Brief Update on the last week of January

The rain, oh how I hate thee. It's so sad when you have a "fun" weekend planned but the rain shows up. In torrents. Unrelenting. With some wind. But all is well. We still worked it out.

Friday night. Feeling a need to help my community, I attended the Aide Haiti, Cocktail Reception held at Emily Amy Gallery. Attending this was very hard. For a rainy, stormy night there were several events going on in Atlanta that but for the rain I would have made an appearance in all of them. That was not to happen so I had to choose which ones needed my presence the most (ha!) or which ones have the strange likelihood of not sucking. My instinct told me this one. Why? These are details of the event, you be the judge.

             Aide Haiti, Poshglam and local public relations firms come together to bring relief to Haiti

Atlanta, GA- Poshglam and 3 local PR firms have come together to present the fundraising event Aide Haiti for victims of the earthquake. Event is sponsored by Goldfish restaurant and Three Olives Vodka.

WHAT: The Aide Haiti fundraiser will be a cocktail event including an art auction and auctioning of exclusive items from local businesses. The proceeds of this event will be divided into donations to Care.org and Habitat for Humanity. Both of these organizations are providing immediate and long term relief to the people of Haiti. 

            
           

That seemed like such a good recipe for a fun evening. The good cause, check! Presence of other charities, check! Food and alcohol, check and check! Creating awareness for this, uncheck! It was empty and surprisingly a dud. As I heard as the evening wore on, there was a basketball game going on that night and people were more drawn to the game than this. Also, there was a certain lack of food sponsors. All we had to chew for the evening were sushi rolls and hummus. Tasty! The alcohol which was a mix of vodka and any soda of your choice was available. But we all had to take this in standing in the gallery, surrounded by great art no doubt, but standing, still. Any way you spin the act of standing it seems like so much work. I know it's a cocktail party and that implies that everyone's supposed to stand. Yes, but a few chairs here and there wouldn't have hurt either. Worst of all I had my "party shoes" on, you know the kind that are meant to be admired and can only walk a short distance. Yes, those kinda shoes. After about 2 hours of meeting some very interesting ladies in PR, I left quite unceremoniously. It was barely 11:00pm. 

You see you always meet women. You meet interesting people and exchange business information and you make plans to meet at other artsy fartsy events. Maybe some art gallery or local play somewhere. But you never hear from these people again. Why that is so, I don't know. Maybe they were just being polite, maybe they actually meant to write but life got in the way. I don't know. However, these events are good networking tools if you are an active networker and are open to the possibility of being ignored.

I spent the rest of the evening at Sambuca Jazz Cafe, which is seemingly close to home but I have sadly never visited. It was a lively jazz bar. Not the somber jazz that makes you sleep but the Earth, Wind and Fire cover band that has everyone on their feet. I met this nice man who was trying to convince me to go volunteer in Haiti and another who had never heard of Michael Jackson until he recently saw, This Is It" on a plane. 

Like I said, you always meet people and just thinking about them, makes me laugh.