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Burbank Arts for All – inaugural Gala event

By Pauline Adamek · Comments (0)
Thursday, April 19th, 2012

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Burbank teacher Beth Morrison and Burbank PTA Council President Barbara Miller will be honored by the Burbank Arts for All Foundation at the inaugural gala event – Party on the Plaza.

This event is to be held at the Network’s Garden Café Plaza at the Media Studios North campus in Burbank on Friday, April 27, 2012.

Fritz Coleman, NBC4 weathercaster, will host the event benefiting Burbank Arts For All Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to ensure every student in Burbank public schools has access to a quality visual and performing arts education as part of their core curriculum. Burbank Arts For All Foundation is the primary funding source for Arts Education in Burbank schools today.

The inaugural dinner’s Honorary Chairs are filmmakers Tim Burton, Garry Marshall and Don Hahn as well as former Walt Disney Studios Chairman and motion picture producer Dick Cook.  Event co-Chairs are The Walt Disney Company’s Joan McCarthy and Hollywood Schoolhouse’s Lili Rossi.  The gala event begins at 6:30PM with hosted cocktails and a silent auction followed by dinner, awards presentation and dancing.

 

Tickets or sponsorship packages can be purchased by contacting Trena Pitchford, Director of Development, at trena@burbankartsforall.org  or (818) 736 5269.

 

Event sponsors include The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Deluxe, mOcean, Woodbury University and more.


Burbank Arts for All Foundation’s Fall 2011 grant, the largest award to date of over $20,000, benefiting 14 visual and performing arts programs as well as the Burbank Unified School District. The Foundation received an unprecedented 33 grant applications.

Those in the photo from left to right are John Burroughs High School teacher Jan Rhodes; Superintendent Stan A. Carrizosa; Burbank Arts For All co-Chairs Alexandra Helfrich and Craig Murray and Burbank Unified School District Art’s Coordinator Peggy Flynn.

 

The awards are in three categories:

Patron of the Arts Award:  Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.

Honored for establishing the Foundation, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. will receive the Patron of the Arts Award, which is presented to a local business or corporation whose support has made a significant impact on the Foundation’s mission.

Arts For All Educator Award:  Beth Morrison

This award is presented to an educator who dedicates their own personal time to enrich the lives of all Burbank students through their exceptional commitment to furthering arts education for all.

Beth Morrison, a highly regarded and gifted fine arts teacher at John Burroughs High School, will be honored with the Arts For All Educator Award for going above and beyond instructional work. 

Champion of the Arts Award:  Barbara Miller

This award is presented to an individual or organization whose volunteer commitment to providing equitable access to the arts has made a significant impact on the students of Burbank Unified School District and the Burbank community.

Honored for her tireless dedication to the advancement of the arts in the Burbank community, Burbank PTA Council President and mother of three, Barbara Miller, will receive the Champion of the Arts Award.  She is an invaluable resource and works with the California State PTA to follow legislative and budget changes regarding all areas of education and in particular the arts.

This dedicated mother of three also serves on the BUSD Facilities Oversight Committee, the Superintendent’s Finance Advisory Committee and the Burbank Arts for All Summer School Advisory Committee. Her dedication bridges the mission of Burbank Arts For All Foundation and the PTA and she was instrumental in both organizations becoming Allied Agencies. Through Mrs. Miller’s on-going commitment to arts education as well as her untiring volunteerism efforts, she continues to be an extraordinary advocate for Burbank Arts for All Foundation.

Event sponsors include The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Woodbury University.

 

Burbank Arts for All Foundation

Gala Event – Party on the Plaza

Network’s Garden Café Plaza,

Media Studios North campus

Burbank CA

Friday, April 27, 2012.

6:30PM

Tickets to the event, and/or sponsorship packages, can be purchased by contacting Trena Pitchford, Director of Development, at trena@burbankartsforall.org  or (818) 736 5269.

 

 

 

About Burbank Arts For All:

Since 2006, the Burbank Arts for All Foundation has been dedicated to ensuring that every student in Burbank public schools receives a quality arts education as part of their core curriculum.

