WorldWide Family Stump Initiative
December 7th marks the launch of “Family Stomp”, a worldwide initiative to celebrate the love that lives inside non-traditional families and stomp out the negative stigmas that hinder equality. The reception will take place on the second floor at Vlada Lounge in Hell’s Kitchen, NYC and will be a networking social featuring music, performances, unique icebreakers and a chance for the team to recruit new leaders to further their mission. The event will also feature the debut of the “Family Stomp” theme song and the official christening of the crowd-funding campaign to support the forthcoming 2014 event, the very first “Family Stomp”!
All proceeds from the launch party will be donated to “The Santa Project”, a holiday fundraising initiative for United Cerebral Palsy of New York City where proceeds go towards the children, adults, and families the agency serves. " Family Stomp" will make our mark on the world of philanthropy and activism and establish our presence as a fundraising and awareness raising force. Details about the 2014 event will be released soon after!
What is a “Family Stomp”?
As laws are rewritten, amendments abolished and newfound support of various versions of equality come to find their place in the sun, the existence of non-traditional families and social acceptance has become more and more prevalent.. The common thread of our non-traditional families, the families that we construct and strengthen on our own volition is love. This is where “A Family Stomp” has found its roots. To celebrate non-traditional families, not necessarily bound by blood or biology, we have created an event and an eventual worldwide movement to celebrate that love and stomp out the negativity that opposes it.
One of the most integral parts of our society throughout different cultures and classes that invokes joy and celebration is dance. Music and art transcend race, religion and lifestyle and defies intolerance, prejudice and emotional violence. Through a dance party, “A Family Stomp” intends to elevate all who attend and inspire all who participate to carry with them the respect, pride and primitive joy that they would find on the dance floor to their daily lives and pass it on.
At a “Family Stomp”, guests will be encouraged to take the negative words that people have used as weapons and transcribe them on balloons. Together, during the event the attendees will ‘stomp’ out the negativity by bursting the balloons under their dancing feet and free one another from the weight of the stigmas and release the pain to let the light in.
Another vision of the project is to bring seed monies to small businesses and non-profit organizations, uniquely their very own families. We wish to invite these proprietors of small businesses to celebrate with us, and at the same time, know they are generating crowd-funded monies to help the Family Stomp! movement grow, as well as their own businesses grow in a symbiotic relationship…the cornerstone of what a true ‘family‘ is all about.
For more information-
contact : press@eec-productions.com
917-653-1061- Chauncey-project lead
917-532-7199- Michael Dicus- organizer/producer
DANCE FOR KINDNESS
~ in celebration of World Kindness Day ~
The purpose of WORLD KINDNESS DAY is to look beyond ourselves – beyond the boundaries of our country, beyond our culture, our race, our religion, and realize that we are citizens of the world.
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