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Webby Awards, Banff World Television Festival, Music 2.0 Summit, Human Rights Watch’ Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival, Beyond Broadcast Conference
Webby Awards, Banff World Television Festival, Music 2.0 Summit, Human Rights Watch’ Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival, Beyond Broadcast Conference
Join fellow activists, media makers, educators, journalists, policymakers and concerned citizens in calling for real and lasting changes to the nation”s media system at the National Conference for Media Reform, June 6-8 in Minneapolis. Bill Moyers will deliver the keynote address. On June 7, the Alameda Writers Group in Glendale interviews humorous author, screenwriter, and producer Eric Garcia, best known for his novels, Anonymous Rex, Casual Rex, Hot & Sweaty Rex, Matchstick Men, and Cassandra French’s Finishing School for Boys. Eric Garcia’s Matchstick Men which was made into a 2003 film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Nicolas Cage. The annual Webby Award Competition, open to all organizations and individuals involved in designing, building, managing, maintaining, marketing or promoting Web sites for business, consumer of general audiences, takes place this year in New York, June 8-10. BANFF World Television Festival 2008 combining an international program competition, the Banff World Television Awards, with a comprehensive conference agenda, will be conducted June 8-11 from its always scenic location of Banff in the Canadian rockies.
This year, the Music 2.0 Summit has been combined with the Sixth Annual Digital Media Summit, in New York on June 9, to create one conference designed to put you at the center of the oncoming battles over digital content. The annual Maui Film Festival, kicks off June 11-15 in Wallea, Maui, and among the venues for screenings, Celestial Cinema has seating on the grass. This year’s North By Northeast Music and Film Festival covers three nights of performances, with about 400 showcasing bands performing at over 25 live music venues in downtown Toronto, from June 12-15. The NXNE Film Festival offers a unique program of music related feature films, documentaries and shorts. In the beachside resort village of Saugatuck, the Waterfront festival showcases many award-winning and critically acclaimed films. This year, June 12-15, they add a NewMedia Television Festival as a sidebar of the 10th annual Waterfront Film Festival, providing a platform for independent producers, directors, writers, and actors to share their pilots that could be aired via network and cable television, webmedia and other future forms of broadcast. Human Rights Watch’s International Film Festival, a venue for fiction, documentary and animated films and videos with a human rights theme, showcasing the heroic stories of activists and survivors from all over the world, has a June 13 launch date at New York’s Lincoln Center.
Party Ideas For Green Events On St Paddy’s Day
Party Ideas For Green Events On St Paddy’s Day
Party event planners are always looking for the next best thing for their events all the time, no matter if they are private parties, weddings or corporate functions. More demands are made daily for party planners to create green events and since St Paddy’s Day is close at hand why not create an easy St. Patrick’s Day themed green event?
Green events are becoming more common and when party event planners are asked to produce a green event the first keywords to remember should be to reduce, recycle and reuse various components of a previous event. For St Paddy’s Day party d
Music for Healing
Music for Healing
Music touches our hearts and resonates within our bodies. The right music can truly renew us, helping us to feel relaxed and rejuvenated. Great musicians have always recognized this therapeutic power of music, and researchers are finally proving them right. THE SOUND MEDICINE SERIES features the works of inspired musical pioneers who are exploring music’s healing power. Natural Balance and Harmony Your body is a self-healing instrument. If you give it a chance it will always tend toward homeo
Don’t Blink! Blink 182 in concert for only two shows in Los Angeles
Don’t Blink! Blink 182 in concert for only two shows in Los Angeles
Travis Barker is set to return to the stage for the first time with his bandmates from Blink-182 following his brush with death late last year.
Blink-182 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre of Orange County will be joined by Weezer on Thursday, September 17 and Fall Out Boy on Friday, September 18. The unique double billing has proven to be a hit with punk fans across the Southland as both shows quickly sold out. The only way you are going to find any of these highly sought-after Blink-182 tickets would be to contact our friends at Golden Circle Tickets, who guarantee us that premium seats can still be yours.
The slender drummer, whose weight is more tattoo ink than muscle, was in South Carolina after performing a show with Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell and DJ AM. The day after, he and DJ AM (Adam Goldstein) boarded a plane headed for Van Nuys, CA and their lives would never be quite the same.
What Do You Do When Your Vendor Does Not Show Up To Your Event?
What Do You Do When Your Vendor Does Not Show Up To Your Event?
As the principal owner of my own company, I know the importance of keeping my ducks in a row and making sure on game day that my vendors show up on time and at the right location. But what happens when one of your vendors doesn’t show up to your event? How can this happen? What do you do?
This scenario recently happened at a major Hollywood Studio A-List premiere. When I heard about this, my first reaction was how could this happen? Where was the communication breakdown? Apparently, the date was changed and the event coordinator did not relay this information to the caterer. There was a production timeline sent to all the vendors but by mistake the caterer was over-looked on this piece of information and they never received it. Ok, mistakes happen but with an event of this size, magnitude and publicity surrounding it, why wasn’t there verbal communication between the event planner and caterer 48 hours to a week before the event?
