555 different donors spent the total amount of L$ 332,239 which is atm US$ 1,240 for the Feed-a-Smile event.
So every donor donated L$598 on average
16 generous donators donated L$5,000 and more during the event
This means 3322 meals for the children in Kenya which in turn is 7 days of warm meals for all 466 children.
L$189,772 was donated via the donation boxes and the raffle at the venue
L$89,527 was donated by purchasing from the donation vendors of our sponsors
L$50,410 was donated at the U2 concert at Dragon moon sim
L$2,530 are from different donation boxes around the grid
For the raffle prize the dress had 12 tickets sell and for the bike had 14 tickets sell at L$100 per ticket.
We had 93 hours of live music at the venue, that is more then 10 hours every day
23 different DJs streamed 71 hours music
20 live singers and tribute bands had 22 hours of entertainment
There were 5 fashion shows with 24 models and 8 designers involved
On the official landing point was 1032 people landing, but most visitors landed at the dance floor or at the runway. We haven't scanned the whole venue so the total number of visitors is unknown.
At the fashion shows and some of the live shows we had, at times, more then 50 people on the venue and the lag was still very managable.
All in all, a wonderful job done by a great team and a big warm thankyou to everyone who made a donation and/or supported us
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Monday, July 19, 2010
A Spectacular Finale!
A wonderful sponsor of ours as well as friend and dear customer, Lagu Indigo, put on a beautiful show for us at the closing. The lighting effects were pure magic. She must have put some hard work into it as the effects synchronised beautifully with the music and her angelic moves on the stage. The theme was angels which was fitting for the end of the event and I was mesmerized as were everyone else for the duration. At the end she told us her friend who is away at the moment normally performs too and she has half the show with her! Half the show? Wow, if this was only half I wonder what the full is like! We are thrilled to hear she has offered to do her show at our anniversary celebration on Tuesday.
Thankyou so much Lagu, your show was pure and angelic and we enjoyed it very very much.
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Thankyou so much Lagu, your show was pure and angelic and we enjoyed it very very much.
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Saturday, July 17, 2010
"And now the end is near"
Well the time is nearing its end for our event.
I think we can all safely say we are very very tired :-) Chris has worked almost non stop with the entertainment side of things, Brique has been a great hostess and PR and Georg who I must say rarely gets a mention has worked tirelessly behind the scenes making sure scripts are working, fixing bugs, blogging, PR, making sure entertainers have they're streams set up as well as a constant presence at events, even to the stage where he has danced alone on the dance floor with entertainers so they had an audience until the event got warmed up. So I for one would like to give my husband a big extra hug and kisses for all he has done.
At 10am this morning SL time a tribute to Michael Jackson is being performed. I cant wait for this as I love his songs so come along if you can, I am sure it shall be wonderful.
U2 in SL will then perform the last major gig at midday at the "Dragonmoon sim" and then its back to our venue for the closing party which shall finish at..hmm who knows! :-)
A wonderful motorbike that was donated to us shall be raffled off today and the winner announced tomorrow. So please help us feed some more smile as we end this wonderful week long event. It has been great, tiring but with some lovely memories and support.
Your feed a smile team
I think we can all safely say we are very very tired :-) Chris has worked almost non stop with the entertainment side of things, Brique has been a great hostess and PR and Georg who I must say rarely gets a mention has worked tirelessly behind the scenes making sure scripts are working, fixing bugs, blogging, PR, making sure entertainers have they're streams set up as well as a constant presence at events, even to the stage where he has danced alone on the dance floor with entertainers so they had an audience until the event got warmed up. So I for one would like to give my husband a big extra hug and kisses for all he has done.
At 10am this morning SL time a tribute to Michael Jackson is being performed. I cant wait for this as I love his songs so come along if you can, I am sure it shall be wonderful.
U2 in SL will then perform the last major gig at midday at the "Dragonmoon sim" and then its back to our venue for the closing party which shall finish at..hmm who knows! :-)
A wonderful motorbike that was donated to us shall be raffled off today and the winner announced tomorrow. So please help us feed some more smile as we end this wonderful week long event. It has been great, tiring but with some lovely memories and support.
Your feed a smile team
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Half-time! Success or not?
