Rock Art Love Foundation

Rock Art Love
Ball + Art Auction
HONORING CARLOS SLIM
MIRI BEN-ARI | BECCA CASON THRASH | NANCY LUBLIN | MEL YOUNG
A l l P r o c e e d s B e n e f i t t h e H o m e l e s s Wo r l d C u p
N e w Yo r k C i t y
March 12, 2013
Rock Art Love
W H A T.
Rock Art Love Ball + Art Auction.
H O S T.
Soledad O’Brien, CNN
N E W Y O R K C I T Y. March 12, 2013.
An evening celebration honoring the philanthropic
dedication of Carlos Slim and his commitment to the
homeless and humanitarian heroes around the world.
Rock Art Love Ball + Art Auction will host 250 guests
to support the Homeless World Cup through the
celebration of music, art, wine, and philanthropy.
WHERE.
Angel Orensanz. 172 Norfolk Street. The oldest
restored 1849 Neo-Gothic styled building in New York
City.
A F T E R P A R T Y.
Barry Colson. A Piano. You. Join us after the Ball
where we bring the notorious Davos Piano Bar to NYC
for some post ball fun at a very private, undisclosed
location.
B E N E F I T.
100% of all donations and charitable contributions
directly fund the programs of the Homeless World Cup.
Carlos Slim
2 0 1 3 R O C K A R T L O V E H O N O R E E . C A R L O S S L I M H E L U F O U N D AT I O N .
“The truth is, you leave this world with nothing. What you are is a temporary administrator, and you must administer well… the wealth in
your care, and generate more. The surplus can be used to do many things for people.” - Carlos Slim
CARLOS SLIM
Carlos Slim's extensive philanthropic work includes foundations that focus on improving education, health care, justice, employment and the fine arts in Mexico
and Latin America. Since 1995, Mr. Slim has been President of the TELMEX Foundation, A.C., one of the largest philanthropic institutions in Latin America, since
1990 has also been a Board Member of the UNAM Foundation, and also created the Carso Institute for Health, and designed it to provide a new approach to
health care in Mexico.
Business leader and humanitarian Carlos Slim employs more than 200,000 people in Latin America and beyond. Mr. Slim has personally supported more than
203,000 students so they could attend college, covered medical expenses for those in need, provided equipment for rural schools, covered security bonds for
50,000 people who were entitled to their freedom but could not afford it because of poverty and also leads an initiative to revitalize historic downtown Mexico City.
In October 2012, he is hosting the Homeless World Cup in Mexico City.
Soledad O’Brien
2 0 1 3 R O C K A RT L O V E B A L L H O S T: S O L E D A D O ’ B R I E N
Miri Ben-Ari
P E R F O R M A N C E B Y G R A M M Y A WA R D W I N N I N G V I O L I N I S T A N D 2 0 1 3 R O C K A R T L O V E H O N O R E E
Miri Ben-Ari, is a Grammy award-winning violinist and recognized musical
pioneer originally from Israel. Ben-Ari is credited for the creation of her own
unique sound by a revolutionary fusion of classical style with jazz, R&B and hip
hop. This classically trained musician has helped sell millions of records by
collaborating with other Grammy award-winning artists such as Jennifer Lopez,
Kanye West, Jay Z, Wyclef Jean, Alicia Keys, Wynton Marsalis, Britney Spears,
Maroon 5, Donna Summer and John Legend.
She studied under the late classical master Isaac Stern and has earned the
honor from New York's Apollo Theater as an “Apollo Legend”. She is also
known as “The Hip Hop Violinist”, the title of her latest album (Universal
Records).Miri was featured by Reebok in their “I Am What I Am” global print and
TV advertising campaign. She has done commercials for Pepsi, Coca-Cola, a
Jimmy Hendrix PSA for BET and has been the voice of VH1 Save The Music,
which promotes live music and music education across the US.Her single
"Symphony of Brotherhood", featuring the Dream speech of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr, is the first instrumental single ever to hit on Billboard’s R&B/Hip Hop
charts, MTV and VH1.
