Skeptic Project

TVP LECTURE CIRCUIT taken from their webpage [April 10th 2010] :

Date Country City Definite/not
6th April Colombia Bogota yes
15th April New Zealand Auckland yes
17th April New Zealand Wellington yes
21st April Australia Brisbane yes
23rd April Australia Sydney yes
25th April Australia Melbourne yes
29th April Australia Perth yes
8th May Japan Tokyo yes
20th May India Bangalore yes
5th June Slovenia Ljubjana yes
8th/10th June Greece Athens yes
26th/27th June Netherlands Eindhoven yes
3rd July Portugal Lisbon prob
10th July Spain Valencia yes
17th July France Paris prob
24th July Sweden Stockholm yes
31st July Denmark Copenhagen yes
7th August Scotland Glasgow yes
14th August Ireland Dublin yes
21st August England Bristol prob
28th August Germany Munich yes
4th September Switzerland Geneva yes
11th September Italy Milan prob
18th September Iceland Reykjavík prob
25th September Canada Montreal yes
2nd October Canada Toronto yes
9th October Canada London yes
16th October Canada Calgary yes
23rd October Canada Vancouver yes

USA x 5 Lecturesprob

* Yes = definite
* Prob = almost definite, still working on bringing to conclusion.

Thats 24 yes if we multiply that by $8000 per appearance we get = $192,000 plus business class air everywhere and full board hotel.

Here is an email from the TVP event coordinator explaining to the Polish people what is required to book your two favourite gurus:

Nice to hear from you.

I have enclosed the Official PDF files for The World Tour 2010.

I think Jacque and Roxanne could probably be with you in Poland near the end of June. They are giving a Lecture in Slovenia on the 5th June, then to Greece, probably Turkey after that so end of June could be good for Poland.

You can organize a Lecture in 2 ways, one is to get a University or someone to sponsor it or you can organize it the way we did in London and hire a Lecture Theatre and sell tickets for it. We have a system set up for selling tickets which is linked directly to The Venus Project. We sold 720 Tickets for $25 USD here in London for 2 Lectures which were a complete sell out. Once the tickets were all sold Roxanne reimbursed us for the hire of the Lecture Theatre. It worked like clockwork here in the UK. We did have to put up a deposit for the Lecture Theatre before we sold the tickets however but obviously this was all reimbursed at the end.

I feel the best way to organize this is to hire a Lecture theatre and sell tickets.

Jacque and Roxanne would require 8000 Euros which includes the Lecture fee, 2 Business Class Flights and Hotel full-board during their visit.

The reason for this tour is essentially to spread the word about the Venus Project in the quickest way possible and also to enable The Venus Project to survive in this monetary system. Since the economic crash Roxanne’s work has dried up completely and it was her salary that kept the Venus project going.

I would just like to add that the Venus Project has survived all these years from the hard work of Jacque and Roxanne and them ploughing into it all there own money, but since the credit crunch has hit us this source has dried up. The success of this world tour really will be the make or break of the Venus project financially. The Zeitgeist movement says that it is the activist arm of The Venus Project. Well, I feel it is time for us to activate and help The Venus Project to survive in this monetary system.

We are in the process of preparing a video clip, poster and flyer which you will be able to download soon to advertise your Event.

Jacque and Roxanne are happy to appear on TV shows, do interviews with journalists and radio shows whilst in the country hosting the Lectures too, anything which will help spread the information of a Global Resource Based Economy.

The Lectures will be two and half hours long, which includes a dvd of 15 minutes and 45 minutes Q & A’s.

Let me know your thoughts on all of this.

Warmest regards,
Heather Odom
Event Coordinator for The Venus Project

So let us look at that:

2.30 hour lecture includes 15 minute video & 45 minute Q & A

Which is a grand total of 1.30 hour lecture between Roxanne & Jacque. = 45 minutes each.

720 Tickets for $25 USD here in London for 2 Lectures
720 x 25 = $18,000 US per lecture

2 lectures = $36,000 US

Jacque & Roxanne require $8,000 for a lecture, they earned $16,000 here [London] for 3 hours talking, 1.30 hours answering questions, 30 mins watching a video.

The event organisers made: $36,000 [total for 2 events] -$16,000 [fees for 2 lectures] = $20,000 spare.

Whatever the venue hire was is obviously subtracted but it aint gonna cost $20,000 I think we can agree here.

Business class air fares each cost there abouts = http://www.skyclub.com/specialfares.html</p>

Full board hotel prices $150 – $900 per person per night

So theres money to be made for everyone involved who is having these two techno gurus visiting town.

Why not get involved and jump on the gravy train ?

Yeah stupid me, I should of thought it was impossible anyone could make lots of money if theyre a humanitarian non profit organisation.

Thats because they spend all their money on paper, pens, and protractors.

Its an expensive hobby drawing things.

Word.

What interests me, even as a non-capitalist: When they manage to fill those lectures with people, there's a serious shortage of competition within the "New society design"-industry.

jesus christ that drawing page is endless, its like one of those shopping channel adverts....will it ever end ?

$297. = 30 days = 1 hr a day = 30 hrs
+ $97 per extra video

my favourite has to be the justification that spendng all that money on going to university isnt worth it, and a course from fresco at the bargain price is so much more valuable.

My second favourite is the picture of a 9 year olds drawing of a table one week before:
http://www.simpleology.com/images/jfresco_images/proof3.gif<br /> and after joining the course:
http://www.simpleology.com/images/jfresco_images/proof4.gif</p>

The evidence is so astonishing I almost wanna draw myself laughing out loud and post it.

oh not forgetting the claim that learning how to draw from fresco can tap the genius inside you, now thats worth $300 right there !

So he can teach mentally challenged 9 year olds to draw like average 9 year olds who just suck at it?