Dear Friends,
We've had a super busy month over here at
On the Leesh. What You Can Do has
continued our summer campaigns honoring our oceans from coast to coast,
featuring simple ideas on how to protect our oceans based on interviews
with The Parker Manatee Aquarium at The South Florida Museum
and The
Monterey Bay Aquarium.
On July 20th, we held an event - "Plastics Art for a Healthy Ocean" at
the Bushwick Coffee House in Brooklyn. We asked artists to create
works of art on repurposed plastic. Thanks to everyone who made the event
a huge success!
And we're incredibly excited to announce
that our video - Snooty: Senior and Loving was selected by MSN to run on
their home page. Major congratulations to Snooty the Manatee for inspiring all of us, and a
tremendous thank you to Marilyn Margold, the South Florida Museum and everyone involved in
making this video a success!
Hope you're all staying cool in this heat!
The On the Leesh Team
This month, we were inspired by Sarah-Mae Nelson of
the The Monterey Bay Aquarium. Her commitment to our oceans
inspired her to go plastic free for an entire year. Watch this video to find more about her experience.
Wanna follow in Sarah's footsteps? Don't worry, you don't have to give up
all plastic products for the year! Sarah-Mae offers simple one minute
ideas on how you can make a difference.
To honor our ocean's we produced an event
called "Plastic Art for a Healthy Ocean." Held
on July 20th at the Bushwick Coffee House in Brooklyn, we asked
artists to submit works of art on recycled plastic. Our winner, Courtney
Miller, was awarded a gift pack from Celebritay. We also made donations in her
name to The Monterey Bay Aquarium and The Parker Manatee Aquarium. The
event featured a charity concert with performances by Kntrlr, Janet LaBelle and The Sea Monsters.
Thank you to everyone who made the night a huge success!
July 19th marked the 65th Birthday of Snooty the Manatee! Snooty has
Thanks to everyone for making our continued oceans
campaign, a success as well as everyone who got involved in the conversation on
Facebook.
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UP NEXT
As we wind down the Summer, we'll offer more one
minute ways to help the health of our oceans and all the creatures living
within them.
Coming up in September we will devote an entire
month to the ideas of anti-bullying and spreading kindness and compassion.
We're teaming up with the Anti Defamation League, and we will offer simple
one minute ways to combat the issue of cyber-bullying. Last September,
our campaign with Rachel's Challenge raised 10,000 acts of
kindness, so this year we're re-teaming for our second annual "Kindness
Week." Stay tuned.
Be sure to write in and share your ideas on how to protect our oceans!
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
On the Leesh President, Alicia Arinella, was named
the 2012 Accolade Competition Humanitarian of the Year.
Her interview has just been released, and you can check it out here. We offer our sincere thanks to the
Accolade Competition for their continued support and for this amazing
recognition.
In addition, What You Can Do won a Gold
Remi Award from Houston
WorldFest for Commercials/Public Service Announcements. We're so
thrilled with this honor.
It's been a busy year for us, and we wish to extend our heartfelt thanks
to the entire cast and production crew of What You Can Do, as well as
the wonderful organizations we partner with, and our incredible fans and
community!
Wanna know more?
OUR BLOG
Stop by our What
You Can Do blog for new posts and features like Missy's
Homestead. Also visit the On the Leesh blog for the latest news and
happenings on all our projects. Get in on the conversation & let us
know what you'd like to read about next!
JOIN US ON PINTEREST
Min' Ette, the face of the Unstoppable
Minute Vlog, has been busy mining the web for facts and beautiful
images of our oceans.
On the Leesh would like to extend our
congratulations to our clients at Super Styling Sessions: Jay Scruggs and Sue
Zecco. Our video won the Barkleigh Award for "Best DVD 2012"
which is the follow up for our Barkleigh Award win of "Best DVD Series -
2011."
Check out our corporate video site for new video clips from our
clients and contact us to learn more about maximizing visibility for your
company.