Miri Ben-Ari was honored as an "International Jewish Women To Watch of
2007”, received the 2008 Israel Film Festival Visionary Award, the American
Society for Yad Vashem 2011 Young Leadership Associates Remembrance
Award and she is the first Israeli to receive the Martin Luther King Award from
Israeli President, Shimon Peres.
In 2011 Miri Ben-Ari was invited by America's First Lady, Michelle Obama, as a
"Remarkable Woman" Mentor to be a part of the annual celebration of Women's
History Month and to perform at the White House. Miri was later invited by
media icon Yue-Sai Kan for a special performance during "Miss Universe China"
in Beijing, a live broadcast to hundreds of millions of people in China. Miri BenAri is the co-founder of “Gedenk” ("Remember“,) a nonprofit organization
dedicated to promoting awareness among young people about the Jewish
Holocaust. In addition, she has supported programs for over 40 charitable
organizations around the world.
W H AT D O Y O U D O T H AT R E A L L Y M A K E S Y O U H A P P Y ?
Join Rock Art Love, Carlos Slim Helu and Fundacion Telmex
by supporting the programs for the Homeless and their chance at the World Cup.
We inspire men, women and children around the world to transform their lives through sports.
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Nichole Rhodes, Co-Founder Rock Art Love | Mel Young, Founder Homeless World Cup | Carlos Slim Helu
Homeless World Cup Finals. Mexico City. Zocalo. October 2012.
H O M E L E S S W O R L D C U P F E AT U R E F I L M
HOMELESS
F I L M I N G WORLD
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Hollywood
LONDON -- Riding on the global success of "The Best Exotic
M a r i g o l d H o t e l " a n d t h e M i d n i g h t M a d n e s s A u d i e n c e Aw a r d a t
t h e To r o n t o I n t l . F i l m F e s t i v a l f o r " S e v e n P s y c h o p a t h s , " G r a h a m
Broadbent and Peter Czernin of U.K. production company
Blueprint Pictures are looking to build on their expanded profile
with three features planned to shoot to 2013.
" T h e H o m e l e s s Wo r l d C u p " ( w o r k i n g t i t l e ) i s e x p e c t e d t o s h o o t
in the spring from a script by Frank Cottrell Boyce, who recently
finished the upcoming "The Railway Man," starring Colin Firth
and Nicole Kidman.
The basis for the film came out of Broadbent's research into The
H o m e l e s s Wo r l d C u p F o u n d a t i o n , w h i c h h e l p s i t i n e r a n t p e o p l e
w o r l d w i d e c h a n g e t h e i r l i v e s t h r o u g h s o c c e r.
The organization supports grass-roots soccer programs and social
enterprise development in 73 countries and celebrates its work
with an annual street-soccer tournament, which this year takes
place in Mexico City Oct. 6-14.
Colin Farrell, Producer + Actor
Rock Art Love
Rock Art Love
N e w Yo r k C i t y
" T h e H o m e l e s s Wo r l d C u p F o u n d a t i o n i s a c o o l o r g a n i z a t i o n I
came across through Colin Farrell," Broadbent said. "He
mentioned it when we were working on 'In Bruges' and told me
about everything they do. I said, 'That sounds like it should be a
m o v i e ' a n d h e s a i d ' Ye a h , I w a s h o p i n g y o u ' d s a y t h a t . ' "
Developed with Film4, the feel-good, fish-out-of-water tale
follows the Irish members of five-a-side soccer team traveling to
the tournament in Paris. Farrell will produce the film with the
Blueprint pair and Broadbent confirms a role is intended for
Farrell.
(347)ROCK-ART
nichole@rockartlove.org
www.rockartlove.org
Cesar Galindo
C E S A R G A L I N D O , C R E AT I V E D I R E C T O R . R O C K A R T L O V E
Cesar Galindo, a self-taught designer and the youngest of eleven
children, began his career in fashion designing corsets and period
costumes for The Miami City Ballet, and then for The Houston
Grand Opera in his hometown. He moved to New York in the
mid 1980’s to continue his work as a designer and started in the
fashion industry at TSE Cashmere as a show room manager.
