Let’s Play™ a new series to debut in Q2 2009 on the Event City Network™ will allow Bands, Musicians and Performers to showcase their talents on the Event City Network and other areas within the Event City family of websites. It will give all members of Event City the opportunity to see the great talent available through our Events & Creative Portal.
To be included in this future project please send your request to our Music Channel Beta.
Enjoy and Let’s Play™!
The Fox Oakland Theater Opens!
Press Tour, Ribbon Cutting Ceremony & Gala
Thurs., Feb. 5, 2009
www.thefoxoakland.com, www.apeconcerts.com
January 29, 2009 / Oakland, CA – Upon completion of extensive renovations to restore the historic FOX Oakland Theater to its treasured state, the resplendent and historic downtown entertainment and cultural venue opens its doors on Thursday, Feb. 5.
**Prior to the ribbon cutting ceremony, working media will be allowed to participate in a press tour of the building. Interested media must RSVP to for the media tour that begins at 5:00 p.m.
Opening festivities begin with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 6:00 p.m. Participants include: Oakland Mayor Ronald V. Dellums; State Attorney General Jerry Brown; Janet Lamkin, California Market President Bank of America; Claudia Robinson, Senior Vice President Community Development Banking, Bank of America; Patricia Dedekian, President, Friends of the Oakland Fox; Phil Tagami, Managing General Partner, California Capital Group and; Gregg Perloff, President, Another Planet Entertainment.
Following the ribbon cutting ceremony, the gala will begin at 7:00 p.m., cocktail attire. Dance to the music of Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue and Don Neely’s Royal Society Jazz Orchestra. Special entertainment provided by: The Oakland School for the Arts Jazz Ensemble, The Oaktown Vaudeville Revue, The Decobelles, soprano Sophia Chew, fire dancers, stilt walkers and others.
Gala tickets are $250 each. Enjoy buffet dining, California wines and martini bar. Valet parking is available for $10 or FREE parking is available at the Rotunda Garage, enter on 17th Street, between Telegraph and San Pablo.
For additional historic information or to purchase gala tickets, visit www.foxoakland.org.
“We are excited that the landmark Fox Theater will once again light up downtown Oakland,” said Mayor Ron Dellums. “This project underscores the important role arts and entertainment play in economic development.”
Another Planet Entertainment will manage the day-to day operations of the theater.
ABOUT THE FOX THEATER
When it opened in 1928, the Fox Oakland Theater was widely regarded as one of the finest theaters on the West Coast. Originally a 3200 seat movie theater and vaudeville house, it later served as a live performance venue. In its day, the Fox was the jewel of the Uptown, but like most inner city theaters across America it ultimately fell victim to the times, and closed its doors in 1966, operated briefly under a number of independent operators and closed for good in 1973.
The re-opening of the Fox Theater in 2009 as a live performance venue and new home for the Oakland School for the Arts is the culmination of a 10 year effort by the City‘s Redevelopment Agency to restore life to this historic building and to the Uptown District.
The strategy to renovate the Fox began back in 1996 when the City’s Redevelopment Agency purchased the theater from the Delucchi family. Badly deteriorated from years of neglect, the theater was a blighting influence on the entire neighborhood, attracting vandals, the homeless and endless opportunities for graffiti. Its very presence discouraged new investment in the neighborhood.
In order to turn the situation around, the Redevelopment Agency, with the support of the newly formed Friends of the Oakland Fox (FOOF), began a series of small projects in 1999 thru 2001 including: replacing the roof, relocating the few tenants that occupied the building, and restoring the marquee to demonstrate that something good was soon coming.
In 2000, the Redevelopment Agency completed a Master Plan that outlined a number of development options for the theater. The options all contemplated a performing arts theater but varied in size and cost.
In the winter of 2002, the Redevelopment Agency, acting as the developer, selected a consultant team headed by Phil Tagami of California Capital Group (CCG) to develop the theater and school. The CCG concept caught the attention of then Mayor of Oakland, Jerry Brown. Mayor Brown suggested that the theater complex could be the new home for the Oakland School for the Arts, a performing arts charter school located downtown and desperately looking for space to expand. His interest in the Fox was a catalyst that provided a rallying point for those interested in restoring the theater and its surrounding wrap-around structure.
