Category: Fundraiser

tutu tuesday 6 year anniversary: may 13th in sf

Melissa Schilling Fundraiser

Our next Fundraiser is here! A tutu dance party. Huzzah!
Tutu Tuesday 6 Year Anniversary Party
featuring 6 hours of Atish
May 13, 2014 – Harlot San Francisco – 46 Minna Street, San Francisco, California 94105
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Featuring Artist Tracy Piper

Born from the seedy underbelly of Bay Area circus as a contortionist baby, this multi-
disciplinary artist brings not only years of experience working in the creative field but also a unique perspective on all things empirical and contemporary. Tracy piper captures the personality of San Francisco through capturing the personalities of San Francisco. Her exciting and often titilating work focuses on capturing characters in repose. Her subjects rages from local circus performers, to famous drag queens, to tech entrepreneurs. She has shown at both SCOPE Miami and New York as well as being bi-costal. She graduated from the Illustration program at California College of the Arts with distinction in 2012.

Save-The-Date August 9th – Fourth Annual Donor Dinner in Oakland with the Rara Tou Limen Dance Troupe, featuring an art print from Tracy Piper in our Silent Auction

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About the Tutu Party:
The Tracy Piper art pop-up and 8pm bubbles toast hosted by Golden Gate Dolls
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Fernet Branca comp shots at 8pm and drink specials all night

Airbrushing by Icarus Zaure
Face painting by Cassandra Love Lambert
Hair styling by Julian Contreraz and team

Performances from Erin Shredder, Inka Siefker, Katie Scarlett, and Jym Darling

Photography by Lance Skundrich and Tim Coy

$10 or $2 in a tutu before 11pm
handmade tutus for sale
door profits donated to Project HOPE Art

From its early beginnings at Vessel to a brief stint at Triple Crown before making waves at Santos Party House in Manhattan followed by a magical era at 222 Club and ultimately landing at its Harlot haven, TUTU TUESDAY has always been a joyful blessing that I am thrilled to share with you.

Never when I heard the words “Tutu Tuesday” on a lovely stranger’s lips on an art car at Burning Man 2007 would I have dreamed that my 2008 New Year’s resolution to wear a tutu every Tuesday for the entire year would lead to a 6 year long adventure of mesmerizing music, fantastic friends, and so much LOVE!

Due to the close of 222, we were dispossessed of our plans for Atish to play for 5 hours at the 5 year anniversary so we haven’t celebrated an anniversary for two years and THIS, my friends is going to be the BIGGEST celebration in Tutu Tuesday history with Atish playing a made-of-dreams 6 hour set.

Atish’s residency with Tutu Tuesday coincided with our debut at 222 and pretty closely aligned with the inception of his DJ career. Since that time he has enjoyed a bewildering amount of well-deserved success. His humble genius has been received enthusiastically by fans all over the world and it is simply amazing that we get to enjoy this man’s music at every Tutu Tuesday with rare exception. His commitment to Tutu Tuesday has made it the special fairyland it has become and I am forever grateful.

In honor of Atish’s determination to serve the less fortunate, we will be donating this anniversary’s door profits to Project HOPE Art, a charity benefiting the impoverished youth of Haiti by sharing with them the transcendent beauty of art and music. Operated by talented humanitarian Melissa Schilling, who will be moonlighting as our door hostess, this monetary gift will help to bring a new music program and electronic pen pal system to these underprivileged yet inspiring children. So, simply by coming this soiree, you are doing your part as well. Feels good, doesn’t it?

We really want you to come early and stay all night; to be with us on this musical journey. For that reason we are escalating the production of this event and scheduling many exciting happenings for the early part of the evening.

For one, we are opening up both floors for the entirety of this unprecedented occasion. Upstairs, the Golden Gate Dolls will host a complimentary bubbles toast at 8pm for early arrivals. The Tracy Piper will be showing her art work, some of which was created live at Tutu Tuesday, and also some prints of her popular works will be available for sale. Lance Jeffrey Skundrich is setting up a loft photo studio where we can immortalize you in all of your tutu glory. He and Tim Coy will be tag teaming the dance floor bringing their unique perspectives on your shining moments.

