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We are planning for 2008 nationwide! Want to include your city in future plans? Let’s work together! To be apart of Out Impact events with potential sponsorship opportunities, corporate, media and individual sponsorships available, please e-mail us at bambi.weavil@outimpact.com.

*  Upcoming Event:  Detroit area in October - TBA!

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Out Impact Presents: An Evening To Benefit OutWilmington

Here is a clip from our November 3, 2007 at bottega in Wilmington, NC for Out Wilmington of ilyAIMY, provided by our friends at Strwongtone Media!

Special thanks to Strwrongtone Media - here is “After All” by the amazing Kim Dicso LIVE at our Out Impact event for Out Wilmington 11/3/07!

Special thanks to Tony of Strwrongtone Media - here is “Everything” by Kim Dicso LIVE at our Out Impact event for Out Wilmington 11/3/07!

Special thanks to Tony of Strwrongtone Media - here is “1 AM” by Kim Dicso LIVE at our Out Impact event for Out Wilmington 11/3/07!

Here is a clip from our November 3, 2007 at bottega in Wilmington, NC for Out Wilmington of the amazing ilyAIMY performing “We Can Work It Out” (a cover of The Beatles), provided by our friends at Strwongtone Media!

Here is a clip from our November 3, 2007 at bottega in Wilmington, NC for Out Wilmington of the amazing ilyAIMY performing “Trouble (Because She Is), ” provided by our friends at Strwongtone Media!

What:
Out Impact Presents An Evening To Benefit OutWilmington

Who:
Emcee: Sean Oakley
Music Performed By: Kim Dicso

Music Headlined By: ilyAIMY

Why: The OutWilmington Community Center is committed to informing, supporting and celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning individuals by providing resources and education for all people working towards an enlightened and diverse community. Money raised for OutWilmington will go toward their continuing efforts, programs, events and the operation of their center and their needs at 113 Dock Street. More information on OutWilmington can be found at OutWilmington.com.

Where:
bottega gallery
208 North Front St.
Wilmington, NC 28401
When:
Saturday, November 3, 2007 at 9:00 p.m. – 1:00 a.m.

Tickets:
$15.00 – Complimentary wine and appetizers included

$5.00 of every ticket sale benefits the OutWilmington Community Center.

Tickets will also be available at the door.

Presenting, corporate and additional sponsorships available. For tickets and information, please contact Bambi Weavil, CEO and Publisher, at 910.538.4309 / bambi.weavil@outimpact.com, or visit http://www.outimpact.com/events/

Presented by: Out Impact, Inc.

Sponsors:

Official Catering Sponsor:

Flaming Amy’s Burrito Barn

Corporate Sponsorship: Insight Health Services

Individual Sponsors:
Bo Dean and Michael Freeze; Jeanne Fitzmaurice

Official Videography Provided By:

Strwrongtone Media

In-Kind Donations From: Salt Marsh Kayak Company, Giant Book Sale, Bales Therapy,

Megan McCauley, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia,

• March 20-22nd Art Benefit for Out Wilmington

  Out Impact’s Art Benefit for Out Wilmington:

  The Impact Art Show: Artists for Social Change

  

  (larger flyer - downloadable here)

  When: Thursday, March 20th - Saturday, March 22nd, 2008.
  Opening night (March 20th) - refreshments served! Special appetizers provided by Circa 1922! 6-9p.
  6-9p Thursday-Friday
  Noon-9p on Saturday
  When & Why: The show will partially benefit and be held at OutWilmington Community Center, at 113 Dock Street, Wilmington, NC.

  Artists Participating:

  Featured Artists

  Cammeron Alekzandra Batanides was born in Charlotte North Carolina and moved to Wilmington to attend UNCW for an art degree. She is 22 years old. She primarily paints in watercolors but also uses other mediums, including charcoal and acrylic. She has been a lifelong painter and currently is the art director for Studio 1515 and the managing editor for the Starving Artists Magazine- “Starving For Change”. For more information, please contact Cammeron at cammeronb@yahoo.com

  
  

  Joshua Britt is a graphic design major at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He will be transferring to the Art Institute of Seattle later on this year. He uses acrylic and mixed mediums. He can be reached through email at: jabo61588@yahoo.com
  
  

  Heather Curtis lives in Cary, North Carolina. She is a photographer and can be reached via email at curtis.heather@gmail.com.
  

  Katrina Fairbank is a native of Maryland and studied art at the college level before entering a career in teaching special education. Later she continued her art education while living in Colorado Springs where she discovered the versatility and colors of acrylic paint. Favorite subjects of Katrina’s are musicians, coastal scenes and animals. She attempts to capture the way light falls on her subjects, as well as the movement and energy that subject displays. While primarily a realistic painter, Katrina sees her style becoming looser and more abstract. She has won awards for her work and her commissioned portraits are in private collections throughout the nation. Katrina teaches art to children and adults and shows her work at several galleries and shops in Brunswick County. For more information, contact Katrina at mail@kmfairbank.com or at (910) 540-4695.
  