Founded six years ago, Burbank Arts For All is a community wide alliance of Burbank’s business leaders, municipal partners, educators, parents and art supporters. As a 501(c)3 nonprofit the Foundation advocates for quality arts education and provides grants to support Burbank Unified School District’s Arts for All plan.

To date they have awarded over $120,000 to visual & performing arts programs in their public schools, supporting projects like new musical instruments, artist in residency programs, professional development for teachers, a new kiln, an animated P.S.A. workshop, auditorium and sound system upgrades, strategic planning for Burbank’s Arts for All plan and many dance, theater, music and art productions or projects.

To learn more about their impact, click here.

 

 

 

 

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Sunset Safari 2012 – happening April 21st at the Los Angeles Zoo

By Pauline Adamek · Comments (0)
Monday, April 16th, 2012

photo by Pauline Adamek

Supporters of the Los Angeles Zoo, along with their excited children, will be treated to a special interactive evening with the animals at the Zoo’s annual Sunset Safari, to be held on Saturday, April 21, 2012.

Each year this exciting and interactive night for SAFARI CLUB donors is hosted by the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association (GLAZA). Patrons of the SAFARI CLUB, which is GLAZA’s premier annual giving society, get to enjoy an after-hours evening of dinner and music, as well as the opportunity to touch and observe some of the Zoo’s smaller animals up close.

Important to note: The SAFARI CLUB is open to the public. Everyone’s tax deductible gift, which begin at $1,500, will have an impact on many levels.

This year’s event for SAFARI CLUB members showcases the new LAIR habitat (living amphibians, invertebrates and reptiles) and the popular Tom Mankiewicz Conservation Carousel.  Also featured are keeper talks, training demonstrations, animal viewings and feedings, and strolling “animal walkabouts,” which include chats with keepers and the chance to observe small animals, such as harmless reptiles and majestic owls, in their keeper’s hands.  An International-themed buffet dinner and music will conclude the intimate evening’s festivities.

How your support helps:

Locally, SAFARI CLUB members support the L.A. Zoo, as this oasis of plant and animal life continues to flourish, educate and enrich our community.

Globally, the donations contribute to the Zoo’s conservation and breeding programs, which offer hope of recovery for many of Earth’s endangered species.

Sunset Safari is among the many offerings presented by the private, non-profit Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association, which was founded in 1963. This year marks more than four decades of GLAZA’s success in supporting the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Garden’s work as an educational resource for the citizens of Los Angeles, and as an international center for the conservation of endangered wildlife. GLAZA provides funds and other services for Los Angeles Zoo exhibits, conservation, capital projects, education programs, community outreach, research, and more through fund-raising and an endowment, membership, special events and more.

GLAZA currently has 65,000 member households, the second largest membership base of a cultural organization in Los Angeles. Many of its nearly 300,000 individual members have sustained their GLAZA support for more than 20 years. The Los Angeles Zoo is an international leader in the conservation of endangered species and one of the city’s major cultural and entertainment resources.

SAFARI CLUB patrons are immersed in opportunities to experience the Zoo as a catalyst for change in our natural world and to come closer to the animals we all love.

photo by Pauline Adamek

Sunset Safari

6 to 8 pm

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Los Angeles Zoo

The Los Angeles Zoo is located in Griffith Park at the junction of the Ventura (134) and Golden State (5) freeways.

For information about the SAFARI CLUB, please contact Nancy Simerly at 323 644-4717 or nsimerly@lazoo.org

Official Site for the LA Zoo.

 

 

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Theatre Unleashed partners with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

By Pauline Adamek · Comments (0)
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012

Theatre Unleashed (TU) seeks to collect books for the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and its ‘Literally Healing’ program during the company’s run of The Spidey Project: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility, from March 8-April 14.

A Broadway parody, The Spidey Project follows nerdy social outcast Peter Parker as he takes on an alter ego to battle a dastardly collection of terrifying villains and perhaps his biggest nemesis of all…himself in this clever original musical.

While the show has something for all ages, the nature of the superhero show had company executives looking for a charity that worked with children.

 

“Literally Healing is an incredible cause that deserves attention and support,” said Gregory Crafts, Managing Director of TU. “They help children cope with some life-changing challenges. And like most other charities, they are always looking for help to continue doing the positive work they do…that’s where we want to help.”

