NYC Event Proposal

Harmony Hub - Estimated Cost: $46,050

(Itemized in the budget proposal below as Venue Site , Marketing costs.)

An experiential community center for a diverse mix of builders and creators to spend time in NYC doing more than just partying or sitting in a big dark conference hall. The space will be programmed and curated in partnership with established NFT community leaders experienced in hosting memorable satellite networking events during major conferences across the US, all with a shared mission. Collaborating on a 4-day hackathon event with GameFi and DAO innovation as the primary focus, providing valuable opportunities for builders to engage with Harmony in meaningful ways, telling a bigger story together.

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The Nifty Castle has proven experience producing memorable satellite events with meaningful engagement that reflects the environment and ecosystem of empowered builders and communities growing on the Harmony blockchain. We’re especially interested in investing into DAO models and start-ups as we work to develop the RobBossDAO concept in addition to our NFT projects.

Their community is an inclusive destination for everyone to explore the potential of NFTs as a new creative medium, and interact with memorable characters and immersive experiences. They’ve been building organically in the space since January 2021 and are recognized for taking a long-term, sustainable approach to development (similarly to Harmony). They’re here for the journey and growth of art and story in the NFT space, including GameFi, and they’re excited to contribute interactive programming to this hackathon event.

One of their main initiatives at NFT.NYC will be programming for #womeninweb3 and female leadership, as well as onboarding women builders and creators in the space through the WGF Women Artists’ Invitational project we started at NFT LA.

Professional background - Rich Beeman (co-founder of Nifty Castle) has serviced or directly managed accounts for global leaders like Ubisoft, Amazon Video, Philo, Red Bull TV, Hulu, the UFC, Sony Pictures Television, AMC, STARZ, PBS, Chatbooks, Sundance Institute, Fusion, VH1, EA SPORTS NBA LIVE, EA SPORTS UFC, and EA ACCESS, he helped launch a range of media startups including the largest branded Snapchat channel in the world.

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FreeRossDAO is an organization governed by the owners of $FREE, a token that represents fractional ownership in the artistic works of Ross Ulbricht. The Ross Ulbricht Genesis Collection auction began at Art Basel on December 2nd, 2021. It was meant to be a fundraiser for prisoner support and Ross Ulbricht’s freedom effort. The winning bid from our DAO was for 1446 ETH, and went directly towards these efforts.

Since then, their governance model has been used by other social impact DAOs such as AssangeDAO and UkraineDAO, along with mentions in Forbes, CNN, Bloomberg, and New York Times. An offshoot of art collective PleasrDAO, we are also committed to sharing the work of marginalized prisoners as well as humanizing issues around prison reform through creative expression

GROW IN THE DARK - site specific VR experience

Grow in the Dark is a digital colorized animation with Bitcoin-tokenized certificate of authenticity (COA). Made up of 318 individual black-and-white frames hand-drawn by Ross in prison.

The installation will physically recreate Ross’ prison cell with a 5min VR animation revisualizing his animation with new music and spoken words from Ross

“What began as a desire to track the development of my plant became a much bigger project. What are its surroundings? A cell? How did we get there? Am I there too? I played it over and over in my mind’s eye, imagining how it might look. However, I had no idea how laborious a little animation could be. A book light under a plastic bowl was my light. A marker pen, some basic geometry and sustained focus for many weeks. Oddly, I won’t see the animation myself, not unless I defy the idea it conveys and leave this cage before I grow old and die.” – Ross Ulbricht

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They are on a mission to bring Christopher Street to the metaverse with MetaPride Land. A universally safe-space for the global LGBTQ+ community. It is an always-on destination that provides 24/7 access to critical life saving and support services including sucide prevention, identity counseling, crisis support tools and resources to assist with housing, jobs, healthcare, etc.

Dland, The Sandbox and Cryptovoxels are fully committed and providing the land and build out for this year, Foodmasku is curating our NFT charity collection for June and OpenSea is the marketplace partner waiving all the fees so that the most money possible goes right back into our community. The collection will explore identity and feature some of the world’s leading queer, BIPOC and ally artists with all proceeds going right back to the community.