The Redevelopment Agency and Bank of America with CCG and their consultants designed a financial and ownership structure that allowed the project to attract over $20 million in tax credits. The team also worked closely with the City’s Redevelopment Agency to secure over $50 million for the project. An additional $7 million was received from state and federal grants. Friends of the Oakland Fox (FOOF) began the complex process of securing funds from myriad community donors.
In December 2006 Turner Construction, along with over 50 subcontractors and many local Oakland firms, began construction on the theater and school. Newly installed mechanical, electrical, plumbing and seismic systems combined the latest building technology with historic preservation. As of 2009, the completed project is the largest of its kind in the country.
The re-opening of the Fox Oakland Theater as a live music venue and home for Oakland School for the Arts is testament to the hard work and dedication of the people of Oakland, and will be a great source of pride for years to come. The Fox Oakland, along with the historic Paramount Theatre, will combine to anchor Oakland’s emerging arts and entertainment district, already evident in the housing, restaurants and clubs opening in the Uptown District.
The building is being dedicated to the men and women who restored it with care. Each of their names is located inside the building.
A key feature of the venue is accessibility. The FOX Oakland Theater is BART-friendly, located just across the street from the 19th Street station in downtown Oakland. In addition, visit our website at www.thefoxoakland.com for detailed parking information.
ABOUT ANOTHER PLANET ENTERTAINMENT
Another Planet Entertainment, LLC (Another Planet) was created on July 18, 2003 when Gregg W. Perloff, President/CEO of Bill Graham Presents, left to build his own company. Shortly thereafter he was joined by longtime colleagues at Bill Graham Presents Sherry Wasserman, former Senior VP and Head of Concert Production at BGP, and Steve Welkom, former Senior VP of Administration and Business Development for BGP.
Since its inception, Another Planet Entertainment has produced over 700 events with artists as diverse as Radiohead, Neil Young, Daft Punk, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Metallica, James Taylor, Jack Johnson, Kanye West, Robert Plant & Allison Krauss, Phish, The White Stripes, Death Cab For Cutie, Shania Twain, Nine Inch Nails, Simon & Garfunkel and Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals. All this was accomplished in addition to over 1,000 shows with developing artists at The Independent – our San Francisco showcase club.
In its first year of operation, Another Planet Entertainment was honored to be selected by a vote of its concert industry peers as “Promoter of the Year” in the United States by Pollstar Magazine. In 2004 and 2005, Another Planet was pleased to be named “Independent Promoter of the Year.”
Within the past two years, Another Planet has successfully produced two major festivals in San Francisco – Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival in Golden Gate Park in 2008 and Treasure Island Music Festival on Treasure Island in both 2007 and 2008.
Come Celebrate the
Grand Reopening of the
Fox Oakland Theater
February 5, 2009
7:00 – 11:00 PM
Dance to the music of
Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue
Don Neely’s Royal Society Jazz Orchestra
Buffet Dining • California Wines • Martini Bar
Valet Parking Available $10
or
Free Parking at the Rotunda Garage
Enter on 17th Street, between Telegraph and San Pablo
Cocktail Attire
Tickets are now available
Your Hosts
The City of Oakland
Bank of America, N.A.
Friends of the Oakland Fox
California Capital Group/California Commercial Investments
Another Planet Entertainment • Oakland School for the Arts
Tickets are now available at
$250/each
Please visit
www.foxoakland.org to purchase tickets
Our evening includes special entertainment by:
The Oakland School for the Arts Jazz Ensemble
The Oaktown Vaudeville Revue
The Decobelles
Soprano Sophia Chew
Fire Dancers
Stilt Walkers
and more
Your Hosts
The City of Oakland
Bank of America, N.A.
Friends of the Oakland Fox
California Capital Group/California Commercial Investments
Another Planet Entertainment • Oakland School for the Arts
Event City Central Helps Sponsor Local 44 Industry Picnic
This is a great event and the Event City Network’s promotional Strategic event, the Event City Central will play a role in supporting this wonderful outdoor event – a picnic, industry-showcase!!
We look forward to making a lot of new industry friends as we share our vision for the Event City Network with thousands of Movie Industry Professionals.
