The unique Star Island estate of Thomas Kramer
A BENEFIT FOR TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN
Monday, November 30, 2009
WHAT: VIP cocktail reception to showcase eco-friendly/green art installations and product innovations to create awareness among top art collectors, socialites and business leaders about living green from EcoChamber.com and GoodPlanet.org while benefiting Take Stock in Children.
WHERE: 5 Star Island, Miami Beach, FL at the palatial waterfront estate of Thomas Kramer
WHEN: Monday, November 30, 2009 from 7:00 - 11:00pm
CHARITY: Take Stock in Children is a non-profit organization providing Mentors, Scholarships and Hope to deserving children. www.takestockinchildren.org
HOSTS: Thomas Kramer & Hope Gainer
PRESENTER: Hope International
PRODUCER & CURATOR: Hope Gainer, Hope International, www.ehopeinternational.com
ARTISTS: Harry Nelson, Jorge Fernandez, Marc Hubert D’Ge, Maria Arminda Palacio, Mary Aline MacDonald, Michael Thomas Diaz, Nikangel, Stephen Gamson, Tomas Loewy, Carol Adrianza, Frankie Ollervides
DESIGNERS: Esmeralda Collection by Marcella Acosta, Goddess Collection by Marjorie Andrade, Recycled Fashions by Julia Kreibich
MUSIC: Galaxy Girl DJ & Cleveland Jones Band
ECO: EcoChamber.com, GoodPlanet.org, Grow-Miami.org, Sprouts!, SkySail Charters,
The Electric Bicycle Company
LIBATIONS: Bacardi Superior Rum, Martini & Rossi Prosecco, Eno’s Wine Bar,
O.N.E. Drinks, Icelandic Glacial Water
CUISINE: Passion of Life Gourmet, Grass Restaurant & Lounge, Rock Garden Herbs
ABOUT ECO ARTLAND 2009: “The state of the global economy and the planet is where my inspiration came from for this year’s theme to kick-off Art Week in Miami and thus, the inception of
‘Eco Artland 2009’, “ remarked Hope Gainer of Hope International. “I felt this was a year to make a statement about our planet in a creative setting, while both entertaining and educating the art community,” adds Gainer. “Rather than showcasing expensive, unaffordable art, I felt it was more relevant to showcase art with a message.” Also,with the upcoming Copenhagen Summit on climate control, immediately following Art Basel, this topic is very timely. And coincidentally, the new nickname christened for Copenhagen is "Hopenhagen"!
Eco Artland 2009 will present a diverse selection of artists and eco-friendly companies and products each relaying a ‘eco/green’ theme to tantalize all the senses. Artist Jorge Fernandez has taken the challenge to the nth degree in creating ‘Rainforest Parking Lot’ in collaboration with landscape architect, Harry Nelson. They invested in clunkers from the ‘cash for clunkers’ program buying two gas guzzling Cadillacs they will turn into sculptures with forestry growing from the cars, complete with thunder and lighting special effects along with images projected onto their surfaces of eroding elements of nature by photographer, Tomas Loewy. The excess of society is presented in conflict with Mother Nature in this imaginative art installation.
French artist, Marc Hubert D’Ge is presenting an installation titled ‘Each Man Kills the Things he Loves' showing a stuffed Hammerhead shark upon which he is projecting images from the HOME movie created by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, photographer & Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Program and chosen as "2009 Environmental Hero" by Time Magazine and the founder of GoodPlanet Foundation (www.goodplanet.org), a non profit environmental organization created to raise public awareness of environmental protection and to bring concrete solutions to the Earth's ecological crisis. Home movie trailer and full length movie can be viewed for free online at www.goodplanet.org with spectacular imagery of the planet and a strong statement about its current unhealthy state.
Artist Nikeangel is showing a mannequin named ‘Mother Nature’ made from recycled material. Maria Arminda Palacio has circular canvases inspired by Mother Earth with abstract images of our oceans and sky still in their clean state. Argentine artist, Frankie Ollervides has a painting of a bull being milked by humanity while recycled fashion designer, Julia Kreibich takes a more whimsical approach with recycled postcard fashions. Other green fashions include emerald couture necklaces from Colombia by Marcella Acosta and couture green dresses by Brazilian beauty, Majorie Andrade. Artist, Michael Thomas Diaz has recycled coconut juice cartons into a holiday tree with green coconut ornaments!
