In addition to promoting music, I offer event planning assistance and publicity. What I do is largely determined by what you need, but here's a general breakdown of some of the work I have done: I co-organized the First Annual Summertime Block Party with the Race Liberation Alliance, which was a celebration of community unity with a focus on social justice and sustainability. We had several bands, local organic foods, and over thirty non-profit organizations participate in the event. My part of the organizing included: collaboration with our partners filling out city permits working with the city of Ithaca writing fundraising letters creating and maintaining a fundraising database raising money and donations for the raffle collaborating with my two co-organizers on food, church involvement, music and keynote speaker Shakoor Aljuwani inviting the mayor of Ithaca, Carolyn Peterson, to speak at the event, and requesting that she speak on race and class issues without using the event to campaign (she agreed) helping convince our wonderful former poet laureate, Michelle Courtney Berry, to emcee the event recruiting non-profit organizations to table at the event creating and maintaining a database of non-profit involvement enlisting the Green Guerrillas--a local youth video production organization--to film the day's event for a documentary setting up composting and recycling at the event enlisting volunteers performing volunteer oversight on the day of event being a point person on day of event helping with set up and breakdown of the event writing thank you letters Overseeing promotion, including: writing and sending press releases and calendar listings to all local and regional print, television and radio media personally inviting editors, reporters and photographers from regional media personalizing email invitations to organizations, listserves, family and friends working with a graphic designer to create posters and handbills and enlisting volunteers to put them up and hand them out    The event was attended by more than 500 people (at least) and received extensive pre-event publicity, day of event coverage on television and radio, and front page, above the fold newspaper coverage in the Ithaca Journal and Tompkins Weekly.  Other events I've worked on: Soul Food Dinner I assisted with planning and publicity for a Soul Food Dinner hosted by the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC) and organized by Sustainable Tompkins. The dinner sought to bring culturally diverse organizations together to discuss environmental sustainability within the social context of racism and classism. Madear's Kids and Juneteenth I worked with the Southside Community Center to promote Madear's Kids, a dance troupe from Gainesville, Florida who performed a benefit show in Ithaca for Southside. I also promoted their annual Juneteenth celebration, which took place the next day. The benefit show sold out so they added another performance, and Southside was able to raise enough money to send several underserved youth and their families to a regional amusement park. Madear's Kids also gained added publicity in the local media coverage of Juneteenth. Benefit Concert for Multicultural Resource Center I helped plan and promote a benefit concert for the Multicultural Resource Center. This involved working out arrangements between the musicians, the venue and the board of directors, setting up the space, assisting on the night of the event, and overseeing all PR, including personally handing out handbills at a music festival. Even though the headlining band had performed in the same venue the night before, the room was full, and after payouts to the musicians the MRC raised nearly five hundred dollars.      Third Annual Gospel Block Party I am currently promoting the Third Annual Gospel Block Party to be held at the Baptized Church of Jesus Christ on September 15, 2007. This event brings in gospel choirs from around the state, and will include kids' activities, a tour of the People's Garden Project, which is housed at the church and provides free food to Northside residents, and a BBQ prepared by Sister Geri at the church with donations from GreenStar Cooperative Market. The PR for this involves sending press releases and calendar listings to all local and regional media, putting up posters, and utilizing email lists. Talking Circles on Race and Racism I am also promoting upcoming talk circles on race and racism in Tompkins County, which are organized by the Multicultural Resource Center and provide a safe space for ethnically diverse people to come together to talk about their expereinces with race and racism. Tutelo Homecoming Festival Also organized by the Multicultural Resource Center, the Tutelo Homecoming Festival takes place the weekend of September 22 and 23. This event celebrates the cultural history of the Tutelo Indians and their kin who were forced out of the Ithaca area during the Sullivan/Clinton campaign in the late 18th century. The Tutelo Homecoming Festival serves to help people realize the Tutelos are still here--the ones who survived have been displaced around the country, but they are still here. There will be food, storytelling, flute music, dancing, doll making, crafts, and tons of information. I am working on placing articles in local and regional media, and creating a buzz via posters, handbills, and email lists.  Other random work I perform includes booking shows for some of the bands I work with, researching venues, compiling media lists, and generally being a Jane-of-all-trades in the PR world. I'm like, what do you need? I'll see if I can get it for you. If you are interested in hiring me to assist with event planning or promotion, skip over to the contact page and drop me a line. Blessings, Elizabeth