After a year, he went on to design for Carmelo Pomodoro, a then
rising international sportswear designer.
During this time, Cesar began developing his own line, a
signature collection specializing in dresses for social and evening
events. Cesar achieved notoriety when his washed silk kimono
dress made the cover of Elle magazine, July 1993, on supermodel
Karen Mulder. Once America and the rest of the world caught a
glimpse of his designs, they wanted more. Galindo’s first trunk
show was at the renowned Martha’s International on Park Avenue
and was followed at New York City retail institution, Henri
Bendel.
Over the next decade, the brand CESAR GALINDO developed
in distribution domestically and internationally at select retailers.
For the last twenty-two years, Cesar has balanced his time
designing his own collection as well as working as a contract
designer for private clients and for established labels including
Dolce & Gabbana where he designed predominately for
celebrities for nine years followed by seven seasons for Calvin
Klein Collection under the design direction of Francisco Costa.
His most recent assignment was at L.A.M.B., a contemporary
women’s collection launched by Gwen Stefani.
In October 2011, Galindo launched CZAR by Cesar Galindo, his
secondary women’s collection .
Cesar is the Creative Director of Rock Art Love. Dreaming
Building, Designing and Curating campaigns, events and
concepts.
Julian Jaeger
J U L I A N J A E G E R , F O U N D E R . R O C K A R T L O V E F O U N D AT I O N .
Julian Jaeger brings to CGI over fifteen years of
global experience, including ten years developing
partnerships with organizations in North America
and around the world. As director of partnerships,
Jaeger is responsible for developing and managing
relationships between CGI and its strategic partners.
Before joining CGI, Jaeger headed both partnership
development and business development for North
America at the World Economic Forum. He held
these roles for over nine years and worked out of
both the Geneva and the New York offices. Prior to
his time with the Forum, he worked for seven years
at the United Nations' World Intellectual Property
Organization with the Office of Management,
Budget, and Control. Jaeger holds both a master's
and a bachelor's in business administration from the
International University in Geneva, Switzerland.
Julian Jaeger at Clinton Global Initiative.
Rich Stromback
R I C H S T R O M B A C K , F O U N D E R . R O C K A R T L O V E F O U N D AT I O N .
Richard Stromback is a former professional hockey player (OHL, ECHL), Venture Capitalist, Entrepreneur
and until now, an often anonymous donor and fundraiser for philanthropic and humanitarian causes.
Stromback's repeated successes have been acknowledged by the media and global business community.
The New Yorker’s Nick Paumgarten featured Stromback in his 2012 story on the World Economic Forum:
“THE WORLD OF POWER: Magic Mountain What happens at Davos?”
The New York Times Andrew Ross Sorkin captured Stromback’s Ecology Summit on Necker Island with his
story “At island retreat, Branson and friends seek to save a world 'on fire'.”
In 1997 he founded Web Group, a technology staffing and search firm and served as its CEO and president
until 2003. As founder and chief executive officer of Web Group he pioneered the staffing and search
industry through his innovative sales management techniques. Stromback conceptualized and instituted
information and sales systems to electronically track performance and provide incentives for sales
personnel to achieve award-winning growth. Under his leadership, the company grew from a sole
employee to over ninety employees with $10 million in annual sales – a compounded growth of over
1,400% for four years while completely self-funded. Stromback's accomplishments were recognized by
Inc. Magazine, which named Web Group the 189th fastest growing private company in the United States
for the year 2002.
In 2003, he shifted his investment focus to clean technology, acquiring the research firm, Ecology Coatings.