The Electric Bicycle Store will showcase a variety of colorful electric bikes and scooters “driving” down the estate entranceway gas-free...while SkySail Charters will let you hop aboard their green sailing vessel docked poolside.
Guests will be able to imbibe on micro-green salads with edible flowers compliments of Rock Garden Herbs mixed by Passion of Life Gourmet. Additionally, Grass Restaurant & Lounge will provide tastings from their new menu. And to quench their thirst, guests will have flavorful Bacardi Green Mojitos, organic wines from Eno's Wine Bar and O.N.E. Drink flavored coconut water from green coconuts plus Icelandic Glacial Water which is one of the first Carbon Neutral certified bottled waters in the world.
Grow-Miami.org has named their edible floating art in the pool, ‘Art Basil’ made of basil leaves. Each guest will receive a basil pin which will make all the guests green and fragrant.
Even the invitations for Eco Artland 2009 can be recycled. Not only are they printed on recycled paper, but paper with flower seeds so the actual invitation can be planted and Sprout! as the company who created it is named. And our recycled goody bags donated by Whole Foods come with a slogan, ‘I used to be a plastic bag’.
If our VIP guests are truly inspired by what they see, touch, hear and smell as they experience Eco Artland 2009, perhaps they will be motivated to bid on Al Gore’s autographed book, ‘Our Choice, A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis’ benefiting Take Stock in Children before they head home. As the inside flap of the book states,
“We are at a crossroads. We must choose which earth will be home to future generations.” Al Gore
ABOUT HOPE INTERNATIONAL: Hope International is spearheaded by Hope Gainer. This global marketing and imagemaking company originally from NYC is currently based in Miami . It has produced Art Basel Miami Beach events each year for clients including UBS as well as events for Miami City Ballet, New World Symphony and Miami Boat Shows. Its Art Basel Week events have always gotten a buzz for being the most spectacular including the ones held at Casa Blanca on Hibiscus Island and the I.M.Pei designed Bank of America building in downtown Miami .
Previously, Hope International has worked on events at the White House, the Kremlin and Sydney Opera House for Australia ’s Bicentennial, Cannes Film Festival, Monaco Grand Prix and Argentine Polo Open. Gainer is focused on the global luxury market and brings a multi-cultural perspective to her work. She is passionate about the international art movement in Miami intensified by the presence of Art Basel Miami Beach and created and curated this “Eco Artland 2009” event. She felt it was the right concept for today’s times and hopes to bring attention to the importance of taking care of our planet through this creative outlet. www.ehopeinternational.com
ABOUT THOMAS KRAMER: German entrepreneur, Thomas Kramer is truly one of a kind! He is a controversial figure who burst onto the Miami Beach scene with a visionary point of view transforming South Beach in numerous ways with both his bigger than life personality and real estate developments. Most famous for his South Pointe developments including Portofino Towers, he now has his sites set on bringing the South Beach lifestyle with developments on other shores from Brazil to India . www.thomaskramer.com
PRESS CONTACT: Hope Gainer 305-785-5501 305-785-5501 hopeamerica@aol.com
www.ehopeinternational.com
Thomas Kramer with his living room friend
Hope Gainer, left, of Hope International planned the event. At right is
Maya Johnson, Co-Publisher and Society Editor of Palm Beach Today
Magazine and PalmBeachToday.Net
ARTISTS: Harry Nelson, Jorge Fernandez, Marc Hubert D’Ge, Maria Arminda Palacio, Mary Aline MacDonald, Michael Thomas Diaz, Nikangel, Stephen Gamson, Tomas Loewy, Carol Adrianza, Frankie Ollervides
DESIGNERS: Esmeralda Collection by Marcella Acosta, Goddess Collection by Marjorie Andrade, Recycled Fashions by Julia Kreibich
Since 2-27-/11
Photos by
Maya & Ron Johnson
Palm Beach Today
Video by Ron Johnson
Video by Ronald Tee Johnson