They have received the full support of Pride Live, the group that worked to secure the National Stonewall Monument and created Stonewall Day, and they believe MetaPride Land has the ability to be a platform for the next generation global gay rights movement and OutRight Action International is the only global LGBTIQ organization with consultative status and a permanent presence at the United Nations Headquarters, where they advocate for human rights and equality for LGBTQIA people, serve as secretariat of the UN LGBTI Core Group and act as a watchdog on all 193 world governments.

One of the founders is Jake Resnicow, who has produced events all over the world supporting causes and raising funds for AIDs research, homeless LGBTQ+ individuals, and restaurant and event support workers impacted throughout the pandemic. Most recently Jake and his team raised over $500k for LGBTQ+ charities during the 50th Anniversary celebration of Pride and the Stonewall riots. Matt Stevenson, founder, has spent his career building and supporting brands and consumer experiences at Conde Nast and TIME, most recently building TIMEPieces, the wildly successful web3 initiative.

As the world is adjusting to our new normal, dealing with discriminatory legislation and hopefully putting COVID behind us, we want to ensure all LGBTQ+ individuals and allies regardless of physical location have access to celebrate their queer and gender non-conformaing identities in a safe and welcoming space. Once a year Metapride Land will transform into MetaPride Fest where we will bring the physical celebrations taking place all over the world to the metaverse with A-List performances, appearances and events accessible for all to enjoy.

The Festival will also mark the first-ever hybrid Pride event, taking place live and in the metaverse in MetaPride Land. Physical restrictions no longer prevent our community from celebrating Pride. Discrimination becomes disempowered. MetaPride Land is a safe and anonymous place for people to gather online to celebrate Pride from the safety of their homes,

It is the celebration of our community. An event unlike anything the physical or digital world has ever seen. Taking place in real life and in the metaverse, people from all over the world will come together for free to live out loud, celebrate our differences and lift up our love. Live performances, moving speeches, and partner activations will create an unforgettable experience.

Live Performances (IRL (avantgardner.com) and Metaverse (Dland and The Sandbox)

June 24th - Above and Beyond and Spencer Brown

June 25th - Galantis, SG Lewis, LP Giobbi, Ty Sunderland, Aquaria, Gottmik, Violet Chacki, Alexis Tucci, Allison Nunes, Ben Bakson, Dan Slater, Fabio Luigi, Spencer Huff, Las Bibas from Vazcaya, Lina Bradford, Matt Denton, Special Surprise Pop Star

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Antonius Oki Wiriadjaja, 38, is a multimedia artist based in New York City, New York. He is also known as Foodmasku, which is a dual-language pun; In Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese, Food - mas - ku can also mean “Food of my brother.” He is a former Fulbright U.S. Scholar in Indonesia and also a survivor of a shooting in his neighborhood in New York City which inspired his advocacy for gun violence prevention. He created the Instagram account Foodmasku — face masks made from meals eaten during COVID-19 self-isolation — after seeing a fellow artist wear a pickle face filter during a zoom meeting. A single piece of kale on his face turned into a daily food face-mask selfie. The project was selected by The New York Times as one of "five art accounts to follow on Instagram now" and he has been minting his work as non-fungible tokens since March of 2021.

I am a former Fulbright Scholar and an alumnus and former faculty of NYU ITP - one of the top programs in the country for interactive media. I can connect with that community to bring creative programmers to the event with Harmony One. I am also connected to several magnates of the food industry in New York, including some cooperatives that are interested in forming a DAO such as the Cola Co-op.

I saw the devastating effects the pandemic and racist attacks had on my neighborhood of two-bridges, Manhattan. I live on the border of Chinatown and Lower East Side. About 6 out of 10 businesses have reopened and they are still struggling with supply chain issues, lack of personnel and a general sense of fear and uncertainty. I want to host an event to speak about this with local builders and leaders.

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Quick Facts:

Eternal Royals is a collection of 9,224 kings and queens created by the artist, Jesse Johnson. The project features unique artwork and innovative utility giving token holders the opportunity to print a 1 of 1 canvas with an embedded NFC chip to verify proof of ownership linking the physical print to the NFT. Perks include access to online/IRL events and future rewards connected to NFC scanning and physical prints.

NFT NYC Event Activation:

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Interested in adding value through valuable networking opportunities and additional tech focused activations for builders.

A local NYC cannabis and events cooperative that would like to host one of these events with the idea of introducing their community to crypto and helping them with the beginning stages of forming a DAO.

covered half of the pizza catering costs ~3500 in pizza