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| Electric Daisy Carnival 2011 |
Insomniac Donates $75,000
from Electric Daisy Carnival Ticket Sales to Las Vegas Charities
Clark County School-Community
Partnership, The Smith Center for Performing Arts, and Injured Police Officers Fund
Each Receive $25,000
Insomniac presented $75,000
to Las Vegas charities today from funds raised through ticket
sales at the Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas. The Clark County
School-Community Partnership Program, The Smith Center for the Performing Arts
and the Injured Police Officers Fund – Las Vegas each received checks for $25,000 at a presentation
held at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
“This year’s festival was one
of the best in Insomniac history, and we are incredibly appreciative of the Las Vegas community joining together to welcome us and assist
with a memorable event,” said Pasquale Rotella, Insomniac’s CEO and
founder. “We are thrilled to be able to
present $25,000 donations to key organizations that will only help improve the
city where our fans and partners reside.”
The Clark County
School-Community Partnership Program connects business and community resources
with schools to enrich the educational experience and increase student
achievement. The Clark County School-Community Partnership Program began in
1983 as a pilot program of seven schools partnered with seven businesses. Since
that time, it has grown to hundreds of partnerships with programs that range
from kindergarten to twelfth grade, from tutorial programs to scholarships,
from science activities to fine arts programs.
Insomniac’s partnership will help support, supplement and complement
Arts Education Programs in Clark County public schools.
The Smith Center for the Performing Arts is a public/private
partnership, opening in 2012, which will become the centerpiece of cultural
life in Las Vegas. In December 2010, The John F. Kennedy Center chose The Smith Center as the fourth partner city
for Any Given Child, a program that will create a long-range arts education
plan for Las Vegas area students.
The program will incorporate existing resources of the Las Vegas school system, along with those of local arts
organizations and the Kennedy Center to ensure that every child has the opportunity to
receive a solid and meaningful arts education.
The Injured Police Officers
Fund (IPOF) was formed in October 1982 to help reduce the financial burden
suffered by police officers and their families in the event of a line of duty
injury or death by providing monetary assistance to these officers and their
families. IPOF currently assists over
8,000 officers and their families in Nevada.
Insomniac held the 15th
Annual Electric Daisy Carnival June 24-26, 2011 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, marking a major
success for North America’s largest electronic dance music festival with an
estimated 230,000 attendees, more than 100 electronic artists and 430
performance artists, during the three day festival’s debut in Las Vegas. Insomniac will be making additional donations to
other charities in the upcoming weeks to finalize distribution of the funds
raised at Electric Daisy Carnival.
Photo of Insomniac Donation
courtesy of Scott Harrison/Retna.
Photo of Electric Daisy Carnival
– © Erik Kabik/ RETNA/ erikkabik.com
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