Oh what a night…2007 Benefit fabulousness
This is a shout out to EVERYONE who participated in our 2007 Benefit by attending, volunteering, performing, exhibiting, donating, surprise boxing and/or merry making…you all ROCK! My favorite part is always getting to see the faces of artists I have been working with solely via email & phone, sometimes for years, for the first time.
The annual benefit is the one of the few things we do at Fractured Atlas that is actually based in a temporal (as opposed to a virtual) setting. It is the most grueling day of the year for our staff and we all worked from about 6am - 2am yesterday. Our technical staff were amazing (you know who you are and I love you all) and our featured artists were especially inspiring this year. From what I overheard, people couldn’t stop talking about the work they saw, both on the walls and in the ether.
Highlights:
Our two featured musical performers (New York Polyphony and Basya Schechter) decided to collaborate literally minutes before they went on (which was only minutes after they had met for the first time). They closed out the live performances with an amazing impromptu duet and needless to say if you were there, it was stunning. Where were you when this plan was hatched Adrienne Celeste Fadjo (our featured dancer)? You could’ve jumped in too!
The video contest was the most fun thing ever and it was great to share the three finalists with a live audience. I wish we could have screened them all because they were so well done. Special thanks to ALL the artists who submitted entries and also to Genius Rocket for working with us on it.
Our gift bags were something to behold this year (the free Levitate yoga class, illy coffee & Zagat subscription were the highlights imo). Our members put some especially creative marketing materials in them and the mock prescription pads from The Operating Theater were my favorite (although I didn’t actually get a bag).
Since it was a tremendous success, I am now going to catch up on the sleep I’ve missed over the last nine months planning the event…
THANK YOU!
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