  

  Jessica Sara Kovach was born in Greensboro, North Carolina; however, she grew up in the mountains of Colorado. She moved back to North Carolina in high school and then began to dip into the arts. Jessica is a college student and works in a variety of mediums, including ceramics, photography and pencil. She is a photographer for the Starving Artists Magazine. You can reach her by phone at (910) 836-9387.

  Leslie Isaksen is 23 years old and moved to Wilmington a year and a half ago from Livingston, New Jersey. She has participated in several art shows held at the Livingston Mall. She has also had her work exhibited at the town hall in Livingston as well as the Montclair State University. Upon graduation she attended the Savannah College of Art and Design. She has a special talent for reproducing photographs and loves to do abstract, especially working with bold colors. If you are interested in seeing more of her work please feel free to check out her website: www.myspace.com/leslieisaksen.
  
  

  Jason Jones does primarily ink drawings but experiments with adding other mediums. You may view his work at www.myspace.com/buypolarart, or email him at sickuntiliswing@yahoo.com.
  
  

  Mary Mooneyhan is a Texan native who moved to Wilmington over a decade ago. Government employee by day, she enjoys photography mainly as a hobby. However, her penchant for photography has greatly encouraged her style and she is now on the never-ending search for the “ultimate” camera. Mary loves nature and being outdoors and feels that has inspired her the most. You can reach her via email at marymoo836@yahoo.com
  
  

  Christie Perry has lived in Wilmington since 1993. She started her career in painting in 1998, has no formal training, and continues (as we all do) to learn every day. Starting out in the decorative arts, Christie has created a variety of murals, faux finishes, and painted furniture. She also began sketching homes and scenes in charcoal, and later, learning figure drawing. Perry began painting with acrylics on canvas around 2000, and this remains what she enjoys the most - layers, color, texture. Right now, she is creating large paintings, tearing paper, and doing more figure drawing. A new series of abstract paintings will be ready to show in the spring. Christie works in her home/studio at the corner of 21st Street and Metts Avenue. The studio is open to the public - call for hours, appointment, or more information
  Phone: (910) 362-1150 Email: cperrydesigns@ec.rr.com Online: www.myspace.com/cperrydesigns

  Contributing Artists:

  Gaten Lowrie

  Aaron Murtagh

  For more information or for media requests, please e-mail Out Impact’s Art Director: Shannon Smith

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  April 2, 2008 - Out Impact, Inc. Presents An Evening To Benefit Sylvia’s Place

  Thank you for your support of our first national Out Impact event for Sylvia’s Place’s 5^th anniversary celebration on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 from 7 - 11 PM at Splash in New York City. We celebrated their outstanding organization together, with the talented DJ Reed McGowan spinning hits all night long.

  We are pleased to announce that our event raised $569 for Sylvia’s Place (which is part of MCCNY’s Homeless Youth Services)! We believe this is just the beginning of great things to come in our upcoming Out Impact events!

  
  

  

  In Conjunction With:

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• Presenting Sponsor: HX Magazine
  Alcohol Sponsor - Vodka:
  Alcohol Sponsor - Tequila:

• Official Hotel Sponsor:
  
  Supporting Sponsors:

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• Why: An estimated 25% to 40% of New York City’s 20,000 runaway and homeless youth are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered. These young people, many of whom have faced harassment and discrimination from the very people that should protect and nurture them, are in desperate need of services to achieve independence and self-sufficiency. Metropolitan Community Charities of New York, a nonprofit social service organization located in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen and Harlem neighborhoods, has responded to meet the needs of this disenfranchised and marginalized group of young, homeless people. Since 2002, the Homeless Youth Services of Metropolitan Community Charities of New York.(MCCNY) has worked tirelessly to meet the unique needs of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender runaway and homeless youth of New York City. Starting with a 6-bed emergency shelter housed in the church itself (Sylvia’s Place), MCCNY’s services have expanded to include two additional shelters (Sylvia’s East, & Sylvia’s Sugar Hill), a range of social services offered both to shelter residents and other runaway and homeless youth, and a recently operational 24-hour drop-in center, the Marsha P. Johnson Center.
  
  
  Where:
  
  Splash
  50 W 17 St.
  New York, New York 10011
  www.splashbar.com
  Directions to Event: Located between 5th and 6th Ave. New York City
• Time: April 2, 2008 - 7p - 11p
• Age: 21+
  Music Headliner: Award-winning DJ Reed McGowan
  $15.00 (Partial proceeds benefits Sylvia’s Place)
  
• First 100 tickets purchased will receive a special VIP gift bag!
• Raffle drawings and silent auction - all proceeds from drawing and silent auction benefits Sylvia’s Place!
• TICKETS WILL BE AT THE DOOR!