On April 26, 2010 Design Annex and Sprout hosted CrossHatch at Design Annex in Union Square, Somerville, gathering many of the collaborative groups, design collectives, artist communities and coworking spaces throughout greater Boston.
oneforty (the app store for Twitter) enlisted my event planning help to bring their ideas to life at a party to celebrate their new office. I recommended the food and drink menus, arranged the party space’s layout including balloons and flowers and took event photos during the event. I’m definitely looking forward to the opportunity to work with Laura “@pistachio” Fitton and the rest of the gang at oneforty again.
oneforty office warming party event photos
I shot an assortment of photos capturing the participants and happenings throughout oneforty’s office warming party. View the photo album at Sooz Photography.
Event Planning for Startups and Office Warming Events
If you would like help planning a party at your new office space, get in touch by emailing contact-at-soozmedia.com or call (617) 379-0637. I can help you plan a party for 20 people or 2,000 people including meal and drink planning with local chefs, restaurants and beverage consultants. Onsite help during the event is also available so you can enjoy the party and talk to your guests without worrying about the details.
I joined friends for an Earth Day dinner at Dot2Dot Cafe on April 22, 2010. The restaurant featured an entirely vegan menu. If you’ve never been to Dot2Dot Cafe I highly recommend it. It’s a short walk from the Shawmut stop on the Red Line. Seriously delicious.
I’m organizing a new music series called Do It Solo. It’s a night for Boston rockers who usually play with a full band. At Do It Solo, they break out on their own. This is a music series for music appreciators who like to listen. Hint: solo performances mean it’s not going to be a loud rock show to talk your way through. Listening rocks!
The first Do It Solo show is coming up on Wednesday, February 24th at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge at 1667 Mass Ave. The featured performers are Marc Pinansky (from Township), Ian Adams, and Nate Leavitt (The Blizzard of 78). Doors open at 8:30pm and the first performer goes on at 9pm. Discounted admission of $5 is available to everyone who is on The Sooz List and it’s $8 for everyone else.
Before the music starts, Sooz Media is hosting a tweetup (social mixer) upstairs at Cambridge Common from 7-8:30pm. The first 15 people who attend (and have RSVP’d in advance) will get a free beer.
I’m hosting the 1st Annual Soozapalooza at Precinct in my neighborhood of Union Square, Somerville on Saturday, January 23rd. In a previous life, the building that Precinct is in was home to the Somerville police station.
Design Annex was bustling with people at the grand opening and open house last week for the new coworking space for designers and creatives in Somerville’s Union Square. In between meeting a lot of interesting people, I shot a few photographs and here’s the gallery. Click on each photo to see a larger image.
One of my event planning projects, Free Agent Jungle, hosts networking lunches for freelancers, free agents and consultants in the Boston area. The next event is coming up on Thursday, November 19th at Tavern In The Square in Porter Square, Cambridge. My favorite aspect of the lunch is the diverse group of participants from many different fields of work who attend: attorneys, writers, publicists, marketers, technologists, engineers, architects, graphic designers and more. It’s a great event if you want to get out of your home office for a couple hours or find a collaborator (or referral) for new work.
I recently joined forces with Union Square Main Streets to work with Executive Director Mimi Graney on web projects including refreshing the Union Square Main Street’s website and social media projects. As part of the collaboration, I’m working out of their new Design Annex coworking space that Union Square Main Streets recently opened above Precinct. Established for designers and other creatives, the Design Annex offers desk space and other office perks for freelancers who typically work from home.
If you’re curious about Design Annex (especially if you are a designer/creative) — stop by on Thursday, October 15th 4-6pm to see the space. The address is 66-70 Union Square, Somerville.
photo of TECH Cocktail co-hosts Eric Olson and Frank Gruber with Laura Fitton (@Pistachio) who demo’d her new startup One Forty with her team at the TECH Cocktail Boston event on 9/3/09
NOTE: Right now seven of the photos from TECH Cocktail Boston 3 are not showing up on the TECH Cocktail website but you can see them on the Flickr photo album.
This is the new website where I will be documenting and sharing information about my work world happenings. My personal website remains at www.sooz.com. Sooz Media has a Twitter account, too, of course.
