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Bids for Hope is LIVE!

As in past years, the 2010 auction items reflect NextAid’s strong foundation within the dance music community and commitment to sustainable and “green living.” Highlights of the auction include the Richie Hawtin Gear Package (supported by Native Instruments, Ableton, and Minus), several DJ tutorial and music education classes from Dubspot, and an unforgettable cruise for two aboard the infamous Groove Cruise. Other donors include NextAid supporting artists such as Louie Vega, DJ Rap, Barbara Tucker, Samantha James, DJ Colette, Bassnectar, Andy Caldwell, Halo, Mr V, D:FUSE, Nickodemus, Fred Everything, Gene Farris, and Dj Ndebele; music companies like Soundcloud, ESL Music, Putumayo Records, OM Records, macprovideo, and Avid/M-Audio; festivals, clubs and promoters like PEX, Electric Zoo, Cielo and BASIC NYC, Electric Pickle in Miami, and supperclub and Afro Funke in LA; green businesses like Natural High Lifestyle, Strange Invisible Perfumes, Jeffrey Levin Jewelry and Nau; and dining/entertainment packages provided by Bodega Wine Bar, Nook Bistro, Ben Gleib of Chelsey Lately and the Hollywood Improv.

Items will continue to be added to the catalog throughout the auction. Promotional partners and sponsors include Love Fatigues, Media Services NYC, Fusicology, Rhythmism, URB Magazine, The MML, Flux Summit, Causecast, Big Up Magazine, Nu-Soul Magazine and Green Galactic.

Go to the auction site and start bidding!
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Items added leading up to & throughout auction!

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Thursday, April 29th, 2010
Flux Summit

Join NextAid at Flux, San Francisco's premier electronic music industry event.

Discussion Topic for Flux Summit 003:
Creativity in Electronic Music: How Do Your Beats Flow?

Flux Summit is a quarterly, single evening event featuring a discussion of the most timely "it" topic combined with a mixer and a music review session. With the music industry rapidly changing and so much uncertainty surrounding the ability to operate a successful business, Flux was created to encourage interaction and open up discussion on emerging trends with other DJs, producers, artists, gear & software companies and music industry professionals.

Doors: 6:00PM
Discussion: 6:30PM-7:30PM
Software Demonstrations: Starting at 7:00PM
Visit fluxsummit.com for more info
Mixer: 7:30PM
Music Review Session (Test Press): 8:30PM – 11:00PM

RSVP is required to reserve your spot, but the event is FREE
To RSVP and learn more, visit Flux Summit Site

Pyramind - 832 Folsom St. between 4th & 5th Street, San Francisco, CA

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March 18, 2010

Austin Dubspot & Wax Poetics Proudly Present
FUNK AID FOR AFRICA & HAITI SXSW Showcase
Hosted by Soul of the Boot Entertainment & StrangeTribe Productions

Sponsored by:
Puma Africa / Serato / Avid / M-Audio
featuring Maker's Mark drink specials

Live Performances by:
Adrian Younge & the Black Dynamite Sound Orchesta (LA, CA)
Ocote Soul Sounds (Austin, TX)
Chico Mann (Jersey City, NJ)
Jovi Rockwell (Kingston, Jamaica)
Grimy Styles (Austin, TX)
Keys N Krates (Toronto, ON, Canada)
Brownout (Austin, TX)

DJ sets provided by:
DJ Obah (NYC)
DJ Rich Medina (Philadelphia, PA)
DJ J. Boogie (San Francisco, CA)
DJ Chicken George (Austin Tx)
DJ Smiles Davis (LA, CA)

Hosted by:
Soul of the Boot Entertainment & StrangeTribe Productions

Standard SXSW official event admissions apply,
plus donations for the cause
(all money goes directly to helping those in need).
NextAid / Funk Aid / SOIL

More Info:
SXSW Event Info / Facebook Event
Download the event flyer
The Scoot Inn
1308 East 4th Street
Austin, TX 78702-3806
8:00PM - 2:00AM

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For more information, go to the official Beats Build Hope webpage

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Other events are happening from Coast to Coast in New York, Boston, Charlotte, Los Angeles, Omaha, Philadelphia, totaling over a dozen events confirmed so far throughout the months of November and December.

Participants include Giant Step, Turntables on the Hudson, DEEP, Insomniac, ONE, Uniting Souls, Playloop Records, OM Records, Free Thinking, supperclub SF, Charlotte House Music Society, DT Productions, loom, Uhuru Afrika, Alive 315, and ReEvolution Marketing.

Promotional partners include THE MML, Rhythmism, Wantickets, Green Galactic, Fusicology and ReEvolution Marketing. More promoters and DJs from cities around the country are still coming on board. For information on all these events and to get involved, go to www.nextaid.org/wad2009

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For WMC 2008 Events see our Miami page

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Press Release
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*A percentage of proceeds from the event and sale of CD goes to NextAid. Preview and purchase the CD at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/digitalbliss2 or on iTunes.

