A Week for SAMA



We would not have been able to put on the show without our many partner clubs, and we wanted to take the time to give recognition to one club in particular: Student Association for Medical Aid (SAMA).  SAMA sold 75 tickets for our final show, which was an amazing contribution to SynesthASIA, and The Abhilasha Project benefited greatly from the ticket revenues generated by SAMA, so we wanted to say thank you again for all your hard work.  We also wanted to give a head’s up to everyone that SAMA is hosting an AMAZING event at Tonic Clublounge THIS SATURDAY!  You can get your ticket ($10) from any SynesthASIA exec member.  See below or the facebook event page for more information.

Don't miss out on THE Valentine's Day weekend party!

Event Info:

“Love for SAMA – Wear Pink, Red and White”

SAMA (Student Association for Medical Aid) is a non-profit organization run by McGill students. We raise funds during the year and all monies raised are used to establish humanitarian projects in developing nations (no funds are spent on our members’ travel expenses or accommodations). Some of our common projects are mobile medical clinics, latrine building projects, and education about basic hygiene and AIDS.  We are also working to establish sustainable means for communities to earn an income. It is also our goal to build community leaders in order to ensure the success of these projects continues on. This year we will be traveling to Kenya, Georgia and returning to Uganda.

In order to facilitate these projects, we are throwing a club night at Tonic Club Lounge, Saturday, February 12^th, 2011.

Theme: “Love for SAMA – Wear Pink, Red and White”

Tickets are $10 and in return for your support there will open bar for the ladies before midnight and complimentary red roses and Hershey kisses.

Tonic Club Lounge: 2313 STE. Catherine Quest / www.tonicclublounge.com

See you there!

Love,

Your SynesthASIA Exec

Less than two weeks away…

That’s right.  The event you’ve been waiting for is almost upon us. The SynesthASIA 2011 Charity Fashion Show is taking place in less than two weeks! Friday, January 28th the doors will open at Telus Theatre at 9pm and the show starts at 10pm!  Get ready for an hour and a half of AMAZING fashion from established and student designers from all across Montreal (we even have an import from NYC showing for us!) Following the show we have an awesome after party planned with 2 fantastic DJs ready to spin the night away with us.

*Disclaimer: this post is quite dense with information, we apologize in advance for this*

A big THANK YOU to everyone who came out to Tonic Friday night for the Pre-Party! It was so great to see everyone out supporting us, so thank you again and we hope everyone had as much fun as we did!

Over the next two weeks we will be doing a brief writeup about each of the many fabulous designers we are showcasing this year, beginning with Anomal Couture! Check back on Tuesday for the post

In other news, we have some information regarding TICKET SALES for the show! We will be updating this information as we establish more times for sales around Montreal.  All of the information can be found on the Final Show! page but we will repost the ticket sales information here today in case people miss the other page.

There is less than a week left to take advantage of the $15 PRESALE price – this discount ends Friday, January 21st at midnight, so get your tickets before then and save $3!

WHEN & WHERE TO BUY TICKETS:

MCGILL

Friday, January 21st; 11-4PM in Bronfman Lobby (THIS IS THE LAST DAY TO BUY PRESALE TICKETS)

Tuesday, January 25th; 11-4PM in McConnell Engineering hallway, 1st floor (Also selling baked goods!)

Wednesday, January 26th; 11-4PM in Bronfman Lobby

Thursday, January 27th; 11-4PM in Bronfman Lobby

More dates will be posted shortly. Email synesthasiamontreal@gmail.com with any questions or requests.

CONCORDIA, 2nd floor Hall Building

Friday, January 21st; 10-6PM (THIS IS THE LAST DAY TO BUY PRESALE TICKETS)

Tuesday, January 25th; 10-4PM

Wednesday, January 26th; 10-6PM

LASALLE

We will be selling tickets over the next 2 weeks at LaSalle College, specific time and dates will be posted shortly. Contact Shafraaz Dossa – promotions@synesthasia.org – for more information.

That’s it for now, keep checking back for more information, or send us an email at synesthasiamontreal@gmail.com with any question you may have.

Can’t wait to see you at the show!

Love,

Your SynesthASIA Exec

Pre-Party Extravaganza

In our last post we mentioned an event before the final show, and we weren’t lying.  This Friday, January 14th Friday Night Live! is happy to present the SynesthASIA PRE-PARTY at Tonic Club Lounge!

