Celebrating 30 Years of OUTFEST

25 Mar Celebrating 30 Years of OUTFEST

Post from Zynger Event Designs’ August 2012 Newsletter:

Thursday, July 12^th, 2012 marked the 30^th Anniversary Opening Night Gala Celebration for OUTFEST. The annual event held at the Orpheum Theater attracts close to 2,000 guests who come to enjoy a short program, film viewing, followed by one awesome Opening Night Celebration. Zynger Event Designs was thrilled to have been selected to take on this annual celebration and make it unlike any other.

From arrivals, guests were greeted “red carpet style” to an entrance transformed from an ordinary theater to a gala celebration clad with a giant 30^th Anniversary logo cut outs, sparkling beaded curtains and custom colored orange carpets. Guests were lead from inside the theatre down the back alley of the theater, through pulled back sparking entrance ways to a gala transformed parking lot!

We created an oversized anniversary card for all guests to sign and personalize with stick on rhinestones and metallic markers… They could stop by a sponsors and event branded photo booth where they could dress up in props and take photos that were instantly uploaded to Facebook for instant tagging by iPads provided for just that!

On top of the 10 to 15 restaurants that graciously provided tasting bites for the guests to enjoy, there was also an opportunity to “make your own” cupcake station where they had access to icing sugar and custom sponsor branded candy, or, get a drink at the bar where a live feed was displayed on plasma screens of a custom hast tag message of guests tweeting about the festival.

We worked with OUTFEST to create four custom “scrolling scrapbook” pillars with photos and movie titles of some of our favorite gay and lesbian films from the last 30 years. They were placed inside the event in hopes of creating a piece to look at and start discussions about some of our favorite films.

Despite a little bit of rain and a riot happening only blocks away, the event was a great success and an opportunity that we are grateful to have had. Thank you for OUTFEST for partnering with us on this event and we look forward to working with you again.