My friends and I are going to this mysterious but fun sounding Inaugural Bash brazilian street party to celebrate. I hope I don’t have too many meetings at work the next day – it might be hard to stay awake!
Sign up at moveon.orghttp://pol.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=91042&id=
Inaugural BashCapital Hill,, Seattle, WA 98122Tuesday, January 20th, 7:00 PM (We'll send you the full address when you sign up.)
Let's keep the momentum going! Please sign up for this gathering right away!
Join VamoLa as we drum up a Brazilian-street-style celebration of our new President's Inauguration! We'll be in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood near Broadway and Pine. More specifics to appear here soon.
The following is a slightly edited invitation I received from a great organizer of registration & GOTV drives for Obama in PA in 2008:
For those of you who for whom freezing on the Mall among the hundreds of thousands holds little appeal, please join me on Inauguration Day, January 20th, to watch Barack Obama & Joe Biden take the oath of office with our friends from Democratic Leadership for the 21st Century (DL21C). We will be inside and warm at the Tonic Lounge in Times Square. Admission is just $5 for non-members, and you'll also have the opportunity to join this fine organization, which sponsors a terrific series of public affairs programs throughout the year. This promises to be an inspiring launch to an exciting year full of promise and challenge. I look forward to seeing all of you. Details follow.
As we prepare for the inauguration on the 20th, many of us are thinking about collectibles we will have available to us. I’m talking about collectibles that we can hand down to our kids, collectibles that remind us of what we have accomplished and where we need to go.
Sure, there will be many pins and buttons given out at the inauguration and all the parties, which for the most part will inevitably lost in the coming weeks.
Ones you will keep forever. I'm talking about Bobbleheads.
Bobbleheads have been around for hundreds of years in some form or fashion. We have created a unique collectible of our 44th President Barack Obama as the true "Superman." Here to save us from the trouble we have got ourselves into.
We have also created one with Vice President Joe Biden.
Both are Limited Editions of 100 and hand signed, numbered, and designed by Rick Lynn of The Bobblehead, LLC.
You can view the Bobbleheads at http://www.thebobblehead.com. Simply click on Political section under the Online Store. Have some for your inauguration party.
January 19, 2008
Obama for Change Volunteer Victory Celebration at Zanzibar on the Waterfront 9pm-5am
700 Water Street, SW Washington, DC 20024 Tel: 202-554-9100 contactus@zanzibar-otw.com
$85.00
PLEASE HELP THE “YES WE CAN (CHANGE OUR DESTINY)” PROJECT
Please visit, rate and support the YouTube link at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubuLF4ZrTFg&feature=channel_page
Others have already begun to take this song and add pictures and inspiration, see this link below as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0UWZ7uO6SA&feature=channel_page
I hope you take a moment to read this blog to understand a very important project I’m working on that I need everyone’s help with.
Here’s some background…
When I left Grant Park after President Elect Obama’s victory, I was carrying with me a “victory” song that I wrote (I’m a video producer, head of a family owned production company based in Chicago and am a pianist / professional musician).
But as I walked up Michigan Avenue on the way back to the Obama Headquarters hotel at the Hyatt, the “Yes We Did” signs caused me concern, as I’m sure it caused many people concern. Because we know all too well that the real journey still lies before us. And that if we don’t inspire the electorate again, we cannot change our world (and our world I fear is on a precipice in great need of our collective help).
So I put away my victory song, as I did not want to infer to anyone that our mission was somehow complete.
Over the next few weeks I became even more deeply concerned that all the potential energy that was harnessed by Mr. Obama would be lost forever and most of it never rekindled.
I’m a 53 year-old cancer survivor and father of four beautiful children. My wife and I endured the loss of eight babies in utero as we tried to make our family. My father lived through the holocaust in WWII in Poland. I give you these examples to tell you that I know something about both joy and suffering. But I also know that if people band together, that we can, through hope mixed with hard work and powered by inspiration, dig our way out of even the worst circumstances.