 

‘Literally Healing’ is an innovative reading program at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. The program draws from a Patient Therapeutic Library of over 1,000 titles. These therapeutic books for children ‘speak directly; to the program’s patients, helping them better understand and master the sensitive issues they face daily, including: coping with their medical condition and the trauma of hospitalization, being singled out, ridiculed or excluded because of their medical condition and their fear of deformity, disability or death. ‘Literally Healing’ tackles these sensitive issues in a very non-threatening manner to ease the medical and emotional anguish that patients can experience.

The program includes the loan and gifting of books from this collection to patients, families and staff. This is where TU comes in. For the run of The Spidey Project, if patrons bring in a brand new book to donate to the program, they can name their own ticket price for the show. The company is also promoting the program and linking to the program’s website and “wish list” for books (check out their official site for the complete “wish list”).

Further, members from the cast, including Spidey himself, will make a special appearance, personally delivering the books to patients at the end of the show’s run.

“We’ve established a reputation for giving back to the community,” Crafts said. “We think it’s important, especially when you find an organization like this. We’re glad to do our part.”

 

The Spidey Project: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Produced by Theatre Unleashed

Studio / Stage

520 N. Western Ave.

Los Angeles, CA 90004

DATES AND TIMES:

March 8-April 14, 2012

Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays,

8 p.m.

Special Sunday performances March 11, 18, 25 and April 1 — 7:30 p.m.

TICKET PRICES:

$20 for general admission at the door

$16 if ordered online

*** PAY WHAT YOU WANT when patron brings a new book to donate ***

Tickets also available at Goldstar and L.A. Stage Alliance

INFORMATION & RESERVATIONS:

For further information, please call: (818) 849-4039

Or check out their website here.

 

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Celebrity Autobiography – 2012

By Pauline Adamek · Comments (0)
Friday, February 10th, 2012

Craig Bierko

The stars will come out for laughs and a good cause when Craig Bierko and the Celebrity Autobiography team up for Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital on February 21, 2012 for two special performances at Indian Wells Theater.

Scheduled to appear are:

Valerie Bertinelli, Craig Bierko, Micky Dolenz, Florence Henderson, Lainie Kazan, Andrea Martin, Eugene Pack, Matthew Perry, Martha Plimpton, Dayle Reyfel, Ryan Reynolds, Martin Short and more! 

            Craig Bierko, star of stage (Tony nominee for “The Music Man,”) screen (“The Change-Up,” “Cinderella Man”) and television (“Sex and the City,” “Damages”) and a dazzling line up of performers appear live on stage for two performances only in the internationally acclaimed comedy hit Celebrity Autobiography—where stars act out celebrity memoirs.

Think Florence Henderson reading from Snooki’s book !

             The Big Hearts for Little Hearts Desert Guild presents Celebrity Autobiography on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 5:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. at Indian Wells Theater, 37500 Cook Street, Palm Desert, CA 92211. The beautiful 300-seat venue is on the Palm Desert Campus of Cal State San Bernardino.

            Proceeds from the event will build the Pediatric Intensive Care Pharmacy at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital, which serves the 1.3 million children of San Bernardino, Riverside, Inyo and Mono Counties.

            The international smash hit comedy where outrageous and true celebrity memoirs are acted out live on stage by some of the funniest people in entertainment, Celebrity Autobiography is an evening of jaw-dropping, hard-to-believe vignettes excerpted straight from actual celebrity tell-alls: from the ‘he-said, she-said’ accounts of Burt and Loni, Tiger Woods’ “golf lessons,” the re-enactment of Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson’s courtship, to a hilarious ensemble “playlet” edited together from the memoirs of the most famous love triangle in Hollywood history—Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher.

Audiences leave the show asking “Did these celebrities really write that?”  Yup—they are not making any of it up!

You can read my review of an earlier performance here.

Other major characters that have been featured in Celebrity Autobiography include: Sylvester Stallone, Susan Lucci, Mr. T.,  The Situation, David Hasselhoff, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ivana Trump, Vanna White, Star Jones, Miley Cyrus, Kenny Loggins, Madonna, Britney Spears, Cher, Justin Bieber and the Jonas Brothers.

