New Boston Event: 1st Annual Soozapalooza on January 23rd

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.

Soozapalooza is a birthday party and a celebration of my favorite music. I’ve lined up some great bands to perform that night: Ryan Walsh (from Hallelujah The Hills), Good Night, States (in town from Pittsburgh), Houndstone and … the Soozapalooza Supergroup, featuring two dozen Boston musicians from Trucker Mouth, The Lights Out, Old Jack, Aloud, The Rationales, Three Day Threshold, The Liz Borden Band, Angeline and The Crushing Low. The night will end with late night karaoke 1-2am.

Festivities will also feature some of my creations: chocolate truffles and cocounut rum sorbet. If you’re a company with a cool product or service, make contact and inquire about contributing to the Soozapalooza prize vault. Giveaways include an 8GB iPod Nano compliments of Tech Superpowers. Sponsors will be noted before, during and after the event on the Soozapalooza website, Twitter, Facebook and the email list.

Photo Gallery: Design Annex Grand Opening and Open House

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.

Networking lunch for Boston freelancers on November 17th in Cambridge

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.

Learn more about the lunch on the Free Agent Jungle website.

Join Us! Union Square Main Streets Hosts Open House for Design Annex – Thursday, October 15th

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.

On Thursday, October 15th Design Annex is hosting an open house from 4-6pm. Anticipated guests include:

• Mayor Joseph Curtatone, City of Somerville
• Jason Schupbach, Creative Industry Director, MA Office of Economic Development
• Beate Becker, DIGMA (Design Industry Group of Massachusetts)
• Kathy McCabe, President, Mass Economic Development Council
• Meri Jenkins, Adams Arts Program, Mass Cultural Council

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.

Event Photography for TECH Cocktail Boston 3 on September 3rd

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

Frank Gruber and Eric Olson enlisted my event photography help for their TECH Cocktail networking + mixer event that came to Boston for the third time on Thursday, September 3rd at Tequila Rain. You can see the night’s photo album on the TECH Cocktail website and on the Flickr photo album.  Photos I took for TECH Cocktail Boston 2 last summer are on their website, too.

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.

Hello world, indeed!

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.