Kate Farina Event producer // Ideas person // Fan of fans
Fan Parties
Fan Events: Bringing TV Fans Together
I’m proud to having contributed a new category of programming to Paley Center events. I love a good panel discussion, but I think it’s more special when the audience can really interact and connect with each other. I’ve always been really interested in fandom, so whenever I get the opportunity to create something cool for fans, [...]
Royal Wedding Viewing Party – April 29, 2011
They rose before dawn. Over 200 well-wishers from New York, wanting to experience the royal wedding with a group of like-minded anglophiles.
American Idol & Glee Season Finale Party
For our celebration of the season finales of American Idol and Glee, we wanted to do more than just invite people to watch the shows in our theater. The whole point of these hit series is performance. We invited two high school singing groups (Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan and Wilton High School, in [...]
Oscars Viewing Party (2011)
This was our first year of Academy-sanctioned festivities. In fact, we were the only official NYC venue for Oscar-watching. To add some fun to our red carpet, our creative services team created life-size stand-ups of Hollywood stars. Our guests posed with Brad and Angie in front of photographers and camera crews. We built on the [...]
Oscar Viewing Party (2010)
March 7, 2010 For the first time ever, we presented the Academy Awards on our big screen, inviting the audience to “play along” and participate via Twitter. I also introduced TwitterFall to my co-workers, which is a great (and sometimes pretty) way to display tweets in front of an audience.
“Dark Shadows at Twilight: A Paley Center Vampire Weekend”
Collaborating with the Paley Center’s education staff (and fellow vampire enthusiasts), we created a weekend-long celebration of all things vampire in the media, designed to coincide with the release of New Moon. This multi-faceted event featured a panel/debate with fans of the most prominent and beloved vampire properties, a trivia competition, a gallery exhibit featuring [...]
“Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” Sing-Along
December 19, 2008 I’d wanted to pursue a Dr. Horrible event since the project was announced. Having tapped into the wonderful world of Whedon fandom for the Buffy reunion screening/sing-along in the spring, I knew New York would be ripe for a Sing-Along sing-along. Making it a reality was a bit more complicated than hitting [...]
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
September 23, 2010 From the website: Warner Home Video, UGO.com, and The Paley Center for Media present the bicoastal premieres of Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, the highly anticipated ninth entry in the ongoing series of DC Universe Animated Original PG-13 Movies, produced by Warner Premiere, DC Entertainment, and Warner Bros. Animation. Executive producer Bruce Timm has taken [...]
The LOST Saturday (Season 5 Premiere)
January 17, 2009 There’s a small but intense group of LOST fans on staff at the Paley Center, and we couldn’t let the long awaited return of the series go unmarked, simply because the cast all happened to be in Hawaii. We teamed up with the wonderful people at Entertainment Weekly (can’t say enough good [...]
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- @sacsplace Great! I used a new dough recipe and it worked so well. And I sauteed the mushrooms first (Sacs style). No bacon though :(