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The Flux Summit
Thursday, October 1, 2009
5pm - 11pm
With the music industry rapidly changing and so much uncertainty surrounding the ability to operate a successful business, Flux was created to encourage interaction and open up discussion on emerging trends with other DJs, producers, artists, gear & software companies and music industry professionals.
The Flux Summit is a single evening event in San Francisco:
- A discussion
- A mixer
- A music review session [Test Press enables DJs, producers and artists to gain instant feedback on their music from top industry experts]
Who should attend? DJs, Producers, Music Industry Professionals, Record Labels, Gear & Software Companies, and anyone who is interested in electronic music.
Flux Summit is a free event, but RSVP is required. Don't miss out - limited capacity.
RSVP at fluxsummit.eventbrite.com
For more information visit our website at www.fluxsummit.com
Facebook Event Page

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NextAid has the honor of being the beneficiary of the official lovEvolution pre-party at supperclub!
Save the date and stay tuned for more details and lineup (which NextAid is coordinating).
*Volunteers needed to work door and NextAid table: volunteers@nextaid.org
Facebook Event Page

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Eva Kim, Ideal, Three-O, Paul Najera, SpekFreks, Morgan Alexander, Don Santino and More
Tickets at http://stayclassy.org
Proceeds from ticket sales benefit Green Wave and NextAid
Earthdance Site // Facebook Event Page

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You can watch the live web feed and donate right online!

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CSULB Dennilton Guesthouse Fundraiser
All-You-Can-Eat Taco Bar
Beachfront 301 – 301 Main St. Huntington Beach CA
May 26
$5
7PM - 11PM
80% of proceeds goes to NextAid

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Wednesday, March 25th
6:30 PM South Beach Sessions - Green Initiatives in the Music Industry
Panel Room: Grande Promenade Panel Ready Rm: Ocean Bar/Bistro

What is your carbon footprint? How can you green your record label? What are the steps you can take to Green your tour? The Industry is rallying around conservation efforts in an unprecedented way. Listen to some of the professionals leading this movement in an open forum. Free admission, limited seating. Arrive early to guarantee admission.

Moderator:	Mike Zuckerman - Zen Compound/Temple Nightclub/Prana
Panelists:	Dax Lee- GreenClubbing.org, MML Susan Lewis - Green Urban Living Center, Miami Dade College Anne-Marie Martinez - Greenhouse NYC Lauren Segal-Avenna - NextAid Wanda Williams - Waste Management Ramon Wells - Ross Ellis

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Tuesday, March 24th
5:00 PM South Beach Sessions - Music, Politics & Social Awareness
Panel Room: Grande Promenade Panel Ready Rm: Ocean Bar/Bistro

Join issue forerunners while they rally around the world's most pressing issues & corresponding initiatives and campaigns. From world poverty to education crises' to malaria to AIDS- this discussion will address some of the most pressing social issues today. Social Awareness leaders present the means by which the music Industry helps to solves such problems and create beneficial change. Free admission, space is limited. Arrive early to guarantee admission.

Moderator:	Lauren Segal-Avenna - NextAid
Panelists:	Wessel Van Eeden - Dance4Life Michele Bass - NextAid Darryl Von Daniken – EMSEE.net Danny Chasan - Ultra Music Festival

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Be the Cause presents the 7th Annual Walk for Hope
El Dorado Park, Long Beach
Saturday, Oct 18th
9-1pm

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Join NextAid in participating in The Get Connected Summit (GCS), bringing together leaders and enthusiasts in the electronic music, media and technology industries to explore and develop innovative opportunities across these increasingly converging sectors. www.getconnectedsummit.com

NextAid is coordinating and facilitating a panel on October 3rd from 2:30p-3:30p
Music, Technology and Social Activism

Let's face it! We are in very serious times and we need to use all means necessary to activate our community. Come discuss what we can do to make a difference in the world today using electronic music and technology to secure a brighter future tomorrow.

Panelists: Lauren Segal-Avenna (Director, NextAid) (moderator)
Mike Zuckerman (Director of Sustainability, Temple SF)
Darian Rodriguez Heyman (Executive Director, Craig's List Foundation)
Sloane Berrent (Director of Business Development, Causecast.org)
Chris Wiedmann (Giveback.net)

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For more info including set-times, banners, myspace code, etc.,

go to www.nextaid.org/forthefuture08.htm

For more info, go to www.nextaid.org/forthefuture08.htm

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July 25-28

Groove Cruise – Los Angeles to Mexico

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Turntables on the Hudson – New York

Friday, June 27th

8pm-2am / $10 / 21+

@ Water Taxi Beach

Benefit for NextAid and 2 year DubSpot anniversary party
featuring Nickodemus, Mariano, Nappy G,
Christian Rogers, Zeb, Derek Beres & DJ GOV

www.turntablesonthehudson.com

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Afro Funke' has been holding down the hottest Thursday night in LA every single week. This week, Afro Funke' is supporting NextAid in recognition of the upcoming World AIDS Orphan Day.

