The Change My World Now 20 City Tour
The Change My World Now Bus Tour features author and youth advocate, Gina Otto, who wrote a modern-day fairytale called Cassandra's Angel, a book with a message that bridges age, culture, gender, and religion, and is inspiring a global movement that is now garnering attention from the United Nations, the U.S. Congress, the Girl Scouts of the USA, and other non-profit organizations, including educational institutions.
What began as a children's book has since evolved into a social movement that engages, educates and empowers today's youth to move beyond their present circumstances and find the independence and dignity that education can provide. Instilling the ideas of self-acceptance, self-reliance, tolerance, and self-worth, early in life, will have a radical effect on girls, boys, their futures, and their circles of influence… truly building a cadre of youth to become the next generation of global citizens and leaders who want to make a real and lasting positive impact in the world.
In a unique blend of entertainment and activism, the Change My World Now Tour will use Award-Winning literature, music and entertainment, film, and state of the art curricula to inspire students.
The event has multiple touch points and is designed to capture the attention of all types of learners and personalities. The program begins with the Change My World Now Tour bus arriving at the school. The book's author, Gina Otto, will step off of the bus, followed by the cast of Cassandra's Angel ~ The Musical. The characters will then perform adaptations from the musical, infusing the event with interactive "Edutainment".
Following the musical performance, Gina Otto, and the cast of the musical, will have a "meet and greet," during which the students will have the opportunity to spend time with Gina and the performers, and get more information about the Change My World Now Tour. We also want to invite school newspaper editors to participate in the program by interviewing the author and performers after the production.
The Book
Cassandra's Angel will move and delight children from four to one-hundred-four. Its heart-melting story and its timely and empowering message will enable children and parents alike to recognize, own, and nurture the special creative gifts each person has brought to share with the world.
"Cassandra’s Angel has a secret to share, one that will inspire children of all ages…" The New York Times
"As your family shares this vision, you will see its effects on your child’s sense of autonomy and self worth.”" Robin and Stephen Larsen, Ph.D.’s, authors of The Fashioning of Angels
About Gina Otto
An award-winning, best-selling author, producer and children’s advocate, Gina Otto, is creating a global movement of girls helping girls around the world. Her first book, Cassandra's Angel, integrates her passion for the healing arts with her concern for young people.
With a focus on education and awareness, Gina travels throughout the United States and the world helping children, parents and teachers examine how “the way we live our lives and the choices that we make” impact society as a whole. Gina believes that getting and keeping young girls in school within the developing world will have a positive transformative impact globally.
Most recently, Gina spoke in Taiwan before 100,000 people on the steps of the presidential palace with Grand Master Hsing Yun and Taiwan President Ma to celebrate the Buddha’s birthday. She traveled to Sri Lanka and worked with children in the war zone and with victims of the Tsunami. She visited land mine fields in both Sri Lanka and Laos. She traveled to Vietnam and through the Somaly Mam Foundation, while in Cambodia, worked directly with young girls who are victims of the sexual slave trade.
Cassandra’s Angel is currently being produced as a Broadway musical with a focus on social advocacy. Partnering with Girl Scouts USA, Gina’s vision is helping to create socially conscious American girls reaching out to the girls of the world and bettering the lives of all.
Cassandra's Angel is a contemporary fairy tale, affecting people at very deep levels. It possesses a unique and enduring ability to touch adults as much as its younger audience. Although Cassandra's Angel is written about a little girl and has thousands of adult women as fans, Gina has a supportive base of fathers and grandfathers around the country as well who, not only identify with the story through the eyes of their daughters and granddaughters, but relate to it through their own experiences.
Gina hopes that the story of Cassandra’s Angel will help both children and adults recognize that each person has a gift and that life is about finding that gift and bringing it forth. She reminds children, living even in the most desolate circumstances, that they have a bright light within them and when they find that bright light they shine for the world.
Gina worked in film production, advertising, and the fashion industry for fifteen years. Originally from Denver, Colorado, she now resides in New York City.
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