Countdown to BOLD 2008: BOLD Gainsville, Florida

BOLD Gainsville in Florida is rockin' along.. here's an update BOLD organizer Heddy Vernon sent to me today:

BOLD Gainesville recently adopted the motto "Empower, Support, Educate!". It was a slow beginning for us. There were numerous times when we were tempted to throw our hands up and say, 'We'll try again next year'. We lost countless hours of sleep, cast members, couldn't find a director, had no idea what we were doing and felt like we had no qualifications, aside from being super-moms, to pull off an event like this. But, we decided that even if we had a read-through of the script at a coffeehouse that would be okay. We let go of the outcome. Our families and friends were our first great supporters. Our beneficiary, ICAN of Gainesville, took over our fundrasing and sponsorship committee and has rocked! Since then we have developed support from the local midwives, alternative health services, practitioners and believers. We have also been trying to integrate the more traditional medical practitioners in our area to attend and support our BOLD event. That was one of our main objectives at the beginning, but it's funny how things are supposed to be if you let them. People have been connecting through the planning of our event and we have seen a network of support and education spreading through our community. It's a really magical feeling. We have secured Jennie Joseph, Shannon Mitchell and other local professionals for our talkback panel. We have musicians, services, belly dancers and food vendors scheduled for our birth fair. The BOLD red tent is set to be a nurturing place for women to gather, support, and share. With only 10 days until our event we really feel the 'snowball' effect happening. We now walk into a place and they have already heard of the event. We are getting amazing support from the local community and have gained confidence that this event is going to rock!



For more info on BOLD Gainesville - please visit www.gainesvillecreativekids.com/bold



First photo - rehearsal of Act 2, Scene 12 in the play

Second photo:- BOLD Gainesville cast!

Back row: Janese Nix 'Janet', Mary Rainer 'Jillian', Heddy Vernon 'Director', Katie Kirkpatrick 'Sandy', Naomi Whiteley 'Amanda'

Front row: L'Tanya Van Hamersveld 'Lisa', Jenny Hill 'Natalie', Joy Steiner 'Vanessa', Jessica Charapata 'Beth