Kenneth Green,
executive diretor
Golden Sun Foundation

Ken Green is an award winning producer, artistic director and designer in film, audio/video, theatre, concerts, multimedia productions and festivals. During the past three decades, he has produced events locally, nationally and internationally. In addition, Green is a highly experienced and dynamic administrator for the non-profit sector. He is also a tea consultant for Teance, the premier tea purveyor of Asian teas.

His first venture into filmmaking was working with Martin Scorsese as an assistant art director for Box Car Bertha. He went on to produce a number of documentaries, which include The Lion’s Roar, a highly acclaimed and award winning documentary on Tibetan Buddhism and Discovering Elegance. He produced a series of art installations with Trungpa, Rinpoche in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Denver. He is currently planning a full-length documentary on the monarchy of the Kingdom of Bhutan.

Green has recently directed and produced A Night on the Silk Road, a multi-media concert performance of music, poetry, dance and media projections with Kitaro; Dust to Gold, an evening of Himalayan performances; and Sacred Dances of Bhutan at the Asia Society; and PlantAsia, a festival of Central Asian culture at the Denver Botanic Gardens.  He produced a 2005 summer program of 44 concerts including world music, dance, film, and theater, and will be producing an International Buddhist Film and World Culture Festival in 2008, to be held in Bhutan. Green recently produced Secrets of the World, an eight-part award winning audio international storytelling series, with renowned storytellers, published by Sounds True.

Green is currently producing, designing and collaborating with world- acclaimed composer Philip Glass on a major multimedia theatrical adaptation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. It has been previewed as a work-in-progress September 2008 at Asia Society, NYC.

Green was the president of Centre Productions, a film company. He is currently the president for Windhorse Productions LLC, a film and new media company in Nova Scotia and Boulder.  He is the founding director and executive director of Golden Sun Foundation for World Culture, a not-for-profit cultural foundation whose mission is to foster an enlightened society through sustaining and promoting world cultural traditions and providing the opportunities for an exchange of ideas and experiences between the keepers of these traditions, contemporary artists and the public.

Green has extensive experience in interactive multimedia design and started Tendrel Technologies, a multimedia software development company. An early pioneer of multimedia, he designed nightclubs, installations and organized festivals starting with the first BE-IN in NYC with Peter Max (600,000 attendees). He produced multimedia light shows for such notable musicians and groups including The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, Country Joe and the Fish, and The Byrds.

As a new media and multimedia producer/designer he spent ten years in Nova Scotia, creating numerous interactive programs and live mixed media events for museums, government and corporate clients. Collaborating with the National Film Board of Canada, Green designed and developed BARDO, an interactive new media journey.

Green was a director and Vice-President for Nalanda Foundation, an educational organization; in this capacity he was one of the founding directors of Naropa University. He also served 17 years as Vice-President and member of the board of directors and as Director of Internal and Cultural Affairs for Vajradhatu, an international not-for-profit network of meditation and study centers, under the guidance and direction of the Tibetan mediation master, Trungpa Rinpoche. Green was responsible for administration of major educational programs and centers throughout North America. He collaborated on the design and implemented the Vajradhatu advisory system used internationally to counsel members on individual, family and livelihood issues. Likewise, he helped design and implement the delek system, a neighborhood focused program.  This social experiment was created to foster local identity, to be a vehicle for exchanging ideas, and to provide feedback to the international organization. The model was a success in providing a powerful path for members to work closely with each other in a caring environment.

As an ordained teacher and meditation instructor in Tibetan Buddhism, he taught philosophy, aesthetics and Buddhism for over fifteen years in the US, Canada and Europe.