What makes Canada so special that Global Inheritance traveled at night in order to deal with kinder border-check officials? It's called Virgin Festival Toronto... one of the major highlights on the world festival circuit.


Simply put, huge festivals with great talent on islands rule! Global Inheritance cruised onto Centre Island, bringing with it the TRASHed :: Recycling Store. Virgin Festival attendees xchanged thousands of bottles and cans for Motorola phones, Fuel TV skate decks, Loomstate Jeans, Future Shock Cards, Gelaskins iPod skins, Quiksilver t-shirts, Logitech speakers, Virgin merch, headphones, and so much more. Everyone in Canada was always super-supportive and we had an overwhelming response both days.

Global Inheritance also presented a brand new initiative: Global Warming Human Chess. In this battle of momentous proportions, the causes of global warming (Oil, Coal, Hummers, Factories, Lobbyists, and Trash) came face to face with the cures (Wind Power, Solar Panels, Bikes, Trees, Scientists, and Recycling Bins) in the most informative and exciting chess match ever played.

Also, we kicked off our Big Twister campaign that helps fund our brand-new POSTed: Education Through Poster Art initiative. The concept around Big Twister is for people to select one of five causes and then battle on the Twister Mat to benefit their initiative. View all the highlights at the Virgin Festival Toronto Flickr photo gallery here.

A vast group of people stepped up to the plate to make this all of this possible. It's a long list so don't hold your breath.

The Coaches :: Michelle Plotkin, Kristi Villegas, Whitney Zimmerman, Jenna Eyrich, Jasmin Zeger.
The Players :: Aimee Roy, Kristen Rodgerson, Robbie Van Vlaenderen, Teddy Mills, Megan McCarthy, Marina Moreira, Dakota Arsenault, Danesi Jafar  Abdulkadir, Nazha Sabiri, Jacqui York, Sarah Wilson, Damon Allan, Bing, Greg Bonser, Trent Hunter, Benjamin Sulzenko, Amy Corupe, Michael Butler, Tiffany McLean, Jon, James, Polly Phokeev, Tania Cheung, Senia Selinavov, Emily Wilkins, Dawn Laing, Lindsay Bunce, Courtney Price, Alastair Fairweather, Danielle Pelton, Samantha Aragon, Leslie Thurston.
Uniforms :: Sabrina Siebert.
Construction Crew :: Juan Azulay, Lex Moloney, Jared Sopko.
Executives :: All the fantastic people at Emerge and Virgin Mobile.
The Owners :: Jacob Smid, Nikisha Reyes-Grange.
Fans :: Virgin Festival Toronto festivalgoers.

Thank you everyone!
GI