James Portnow, Seattle-based game designer and co-creator of Extra Credits, a web series on pro-social game design.
Raised over $125,000 from over 4,000 people.
James and Extra Credits were featured at SXSW, Gamasutra, and the homepage of Reddit.
Meghan Sebold, Brooklyn-based social entrepreneur and designer.
Raised $5,000 for a sustainable clothing line that uses the textiles and talent of Ghana, West Africa.
Her fashion line, AFIA was featured in EcoSalon, TreeHugger, Refinery29, and is now available in boutiques across NYC.
Aram Bajakian, NYC-based avant-garde guitar player.
Raised $4,000 from fans and strangers to fund his album.
Lou Reed heard Aram and chose him as his new guitarist while Aram's album is now released by John Zorn's Tzadik record label.
Darko Lungulov, Serbia-based award winning international filmmaker.
Raised $9,000 from movie buffs for feature film project Here and There.
Film won "Best New York Narrative" at Tribeca Film Festival, featured in Variety, L.A. Times, New York Times, and was a top-10 indie box office theatrical release.
When Last We Flew, NYC-based Off-Broadway theatrical production team.
Raised $7,000 from theatre fans for the premiere Off-Broadway run.
Show sold-out at NYC Fringe Festival, won a GLAAD Media Award, and was featured in New York Times, Bloomberg, and American Theatre Magazine.
Regan Wann, Kentucky-based small business owner.
Raised $5,000 to expand her tea shop business.
RocketHub campaign featured in the Wall Street Journal exposing her business to millions.
Laura Boyd, NYC-based portrait and landscape photographer.
Raised $6,000 architectural photography project on location in Paris.
Photos featured in Artsicle Photography Show in the heart of Chelsea, NYC via LaunchPad.
Joshua Reuben Lewis, NYC-based singer-songwriter.
Raised $7,500 to record his first album.
Showcased at The Gibson Showroom and made A&R connections at Sony, Warner Music Group, and EMI via LaunchPad.
Paul Davis, Berlin-based fashion designer.
Raised $8,000 from fans and strangers for a new fashion line.
Clothing line featured at Berlin Fashion Week.
Caira Conner, Tennessee based NYU Master of Science.
Raised $2,000 to study Brazilian land and infrastructure development.
Featured in Americas Quarterly, completed innovative research, and submitted successful academic thesis.
Give Me Brilliance became something the moment Jen Cole beseeched the gods of academia whilst writing a final term paper for University in 2005. The name has stood for her ideals as a dance artist, choreographer and seeker of something more ever since. Give Me Brilliance has been used to produce work in Toronto and Vancouver.
After three years of living and working in Vancouver, Jen asked Kara Nolte, a Vancouver-born dance artist, to take their friendship into the studio and see if their artistic egos could withstand personally motivated creation. Not only did they survive, they found that together they were able to translate the ideas they longed to see on stage with a lot of fun! In the spring of 2011, more women who share a passion for being a part of something brilliant, joined the experiment.
The mandate for both Give Me Brilliance and it’s first full-length production, The Playlist Project, is to bridge the gap between contemporary dance and mainstream entertainment. Give Me Brilliance wants dance to be big: like a sold-out rock concert. An event like this encourages audiences to see themselves onstage through the artists. GMB uses contemporary dance to fulfill its potential for expression in the same way. GMB aspires to create memories and vivid connections to dance movement for a general audience. GMB wants the public to feel deeply connected to contemporary material so that it becomes personally significant; so we are nostalgic at times, contemplative, playful, angsty, gutsy, and full of bravado.
As well as performance, the company is interested in community outreach and teaching choreography workshops to a diverse public. These are opportunities to spark interest in the power of communication through contemporary dance for all ages. Because the material GMB produces is emotive and visually represents the every day, someone, ANYONE, can relate to it.
Give Me Brilliance looks forward to sharing stories with humour and insight that everyone can understand.
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