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Save the Date! The NEW Purpose of Fashion!

Save the Dates and Spread the Word! 28 and 29 July 2010






OUR BEST FASHION SHOW EVER!


HUMAN INTONATION’s signature annual fashion show & fundraiser is back! This year’s “The NEW Purpose of Fashion: HUMAN INTONATION” will showcase our newest AND hottest collection, feature live music & film and drive home our on-going 2010 campaign targeting youth & minority HIV/AIDS prevention. Plan to join us with our surprise special guests!

This fundraising event will benefit our HIV non-profit partner Advocates for Youth (www.advocatesforyouth.org)


The NEW Purpose of Fashion: HUMAN INTONATION
Date: Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Location: New York, NY
Doors Open: 7:30pm

Hosted by: International Recording Artist J-Harris of Maschil Entertainment!!!


Complimentary Drinks



Suggested Donation Scale: $20 - $50*
Donations over $50 for VIP seating (RSVP a must for VIP seating)
* Tax-deductible receipt for your donation available at the door



20% of the proceeds from each sale of our HUMAN INTONATION ‘Stop HIV’ Collection benefits Advocates for Youth. Check out our tees at www.humanintonation.com




IT DOES NOT END WITH FASHION!!!


Join us the following day for HUMAN INTONATION’s first co-ed HIV Forum. Never too HOT to talk about it! More info to come.

“Protection is the NEW Black”
Thursday, 29 July 2010
New York, NY
Doors Open @ 6:30pm

No Cover to attend the Forum

I still love this video!!

Fashion's Siren for Change: HUMAN INTONATION 2009

Marketing for AIDS Walk 2010

Thoughts from HUMAN INTONATION:

I have found this year's campaign for the AIDS Walk to be particularly engaging. Talk about 360 degree marketing - the AIDS Walk is everywhere from Print to Facebook, emails and texts, Parties and T-Shirts!!!

I also like this year's AIDS Walk insert in the Village Voice. The ADs featuring the services of the Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) taught me something. My two favorites were the one on page 13 - "I didn't think I could ask my partner to use condoms" and on page 15 - "I am a straight woman and I thought I was in a monogamous relationship". Both these Ads are followed by real talk about HIV and services offered by GMHC. I like these because they fall right in line with what HUMAN INTONATION has been promoting all year with our Women 2 Women HIV Roundtable Discussions - Empowering women to insist on protecting themselves.

This Sunday, 16 May marks the 25th Anniversary of the AIDS Walk in NYC. After several years of participating, HUMAN INTONATION will be making a contribution to two teams this year including those hosted by Maria Davis (MAD Soul Runners) and the African American Coalition Against AIDS (AACAA). Rain or shine we encourage all of you to come to Central Park to show our solidarity in ending the AIDS epidemic and support the GMHC.

HUMAN INTONATION congratulates GMHC for 25 years of providing needed services to those affected by HIV and AIDS.

For your Respect Life tee to rock at this year's AIDS Walk, Shop www.humanintonation.com. 20% will be donated to Advocates for Youth.org!

Why I started HUMAN INTONATION - part I

As I mentioned briefly in my last entry it was brought to my attention that many of my followers are still unaware of the reasons why I started HUMAN INTONATION a year and a half ago. So I will embark on a 3-part series to bring the back-drop to life starting with Katrina and leading up to our current work in HIV/AIDS prevention. I will also feature some of the classic H.I. tees associated with these stories and feel free to visit our website (http://www.humanintonation.com/) if you'd like to purchase and support!

HUMAN INTONATION - Classic Katrina KA Aftermath Men and Ladies Tees

20% of proceeds benefits Hands On New Orleans (http://www.handsonneworleans.org/)

Link to Purchase: http://www.humanintonation.com/proddetail.php?prod=kt004

True Life from Verneda: 29 August 2005 marked the beginning of a new chapter. My life would never be the same after that day when the powerful fury of Hurricane Katrina descended on New Orleans, LA. Every home, street, shop, and family heirloom that I knew growing up would be uprooted from existence as I knew them to be. My grandmother’s home in the lower 9^th Ward of New Orleans sat under 15 feet of water for two weeks after the levies broke. Nothing to be salvaged except one framed photo of my cousin Wesley that had survived on the marble coffee table in the front room although the ceiling had caved in and the rest of the furniture laid dismantled and rotting from water damage now 4 months after the storm.

