Opportunities and GO FESTIVE! are Striking out Homelessness!
Hi Everyone! Check out the invitation below for a great event we have coming up!
Opportunities is an organization that helps homeless and other at-risk youth and young adults to achieve their academic potential and professional goals by offering them supportive services and stable housing. Opportunities will be holding a fund raiser and silent auction at one of our favorite spots: North Bowl! In addition to great auction offerings like an autographed Desean Jackson jersey, Opportunities will be auctioning off all sorts of GO FESTIVE! packages!! Place a bid for your chance to win a Festive Fotobooth package, Flip for Flipbooks package, Fun Flicks outdoor movie night or Festive Fun + Games video game party, or even a Battle Blast laser tag party!
In addition to offering our packages for auction, there will be a booth at the event for guests to enjoy! Jump in and have a blast in front of the camera in between bowling a couple frames and enjoying unlimited food and drinks!
Visit the Opportunities website today to purchase your tickets and help support this great cause! We hope to see you there!
GO FESTIVE! Photobooth a Big Hit at the Philadelphia Magazine Best of Philly 2009 Awards
On July 29, 2009 a special gathering took place at the Pennsylvania Academy for the Fine Arts building in downtown Philadelphia. Business owners from across the city got together to celebrate what they all had in common: being winners of Philadelphia Magazine’s Best of Philly 2009 award. Hosted by Philadelphia Magazine, the party drew attendees from all types of business. Our friends from North Bowl were there to celebrate being named as a great place to have a good time, along with winners for such varied services as Best Tennis Instructor (Eric Riley), Best Car Wash (Park & Polish on South Broad) and Best Karaoke (Yakitori Boy).
Guests began filling the booth as they enjoyed the party. Meteorologist Adam Joseph from Channel 6 ABC stepped into the booth to smile for the camera, as did many other guests and their friends.
Meteorologist Adam Joseph
Justin and Karina from Terra Mia Organic Nail Spa had a great time with us:
Justin and Karina from Terra Mia
And Barry Eichner and friends of 3000BC.com also loved being in front of the camera:
Barry from 3000BC.com
We at GO FESTIVE! really enjoyed the entire experience. The venue was a perfect setting for a party, and it was wonderful to work with the folks at PAFA and Philadelphia Magazine.
To read more about the winners of this year’s Best of Philly Awards, visit the awards web page at: http://www.phillymag.com/home/display/best_of_philly_2009_highlights/. You can also take a look at all the pictures from this great party in our Event Gallery by clicking here. And to get information on having a GO FESTIVE! photobooth or flipbooks station at your next public or private gathering, be sure to visit our homepage.
Flashback: North Bowl League Party – June 4, 2009
Northbowl League Party!Another clip from North Bowl!June 4, 2009 was a great day for GO FESTIVE! Our friends at North Bowl in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia booked us to bring our flipbooks station to their annual league party. North Bowl, located at 909 North 2nd St., is a great local hotspot. Bowling lanes and a bar dominate the lower level, while upstairs there is a lounge with pool tables, pinball machines, another bar, and even a couple more lanes!
Oron, North Bowl’s owner, met the GO FESTIVE! team at the door and showed us upstairs to our corner of the party. That night we had four team members working – Kelsey, Christine, Chris and Ryan. We were in a prime location – right between the air hockey table and the bar! As the team began setting up, we kept an eye on the goings on around us. A buffet was being set up, and Oron graciously invited us to have a bite to eat once the party got rolling. North Bowl is well known for its tater-tot-centric menu and killer mac and cheese, so the whole team gladly accepted Oron’s offer.
Guests began to arrive around 8pm, right on time. The flipbooks camera was ready to go, and the first guest stepped up to make a flipbook. Filming seven seconds of video is sometimes harder than it sounds, especially when you’re not sure what you’re really doing! Our first flipbook maker re-filmed his clip a couple times before getting one he liked (he decided to dance to the music playing and take a big swig of his drink!). That’s the great thing about GO FESTIVE! flipbooks - the video clips are quick to film, so if you’re not happy with your clip after the first try, our staff is happy to give you a “do-over”! A couple minutes later and our first customer of the evening was holding his brand new flipbook and laughing over how great it was. He was soon showing his bowling buddies and the word began to spread.
Now, this gathering was for North Bowl’s various bowling leagues and teams, so there was quite a mix of people in attendance. Men, women, old, young, artists, mechanics - there was a great cross section of people and styles from this diverse neighborhood of Philadelphia. Watching buddies have mock fist fights and married couples dance together in front of the camera was truly a great time. One young man made a flipbook of himself devouring a piece of watermelon – it looked quite hilarious in slow motion, and even funnier if you flipped the flipbook backwards!!
A steady stream of revelers visited our flipbooks station throughout the night, not even stopping while Oron presented league awards. During brief lulls, our team members were able to enjoy heaping plates of tater tots and mac and cheese made with Goldfish crackers on top – yum! As the evening wound down there was a final rush of people to get a flipbook made. Kelsey, Christine, Chris and Ryan were working at a fast pace and handing out lots of business cards. Everyone seemed to want to have GO FESTIVE! for their next party.
At the end of the evening, Oron thanked us for coming and we all agreed that the evening was a complete success. All the guests got to eat their fill, hear some great music, eat some delicious food and drink some tasty beverages – and most importantly for us – make a flipbook or two! We hope to do more events in the future with North Bowl, and we hope that you’ll be able to come and join us there!!
Here are a couple video clips from our great night at North Bowl. Take a look, you could be behind the camera next!
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