Join us there and for every $2 or more donated to NextAid, Afro Funke' will match it with another $2!

With:

DJ Expo (www.myspace.com/djexpo)

Resident DJ Jeremy Sole's Musaics (www.myspace.com/musaics)

Hosted by:

Rocky Dawuni (www.rockydawuni.com)

World AIDS Orphans Day is a grassroots campaign to draw attention to and advocate on behalf of more than 15 million children orphaned by AIDS. Since 2002, thousands of people have participated in World AIDS Orphans Day events in more than 20 countries. Almost 800 mayors and elected officials in more than 40 countries have signed pledges advocating for the need to address the orphan crisis. For more information on World AIDS Orphans Day on May 7th, visit: www.worldaidsorphans.org

Afro Funke'
@ Zanzibar
1301 5th Street @ Arizona
Santa Monica, CA 90401
310.451.2221 / 21+ / $7

www.afrofunke.com

www.zanzibarlive.com

www.myspace.com/afrofunke

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March 20th – NYC

Create Fixate

UBIQUITA @ MIDWAY

Huge women's history month blow-out at the original space f.k.a GUERNICA featuring

THE LADIES OF UBIQUITA (DJ's Reborn, Selly, Moni & shErOck)

+ Live and DJ performance by very special guest ULTRA NATE

+ Live painting & visual installation by

CRYSTAL CLARITY – the painting will be auctioned for NextAid.

Borough-bred Artista Crystal Clarity spends most of her days materializing fond visions from her mindscape, never a moment away from a sketchbook she is a Piscean poet who can finesse her sensitivity from medium to median, on any surface from canvas to cardboard. When not working with the young people of Bushwick at El Puente's After school Community Center, Crystal Clarity can be found on the grind as a freelance Graphic Designer, a Muralist and Illustrator, or finessing her own fine art projects. Having completed her first epic mural in Bushwick over the summer she's acquired a slight addiction for creating large scale environmental experiences and is currently the resident artist for a GGE (girls for gender equity) project, designing the space for after school activities. Clarity's works are stylistically diverse reflecting the spirit of the urban dream child. Also grinding on a body of work to confront the teen Pregnancy epidemic plaguing our communities, Crystal Clarity intends to materialize a potent body of woman-centric work that will shake the complacent social and artistic Standards of her Community Audience by engaging them in a lasting dialogue of mixed media. link to some of Crystal's work: http://s88.photobucket.com/albums/k174/Clarity1983/?action=view&current=534abe93.pbw

www.ubiquitanyc.com

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Saturday, March 8th

Create Fixate

Create:Fixate presents
"Transformation"
To change in form, appearance, nature, structure, or character
The act or an instance of transforming
The state of being transformed
Saturday, March 8, 2008 :: Downtown Los Angeles

OPTICAL LOUNGE
ART : PHOTOGRAPHY : SCULPTURE : MULTIMEDIA : INSTALLATION : LIVE PAINTING
Bekka Teerlink : Bonnie Morgan : Brady Redman : Danny Hughes : Dayvid Iannaci
Diana Grappasonno : Dustin Otterbach : Gina Stepaniuk : Jamie Burmeister : Kristen Eppley
Linley Eathorne : Lost Cause Society : Manisha Patel : Megan Geer-Alsop : Overton Loyd
Patrick Haemmerlein : Paul Torres : Sanam Salek : Shannon Keller
Thinh Nguyen : Walt Hall : Will Koffman

LIVE PAINTING
Overton Loyd : Justine Serebrin

VIDEO INSTALLATION
Ira Eduardovna : Marianne Magne

C3 PRESENTS
BrainPaint Live! by Bill Scott & Winter Lazerus
VISUAL MUSIC "METASPHERE" by James Guy & Brian Thomas Lambert

8 SUNDAYS EMERGING ARTISTS
Kelsie Robins : Lydia Jun : Woodrow White : Michael Almeida : Jamie Hamersmith
Joseph De Alba : Nick Cron-DeVico : Savannah Benton : Rachel Arellano : Jade Alexis

FASHION & JEWELRY
Brooke Benson Designs : KarmaKulture : Mystra made by Shaman Durek Verrett
OSS Animal Medicine Jewelry : Otterbach