Come party with the cast and crew of SynesthASIA 2011!

The Details:

SYNESTHASIA PRE-PARTY

FRIDAY, JANUARY 14th from 10pm-3am

TONIC CLUB LOUNGE [2313 St. Catherine's West, Pepsi Forum, Atwater Entrance]

This will be your last chance to party with the entire SynesthASIA cast before the big night on January 28th, so you don’t want to miss it!  And the best part, the infamous FNL BEAT THE CLOCK SPECIAL:

- BEFORE MIDNIGHT, GIRLS GET IN FREE AND GUYS PAY $5 -

Same deal as last time, email synesthasiamontreal@gmail.com with GUESTLIST in the subject line, then specify your name and the number of guests you will be bringing.  You have to be on the guestlist in order to take advantage of the deal.

For more information or any bottle/table service requests, please email synesthasiamontreal@gmail.com

We can’t wait to see everyone there!

Love,

Your SynesthASIA Exec

 

A Quick Peek into the SynesthASIA Life

First off, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to everyone who came out to one (or all) of our events last week!  Everything was a major success and we would not have been able to do it without your help!  We raised over $1500 last week ALONE!

In return for helping us out, we thought it was only fair to give you a peek behind the scenes of all of the events we’ve held so far, enjoy!

 

Judges deliberating on the first night of model auditions at Tonic. Courtesy of John Kelsey Photography

 

Thanks to John Kelsey for coming out to photograph the first night of auditions! You can email him at contact@johnkelsey.ca for more information, or check out the rest of his work here.

 

One of our models striking a pose during auditions. Fierce! Courtesy of John Kelsey Photography

 

 

Eager to register hopeful models and dancers. Courtesy of John Kelsey Photography.

 

 

A male model hopeful struts his stuff for the judges. Courtesy of John Kelsey Photography.

 

 

Some members of our amazing exec team gearing up for the final night of auditions! Photo by Sophie Tremblay.

 

After auditions finished and the judges had picked the models and dancers for this year’s show, we hosted a Cast Orientation so that all of the cast could meet us (the exec) and go over the preliminary plans for the show.  We even had time for some games (and pizza of course!)

 

Playing some introductory games. Photo by Sophie Tremblay.

 

 

"What's your most embarrassing moment?" Photo by Sophie Tremblay.

 

 

One of this year's featured designers was on hand for a preliminary fitting. Photo by Sophie Tremblay.

 

 

Some of our models waiting for things to get started. Photo by Sophie Tremblay.

 

 

SYN BEAUTY BAR - if you missed out, we may be holding another one in January...

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you made it to Gerts last Friday afternoon for our Beauty Bar, you know what a success it turned out to be!  Shoutout to Evie, our set design manger and henna tattooist extraordinaire and Andi, our VP Sponsorship, the girl was a manicure machine!

 

Evie working on one of her wonderful henna tattoos. Photo by Erin O'Callaghan.

 

 

Andi giving one of her legendary manicures. Photo by Erin O'Callaghan.

 

And finally, we wouldn’t be SynesthASIA if we didn’t know how to PARTY! Here are some pics from the Cast Party we threw for the cast and crew of SynesthASIA 2011, graciously hosted by Tonic Clublounge.

 

Some members from the Abhilasha Project, the charity we are working with this year. Photo by Sophie Tremblay.

 

 

Our VP External, hard at work even during a night out! Photo by Sophie Tremblay.

 

 

Breaking it down on the dancefloor. Photo by Sophie Tremblay.

 

We hope you enjoyed that brief look behind the scenes of SynesthASIA, and stay tuned for more events coming up shortly!

Love,

Your SynesthASIA Exec

Viral Vids and Blog Excitement

So we’re getting pretty excited for Friday, what with Syn Beauty Bar happening at Gerts in the afternoon and the SynesthASIA Cast Party at Tonic that night [details here and here],it’s going to be a busy and fabulous day!  We are, in fact, so excited that we made this video for your viewing pleasure. Thanks to Sophie, our video master extraordinaire!

COME GETCHO NAILS DID - FRIDAY, NOV 12; 12-4PM; GERTS

In other exciting news, SynesthASIA was featured on Fusion Culture, an awesome blog run out of Chicago.  Check out the post about us and the rest of the blog for some really interesting articles about “all things cool” – OBVIOUSLY this is why we were featured!

