Austin, TX based organizations It’s Bigger Than You (IBTU) and its awareness activity Bollywood For A Cause is attempting to create a world record for the Largest Bollywood dance. Check out this City’s Best Austin article by Shelly Seal! This is one of many ways that IBTU uses entertainment activism to raise awareness for The Miracle Foundation and other organizations that improve the lives of children.
It’s Bigger Than You is passionate about improving the lives of children. Brock Sampson, founder, takes some time to talk about a troubling statistic regarding Orphans in India.
I want to personally thank all those who attended our IBTU Planning Activities Kick-off meeting today, 12/16/2010, in Austin, TX. We held a webinar with attendees representing existing and new stakeholders and interns. We also had a surprise visit from interns who wanted to listen in in person. It was a great introduction to our new collaborative partners, The Miracle Foundation and LotuSign; representing the orphan and deaf communities respectively.
You may ask the question, “how does the deaf, orphan, participant, doner and internship community all benefit one another?”, and “how do they all fit together to accomplish IBTU goals for 2011?” Well, you’ll have to access our presentation IBTU Planning Kick-Off. Let us know what you think, and how you’d like to help!
It’s officially begun! IBTU was overwhelmed by the number of people that showed their support in our first “dress rehearsal” for the world record we are attempting to create for the Guinness Book of World Records. Our journey to create the ‘Largest Bollywood dance’ is an awareness activity to change the way we interact and create solutions for global malnutrition. This unedited video was taken at Esquina Tango in Austin, TX March 24th 2010. Stay tuned for more video that was taken at this rehearsal, and other rehearsals leading to the BIG DATE in March 2011.
Continue to visit our affiliate site Bollywood For A Cause for updates regarding all things IBTU and Bollywood.
Its Bigger Than You finds a film series a fun, entertaining way to bring awareness to our cause, but it can get expensive! The vision of a Bollywood Film Series may take some time to gather momentum here in Austin, TX.
Monsoon Wedding was our first viewing that took place December 3rd 2009. Before the film, we took the opportunity to interview some great folks.
Continue to visit our affiliate site Bollywood For A Cause for updates regarding all things IBTU and Bollywood.
We’ve invested much time and energy in discovering the lasting representation for IBTU. It’s important that you know how this whole thing began, and how we came about our progressive strategy. Give us a shout, and let us know what you think.
There wasn’t too much money to spend, but a need for a lasting logo was a definite, so we chose a crowdsource website called Crowdspring. It allowed us to submit out project idea to a global audience of graphic artists, and have them vote on who they thought projected our idea the best. We submitted a reward of $300 bucks to get it going. In a span of 2 weeks, we had 52 entries worlwide. We narrowed our choices to 2 logos. One definitely had an incredible emotional trigger, unfortunately, though, the ‘shadow’ guy was not scaleable or “long lasting”. It was a difficult decision, but we decided on the ‘U’ guy because of its scaleability, its ability to be easily reproduced on many forms of media, and the graphic artists themselves felt it was the best choice. What do you think?
I want to personally thank all those who came and enjoyed a warm day of Bollywood shananigans and dance on Jan, 30th 2010 in the Warehouse District Austin. You couldn’t imagine Austin’s curiosity as an army of Bollywood dressed patrons ran downtown scavenging, quizzing, pulling together short films and dancing all in hopes of winning the illustrious prizes granted by our game hosts, the Go Game Texas!
Come check out some great video by the Austin Statesman atwww.Bollywoodforacause.org.