Pittsburgh, PA (PittsburghNewsWire.com) — Dawn Lilly, President & CEO of Charity by Dawn Lilly and Executive Director & Founder of Project Evolution and Alley Rohm, Owner of Dig Clothing and Assistant Director of Project Evolution in collaboration with Faded Industry, City Scene Live, Dig Clothing and many other designers and artists, will hold
Project Evolution II on January 25th, 2014 at 7PM at the Carnegie Music Hall in Carnegie, PA.Project Evolution is a yearly theater event where the underground community of young professionals in fashion and music collectively evolve the talents and skills of artists, models and related industry professionals into a gift that benefits the lives of others. As a community, Project Evolution, entails a massive nearly 200 behind the scenes volunteers donating their services and collaborating to create this fund-raising event. Named Project Evolution as the community comes together and rises in unity on this collaborative project to become a voice and raise awareness for homelessness.According to a 2009 report published by the National Center on Family Homelessness, 43,103 children were identified as homeless in Pennsylvania, numbers that have increased since then. “To put it in perspective, that’s enough to fill a stadium” says Dawn Lilly. In Allegheny County, there are 1400 children reported as being homeless (on any given day). These are alarming numbers and Project Evolution is designed to not only raise funds but raise awareness with an entire community promoting this project.Project Evolution II has an impressive line-up of local Pittsburgh artists. Palermo Stone – having many relationships with people in the music industry such as Mac Miller, Dee-1, and The Come Up. Kellee Maize, a female singer, and songwriter with over 5 million views on YouTube and past performances at Bonnaroo, Evolvefest, and Harvestfest. With over 1 million album downloads, Kelly Maize has had appearances on MTV, XXL, Huffington Post and More! Formula 412 who has a tremendous following and whose music is all about the amount of eclectic people, things, and ideas available to us in Pittsburgh. J. Bass – a local artist whose music is affected by his love and respect for God. AjayRock, an R&B/pop singer, songwriter, and producer whose ultimate goal is to help other musicians find their voice while continuing to develop his own. A hip hop/acoustic group called Thirty Realm whose unique sound challenges the underground hip-hop standard by mixing several genres. Azariah Jones, also known as “Z”, a Pittsburgh native who was nominated as the Christian Hip Hop Artist of the Year for the Pittsburgh Underground Music Awards. Delana Flowers, full of amazing sound and heart-felt soul. Commonwealth Family an experimental pop art, hip-hop, group based out of Pittsburgh and local hip hop group H&T, known for the constantly evolving music and lively performances.Many designers and boutiques have also joined the project such as [dig.] clothing, Daily Bread, WRK Clothes, Flawless Fashions, Manifest Fresh, MarKav, Sheda’s Fashion, Streetheart, Angie Yau – a talented 17 year old up and coming designer recently featured in Pittsburgh Fashion Week and Windy’s Boutique, which is owned by VH1?s Love & Hip Hop Celebrity, Winter Ramos.Among the expanisve line up of artists and designers, the stage will be graced with approximately 60 models including Samantha Sham, titled Miss Pittsburgh, Dr. Shellie Hipsky from the Board of Directors of the Homeless Children’s Education Fund, and Devin Goda who is a professional model, originally from Pittsburgh, who is making a big name for himself in New York, has modeled for American Eagle, Abercrombie, Macy’s and also just landed an ad with Calvin Klein in Los Angeles.
Project Evolution is sponsored by Charity by Dawn Lilly, LLC, Clique Vodka, Faded Industry Entertainment, Christopher Urbano, Esquire and the Three Rivers Community Foundation. The Project is further supported by Maniac Magazine, TB Talent and Casting, Diana Rua Media, Midnight Guru, 3RM Marketing and Consulting, Astonishing Style by Nikole Li, Chiaka Zulu Howze, Shoe Diva Boutique and Chelsea’s of New York.
With close to 200 volunteers behind the scenes to produce this event, a reception will follow the event with free admission to all the artists, designers, volunteers, supporters, sponsors and models as the events way of giving back to this community for their so graciously giving of themselves to others for this event.
The founders, designers, artists, models and volunteers have created an online event PSA produced by City Scene Live at http://youtu.be/HKNkCaFI9UQ.
Guest can obtain General Admission and VIP Admission & Reception Tickets through showclix at http://www.showclix.com/event/ProjectEvolutionII. Doors open at 7PM on January 25th at the Carneigie Music Hall in Carnegie, PA. General Admission $25 / VIP & Reception $50.
The Project Evolution Website can be found at http://www.projectevo.org. A facebook page has been created at https://www.facebook.com/projectevoII and facebook event page at https://www.facebook.com/events/418848261549581/