See you Friday! Don’t forget to email us at synesthasiamontreal@gmail.com for guestlist for the cast party!

Love,

Your SynesthASIA Exec

PARTY TIME!

Want to come party with the models and dancers of this year’s SynesthAsia Fashion Show?  Here’s your chance.

FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE! PROUDLY PRESENTS:

SYNESTHASIA CAST PARTY

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH [10PM - 3AM]

TONIC NIGHTCLUB [2313 St. Catherine's West, Pepsi Forum, Atwater Entrance)

The entire cast and exec of SynesthAsia 2011 will be dressed to the nines and ready to party.  There will also be a MODEL AUCTION during the night, and we will be announcing our RAFFLE prize winners as well.  We will be selling raffle tickets before the Cast Party on November 8th in McConnell Engineering at our Bake Sale and at Syn Beauty Bar on Friday, Nov 12 from 12-4PM in Gerts Bar.  Prizes include a gift certificate to Rouge Nail Bar for a mani/pedi + an OPI nail polish of your choice, 2 pairs of 2 tickets to a Montreal Canadiens hockey game, a pair of tickets to a Toronto Raptors basketball game and an iPod nano!

This is going to be a night you don't want to miss!  And, if all this wasn't incentive enough, GET THERE BEFORE MIDNIGHT, GIRLS GET IN FREE, GUYS PAY ONLY $5!!!

It's the infamous BEAT THE CLOCK SPECIAL at TONIC!!

So email us at synesthasiamontreal@gmail.com with GUESTLIST in the subject line and your name and how many people you will be bringing.  You have to get on our guestlist to take advantage of the beat the clock special!

For more information, or bottle service requests, please email synesthasiamontreal@gmail.com.

We can't wait to see everyone there!

Love,

Your SynesthAsia Exec

 

PARTYPARTYPARTY

 

Thank You Pretty People of Montreal!

Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who came out the past 3 days to our auditions! We really appreciate the support, and we saw some amazing models and dancers this week!

For those of you who auditioned, our VP Internal will contact you by the end of next week to let you know our decision.  In the mean time, get some rest, enjoy the weekend and start getting stoked for Halloween!  Any great costume suggestions out there?

 

Love this time of year.

 

Here’s something ridiculously awesome to get you excited for the weekend.  I mean the girl is NINE. You just can’t hate her.

Have a fabulous Friday!

Love

Your SynesthASIA Exec

LAST DAY OF AUDITIONS!

Hurry! Don’t miss it! Today is the LAST DAY FOR MODEL/DANCER AUDITIONS FOR SYNESTHASIA!

We want everyone and anyone to be there, bring yo swag people!

HAPPENING:

TONIGHT @ TONIC NIGHTCLUB [2313 St. Catherine West and Atwater - the entrance is actually on Atwater, right beside the entrance to Forum 22] – Metro Atwater

7-9PM

Dancers, please be there at 7PM so that you can register and have time to warm up before the auditon starts!

Models, drop in anytime between 7 and 9PM; girls don’t forget to bring heels!

If the incessant facebook posts, emails, fliers and messages aren’t enough incentive, why not come show up the exec members who think they’re all that?

SynesthASIA Exec Shows Us How It’s Done [We're youtube famous! well, almost ]

Where have all the pretty people gone?

Yep, it’s that time of year again.  The leaves are changing, turkey dinners abound, and SynesthASIA 2011 Model/Dancer Auditions are next week! That’s right, starting next Tuesday, October 19 we are holding auditions at Tonic Nightclub (2313 St. Catherine West) on St. Catherine’s and Atwater [metro station: Atwater].

Ladies, please don’t forget to bring HEELS and your fiercest walk, and for the men out there, we want to see some swagger! No experience necessary, just come out and walk for us!  P.S. Exec is mostly female this year, so boys you might want to capitalize on this

Auditions for models will run on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week (October 19-21) from 7-9 PM

Dancer auditions will be held on Wednesday and Thursday (October 20 & 21) at the same time as the model auditions (7-9PM).  Dress comfortably as you will be learning choreography and showing off your skills to our head dance choreographer.

And finally, here is a little something to brighten your Tuesday morning and get you in the dancing mood

We look forward to seeing everyone at the auditions, good luck!

Your SynesthASIA Exec

 

Calling all the pretty people! SynesthASIA 2011 Model/Dancer Auditions!