Downstairs, Cassandra Love Lambert will be offering her loving hands with some face painting creations AND the ridiculously amazing Icarus Zaure is going to bring his air brushing talent to the table. Seriously, you are welcome in advance. Between the two of them, some of our most zealous attendees will be decked out in intricate embellishments that you will wish could last longer than one night. Even further, Julian Contreraz is bringing a crew of stylists to offer sexy updos for our early-comers from 8pm-10pm.

Some of our best performances of the night are going to occur well before midnight so don’t miss out on any of the night’s fabulousness (and the opportunity to be beautified by our able-handed helpers) if you can help it! Erin Shredder is going to light up the dance floor with an eye popping hula hoop show, Inka Siefker is going to make you disbelieve your eyes with her unparalleled cortortion abilities and you won’t be able to take your eyes off of Katie Scarlett as she graces us with her sexy presence. Let’s not forget Jym Schmidt who has kept us bursting with smiles with his next level costumes and artful dance moves.

Well friends, I think that just about covers it. All that is left to discover are the wonderful, much-anticipated surprises of what creative costumes you will wear, which new and old friends you will be dancing with, and how many hugs and kisses we can collect along the way.

THANK YOU ALL for making this so perfectly possible.

bunny power!

Melissa Schilling 2014 Gardening Class, Fundraiser, Haitian Culture/Language

In February 2014 we took a team trip to the mountains to learn about rabbit husbandry. Then we built our custom rabbit hutch and just yesterday filled it with bunnies for our weekly Gardening Class.

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The entire Project HOPE Art team would like to thank Brian Peltz of ISEC, Inc. for single-handedly jump starting our new Bunny Rabbit Husbandry Program.

How Rabbits Can Save the World (It Ain’t Pretty) With no religious taboos against consuming bunny meat, the animal may be a key ingredient in the fight against hunger. It also can be raised grain-free. It is a fact universally acknowledged that rabbits reproduce at a rapid rate. But did you know that rabbit meat is kosher, halal and acceptable for Hindus who decline beef for religious reasons? All of that is good news for the world-wide war on hunger—if bad news for bunnies. Rabbits Over 1,700 Haitian rabbit producers now maintain some 1,250 rabbit facilities, Dr. Steven Lukefahr says, which are home to 32,650 breeding rabbits. rabbits community The program has grown by 142% in the last two years and has helped increase family income by an average of $19.95 a month per family with some producers seeing as much as $200 a month in income from meat sales, a significant boost in a country where the average annual family income is $1,700.
Read more: How Rabbits Can Save the World (It Ain’t Pretty) | Time Magazine (link: http://world.time.com/2012/12/14/how-rabbits-can-save-the-world-it-aint-pretty/#ixzz2lJ6EjQv5)

Meet our Students: http://projecthopeart.org/project-hope-art-center-at-haiti-communitere/gardening-program-and-the-art-botany-lab/2014-gardening-class/

Donate Here to keep Compassionate Animal Programs running in Haiti:
http://projecthopeart.org/2013/11/13/sponsor-a-student-in-2014/

Wings for Tacloban —- June 23 – July 10, 2014

Melissa Schilling Art Projects, Fundraiser, Visual Storytelling

Soaring above your everyday struggles, free like a bird.


It’s an idea we’ve all wished could come true in times of difficulty and stress. Now, fueled by your generous donations, Artists Jamie Lloyd & Melissa Schilling will be able to gift children (and their families) living in the bunkhouses of the Tacloban disaster zone the ability to fly above their problems. Wings for Tacloban are imaginary art wings created by children for children.

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Support this Project with a Tax-Deductible Donation Now!

Travel Dates: June 23 – July 10, 2014

Wish List:
-3 Portable Bluetooth Printers
-Chalk! Chalk! and more Chalk!
–Roll of paper (48″ x 200′ Natural or White)
-8 packs of oil pastels or paint pens
-30 medium-large paint brushes
-3 pairs of industrial scissors

Why Wings?