Four months later, the storm looked like it had happened just days before. I drove not only through the 9^th Ward, but also into areas of New Orleans East where more members of my family lived. This area was not highlighted as much by the news so I was shocked to get off the highway to find nothing there- A dead suburban neighbourhood, four months after the storm. If I had the expectation that parts of the city were back up and running, I can only imagine what those who have no immediate connection to New Orleans, who are solely taking in their information by the media think. In many ways four months after the storm, New Orleans looks the same, as if it happened yesterday. FOUR years after the storm.

I needed to do something, a creative outlet to empower and support the rebuilding efforts in New Orleans, thus…apparel by HUMAN INTONATION. Today, the re-building efforts in New Orleans that HUMAN INTONATION has been fortunate enough to be a part of are making a difference in the lives of each person we’ve touched. In partnership with Hands On New Orleans (www.handsonneworleans.org), HUMAN INTONATION has completed two successful volunteer trips to New Orleans bringing volunteers to assist families in salvaging remains from the homes they have lived in for generations, removing debris from lots where nothing remained but a home’s cement foundation, and installing a playground in the yard of a charter school that spent months without electricity in its determination to bring education back to the city. Four years after Katrina, the work continues. Families are still trying to move back home. You too can continue to be a part of the rebuilding process by supporting Hands On New Orleans through the purchase of a classic HUMAN INTONATION Katrina KA Aftermath Tee. 20% of the proceeds from each sale are donated to Hands On New Orleans. This is the NEW Purpose of Fashion.

Fan Question: Do you think the post-Katrina work is done in New Orleans?

New Facebook Fanpage for HUMAN INTONATION

So over what feels like the last decade I have been working with a great friend of mine, Nnamdi Osuagwu of Strategic Generation and the author of "Facebook Addiction", to add a bit of spice to the life of the HUMAN INTONATION Facebook Fan Page. I am eternally grateful to Nnamdi and his team as anyone may guess I do not have a degree in comp sci so all that background technical woo hoo that you can do with Facebook is not something I plan to wrap my head around anytime soon. What is great through is that H.I. willl have a proper fan page where we can engage with our amazing fans, supporters, and friends. Updating images of new designs on a regular basis, direct links to http://www.humanintonation.com/, and a platform for you all to tell us what you think!

I also like that there will be space to tell a bit of the background as to why I started H.I. in the first place. Realizing that no one can read my mind it is time to put it out there. I will give you a taste of my experiences that led to the selecting the social causes that H.I. supports starting, of course, with my experience in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. (Check out my next post)

With the launch of the new Fanpage we will encourage all of you to join and if you are already a member of the H.I. - HUMAN INTONATION group on Facebook this is now double the fun. For more on Nnamdi, check out www.icecreammelts.com

It's about Freakin' Time H.I. has a blog

Ok so after being in business for a year and a half it's about time that HUMAN INTONATION has a blog. A user-friendly, constantly updated portal to what is happening with this fabulous apparel brand we have all come to love for being "The NEW Purpose of Fashion"!

In theory this was the purpose of the events page on my website www.humanintonation.com but got to love Big Bro Webmaster who does not always get to update the site when I would like it to be. We all know I am a take charge kind of gal so the HUMAN INTONATION blog has arrive. And no worries you can still catch us on FB and Twitter but here is the play by play action. Please follow!

I will be adding past info along the way so everything we have done so far will be in one place. Pics, Videos, scandelous stories, triumphs, and the unavoidable times I completely fall on my face will be here. Tell your peeps.

love,
Verneda