Well it depends on what you would call a success and also whom you will ask. Don't get me wrong, every Dollar for the children in Kenya is already a success and I am very happy with what we already have at this time which btw is Linden$ 196,144. So I see it with one crying and one smiling eye at the moment.
On the good side we can feed the kids for a few days.
The party's on the venue are always busy. The donations from being at the live singers and DJ area is almost half of the total donations. I am sure many many clubs in SL would be very happy with our traffic and with how the partys are going.
Responsible for the success on this side of the Feed-a-Smile event is in the first place Chriscloud Loon but there are few more who started as a visitor or DJ and got really involved with the event.
We don't have the time to be at many of these party's but there is one Lady who spends a lot of time to keep the party's going. She is also DJing a lot and she is a very good DJ at that. Her name is DJ RAS Mills and if you have a club or a music venue then I would advise you to remember this name. She will fill your dancefloor with many people and with a very jolly atmosphere.
The fashion shows are also a success. We saw a lot of fashion shows in SL and most were not so busy or well organizised as ours have been so far. This is as I already told you the teamwork of Mellificent Juneberry and Nikki Heron and all of the professional fashion team. This reminds me, don't forget to come over today at 8PM to see a wonderful shows.
We all feel proud and happy with what we did.
On the other side there is the crying eye.
We set a high goal and a mission. Our goal was to get about 12,000 meals which will not be possible but also there was our mission to make the venue an information path for the work of Live and Learn in Kenya and maybe to find a few sponsors for the children. This part of the event may as well be invisible to the public as well as the work of our kind sponsors.
We feel we may have failed to promote the event for what it is really for. There should be hundreds of sales from the donator's vendors each day and many many people should be looking around the venue each day. Every day when I do a Google search to see what news about the event is out there. I could kick myself in my backside. There is nothing really. I do however thank the bloggers who did a post, they are really nice and lovely made posts, but that is not enough. It is not that we didn't ask many bloggers, magazines and all that, but maybe we missed making it interesting enough for them.
The lesson is clear. We are very happy this event is not a total flop which easily and very often happens in SL and more importently, we will be able to feed the children for a few days. But for the future I know what we have to do differently. Events are a really hard job and a fulltime job at that, and the only thing that helped us carry on was the thought of the childrens smiles.
So dear reader, please help us to make the Feed-a-Smile event a more successful event. Come over to the venue and have a REAL look around. We are sure there is something in one of the many donation vendors that you will like. There is also an section with wonderful art as well as a hut with information on how to sponsor a child. This one is something very important to us, this event is only a temporary help but sponsoring a child will help the child to grow up and to have a future. And it will not cost more then US$ 250/year for the sponsor.
Edit to Add:
Well I just finished this post when I had another look at the blogs and found that Sonicity Fitzroy just a few minutes ago was blogging about the event in the BOSL blog http://thebosl.com/bosl_blog/2010/07/feed-a-smile/
We will thank all the kind bloggers who was blogging about the event. You all are a big part of the success of the Feed-a-Smile 2010 Charity Event and a lot of the childrens smiles are for you.
On the good side we can feed the kids for a few days.
The party's on the venue are always busy. The donations from being at the live singers and DJ area is almost half of the total donations. I am sure many many clubs in SL would be very happy with our traffic and with how the partys are going.
Responsible for the success on this side of the Feed-a-Smile event is in the first place Chriscloud Loon but there are few more who started as a visitor or DJ and got really involved with the event.
We don't have the time to be at many of these party's but there is one Lady who spends a lot of time to keep the party's going. She is also DJing a lot and she is a very good DJ at that. Her name is DJ RAS Mills and if you have a club or a music venue then I would advise you to remember this name. She will fill your dancefloor with many people and with a very jolly atmosphere.
The fashion shows are also a success. We saw a lot of fashion shows in SL and most were not so busy or well organizised as ours have been so far. This is as I already told you the teamwork of Mellificent Juneberry and Nikki Heron and all of the professional fashion team. This reminds me, don't forget to come over today at 8PM to see a wonderful shows.
We all feel proud and happy with what we did.
On the other side there is the crying eye.