Baby Einstein: Lullaby Classics
Baby Einstein: Lullaby Classics
This is a 17-track, 35-minute concert featuring a collection of soothing classical melodies perfect to calm little ones as they wind down for nap time, bedtime or a bit of quiet time. Each piece, re-orchestrated for little ears by the Baby Einstein Music Box Orchestra, was specially selected to lull babies into sweet, blissful dreams. Lullaby Classics opens with “Twinkle, Twinkle” variations by Mozart and includes calming and delightful melodies from composers such as Bach, Beethoven, Dvorak and
CMA Music Festival, Tony Awards, Los Angeles Film Festival, Sexy International Paris Film Festival, JazzAscona
CMA Music Festival, Tony Awards, Los Angeles Film Festival, Sexy International Paris Film Festival, JazzAscona
As the Aruba International Film Festival gets underway June 4, opening night will be “Island Chic” themed with a relaxed, lounge and chic ambiance on the beach surrounded by fire pits and torches, food stations, open bar and live entertainment that will include a screening of Hachiko, A Dog’s Tale, starring Richard Gere, who will also take part in the Festival’s “In Conversations With” series. Running until June 11, the festival will also include a Latin Night and a Bollywood Night, where the ballroom of the Aruba Marriott Resort in Santa Cruz will be converted in a Bollywood venue, decorated with draped ceilings, lounges and colorful mandalas, with an exotic menu served ” family style”, open bar with a noted Bombay DJ, and live performance drawn from Oscar winning ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, directed by the film’s choreographer. International Animated Film Festival is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year during the festival which runs June 7-12 in Annecy. The International Animation Film Market (Mifa) runs alongside the Festival and opens with a cocktail sip at Brasserie du Parc de l’Impérial Palace. And at a DreamWorks master class, followed by a DreamWorks Animation recruitment session, Sion Otto and Kristof Serrand bring you behind the scenes of a atypical DreamWorks film.
The IFP Independent Filmmaker Narrative Lab is a program in Brooklyn, from June 7-11, supporting first-time feature directors with low-budget, independently produced films at the crucial rough cut/post production stage. The Labs are an intensive, free mentorship program providing professional and creative guidance to directors. CONNECTIONS: The Digital Living Conference and Showcase is an executive event taking place in Santa Clara, June 8-10, focused on the market developments and growth factors for advanced digital lifestyle solutions, offering recommendations for new business models and opportunities in digital media/content, connected consumer electronics, broadband and value-added services, and home systems. SCENEPR is hosting a panel for Internet Week New York to explore Social Media’s influence on both on Film and Television, and how social media is used to launch films, build social communities around TV series and films. Following “The Socialization of Film,” the program of which is a panel/Q&A moderated by Brian Reich, a free (RSVP needed) after-party follows until midnight at SoHo restaurant/lounge, Delicatessen. The Billboard Country Music Summit opens June 7-8 in Nashville, and is co-presented by the Country Music Association. In a key event, Grammy Award-winning Kansas native Martina McBride takes part in a Keynote Q&A interview with Wade Jessen, Senior Chart Manager, Billboard, discussing her career, her take on the current state of the music business, and her personal observations about career longevity.
Charity Fundraising Ideas for a Red Carpet Event
Charity Fundraising Ideas for a Red Carpet Event
Recently I produced a red carpet event and thought I would share some of our charity fundraising ideas with you. The event was for PCRM and like other red carpet events we produce, many hours of planning went into creating this successful non profit event.
One of the main non profit ideas was to make this non profit event stand out among the crowd since this charity was being introduced to a new audience on the West Coast. Thus it was important for this red carpet event to adhere to the highest level of professionalism in terms of food, service and design. We accomplished this by bringing in one of the top live TV show producers who in turn assembled a top-rated production team making the television portion of this event seamless.
Will Dead Sara Wake Up LA Music?
Will Dead Sara Wake Up LA Music?
I was so impressed by Dead Sara’s last performance at the Whisky a Go Go, that I thought I would catch them again. (Could I be right? Is Dead Sara LA’s next gem?)
So I went to the Knitting Factory, Saturday, February 3, 2007, but I didn’t get there until 10:00pm. A number of people told me they liked the band that just played, The Vespertines, but I can’t attest to much else myself. Catch them on MySpace if you are interested.
First band up after I arrived, THE AMNESTY ( You can hear them on MySpace under Connor Ragan if you are interested.) They seem to have a good number of fans in the audience. (They were sold out.) At first they didn’t seem bad. Good music, but the lead singer does need a few vocal lessons, though he did have a good stage presence, and communicated to his audience well. But, after about 3 songs I started getting a little bored and antsy. Songs weren’t distinct, vocals weren’t good. These guys may have potential but they need a little more practice. Their MySpace music is much better than this live performance was, though even on MySpace it is evident the lead singer needs to get some vocal training.
Discover all Los Angeles has to Offer
Discover all Los Angeles has to Offer
To start off, LA is easily California’s largest city with over nine million citizens which also makes it America’s second largest city behind New York City! So there must be lots of enjoyable activities seeing as there’s so many people here right? Well, you’re absolutely correct. This city offers tons of different activities that anyone would find enjoyable. So if you’re visiting for family or any reason or maybe you just moved, you can rest assured that you can easily find something fun to do. Los Angeles is also the center for many different sectors like: business, trade, education, entertainment, culture, media, as well as many others. Seriously, that list could easily go on for days! Since there’s so much to do, we’ve decided to help you by narrowing down the best activities.
