[OLPC_Boston] Every Person has a Story--meet child photographers in Haiti, Cambodia, Rwanda, DR

[ryan ansin]

Hi Everybody,

Thank you, Adam, for passing the message along. This night is looking like
it is going to be a great time while being very successful for EPHAS. We
would love to see everybody there. If you were not on my list and have yet
to receive an invite, you can click:

http://event.pingg.com/EPHASDillons

I look forward to seeing all of you there. Please invite everybody who you
think may be interested in our projected and let me know if I can send you
any information to further entice you!

Best,

G. Ryan Ansin
EPHAS.org
Every Person Has a Story


On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:

>  *Please let me know if you're able to attend Apr 15 -- Ryan continues to
> do a tremendous job giving out cameras to kids in Haiti (where I met him) &
> beyond!
> --Adam*
>
>
>   Subject: Lining up a very fun night  Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 15:19:55
> -0600  From: ryan ansin <GRyanAnsin at EPHAS.org> <GRyanAnsin at EPHAS.org>
> Hey everyone,
>
> I hope life is going well back east. While Chicago is a great place and
> I've been lucky enough to be traveling for EPHAS and miss most of the bad
> weather, there's no place like home. Also, I get terribly lost in this city
> because I do not have the Pru as a landmark to tell me where I am at all
> times. Otherwise things are great.
>
> I'm writing to you because you have all shown much appreciated interest and
> support for EPHAS over its short lifetime and it is thanks to you that we
> have experienced such great success already. We currently have eleven
> locations throughout Cambodia, Rwanda, Haiti and the DR running our
> workshops and are gaining exposure through galleries and other displays
> around the country. We are beginning to hold exhibitions and bar nights, the
> latter of which is where I hope you will come in.
>
> As you can see on the attached invitation and on the one that you will soon
> receive once I get the mailing all set up, we are looking to hold a bar
> night at Dillon's on Boylston on April 15th and in order to make it a huge
> success, I need your help. This is going to be a very low pressure
> event--some raffles and images displayed but otherwise, just an excuse to
> get together and tip some back in EPHAS' name. No tickets, just a "suggested
> donation" for those willing and able. Where you come in is I need help
> driving people to the event. Starting over a month out, if you get the
> information out to all of your friends, colleagues and family members, I
> think that we could have quite a crowd on our hands.
>
> Being a new organization, it does take a few attempts and reminders to get
> people out in support so whatever I can do to help facilitate bringing your
> respective groups into it, I am all ears. Most of our invites/rsvp will be
> electronic but if you think that physical invitations will help get certain
> peoples' attention then let me know and I will send them to you. Phone
> calls, emails, brochures, one-sheets...we have it all ready to be deployed!
> If you can get me peoples' emails directly then I can get them excited as
> well and make less work for you.
>
> Not to over complicate things but for people who you think would be
> interested in EPHAS but not up for a bar night, we are having a brunch on
> Sunday the 17th in Cambridge for some new donors and people who are
> interested in getting more involved.
>
> This is all to say, simply, I would so so so much appreciate if you could
> get this out to your networks and help make this night a success. It will
> often take more than a single mention of the event or our organization, but
> not much more. If you go with the tag line, "They implement photography
> workshops in schools, orphanages and medical facilities all over the world
> to allow participants to document their own lives instead of relying on the
> the general media to do an incomplete job of it," people usually want to
> hear more.
>
> Thank you all so much for your interest and support thus far--we really
> could not be where we are without each of you. I look forward to hearing
> from you and grabbing some drinks when I'm back in the Boston area for a
> solid chunk of time in April for these events, school appearances and more.
>
> --
> G. Ryan Ansin
> Executive Director
>
> EPHAS.org
> Every Person has a Story
>
>
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-- 
G. Ryan Ansin
Executive Director
978-502-7508

EPHAS.org
Every Person has a Story
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