Up With People - Notable Performances and Events:

Notable Performances and Events:

1960s

1965 – A group forms called Sing Out, performing the song "Up with People" in their traveling show

1965 – Sing Out’s “Up with People” was the first event held at Jordan High School in Watts after the Los Angeles race riots

1966 – Reader’s Digest founder Dewitt Wallace underwrites first nationwide tour

1967 – The cast of Sing Out performs at the World Expo in Montreal

1968 – Up with People is incorporated as a non-profit organization, through the encouragement of President Dwight Eisenhower and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer

1969 – Up with People is received by Pope Paul VI

1970s

1971 – Cast performs with Bob Hope for President Richard Nixon at the White House

1972 – Cast performs at the Munich Olympics after the tragic massacre of Israeli athletes

1973 – Up with People performs two sell-out shows at Carnegie Hall in New York City

1974 – Cast performs all summer at the World Expo-Spokane sponsored by General Electric

1975 – Up with People invited to facilitate Boston public school desegregation

1976 – Bicentennial tour of United States (771 cities, 3.9 million live attendance)

1976 – Cast performs in Super Bowl X in Miami, Florida

1977 – Cast presents three Television Specials with Televisa, introduced by Anthony Quinn

1978 – Up with People is featured in the Kodak Centennial Tour

1978 – Cast first visit to People’s Republic of China

1979 – King Juan Carlos of Spain meets cast in Madrid

1980s

1980 – Cast performs at Super Bowl XIV at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California

1982 – Cast performs at Super Bowl XVI at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan

1983 – Up with People is received by Pope John Paul II in Rome

1983 – Five Up with People casts undertake General Motors 75th Anniversary Tour – 96 plants in 56 cities on two continents

1984 – Invited by the King and Queen of Jordan to Amman for the Jerash Festival

1986 – Cast performs at Super Bowl XX at the Superdome in New Orleans

1987 – Cast performs at Closing Ceremony of International Summer Special Olympics

1988 – Cast performs at World Expo 88 in Brisbane, Australia

1988 – Cast performs at Rugby Grand Finals half time show – National TV – Sponsored by Channel 7

1989 – Cast performs at the inauguration of George H. W. Bush in Washington, D.C.

1990s

1990 – Up with People’s 25th Anniversary celebrations are held in Denver, CO

1990 – Soviet students travel in Up with People for the first time

1992 – Cast performs at Earth Summit in Brazil – Sponsored by Environmental Foundation – USA

1993 – Up with People relocates world headquarters from Tucson, Arizona to Denver, Colorado

1993 – Cast performs in Denver for Pope John Paul II and for US President Bill Clinton

1994 – Performance in Hong Kong for Chinese New Year – Sponsored by Hong Kong Government

1995 – Up with People establishes its first formal education agreements with several US universities who will offer academic credit for UWP program completion to students who enroll at their university.

1996 – Cast performs at the Olympics in Atlanta and Disneyland in California – Sponsored by Disney

1997 – Red Cross benefit in Switzerland and projects in Portugal

1998 – Affiliation with America’s Promise – The Alliance for Youth

1998 – Cast performs at World Expo in Portugal and for Scania in Sweden

1999 – Cast performs at Celebration of Peace with Colin Powell in Denver, Colorado

1999 – Cast performs at International Red Cross event in Switzerland

2000s

2000 – Up with People participates in and performs at World Youth Day in Rome

2000 – Up with People holds 35th Anniversary celebrations in Orlando, Florida

2000 – Up with People suspends operations

2004 – Up with People re-opens with the launch of a new program model called WorldSmart

2005 – Up with People combines the original Up with People model with that of WorldSmart and once again enrolls participants in the Up with People student program.

2006 – Cast A 2006 is the first student tour to travel under the one-semester Up with People program model. Prior to 2000, all student tours were one year in length.

2007 – Up with People makes second appearance in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City

2008 – Up with People performs in the Opening Ceremony for the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, CA

2008 – Viva la Gente (what Up with People is known as in Latin America) returns to Mexico for a five-week tour

2009 – Up with People helps Bermuda celebrate its 400th Anniversary with a month-long tour

2009 – Viva la Gente (Up with People) returns to Mexico for a seven-city national tour

2010s

2010 – UWP cast performs for Queen Silvia of Sweden

2011 – UWP returns to Pasadena, California as producers and featured performers in the Opening Celebration for the 122nd Rose Parade

2011 – UWP cast performs for Princess Margriet of the Netherlands

2011 – UWP welcomes first campers to inaugural session of Camp Up with People in Harrisonburg, Virginia

2012 - The "Friends of the Libraries" organization at The University of Arizona holds the "Arizona is Up With People" event to launch the "Up with People Archive Project" at UA, establishing a detailed collection of memorabilia, including, musical scores, photographs, film and video, musical arrangements, costumes and more. The core of the collection is from Up with People Founder and Chairman Emeritus J. Blanton Belk and his wife, Betty Belk.

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