It has been nearly 6 months since Typhoon Haiyan, the world’s biggest-ever storm to make landfall, struck the central Philippines – killing more than 5,200 people, displacing 4.4 million and destroying $547m in crops and infrastructure.
In Leyte Province, 70 to 80 percent of the area was destroyed. Tacloban, the capital of Leyte, where five-metre waves flattened nearly everything in their path, suffered more loss of life than any other Philippine city. Outside the town centre, in a hillside cemetery, city workers have dug a mass gravesite which stretches along 100 metres.

Much of Tacloban has been turned to rubble, leaving many survivors homeless and dependent on aid.

Surivor in Tacloban walks among the debris after Typhoon Haiyan

Visiting the city, it is clear that – despite the help of the international community – it will take a very long time for the town to recover.

About the Bunkhouses of Tacloban:
The bunkhouses are made of corrugated sheets, plywood and coco lumber and measure
8.64 square meters. 27 Bunkhouses in the San Jose District of Tacloban with water and electricity have been completed as of April 1, 2014. Another 66 remain to be built and equipped with basic necessities. Each bunkhouse has 24 units, although big families are given two units. The partition per unit was collapsed to accommodate bigger families.

We’ll be painting the inside main wall of bunkhouses with chalkboard paint in a variety of colors. Once dry, we’ll cure the walls and arm the occupants of the bunkhouses with chalk. We hope to encourage creative thinking and hope.

Close to 2 million families were affected by the weather disturbance, considered to be the strongest typhoon on record to make landfall. 30 countries have already pledged financial and humanitarian aid amounting to 2.366 billion to victims of super typhoon Yolanda.

Ladies Arm Wrestling – March 30th 2014

Melissa Schilling Fundraiser

LET’S GET READY TO RRRRRUMBLE! 431757_236707826420542_1337624854_n Project HOPE Art and BAAWL (Bay Area Arm Wrestling Ladies) are teaming up to host a raucous performance-based arm wrestling competition that’s guaranteed to be OVER THE TOP. Our fourth tournament will be held Sunday, March 30th in San Francisco at Chez Poulet, and is intended to empower women while raising funds and awareness for disadvantaged communities in Haiti.

REGISTER HERE

HOPE Art Arm Wrestlers are fired-up ladies who toe the line between theatrical antics and hardcore athleticism. Woman-identified wrestlers compete in each brawl. Each wrestler has a persona, bio, theme song, and money-hungry entourage to back them up and collect “bets” from the crowd. 419805_236701109754547_1484873210_n 6360562503_9f4444288d_b Proceeds from the evening will go towards art-based programming (facilitated by HOPE Art) for children in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

WANNA WRASSLE? To compete in the upcoming tournament, fill out this form.  All wrestlers are highly encouraged to be as creative, whimsical and bad-ass as possible. Bring your theatrics. Your flair for the dramatic. Bring your game face and your lipstick, too. Rules are determined and managed by the referee, only to be manipulated by celebrity judges, corrupted by crowd hecklers, and bribed by cold, hard dolla dolla billz, y’all.

MCs: Paul Trask and Stefbot

DJs: JoeJoe and Haute Mess (Brass Tax)

Referee: Alex Mace

Graphic Visionary: Elizabeth Marley

GET IN THE RING! 432005_236709893087002_306691069_n 417993_236707446420580_896923864_n 6360558871_e7db0cc253_o About HOPE Art: Exploring the arts as a catalyst for healing and therapy, HOPE Art is inspiring creativity, communication, and self-expression for children who are orphaned and struggling to build their lives and their communities. For more information, visit projecthopeart.org. About BAAWL: BAAWL is the first West Coast league inspired by the original CLAW (Charlottesville Ladies Arm Wrestlers). Staying true to the vision, and inspiration of CLAW, BAAWL’s mission is to empower all women and strengthen communities through theater, arm wrestling, and philanthropy.