of my young Nepalese friend, Maya.
I met Maya while I was living in Kathmandu 6 years ago. The Everest Peace Project office was originally located in Thamel - a tourist and area in Kathmandu. I would see Maya almost everyday; she was a sweet, poor street kid who would always carry her brother on her back - she would often sell purses or beg for food from the tourists. We became friends and over the years, we have stayed in contact with Maya and her family and The Everest Peace Project did what we could to help her and her family with food and clothing. As Maya grew older and became a teenager, I became more worried about what she would grow into without a proper education and so last year we enrolled Maya into the Trishakti English Boarding School in Kathmandu - a very good school in the Kathmandu Valley. Maya recently finished near the top of her class and continues to excel in her education; we are very proud of her. I am in contact with Maya as she now emails me and will often instant message me with MSN messenger. My good friend Kiran, who lives in Nepal and who helped me find the school for Maya - also helps watch over her and makes sure that all money sent goes directly to her school and that Maya has books and clothing and is properly taken care of.
For those who want to donate to help further Maya’s education, please contact me direct (info@everestpeaceproject.org) - 100% of all donations specifically for Maya will go directly to her education.
Maya in Nepal in 2003
The Tibetan Community Center Screening April 26th, 2008
Prachin, Lance, Dillu, and Samdup at the Tibetan Community Center
Special thanks again to Prachin, Dillu, Samdup, Mingma and the Nepalese and Tibetan Communities of Portland for making this event a great success and for helping us raise hundreds of dollars for Maya’s education. Thanks everyone!
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Award, Review, and upcoming event
By admin | April 23, 2008
Hi Everyone,
Yesterday was a good day; I got confirmation that we won a Gold REMI award at the Houston WorldFest Film Festival. This is of course, nice - as it is always great to be appreciated and noticed for your hard work and so I am very happy about the award.
We also got a nice review from an adventure site called The Adventurist http://thehendricksreport.wordpress.com/ - a great relatively new adventure site which has excellent and well written articles - and along with www.Mounteverest.net should be added to as a great source of adventure news. To see the review you can go here: http://thehendricksreport.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/everest-a-climb-for-peace-an-adventurist-film-review/. Again, it is wonderful to be recognized not only by awards but by the words of critics and everyday viewers of the film.
Coming up next: I will be speaking and screening Everest: A Climb for Peace at the Tibetan Community Center here in Portland, Oregon this Saturday. It should be great to be around lots of smiling Tibetans and Sherpas. It will also be a charity event. To see the info flyer, please click here: http://www.everestpeaceproject.org/eppmovieevent-final.pdf
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EPP Film in Chicago - Illinois Institute of Technolgy
By admin | April 18, 2008
While Wanda Vivequin was screening my film in Jasper, Alberta Canada (see previous blog entry) - I had the fortune to be screening the film for students and faculty at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
It started off a bit bumpy - literally! The landing of the plane was quite scary - a very rough landing - BOOM - as a hardcover book came flying down the middle of the plane…but it certainly got much better from there. As my host Lynne Meyer picked me up I realized just how hungry I was - and being that I was in Chicago for the first time, what better idea than to try real Chicago Style Pizza! We went to a place called Connie’s - and damn - it was incredible! If you are ever in Chicago this is a must stop place for pizza!
And then it was off to the school. The building where we screened the room literally had a train going thru it…it was a bizarre place and the architecture layout seemed like it was done by a guy on who must have been on some psychedelic mushrooms! - seriously.
The auditorium was very nice - there was also a great layout of food (great cookies!). The faculty and students were enthusiastic and we had some great and interesting questions; I ended up staying an extra half an hour to speak to people after the event. It was a warm and enjoyable screening.
It was a very quick trip to the Windy City - but a very memorable one. I hope to go back again sometime soon…
Below picture - Lance with some of the faculty.
Lynne, Lance, Priscilla, and Kevin at the screening
Pete and Lance (the last time I saw my friend Pete was in Nepal 7 years ago!)
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2nd EPP Film Charity Screening in Canada for hospital in Nepal
By admin | April 18, 2008
On April 17 a group of over 120 people gathered at the Downstream Bar in Jasper, Alberta to watch the film - Everest: A Climb for Peace. The film was introduced by EPP volunteer Wanda Vivequin who is presently raising funds for the Citta Hospital in Western Nepal.
