Saturday, May 30, 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009
"Oh What A Night!!!!"
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
New Location for The Promise Chair Affair!!
We are beyond thankful for their generosity and willingness to help with this amazing event!!
When: Wednesday, May 27th, doors open at 6:30PM, auction begins at 7:30PM!
Tickets: $15 on sale now at PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5459675You can also purchase tickets at the door!
You are not going to want to miss this incredible night!!Friday, May 8, 2009
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!!
- Go to: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5459675
- Tickets are: $15
- The tickets will be at will call the night of the event.
- Tickets may also be purchased the night of the event, but get them now in case we sell out!
If you have any questions about how to purchase a ticket, please shoot me an email at: trosey17@yahoo.com.
Hope to see you all there!!
With excitement,
Theresa Ferreri
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Food is good!
Monday, April 13, 2009
Update...4.13.2009
Also, please check out: http://innerbeauty7-ladiesofpromise.blogspot.com/ This is Cosette Floyd's blog. She is not only a dear friend from Rollins, she is also our documentary creator. Cosette has been documenting this project from Day 1! She is amazing. She will continue to update and upload all of the photos from our time together. Check back on this blog as well for more updates to come!
Monday, March 30, 2009
Color me excited...the paint has arrived!!
Thursday, March 26, 2009
I'd Like to Introduce to you...
Our first night together was amazing!
Jennifer Bradshaw, Executive Director with the Central Florida Affiliate of Susan G. Komen, hosted us in her beautiful office. Jennifer has been an instumental part of this project. She has gotten us the "art studio" space to utilize, the paint from Color Wheel, most of our awesome Promise Ladies, and many, many more contributions. Thank you, thank you, thank you Jennifer!
We had the talented Diedre Peeler, an art teacher from The Maitland Art Center present, to help us to begin with our creative ideas. Thank you Diedre.
Cosette Floyd, a fellow Rollins student, was present to document our first night together. She took some great photos of our ladies that will be up soon! She is going to be making a documentary of this journey...so cool! Thank You Cosette.
Ladies...let the creativity begin! If you all need anything, at anytime, please just ask. We are happy to help or provide any assistance we can...seriously :0)
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. "
~Pablo Picasso
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Update!!
I got a call today from a fellow student at Rollins that is interested in collaborating with us. She is looking to film a documentary and would like it to be about our Promise Ladies! She too is looking to create a Big Bold Self Leadership Goal, and since her mother passed away from Cervical Cancer, she felt that this would be a great place to shoot her film. I of course agreed and think it will be a HUGE asset to this project! We will then be able to keep a video journal of our project...INCREDIBLE!
Monday, March 23, 2009
Thank You...Round 1!
This week is the start!
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Our first spot in the media!!!
Seeking cancer survivors
posted by SMaxwell on Mar 19, 2009 5:24:30 PM
* Also, the Central Florida chapter of the Susan G. Komen foundation is seeking breast-cancer survivors and patients to participate in an artistic fundraiser. The organization already has 5 patients/survivors -- and is looking for a total of 10 to paint chairs and participate in an artistic fundraiser. Participants will decorate chairs, auction them off and share their stories of information. For more information -- or to volunteer for the effort -- you can contact Jennifer Bradshaw with the local Komen affiliate at 321-972-5534 or execdirector@komencentralflorida.org. More info on the event in the letter below, written by a local college student, who inspired the event.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
4 for the price of 1!
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
My Magical Afternoon off the Avenue
Who are you calling a "Smock?"
Monday, March 9, 2009
"My Favorite Color Is Pink!"
Craigslist has once again been the connector of two strangers. I sent an email to a very nice girl named Laura. She promptly wrote back stating, "I have absolutely no problem donating this chair for a good cause, my father has Parkinson's disease, so I know how important it is to have events for these causes." It was so incredible that once again a simple email asking a question, allowed someone an opportunity to help. Laura shared with me the story of her flamingo chair. Her and her mom used to go to garage sales and thrift stores looking for funky/retro chairs. They would then refinish and repaint the chairs; somewhat as a hobby. I asked her how the flaming chair came to be and she said, "Well, my favorite color is pink! I also love flamingo's, because they are pink and so I painted the chair pink." I told her how awesome it was to find someone willing to donate a chair, especially a pink one :0) Laura will be moving to New York...two chairs lighter!
Thank you Laura for donating your super cool flamingo chair as well as your retro black chair that has SO much potential!
Saturday, March 7, 2009
We Got Our First Donated Chair Today!!
Friday, March 6, 2009
The Purpose of The Promise...
My name is Theresa Ferreri and I am currently a Senior at Rollins College. I have partnered with Susan G. Komen for the Cure, to create an art project to support women who are battling breast cancer. It is called "The Promise Chair Affair."
We will be hosting a group of 6-10 women, who are battling breast cancer, once a week for 5 consecutive weeks: April 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 from 6:00p.m.-9:00p.m. We will be meeting in the Susan G. Komen offices located at: 1350 Orange Ave, Suite 260 Winter Park, FL 32789.
Through in-kind donations, we are hopeful to have plain wooden chairs, paints, brushes and supplies, for these women to create a themed chair of their choice. Each week they will add a little bit more to their chair in hopes that after 5 weeks they will have created a masterpiece all their own. I currently have two local artists that are willing to donate their time and talents to provide creative ideas, artistic assistance, and implementation .
After the chairs are completed, we will host a voice auction event in which we will spotlight each woman, give her an opportunity to share her story and describe her work of art! Each piece will then be auctioned off and all of the proceeds will go directly to the the Central Florida Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The event is planned for Wednesday May, 20th. It will be a classy evening of wine, hors d'oeuvres, music, silent auction, and of course the main event will be the voice auction involving our "artists."
This is a great opportunity to meet some incredible women with incredible stories! This project allows these women one night a week to not think about cancer, to focus their attention, energy, and strength on something beautiful, and in the end have created something from nothing!
Thank you for taking the time to read this. Please let me know if you have any questions or need any further explanation. If you are interested in being a part of this project, please contact me via email: trosey17@yahoo.com.
With hope and determination,
Theresa Ferreri