Maybe everyone has seen this before, I hadn’t. But over 4.8 million views tell me that some of you will have. Some staff at a Medical Centre in Portland, Oregon got together to make a video to raise awareness of breast cancer in their hospital. The video has gone above and beyond that with 4,838, 228 views so far and no sign of it stopping. Guy Kawasaki has even described it as possibly the most viral non profit video ever. What a fun day at work this was!
It seems like the National Campaign for the Arts are organising another flash mob in support of their campaign against any drastic cutting of arts funding in the upcoming budget. This time round the flash mob is to take place in Wexford town, next Saturday 21 November at 12pm. The exact location is not given and will probably remain a secret until the day. A pre A for Arts Masked Flash Mob meeting will be held at Bui Bolg premises Whitemill Industrial Estate Wexford 7.30pm Weds 18th November to discuss details and they are encouraging all art workers, practitioners and art lovers of all ages to participate or support the event. The NCFA are also hoping to collect at least 10,000 signatures on their online petition in support of the campaign to be presented to Minister Martin Cullen prior to December 9th Budget Day. The petition can be found and … There’s more
Got to love this. Well done to all on St Patrick Street in Cork who did this on Saturday, as a protest against funding cuts to the arts, as organised for the National Campaign for the Arts. They’re still inviting signatures for their petition. Well done too to Egomotion for the videos. There’s loads of videos of it on You Tube including the rehearsals.
Directly lifted from the Soundcheck blog: and from Marcus on Pix.ie - he’s got a full album of photos: Photo copyright Marcus Mac Innes, Pix.ie Go over here and read more. Well done Fionn and team!!
Those crazy Soundcheck kids are up to something a bit crazier than usual. Play dead on the streets of Dublin and be part of the DEATH MOB, the Flash Mob to end all Flash Mobs. Meet Thursday October 8 at 9.30pm in Dublin 2. RSVP on Facebook to receive details and updates, with the first coming Tuesday evening. The location is to be made known to us on Thursday afternoon and all participants will get a free copy of the official DEATH MOB photo. Sounds mad. MAD!! All details on Facebook here. Soundcheck at Spy, South William Street on Thursday eveneings (free in before 11, just a fiver after) continues with FREE cupcakes, FREE chocolate, FREE popcorn, bottles of vino for a tenner before 9pm, 2-for-1 cocktails until 11pm and loads of 4 euro drinks. After last week’s karaoke madness, they’ve got a SINGSTAR party going on this week. They’re … There’s more