“It was an amazing turnout for this small community and what a wonderful venue in the cozy Downstream Bar which was almost bursting to capacity,” said Wanda. “Entry was by donation and with an Everest book as a door prize we were able to collect over $650 for the project which equates to about 10 cataract surgeries in Humla.”
The evening was put together by Parks Canada staff member Carol Doering who has been to Nepal and who has trekked with Wanda, ably assisted by Bob Covey who collected donation. The reactions of people to watching the film ranged from awe at the cinematography and footage on the mountain to one lady who said she felt like she should “dream bigger after seeing Everest: A Climb for Peace.”
It was a very successful screening with many people staying on afterwards to talk to Wanda about Nepal, the EPP, Lance Trumbull’s work and how they could get involved.
Once again the film Everest: A Climb for Peace has reached out to people and showed how great things can be achieved even with a group of people of diverse backgrounds, cultures and religion.
This was the second charity screening of the EPP film that Wanda has put together - so far she has raised almost $2000 for the Citta Hospital in Western Nepal by screening Everest: A Climb for Peace in just 2 weeks! Thanks Wanda and thanks for everyone in Jasper!
Wanda and Bob Covey at the door taking donations
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New EPP Library for Kids in Nepal - update
By admin | April 16, 2008
New EPP Library for Kids in Nepal - updateWe are very happy and proud to share the overview and some wonderful new pictures of the second library / Reading Room that The Everest Peace Project helped fund last year.Name of the School: Shree Janakalyan Secondary School
Location: In the Lumbini area in Dudharakshya Village which is about 23 kilometers from Butwal in central, southern Nepal.
Number of villages served: 6
Number of households served: 600
Total population or area served: 4000
Students served 800
The Reading Room established in this school is located in two rooms on the first floor of the main building. One of the rooms is used for books and the other is for a Reading Room. The room sizes are 23 x 18 ft. Each wall of the library is cheerfully painted a different color and the floors are carpeted.Some wonderful pictures:
Our educational partner and the organization that helped make this happen is Room to Read - www.RoomtoRead.org - an incredible non-profit that has now helped build / fund 442 schools and over 5100 bilingual libaries!
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EPP Film Charity Screening for Nepal in Edmonton, Canada
By admin | April 7, 2008
Namaste!
On April 3rd - I was proud have a charity screening at the Metro Cinema in Edmonton, Canada. There was over 150 people in attendance and it was a very successful charity event. The screening was put together by Wanda Vivequin - an EPP volunteer and a person very dedicated to raising money and for doing good deeds for the people of Nepal. This successful event helped raise money for the CITTA - Humla Hospital in Simikot, Nepal.
I am very proud to have my film help such a wonderful cause. Kudos to Wanda, to the all people who attended and bought tickets, to our film, and to the wonderful people who are doing such great work at the hospital.
To see and learn more about the hospital, please click on this link - it will take you to a video that was done by the CITTA - Humla hospital.
YouTube Link: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=DAm5EivkOu4&feature=related
Thanks…Lance
Wanda Vivequin from afar - near sold out audience looking on…
Alan, Wanda & Nina - Supporting the EPP Film
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EPP Film at Apple Headquarters (MacFilmmakers Event)
By admin | March 27, 2008
I was a little bit concerned about how many people might show up for the screening Wednesday night at Apple Computers in Cupertino - for I wasn’t sure how successful our outreach was going to be…to make my angst much worse when I arrived at the San Jose airport from Portland, my cell phone started buzzing - I had a voice mail - the message was that at the last second the auditorium where the film was going to be shown at night was changed and we were going to be put into a smaller, different auditorium in a different location. Doh!
I immediately rallied the troops and thankfully I had some wonderful people who helped put this all together - namely: Kevin Johnson, Mary Johnson, and Joan Bose. And so we came up with some signs, maps, and immediately put the word out of the building change. At this point, the event was now only about two hours away…
It seemed to have worked…for come 6:50 pm - 10 minutes before the starting time, the auditorium was already full! 5 minutes later it would be sitting and standing room only. In an auditorium that only holds about 160 people, there were easily well over 200 people - and unfortunately, several people turned away because of no more seating, standing, or sitting room!