We set a high goal and a mission. Our goal was to get about 12,000 meals which will not be possible but also there was our mission to make the venue an information path for the work of Live and Learn in Kenya and maybe to find a few sponsors for the children. This part of the event may as well be invisible to the public as well as the work of our kind sponsors.
We feel we may have failed to promote the event for what it is really for. There should be hundreds of sales from the donator's vendors each day and many many people should be looking around the venue each day. Every day when I do a Google search to see what news about the event is out there. I could kick myself in my backside. There is nothing really. I do however thank the bloggers who did a post, they are really nice and lovely made posts, but that is not enough. It is not that we didn't ask many bloggers, magazines and all that, but maybe we missed making it interesting enough for them.
The lesson is clear. We are very happy this event is not a total flop which easily and very often happens in SL and more importently, we will be able to feed the children for a few days. But for the future I know what we have to do differently. Events are a really hard job and a fulltime job at that, and the only thing that helped us carry on was the thought of the childrens smiles.
So dear reader, please help us to make the Feed-a-Smile event a more successful event. Come over to the venue and have a REAL look around. We are sure there is something in one of the many donation vendors that you will like. There is also an section with wonderful art as well as a hut with information on how to sponsor a child. This one is something very important to us, this event is only a temporary help but sponsoring a child will help the child to grow up and to have a future. And it will not cost more then US$ 250/year for the sponsor.
Edit to Add:
Well I just finished this post when I had another look at the blogs and found that Sonicity Fitzroy just a few minutes ago was blogging about the event in the BOSL blog http://thebosl.com/bosl_blog/2010/07/feed-a-smile/
We will thank all the kind bloggers who was blogging about the event. You all are a big part of the success of the Feed-a-Smile 2010 Charity Event and a lot of the childrens smiles are for you.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Only a few more hours!
Now we start to get excited, only a few more hours and the Feed-a-Smile Charity Event will open the gates with a big party.
Please join us at the venue and let us have fun together after all that hard work.
We have put together this event in only 6 weeks from the first thought up to the opening party. I never thought really it would be possible and I still would love a few more weeks. The few bloggers and publishers we have had have been wonderful but we still feel the event needed to be out there more in the way of advertising and promotion. We would have loved to have had more members up on the venue to guide our visitors but the hard working Feed-a-Smile Team we do have will be there to help whereever we can. By saying hard working, I would like to mention Mellificent Juneberry in particular. She is the fashion show coordinator and has built up 5 big shows for the event and is still working very hard to this moment. Through it all she has kept her humor and you can see she really loves her work. This love you will see and feel when you watch the shows and keep in mind, everyone provided their time and work for free.
But back to the big opening. What can you expect today? Well here is a photo of the event plan for today.
Looking good? So please come over and have fun and while you are here, please help put smiles on the faces of the LLK project children by purchasing something from our top designers donation vendors or by donating in one of the donation boxes on the venue.
Also have a look at our event calendar for the events of the next days (first fashion show is on Tuesday btw, don't miss that)
We are looking forward to see you on the venue and saying a big hello.
Your Feed-a-Smile Team
Please join us at the venue and let us have fun together after all that hard work.
We have put together this event in only 6 weeks from the first thought up to the opening party. I never thought really it would be possible and I still would love a few more weeks. The few bloggers and publishers we have had have been wonderful but we still feel the event needed to be out there more in the way of advertising and promotion. We would have loved to have had more members up on the venue to guide our visitors but the hard working Feed-a-Smile Team we do have will be there to help whereever we can. By saying hard working, I would like to mention Mellificent Juneberry in particular. She is the fashion show coordinator and has built up 5 big shows for the event and is still working very hard to this moment. Through it all she has kept her humor and you can see she really loves her work. This love you will see and feel when you watch the shows and keep in mind, everyone provided their time and work for free.
But back to the big opening. What can you expect today? Well here is a photo of the event plan for today.
Looking good? So please come over and have fun and while you are here, please help put smiles on the faces of the LLK project children by purchasing something from our top designers donation vendors or by donating in one of the donation boxes on the venue.
Also have a look at our event calendar for the events of the next days (first fashion show is on Tuesday btw, don't miss that)
We are looking forward to see you on the venue and saying a big hello.
