BUREAU OF POWER AND LIGHT

The Love More Real video project aims to raise awareness of social issues in the world and amplify the voices of young activists and organizations engaged in cultivating a more just and compassionate world. A world where everyone has the same opportunities to realize their optimal, true state of being.

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The music is an electro-pop rock anthem, a rally cry to turn our zombie-like gaze away from the noise and spectacle of the last feverish nightmare spasms of dying colonial empires, like south of our Canadian border and around the world. Love More Real, instead, compels us to turn our eyes to a parade of a different sort, one that celebrates the good things that people are doing in the world, that organizations are doing in the world, that young activists are doing in the world; artists, environmentalists, people dedicating their lives to making the world a better place in their own particular way. By investing energy into positive endeavours that aim to make the world a better place for all living beings and make sincere and authentic efforts, to the best of one's means, to help those most affected by the proliferations of negativity and self-serving phenomena that pervades this world, we will cultivate the soil for a just, optimal existence for all!

There are individuals and social enterprises that are tackling real world problems and succeeding, addressing issues that governments have flat out failed to, usually because the corporations that fund many governments are often the ones perpetuating the problems in the first place. Social enterprises are not only doing the work others won’t, investing energy and resources into improving quality of life for all living beings, but they are also employing and supporting marginalized people that most others wouldn’t. Amazing companies, not-for-profits and for-profits, charities, all in their own way, helping make the world a better place.

But, they are often more quiet, perhaps unnoticed in the noise and din of the self-serving corporate toxicity we are often surrounded by and subjected to. Time for a parade to celebrate these humans and the work they do!!

Our aim is to leverage this video project to raise money to support all of the orgs and causes involved: ethical sponsorship of the parade floats, create a crowd-funding campaign to cover costs of production with extra earnings going into supporting the work of the orgs involved; sell related ethically-sourced merchandise; etc. This project is still in its early days, so definitely more work to do!  The more peeps that get involved, the bigger this will get, the more exposure and monetary return for all involved. This project is intended to benefit everyone involved using the vehicle of a kick-ass song and even more kick-ass video!!

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Bureau Of Power And Light is an art collective dedicated to harnessing creative energies for positive social impact.​ We endeavour to foster empathy through the creation, exhibition, and facilitation of artworks. We are committed to creating and supporting platforms for under-represented voices, and advocating for artists and the arts in society at large. 

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Projects initiated by BPL include art bands ILLIASTER and MAGT, multi-dimensional exhibitions TIBETANS OF TORONTO, #RECLAIMTIBET, IN LIGHT OF DEATH, TIME TRAVELLERS: THE ART OF TASHI NORBU and recent short film LIGHT FOR FREEDOM, based on an immersive theatre work of the same name.

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Light & Laughter,

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Geoff Doner & Andrea Battersby

Cofounders