An early entrant to the clean tech market, Stromback purchased Ecology - at that time a fifteen year old
R&D concern, in 2003. Within nine months of acquisition, Stromback took Ecology from the lab and into
production. He moved quickly to secure Ecology's proprietary technology by directing the filing of ten
patents and focusing his efforts on the commercialization of the underlying technology. Stromback
negotiated strategic relationships to license Ecology's technology across a wide swath of markets,
(eliminated space and changed of to a) including the automotive, electronics and medical device markets.
This included deals with DuPont, Guidant and Red Spot.
Stromback is a regular attendee of the World Economic Forum and was given the 2006 Technology
Pioneer Award by the organization for his efforts with Ecology Coatings. In 2007 Stromback was named a
Young Global Leader and in 2008 Crain’s Business listed him as one of the top 40 leaders under 40 years
of age.
Stromback holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Brandon University, in Brandon, Manitoba.
Prior to earning his degree, he played professional hockey for a number of years in the Ontario Hockey
League and the East Coast Hockey League. Richard Branson. Rich Stromback. Necker Island. Stromback Ecology Summit.
Nichole Rhodes
N I C H O L E R H O D E S , F O U N D E R . R O C K A R T L O V E F O U N D AT I O N .
With the success of her company, Nichole began dedicating a significant percentage of her time to
philanthropic causes over the past few years. In May 2011, Nichole joined the Board of Directors of Keep A
Child Alive, Alicia Keys NGO supporting children and families with HIV/AIDS. Nichole facilitated over
$2 Million USD in cash and commitments for children with HIV/AIDS in less than six months. Nichole also
advocated for foster children who have been victims of child abuse, domestic violence, homelessness and
abandonment. Nichole had the honor to work on fundraising with contributing artists like Jeff and Justine
Koons, Roberto Dutesco, Richard Prince, Marilyn Minter, April Gornik and Eric Fischl raising over $2 million
dollars for Edwin Gould Services for Family and Children in New York City.
Founder and partner of the Rhodes Global Group, Nichole created a dynamic international firm focused on
building and promoting competitive identities for nations, multinational companies and NGOs.
In February 2011, the Rhodes Group was retained by BYD Co. Ltd, in Shenzhen China to lead global
business development initiatives in the United States and India. In December of 2010, Nichole was named
the International Spokesperson for Bali Green. Leading the Indonesian Government’s initiative at the UNEP
in Bangkok, Thailand, she successfully unified and initiated efforts to make Bali the first green province in
Indonesia. Subsequently, her efforts for Bali Green have included leading strategy for the Norway-Indonesia
REDD partnership and facilitating a public private partnership agreement with multinational BYD Co. Ltd.,
Shenzhen, China. In early 2010, Nichole was contacted by President Shimon Peres to serve as advisory
on the Israel - South Korea science and technology driven futures meetings with President Lee in Seoul,
June 2010.
Nichole and her firm, Rhodes Global Group, were profiled in a 2010 Harvard Business School Case Study.
The study explored her work with the Indonesian Government where she facilitated a program marketing
$20 billion dollars of Indonesian infrastructure bonds to the Middle East and North Africa.
Nichole was recognized at the World Economic Forum as a supporter and ambassador of South African
Spirit and Investment by the International Marketing Council of South Africa.
Prior to forming Rhodes Global Group, Nichole was Vice President of International Marketing & New
Business Development for Global Leadership Team in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. There, she was charged with
managing international marketing, strategic communications and business development—as well as key
engagements—and generated more than $4 million in new revenue in less than 2 years.
In 2006, Nichole was retained by General Motors specializing in International Marketing. In that role, she
developed marketing and communications strategies globally for GM Advanced/Green Technologies
partnerships with the Pentagon, the Army, the Marines, the EPA, the Department of Agriculture and the US
Senate.
Nichole studied at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts
for a Global Master of Arts degree in International Law & Diplomacy.
Nichole Rhodes. Brussels. Belgian Formula 1 Grand Prix.
Contact
WHO.
Kim Moore, Director, Rock Art Love
CALL.
917.410.0306
EMAIL.
kim@rockartlove.org