Breakthrough Tools | Song of Songs - College and Community Tour - Get on the Schedule!! - 12/14/07

Fri Dec 14 17:21:12 EST 2007

- BREAKING THROUGH - INSTEAD OF JACKHAMMERS AND CHISELS, WE USE JUMBOTRONS
AND BILLBOARDS AND FILMS......

- SONG OF SONGS COLLEGE/COMMUNITY FILM TOUR - GET ON THE SCHEDULE

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- BREAKING THROUGH - INSTEAD OF JACKHAMMERS AND CHISELS, WE USE JUMBOTRONS
AND BILLBOARDS AND FILMS......

At the San Francisco conference, Julie Baumgardner will again present
everyone's favorite keynote - the Showcase Round-Up of the Breakthrough
Tools of the Trade - the incredible, innovative resources that make our
Smart Marriages® work easier.

It's up to you to get your tools to Julie.  She needs them in the most
dramatic/theatrical format - think ballroom of 3,000 and BIG screens.

Here's a preview, the Alabama Community Healthy Marriage Initiative
Jumbotron ads. What an idea for everyone to steal.  As Francesca Ader-Bader
says, these were seen by 85,000 folks four Auburn football home games AND
were picked up and shown on national ESPN tv (at no extra cost!). Genius.
Plus they put 4 ads in the football program.
http://achmi.mymediaroom.com/gallery/viewcategory.aspx?id=863&n=Jordan-Hare%
20Jumbotron  

And then there are the Alabama Initiative's billboards with messages that go
straight to the heart - and the brain. Just incredible photos and captions.
"Choose - like your future is at stake!"  Wait till you see the one of the
little boy in the Superman costume!  Genius.
http://achmi.mymediaroom.com/gallery/viewcategory.aspx?id=862&n=Statewide%20
Billboard%20Campaign

Contact, Sandy Williams, Public
Awareness Coordinator on "how to's" for jumbotrons and  billboards.  They
can help you order copies (they can make their designs available to you) or
give you tips for doing your own.
Sandy Williams
(Phone) 334.844.8715
(Email) willi93 at auburn.edu

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- SONG OF SONGS COLLEGE/COMMUNITY FILM TOUR - GET ON THE SCHEDULE

And, speaking of tools to make our work easier, ³Song of Songs,² the
documentary film series on love and relationships is launching a national
college/community tour in time for Marriage Week, 2008! I'm so excited I
could burst.   

This is the film that many of you saw at the Denver June 2007 Smart
Marriages conference where it premiered. We weren't the only ones that liked
it. It's been nominated for an Emmy and it's now airing on Current TV and
our own Terry Smith, Director of a CHMI in Florida met with them in Denver
and came up with the idea for this tour.  Terry will host the first stop in
Florida on Feb 8th.

The producers are hoping to reach as many people as possible and want to set
free screenings and Q & A's at college campuses or community centers across
the country.  This is a wonderful film to feature at a youth or community
event  it will spark discussion, media interest - and makes a great a
teaching film.

Several major universities have already signed up. Get on the schedule,
ASAP!  The producers ask only for minimal travel expenses from
hosts/partners. Those of you near Tampa have a good chance to tag on around
the week of Feb 8th - TALLAHASSEE, AUBURN, CHATTANOOGA, ATLANTA,
JACKSONVILLE, MIAMI, GAINESVILLE.

ABOUT THE FILM: 
Chris Brickler (director, composer) was inspired to begin this exploration
by his grandparent¹s marriage of 67 years.  He interviewed hundreds of
people from many walks of life and different parts of the world, including
several notable SMART MARRIAGES relationship experts and Oprah show
veterans:

- Dr. Harville Hendrix, founder of Imago Relationships International,
best-selling author of Getting the Love You Want

- Dr. Helen Fisher, a prominent anthropologist and author of Why We Love.

- Dr. John Van Epp, author of How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk 

- Laura Sessions Stepp, Pulitzer prize winning journalist and author of
Unhooked

- Dr. Pat Love, co-author of How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking
About It

- Dr. Steven Stosny, co-author of How to Improve Your Marriage Without
Talking About It

- Dr. Willard Harley, founder of Marriage Builders and author of His Needs,
Her Needs

-  Dr. William Doherty, professor and director of the Marriage and Family
Therapy Program at the University of Minnesota and author of Intentional
Marriage and Take Back Your Marriage.

In addition to the film screenings, SOS producers will capture the pulse of
young love by interviewing hundreds of college students and professors in Q
& A and focus groups all stops along the way.

Contact Michael Romero at: 310-526-7334
Michael Romero <michael at xlanticmedia.com>
Watch the trailer and learn more about the project at
http://www.songofsongs.tv

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