AUDIO LAB
HOUSE : TECHNO : DOWNTEMPO : BREAKS : DUB : EXPERIMENTAL : WORLD RHYTHMS : LIVEMUSIC

LAB .01
Marques Wyatt DeepLA/Om : David Alvarado Ovum / Plastic City : Fosforo Live
Wiseacre FUNKY-IN-THE-MIDDLE : Yeh Dede Live : Jubal Recline Sounds

LAB .01
Drumcell Droid Behavior : AquaVee C:F/Hale : DJ Mr. Gone Planet Earth : John Von Vibration Institute
DJ Mr.CocoonInnerspaceouterspace : Leslie and the Badgers LIve

CURATED & PRODUCED BY Michelle Berc MUSIC COORDINATOR Andrea Giardina
PRODUCED BY Andre Freimann 8 SUNDAYS PROGRAM DIRECTORS Janice Markham & Andrea Giardina

READ ABOUT THE PARTICIPATING ARTIST, DJs, & MUSICIANS: PRESS RELEASE

SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 2008 : 7pm - 2am : GALLERY PREVIEW 4-7pm
*EXPANDED DOWNTOWN LOCATION*
LOT 613/ Premiere Events Center : 613 Imperial St., Los Angeles, CA
$15 Admission : Gallery Preview $5 suggested donation : Kids Creativity Zone from 4-8 pm

FOR PRESS INQUIRIES PLEASE EMAIL lynn@greengalactic.com

JOIN CREATE:FIXATE’S PATRON PROGRAM AND RECIEVE SPECIAL DISCOUNTS AND
PERKS AT ALL OUR EVENTS! MORE INFO TO BE ANNOUNCE VERY SOON!

Directions and Parking!
The venue is located on Imperial St. between Jesse and 6th street.
Imperial st. runs parrallel and one street East of Mateo (East of Alameda and West of the LA River).

From the Downtown area or 110 freeway
take 6th street heading East, make a right on Mateo then a left on Jesse and a left on Imperial street.
There will be a parking lot just a few doors south of the venue and plenty of street parking.

From the 10 Freeway
take the Alameda Exit and head north, right on 7th street, left on Imperial st. which is a
small street just East of the Mateo traffic light. There will be a parking lot just a few doors south o
the venue and plenty of street parking.

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Support from:

Levende Lounge (www.levendesf.com)

1710 Mission St.

San Francisco

Dinner: 6pm-10pm

(A three-course prix fixe meal + after-party $35/pp)
1/2 off wine with Dinner

Boogie: 9pm-2am

(Min. Door Donation $10)

Featuring:

DJ Seven (NK7 www.nk7productions.com )

Paul Guido (www.ruffrecordings.com )

Adnan Sharif (www.djadnan.com)

DJ Amber (Sister SF, www.iamthedj.com)

Fil Latorre (Staple, www.staplemusic.net)

Marissa Guzman LIVE (SoulStar, Juicy Lucy, www.myspace.com/juicylucyrecords)

www.AFROdesiaMP3.com< presents Brendon Boden

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NextAid is proud to be tabling at this event. Please join us to show your support!

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NextAid is looking for volunteers to help staff one of the main bars in the Civic Center during LoveFest. It’s a great deal and we get to support the festival! NextAid earns money for every volunteer hour worked. And we’ll be together in one place, serving beer, wine, sodas and more! Email volunteer@nextaid.org if you are interested in joining us in the LoveFest San Francisco spirit!

SF LOVEFEST
Saturday, September 29, 2007
in San Francisco
Home | Floats and DJ Line Up | After Party

NextAid is an official Community Partner.
You can make a difference by volunteering
with NextAid at LoveFest.
Contact volunteers[at]nextaid[dot]org

www2.sflovefest.org

9/30
ABBOT KINNEY STREET FESTIVAL
Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice:
10am-6pm

Venice will take to the streets to celebrate its 101 years of community at the 23rd annual Abbot Kinney Festival. Running through the heart of Venice, Abbot Kinney Blvd will be closed to traffic from Main St. to Venice Blvd to accommodate 2 stages of live music, dancers and performance artists, a spectacular children's court, 3 food areas, a Spirit Garden, Art Pavilion and over 300 vendors featuring original, handcrafted goods.

Come visit the NextAid booth at Venice’s biggest event of the year!

What is LukA's List ?
It's a VIP email list inspired by the life and times of Luka, The Philanthropic Party Dog.
It's comprised of a fun-loving family of friends who are likewise benevolently inclined.

What is LukA's List of Charities ?
Luka's List, Inc. is a non-profit umbrella organization created to support and promote
charitable causes which address the welfare of children, animals, and the planet.
As adults, we have responsibilities to all three. As such, we place value on
fostering health, wellness, & positive self esteem to all living creatures,
including ourselves, the caretakers of the world !

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