There is an invisible war in Africa: one man Joseph Kony, terrorizing 5 countries. Its the longest running conflict on the continent, and the soldiers are children abducted from their homes and forced to fight.

Invisible Children is a movement seeking to end this conflict and bring the child soldiers home. They use film and media to spread the story and raise support. From there, they rebuild schools, educate future leaders, and provide jobs in Northern Uganda.

You can help spread their story (and be entered for a chance to win). Here’s how.

Invisible Children is Billabong’s Design For Humanity 2010 beneficiary.

The making of the Invisible Children Revolution…

Performing live on the main stage at Billabong’s Design For Humanity 2010 event…FISCHERSPOONER

Fischerspooner is an art pop performance project created and helmed by Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner that makes music, dance, fashion, film and photography. Their work fuses fine art and pop culture, as in their renowned outsider pop shows bursting with stage effects presented in both art galleries and traditional concert halls.

Watch their video, “We Are Electric”

We Are Electric

Fischerspooner | MySpace Music Videos

This year’s Design For Humanity beneficiary, Invisible Children. Invisible Children uses film, creativity, and social action to end the use of child soldiers in Joseph Kony’s war and restore North Uganda to peace and prosperity.

Join us in helping support Invisible Children. Attend Billabong’s Design For Humanity event, buy an event tee or the Invisible Children videos, host an Invisible Children house party for your friends, sign up for their mailing list, volunteer. Spread their message, share their story. Join the revolution.

Splash Page: Intro from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo.

Billabong’s 4th annual Design For Humanity event to be held at Paramount Studios on the legendary NY Streets Backlot. The studio recreates eight historic NYC districts: Brooklyn, Brownstone, Upper East Side, SoHo, Lower East Side, Greenwich Village, Washington Square and the Financial District. Go ahead, take a 360 view of the 5 acre lot.

The night of the event, you’ll be attending a massive block in the city that never sleeps-without leaving L.A. The streets will hold two concert stages, Billabong runway show, live art installations and gallery, DJ dance parties and live tee shirt screenprinting, food trucks and bars.

We promise to post more updates on this new bigger location.

In it’s 4th year- Billabong’s Design For Humanity event website is here.
New look, new location, new lineup, new beneficiary. Check out the new website to get caught up on all the new details.

Most importantly save these two dates:
May 12th tickets go on sale (Billabong Girls Facebook fans are alerted first. If you want first dibs, fan us).
June 10th the event date. Don’t be somewhere else wishing you were here.

Thank you for attending this year’s Design For Humanity event, till next year!

These are actual sentences or phrases overheard the night of the event (names have been left out).

“Teal with glitter” -makeup artist

“Bumble and Bumble rocks.” -hair dresser

“Check, check, yeah, yeah, hey, hey, yup, yup. I had starbucks for breakfast today. Check check” -sound check tech

“I work for Surfing magazine does that mean I’m VIP?” -says a guy posing as a Surfing magazine guy

“This guy needs to be on the list, I can’t remember his name now but he’s gonna be big soon.” -PR agent

“I’m with the DJ” – friend of DJ Franki Chan

“I heard Danny Fuller’s girlfriend was here.” – Surfing magazine staff member

“Hey.” says the hot runway model with the mohawk to member of Street Drum Corps.

“Did you read that? That’s heavy.” -band member reading stats on charity: water

“Are you serious people carry these for miles?” -Design For Humanity attendee lifting a jerry can

“Those are real” says a guy watching from the runway

“This is my favorite event to go to all year.” – industry VP

“These photos are amazing, I look better here than in real life” -photo booth taker

Surfing magazine rocks. They rolled up to the Billabong Design For Humanity event in a full limo bus of staff, surf pros, and smiling industry folk. Check out the photos and video they captured at the event. Please read their photo captions, they’ll make you laugh.

This gallery is brought to you by surfingthemag.com

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