Overview

Save the Date! June 22-25, 2012

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I invite you to join me at the 2012 Benevolent Media Festival, a four-day celebration of storytellers, designers, filmmakers, photographers and other creatives dedicated to social and environmental good.

We held our inaugural festival last November, and I’m proud to say that our team of volunteers and community partners held film screenings, hosted open mic nights, led youth workshops, staged a benefit concert, showcased a charity design day and much, much more. In total, more than 400 people engaged in 18 different events held across the city, and thousands more supported us through viral marketing and promotion.

We invite you to help us create these meaningful events and experiences for even more attendees in 2012!

This year’s festival is organized along five main themes: Learn, Revive, Sustain, Heal, and Empower. Our signature events will include an opening party, video showcase, networking lounge, and a pitch night for entrepreneurs.

Just like last year, we also invite other individuals and organizations to submit their own lectures, workshops, performances, networking events and other activities to the agenda.

These are all great opportunities to get in front of a passionate and socially conscious group of young professionals in the D.C. area. Our festival goers are avid consumers of media, users of technology, and influencers of design, especially when  it comes to brands they trust.

I’m excited to scale up last year’s successes at our second annual festival, scheduled for June 22-25.

A preview of this year’s festivities:

Our event attendees are cool, compassionate and connected. They are changemakers as much as they are tastemakers.

Signature events will include:

Opening Party, featuring eco-conscious food and drink, with an interactive art and music showcase produced by cause-oriented creatives.

Video Showcase, featuring screenings of social impact documentaries and nonprofit films, followed by talk-backs, dialogues and panel discussions with the filmmakers.

Networking Lounge, providing a welcoming space for in-person conversations about projects, pitches and opportunities related to storytelling and design for good.

Pitch Night, giving benevolent media creators a chance to present their pitches and proposals in captivating 5-minute PechaKucha-style presentations, for a chance to win cash prizes from interested donors and funders.

Contact Festival Director Em Hall for details on sponsorship opportunities: em [at] benevolentmedia [dot] org.