Playing to sell-out audiences and rave reviews in New York City since fall 2008, created by Emmy-nominated writer-performer Eugene Pack, and developed by Pack and Dayle Reyfel. Celebrity Autobiography is one of the most critically acclaimed, “buzzed about shows” of recent years, according to Entertainment Weekly. The show has also played in Los Angeles and in points across the United States as well as in London and Australia.

Craig Bierko last partnered with Celebrity Autobiography on behalf of his favorite cause, Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital, in June 2009 for a Los Angeles performance.  The February 21 performances mark the first such date in the Coachella Valley.

Celebrity Autobiography

Indian Wells Theater,

37500 Cook Street,

Palm Desert, CA 92211.

When:

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 5:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.

TICKETS:

Ticket prices are $75 general admission and $100 for preferred seating.

MEET THE STARS!

A $150 ticket for the 8 p.m. performance includes preferred seating plus a dessert reception with the celebrity cast following the show.

 

Bookings:

Reservations can be made online here, or here OR call (909) 558-3555.

 

 

 

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Henry Rollins hosts all-star benefit concert for Drop in the Bucket

By Pauline Adamek · Comments (0)
Monday, November 28th, 2011

For one night only, an assortment of rock legends will come together to raise money to build water wells in troubled south Sudan.

Henry Rollins, Corey Taylor of Slipknot, Dave Navarro, Scott Ian of Anthrax, Dave Lombardo of Slayer and Shepard Fairey will all appear for Drop In The Bucket’s Star-Studded benefit Concert, happening on Wednesday November 30th in Hollywood.

 

Additional Artists TBA

This is an all ages event.

 

It’s all going down at the legendary Avalon Theater in Hollywood, where Slipknot/Stone Sour’s frontman Corey Taylor, Dave Navarro, Dave Lombardo of Slayer, Anthrax’s Scott Ian, John 5 and members of Rob Zombie’s band along with host Henry Rollins will perform at a star-studded benefit concert for Drop In The Bucket, a Los Angeles and Gulu, Uganda-based non-profit that builds water wells and sanitation systems at large rural schools in sub-Saharan Africa.

Legendary artist Shepard Fairey, who designed the exclusive poster for the event, will be a guest DJ, and Kate Flannery of The Office will deliver a hilarious musical comedy routine with her ironic lounge act, The Lampshades. Many more surprises to be announced.

Taylor, hot off his recent book tour for the NY Times bestseller Seven Deadly Sins, is currently in the middle of a very successful and almost entirely sold out acoustic tour, had this to say;

“In a time when money is suspect, and politics looks a lot like schoolyard bullying, people forget that there are far greater issues going on in the world. One of which is the fact that millions of people live without water on a daily basis when we as Americans treat it like used tissue paper. It’s only common sense to think that if I can do something to not only help, but also raise awareness, then that’s exactly what I’m going to do. Drop in the Bucket is one of the most important and selfless causes I have ever had the privilege to be a part of. And I can only hope that I do some good for it. And to be able to do that by putting on an awesome show with friends like Roy Mayorga, Scott Ian and John 5 just shows how good this business can be sometimes!”

Rollins, a renowned musician, author and punk rock icon, has worked closely with Drop In The Bucket, traveling to Africa last year to see its work on the ground first-hand.

 

“Drop In The Bucket is trying to make things better,” says Rollins. “There’s no profit incentive here. It’s only about getting people to water and keeping them alive and healthy.”

 

Funds raised at the event will be used to expand Drop In The Bucket’s vital programs into the northern region of Bahr el Ghazal region of South Sudan. This area is on the verge of a major humanitarian crisis due to the sudden influx of returnees coming from North Sudan following South Sudan’s recent independence.

Tickets will be available for pre-sale purchase at $25 through Ticketmaster here and at the door for an increased price, with availability pending.

VIP tickets and Tables inquiries please contact Alden Kirkman alden@giantclub.com / 323.683.5390.

Special thanks to the always awesome sponsors Vans, Guvera, Revolver and The Avalon for coming on to support this event.

 

Drop In The Bucket believes we can help create a world in which children are safe, healthy, educated and free from fear. And we believe that the key to achieving those ends is clean water and sanitation. For more information on Drop In The Bucket, please visit their official site.

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