Your Feed-a-Smile Team
Friday, July 2, 2010
The meals for the first day are guaranteed!!
It is still one week before the event will start and we already can feed the children for one day. While I am writing this we have a total of 503 meals. This is great and we thank all sponsors and donors for they're eagerness to help. Every little bit is importend and we are happy for every donated Linden no matter if it is a 1000 or 1 Linden. An extra thankyou to Swaffette Firefly of SF Design for going that extra mile with promotion of this event, your extra work has brought extra meals.
Thanks again on behalf of the LLK children to all sponsors, donors and the many helpers behind the scenes.
Thanks again on behalf of the LLK children to all sponsors, donors and the many helpers behind the scenes.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Wow! A lovely thank-you note from Kenya
Look at this:
Please use the comments to leave a message for the children, the local LLK Team in Kenya will read your message to the children.
This wonderful message arrived today. Look at those cute smiles :-)
Remember, most of these children have lost their parents to AIDS, Cancer or other illness. They don't have anything except what Brique and her LLK Team can give them, but they are smiling anyway and they are so thankful and innocent. So please everyone, let us do all we can to help "Live and Learn in Kenya" and to keep these nice smiles on the faces of these lovely children. Let's Feed-a-Smile
And a big thank you back to the children, your smiles made us very happy.
Please use the comments to leave a message for the children, the local LLK Team in Kenya will read your message to the children.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
BoHo HoBo Couture
Another wonderful sponsor's donation vendor that is already up and running is the Vendor of BoHo HoBo Couture. Trill Zapatero, who is the owner and designer of BoHo, has made a nice colourful jeans set with top and scarf. The texture of the pants seems to be inspired by her paintings as Trill is an artist. You can see a few of her acrylic and collage paintings on her Flickr page.
Trill’s shop is not a shop as such, as she is not making any profit of her sales, all proceeds are going to the Central Asia Institute.
I am sure her nice set will generate a lot of meals. We also endeavour to show some her of paintings at the venue.
Thanks for this lovely and kind donation Trill.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
A great entertainment line up is growing!
Our wonderful Entertainment manager Chriscloud Loon has been busy putting together a calendar of live events which is growing on a daily basis.
You can keep up to date and see the times entertainers and fashion shows are performing with our calendar to the side of this blog.
Some wonderful entertainment lined up so far is as follows.
DJ Chris & friends
kelvinblue Oh LIVE
DJ RAS Mills
Senjata Witt LIVE
Gina Gracemount Live
Eva Moon LIVE
The Rolling Stones Tribute LIVE
Motorhead LIVE
Seba Sideways LIVE
Jana Kyomoon LIVE
Michael Jackson Tribute LIVE
U2 in SL LIVE at DragonMoon Sim
A big Thanks to Chris for his tireless hours and effort he is putting in to help make this event a success.
Keep an eye on this calendar as our amazing list grows
Nikki Heron xxxx
You can keep up to date and see the times entertainers and fashion shows are performing with our calendar to the side of this blog.
Some wonderful entertainment lined up so far is as follows.
DJ Chris & friends
kelvinblue Oh LIVE
DJ RAS Mills
Senjata Witt LIVE
Gina Gracemount Live
Eva Moon LIVE
The Rolling Stones Tribute LIVE
Motorhead LIVE
Seba Sideways LIVE
Jana Kyomoon LIVE
Michael Jackson Tribute LIVE
U2 in SL LIVE at DragonMoon Sim
A big Thanks to Chris for his tireless hours and effort he is putting in to help make this event a success.
Keep an eye on this calendar as our amazing list grows
Nikki Heron xxxx
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Our Precious Team is growing!
We have been so fortunate. Billy Debruyere owner of LaModa Model Agency and Studio has come on board to help us with our fashion shows.
LaModa is providing the models, background crew, staging and even donating some packages for our fund raising efforts.
We are delighted and grateful for Billy's efforts in helping make this a successful event. He has helped with promoting this event in many ways and connected us with people we didn't know of that can and will help us promote this event.
"Feed a smile" is on its way to becoming a "Mega Event"
Thankyou so much Billy and a Big Thankyou again to all of our sponsors, bloggers and everyone on board with our event. What a team :-)
LaModa is providing the models, background crew, staging and even donating some packages for our fund raising efforts.