If you have an interest in reaching the Motion Picture Industry but can’t make it to Southern California ask us about sending down some of your brochures with our EC Central Team.
Shoot us an email and call to be certain you reach us quickly.
Event City Network – 650.360.1122
to check your email via the web go to:
http://mail.eventcity.net
Type in your Login/User name
Then type in your password and click enter or return
That’s all there is too it.
If you have any other questions email me.
Cheers,
Nolan
To David and all Broadcast Crew and Talent:
We need to create a list of questions to ask anyone who has reached some kind of success in the Film Industry, or any industry where you “Produce”.
Let’s come up with a list of questions that our Talent or Interviewers will ask when conducting interviews with those successful Producers.
Send them to my email address and/or to David’s email address.
Cheers,
Nolan Apostle
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Events & Creative Industries Magazine:
Launch of Event City Creative Blog and Zine Good morning East Coast, happy dreaming West Coast! I welcome you to the Event City Network’s™ magazine blog. The first of it’s kind to be presented within the United States and as far as we know, within the entire Global Internet! I present to you on this First day of June 2007, our first Blog of hopefully many more to come, for the Event City Network’s™ online publication, EVENT CITY CREATIVE™. What is the Event City Creative™ and what type of publication will it be? It is an online “Mag and Zine” for the Events & Creative Industries™ soon to be in Beta Test. The Event City Network™ is the new Online Service Portal for these industries and all their vertical markets.
http://eventproducts.wordpress.com — Our Emporium Site – Marketplace Channel
http://netretailing.wordpress.com — Internet Ecommerce – This should eventually migrate to discuss and report on any types of Ecommerce solutions that could help or relate to OUR industries.
http://creativemag.blogspot.com/ — Creative Magazine to launch late Q1, early Q2 2008 – This is to be the prototype for the EC Creative Magazine.
http://dfalickiblog.wordpress.com — This blog was originally created to communicate with one of our partners, David Falicki; it is still used for that, but I also am using it for more “loose” content and to have a little fun. David works in the Movie industry and has been a long time friend, since the early 80’s (Peacequake 1982 is where we met), I was producing a show and he came to help through a mutual friend, his lovely Carolyn Duffy. David doesn’t use email so this was my solution to be able to send him important content and messages. He is currently on the new Jim Carey movie working with the French man who has the new invention, the Roller Body Suit. This will be the first time it is seen in the United States. We will be meeting with him sometime soon to discuss possibly rolling out this product in the USA (No pun intended). We’ll report on the Roller Body Suit soon on our BlogaZine.
As you check out these pages please send us feedback by leaving Comments on each site. I look forward to hearing from you and reading your comments.
Cheers,
Nolan
To: Falicki and Friends,
I’m still waiting to see how well ya all can write!! I know you are very capable of speaking a bunch of good stuff, but how’s your writing skills Bub? I am very impressed that you can actually find your way to your special Blog. So I hope you can find it in you to add a line of three to keep me posted on your happenings while we are in these busy times. Why don’t you talk about that crazy industry you are all in – what do they call those things that falicker — oops, I meant “flicker” on the screen?? You know, you play a ROLL in making it all come down the pipe!??
Yes MOVIES! That’s what they are called. So why don’t you put your pen to the test and start journalizing your experiences on that?
In the mean time, do keep your eyes and mouse pointed to our space at the Event City Creative Magazine where your comments are always welcomed and your ideas greatly appreciated. I look forward to hearing from you often and soon. Did you get my message about any of our upcoming treks to the big Diamond in the Desert (What I call Las Vegas – long story about that one)? This will be your chance to meet and greet the one and only….
OK, I’ll give you a couple of hints – It’s a Photo-imagers Disneyland come the end of the month. Then sometime soon after you will be Hospitalitized and crazyfied at one of the Event City Industries biggest and most illustrious Tradeshows ever! And finally – It’s Our party and we’ll cry if we want too, but just don’t miss all the great Halloween and Event industry products at this outrageous tradeshow. Industry insiders and surely many outsiders say of all tradeshows for all industries you will not have nearly as much fun as you will have at this upcoming show in March 2008! Read our BlogaZine, for all the details on these great industry events.
Damn that’s so good I think I’ll use it!!
Cheers, Nolan Apostle
Event City Creative Magazine
