It's a movement founded on a belief in the power of creative solutions.

All it needs is a little help coming up with the questions.

More specifically, 10,000 of them.

As part of Earth Day activities, the Zendik Arts Movement -- a 32-year-old international organization of artists and idealists -- will bring its "Question Everything!" campaign to Penn State today, tomorrow and Sunday.

The highlight of the group's visit will be a performance by its improvisational band, Arol and the Zendik Project, at 2 p.m. Sunday on the HUB lawn as part of the Penn State Eco-Action Earth Day celebration.

However, the stop will also include two additional events related to a Quest Among the Bewildered, the autobiographical journal of beat poet/philosopher and Zendik movement co-founder Wulf Zendik. The Penn State Bookstore on campus will hold a signing today at 2 p.m., while Webster's Bookstore Café, 128 S. Allen St., will be the setting for a live reading tomorrow at 8 p.m.

"People know the present system isn't working on any level -- ecologically, personally, politically," Zendik movement spokesperson Vie Davis said. "But they don't know what to do, or how to unplug from the present insanity. People need a way to come together and talk about the real things that go on inside themselves."

For that reason, the Zendik artists and idealists are spending a year touring colleges, concerts, festivals, political rallies, coffee shops and bookstores across the country and asking community members to contribute questions that they think deserve an answer. Their goal is to collect 10,000 questions by August 2003, and then send a shorter list of 1,000 directly to the heads of state throughout the world. All they ask is that the leaders choose one question and answer it, and they will post the responses on the movement's Web site.

"Once people start asking questions, then solutions start to come about," Davis said. "There's no real public forum right now for people to really be heard."

In a way, the campaign is just a method of extending the overall mission of the movement.

Headquartered on a 116-acre farm at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, N.C. -- where 50 members live and work -- the Zendik organization publishes an arts magazine, produces a public access television show, records its own music and grows its very own organic food.

According to the movement, it's all part of an attempt to create a cooperative culture.

"It's an ongoing experiment of how to live and work together," Davis said. "We question everything about the way we were shown to live."

This will be especially evident during its musical program, which features an improvisational band headed by 63-year-old movement co-founder Arol Zendik.

With a stream of consciousness style, Arol combines everything from her current thoughts to stories from her past in her unique onstage performance.

And, in a Quest Among the Bewildered, Wulf Zendik explores the same themes through a different medium. Written throughout 1957 and 1958 in Paris and Hollywood, the recently published journal chronicles Wulf's personal attempt to regain a sense of what's important in life.

"They sent a copy of the book, and it looks like it's something that would be right up our customers' alley," said Webster's co-owner Elaine Meder, who coordinated tomorrow's reading. "Just the intolerance of greed, and the idea of community in its truest form. We have a lot of likeminded people who come in here."