We are delighted and grateful for Billy's efforts in helping make this a successful event. He has helped with promoting this event in many ways and connected us with people we didn't know of that can and will help us promote this event.
"Feed a smile" is on its way to becoming a "Mega Event"
Thankyou so much Billy and a Big Thankyou again to all of our sponsors, bloggers and everyone on board with our event. What a team :-)
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Feed a Smile 2010 :-)
Organizing of the "Feed a smile 2010" event is now in full swing. We have been so fortunate to find some wonderful content creators to sponsor and support us. We are still currently searching more as we would love this to be an event to remember.
This event shall be held from 10th July until the 18th July 2010, and during these days we shall have some full on entertainment such as special sales, auctions, freebies, fashion shows and live entertainment (U2 in SL has agreed to perform for us :-)).
Every L$100 raised is enough to give one child, one meal, (LLK have around 500 children in this project)
How does it work?
We are seeking donations of possibly "one off" designs (although we would be grateful for any donation) for the feed a smile event that can be sold and 100% of the proceeds sent to the charity.
Special Vendors will be given out to the donating content creators from the 2nd week in June in which they can place the donated item, with the permissions of their choice, and the picture and a LM and info about their business.
The Vendor is then rezzed at our event place. Whenever somebody makes a purchase the money will go first to the owner of the vendor but because the split will be set to 100% the amount will then automatically be transferred to to Brique Topaz for the charity funds.
Who is involved so far?
WAVEN CAJUN - Geof Romano
SF Design - swaffette Firefly
Sascha's Designs - Sascha Frangilli
MyAnimation - Ramona Criss
Moonbeam Fashion - Miria Moonbeam
Lagu Indigo - Lagu Indigo
JAZMYN D - Jazmyn Diesel
Coe Dust Designs - Kandi Coeyman
Caladesi Island Company - Dustine Underwood
BoHo HoBo Couture - Trill Zapatero
Bliss Couture - Amutey DeCuir
BD Fashions - Briher Destiny
ADORED - AmySue Shirakawa
Algezares Designs - Algezares Magic
Cecile immo - cecilia Levasseur
L&B Black Label - Laura18 Streeter
Lagu Arts - Lagu Indigo
MB Colordream - Maria Binder
Papermoon - Giulia Janus
We are so grateful to these sponsors for they're time and effort they will be putting into this, thankyou for helping "Feed a smile"
This event shall be held from 10th July until the 18th July 2010, and during these days we shall have some full on entertainment such as special sales, auctions, freebies, fashion shows and live entertainment (U2 in SL has agreed to perform for us :-)).
Every L$100 raised is enough to give one child, one meal, (LLK have around 500 children in this project)
How does it work?
We are seeking donations of possibly "one off" designs (although we would be grateful for any donation) for the feed a smile event that can be sold and 100% of the proceeds sent to the charity.
Special Vendors will be given out to the donating content creators from the 2nd week in June in which they can place the donated item, with the permissions of their choice, and the picture and a LM and info about their business.
The Vendor is then rezzed at our event place. Whenever somebody makes a purchase the money will go first to the owner of the vendor but because the split will be set to 100% the amount will then automatically be transferred to to Brique Topaz for the charity funds.
Who is involved so far?
WAVEN CAJUN - Geof Romano
SF Design - swaffette Firefly
Sascha's Designs - Sascha Frangilli
MyAnimation - Ramona Criss
Moonbeam Fashion - Miria Moonbeam
Lagu Indigo - Lagu Indigo
JAZMYN D - Jazmyn Diesel
Coe Dust Designs - Kandi Coeyman
Caladesi Island Company - Dustine Underwood
BoHo HoBo Couture - Trill Zapatero
Bliss Couture - Amutey DeCuir
BD Fashions - Briher Destiny
ADORED - AmySue Shirakawa
Algezares Designs - Algezares Magic
Cecile immo - cecilia Levasseur
L&B Black Label - Laura18 Streeter
Lagu Arts - Lagu Indigo
MB Colordream - Maria Binder
Papermoon - Giulia Janus
We are so grateful to these sponsors for they're time and effort they will be putting into this, thankyou for helping "Feed a smile"
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