On August 15, 2009, almost 4,000 people gathered from seven countries at the Brain Art Festival at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. There they were inspired to change their lives and the world for the better by utilizing the brain’s infinite potential for health, happiness and creativity.

The star-studded evening was conceived and led by world-renowned educator, philosopher and author Ilchi Lee, who for more than three decades has devoted his life’s work to the nurture and development of the human brain. Lee is the founder and president of the nonprofit International Brain Education Association, the host of the Festival.

Lee, who was introduced by Broadway legend and nine-time Tony Award-winner Tommy Tune, took the audience through an entertaining and informative demonstration of Brain Art, which emphasizes the unlimited potential of the brain for creating a peaceful and harmonious world. He called for a creation of new values, a new culture, and a new world. Lee taught that every person has the ability to be a Brain Artist, in order to make their life a work of art, transform their soul, and leave a positive legacy that ultimately brings about positive change to our world.

Lee’s lecture and training was interspersed with compelling multimedia presentations and inspiring dance and musical performances from Harlem choir God’s Generation, enchanting Japanese soprano Naoko Noma, and world premiere drummer and percussionist, Robin Dimaggio, among others.
 

Preceding his lecture, the audience was roused by a heart-thumping combined performance by a South Korean drumming group, Earth Star Poong Ryu Do Kids Drum Team, and break-dance troupe, Dahngoon B-Boys, as well as the Power Brain Student Leaders from New York area schools. Then a poignant yet powerful ki gong performance called Chun Bu Shin Gong combined 81 performers with haunting music and an Asian calligraphy backdrop that flashed each of the 81 characters of an ancient Asian text called the Chun Bu Kyung.

As part of The Festival, the audience was treated to the transformational benefits of a new form of Brain Wave Vibration—a simple, but profound, self-healing technique derived from Ilchi Lee’s book, Brain Wave Vibration: Getting Back Into the Rhythm of a Happy, Healthy Life. New music composed by Arang Park, a healingmusician based in Sedona, Arizona, which incorporated the sound of Ilchi Lee’s brain blood flow, brought the audience more deeply in touch with their internal rhythms.

All and all, the night was an unforgettable exhibition of the power of the brain’s creative spirit and capacity for change.