So I vowed to do my part for our country and our world by re-writing my “victory” song so as to turn it into a forward looking piece entitled
“Yes We Can (Change our Destiny)”
I got together 30 of the country’s best musicians, arrangers, director’s of photography, lighting designers, engineers and more, and on December 7th, Pearl Harbor Day (interestingly enough) spent 17 straight grueling hours laying down the music tracks and filming the production at CRC (Chicago Recording Company). At 5am, we all rolled out of there tired, but inspired.
What came out of that session surprised even me. It was as though (and I don’t mean to sound too “out there”) I was a participant in my own writing, as though inspiration was writing for me. For example, I do not typically write gospel inspired music, it is not my background. But a Pop / Gospel inspirational piece poured out of me. It’s possibly the best work I’ve ever done. I’ve sent the audio tracks to thousands who were immediately inspired beyond words. It still inspires me each time I listen to it (and typically I can't even look at whatever I created for about a year)! It’s amazingly uplifting and I believe it has the potential of inspiring millions, causing them to understand that we must all help our society by staying passionately involved. Will.i.am inspired millions of people to vote. He's a famous guy and that helped his cause. I'm not a famous guy. I'm just a guy, but I want to inspire millions of people to do something even more difficult, to keep their passion alive over the long term.
If you would like an advance copy of the song as an MP3 simply email me at Steve.Sulkin@MBMProductions.com.
Please forward the MP3, forward my passion, my words, and if you like the song and you agree with my ideas, your passion as well, to everyone you know, and implore them to do the same. This is the only way this will get out there.
On December 19th, 2008, the video will be complete and I’ll then send you a link to it. I would like to ask you simply to email that link to everyone you know, to ignite the fire that is within all of us and ask them to do the same.
In closing, I would like to say that I’m sure there are still 10’s of thousands, if not 100’s of thousands of people who care and are working hard for the common good of man. But I fear only a small percentage of the involvement of what we saw prior to the election is currently taking place.
President Elect Barack Obama is relying on all of us to come out of the woodwork again. I suspect that a "what you can do for your country" type speech is what the President elect will give on January 20th. I want to help in my small way by getting this song out there to inspire us to ask not what our country can do for us, but what we can do for our country (and our world) as the President I grew up with, when I was just five years old, so many years ago, inspired me to realize. Barack Obama has now brought that President (and more) back for me. I'm lucky enough, to once again, take part in a great moment in history.
Join Me In Helping to Change our Destiny,
Steven Miles Sulkin
Songwriter, pianist, film producer and newly self-discovered political activist
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing"
Hey You ~ How about a Grassroots Inaugural Party?
"Party": groups acting together, leaning more towards the effort of staying active and organized for Barack as volunteers, than to have an extravagant celebration Ball. A scaled back approach to the gathering, being that our country is at war and our economy is the pits.
Here is where we are ~ We have a local Maryland kick-off committee, submitted a formal request to the official Inauguration Committee to include our gathering as an official event, have a local event organizer already doing research, found location options including the Convention Center, and have a list of several entertainers to choose from.
The "Party" theme is a promise to continue our community involvement, tickets will be $200 per person, dress code is relaxed.
The Maryland kick-off committee is looking for volunteers to spearhead the event, and you do not have to reside in Washington DC.
If you are interested in attending and purchasing a ticket, or would like to offer your event coordinating talent as a volunteer in one of the committees please send an email to: obamatallgrass@gmail.com.
Obama Love,
Maria Isabel
Since I live too far away from D.C., I plan to host an inauguration party on January 20, 2009 to celebrate President Barack Obama. One of my decor ideas is to get a large bare tree branch (lots of windfalls up here) and decorate it with lots of Barack Obama ornaments. Then I can give an ornament to each guest as a party favor when they leave. How cool is that?
I found the Barack Obama ornaments that I like best at this shop.
What inauguration party ideas do you have?
Let's all have HUGE parties on Jan. 20th!