Kevin Johnson of MacFilmmakers introduced the enthusiastic audience to the event - thanking the co-sponsors REI, and ViewFinders; I then spoke for about 5 minutes talking about my life and what led me to create The Everest Peace Project and the film that they were about to see.
Everest: A Climb for Peace Director - Lance Trumbull at Apple Headquarters in Cupertino (Photo by John Dietrich)
We then proceeded to watch the 63 minute film. This was literally probably the 200th time that I had watched it…but I was happy to see that the audience seemed to be transfixed and really soaking up everything that was on screen. The sound system was great - and Orlando Bloom’s narration sounded as terrific as ever!
After the film almost the entire audience stayed for a 30 minute long Q&A - it was truly wonderful - the most touching part was when a Jewish lady who was so moved by the film had to fight back tears to ask a question. After the Q&A - many people stayed around to chat with each other to speak with me and eat the munchies that ViewFinders provided.
Afterwards several of us - including some long time but seldom seen friends from the past - Masa, Jerry, and Kyle all went to hang out a nice restaurant / brewery.
All in all…a wonderful evening!
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EPP Film at Mazamas in Portland
By admin | March 21, 2008
Hello again,
Wednesday night was another wonderful film screening event in Portland, Oregon!
This evening I had the pleasure to screen our film Everest: A Climb for Peace at Mazamas - the main climbing community organization in Oregon. The room was completely full with well over 100 people in attendance and the audience was once again incredibly diverse, interested, and engaged - especially with the long Q&A session after the screening - most people stayed to ask me questions for at least 25 minutes after the film.
Lance with Klindt and John from Mazamas Headquarters
The Mazamas, founded in 1894 on the summit of Mt. Hood, is a nonprofit mountaineering education organization located in Portland, Oregon. Mazamas offers over 700 hikes and 350 climbs annually. A variety of classes and activities are offered for every skill and fitness level and are open to both members and non-members. www.mazamas.org
In peace,
Lance
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EPP Film at Nike
By admin | March 12, 2008
EPP Film at Nike:
I arrived at Nike headquarters in Beaverton around 3:30 - for those who have not been to Nike, it is an incredibly beautiful campus - actually, it seems more like a small city! Nike is only about 10 minutes from my place in Portland and so I had a short commute to the screening.
It was a typical Oregon day - cloudy and rainy -but the sun came out earlier in the day to say hello which was nice. When I met Tim Hallrud (who graciously put the whole event together) at the auditorium, he told me that I just missed seeing Michael Jordan…now, that would have been cool to see him! (Maybe next time…).
The screening started at 4:10; I started off by introducing myself and the film. We then watched the 63 minute film and afterwards we had an enthusastic 20 minute Q&A! After the Q&A many people came up to me to speak with personally about the film and the climb. It is always nice to get such positive feedback from people who really appreciate what we accomplished on our expedition and in our film. I felt very blessed for having the great pleasure of screening the documentary film for an enthusiastic and intimate audience at Nike Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon.
Lance at the “Pre Hall” Auditorium at Nike Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon
Lance in front of the Steve Prefontaine Hall at Nike
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EPP Film at Lindenwood College in St. Louis
By admin | March 6, 2008
Well, it seems that I brought some bad weather with me on Tuesday to St. Louis - as 8 inches of snow fell that day! My destination was Lindenwood College in St. Charles and luckily the long flight delays and the horrendous traffic did not deter me enough and I arrived at the college in time thanks to my contact Paul.
We proceeded then to meet with about 15 international students at a very nice dining hall and we had a very pleasant dinner where these eager and intelligent students asked me lots of questions about Everest, traveling the globe, and the meaning of life. It was a wonderful dinner.
7pm came quicker than expected and even though everything in St. Louis had been cancelled and some roads were shut down due to the 8 inches of snow, we still had 100 students appear to our special screening of our film - Everest: A Climb for Peace. I spoke to the students for about 15 minutes, introducing myself, my peace organization - The Everest Peace Project, our historic peace climb on Mt. Everest, and of course, the film they were about to see.
After viewing the 63 minute film - the students then enthusiastically asked me questions for about 25 minutes. It was an evening enjoyed by all!
It was great to speak in front of fresh, young minds - I certaintly hope that more screenings at colleges continue to happen!
Lance at Lindenwood College
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