Yuri’s Night Party Profile: New York, NY
As one of the primary cultural and scientific hubs of the United States, New York City has always been a popular location for our Yuri’s Night events. Check out the following press release with more information about a fantastic Yuri’s Night event in New York being run by the Space Tourism Society:
On Saturday, April 10, at Manhattan’s Club DROM, the Space Tourism Society and Thrills & Skills host their 4th Yuri’s Night gala. The evening features space-themed music and video imagery, BELLA GAIA™ Live, instrumental trio Consider the Source, all-new stories and choreography by the New York Jedi Stage Combat Group, original space-inspired fashion show, space trivia games, DJ, dancing, a midnight toast, door prizes presented by the SFF, and other prizes throughout the evening.
The evening launches at 7pm with an open bar VIP cocktail hour. Mingle with today’s space and entertainment luminaries including Bob Werb (Chairman and Founder of the SFF), Dr. Denton Ebel (American Museum of Natural History’s Curator of Meteorites), Dr. Gregory Matloff (CUNY professor of Astrophysics), William Watson (Executive Director of the SFF), Jeff Krukin (NewSpace Advisor to the North Carolina Aerospace Alliance), Michael DeDora (Executive Director of the Center for Inquiry, New York), Carol Pinchefsky (Editor of SpaceFuture.com), John Huntington (CUNY professor of Entertainment Technology), and Kenji Williams (creator of BELLA GAIA™).
General Admission opens at 8pm and includes a door prize sponsored by the SFF of free registration to their annual NewSpace conference, held this year at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, CA.
Composer and violinist Kenji Williams will present “BELLA GAIA™ Live”, a poetic vision of Earth from Space. Developed in collaboration with NASA, BELLA GAIA™ is a celebration of Planet Earth and the music of our world, performed by a live ensemble coordinated with gorgeous satellite imagery. “BELLA GAIA is just beautiful. It really felt like I was back in space”, said Piers Sellers, NASA astronaut and spacewalker.
“As a human, I reason that the human exploration and habitation of space are necessary endeavors, and ultimately one and the same. It is my hope that human communities will act in concert to speed this endeavor, regardless of their ‘public’ or ‘private’ nature. As a scientist who studies the rocks drifted into our orbit from far off places, I hope explorers visit those places in my lifetime. The optimism and potential of the NewSpace enterprises are welcome fuel for that hope.” -Dr. Denton Ebel, Curator of Meteorites, American Museum of Natural History
Visit http://www.spacetourismsocietyny.org/yurisnight for more information about the event, and http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/98819 to purchase tickets. (Enter the promotional code “2010NYYN” for $5 off each advance ticket.)
