It's the Fashion: to Love Your Kidneys! a Fashion Show and Wine Raffle to Benefit MIKE Program

What: A Fashion Show Fundraiser to promote the spirit of independent design and youth independence through health promotion. Background: Independent fashion designs will receive star billing at a chic style event tagged to National Kidney Month and World Kidney Day Saturday, March 13, 2010. Diverse MIKE Program teens will join professionals to act as runway models, assist backstage, and help with production as well as be on-hand to promote select youth health messaging they have developed for their own communities of peers, family, and neighbors. The design and designers will receive VIP treatment and promotion at the event and in pre-and post-event publicity. Who:
  • Show Production: Independent clothing designers desiring to showcase their work so that they do well by doing good. Kenneth Doswell of Betty Jean Couture, 3537 N. Williams Avenue, Portland, is Fashion Show Producer.
  • Co-emcees: Byron Beck local personality and activist and Ayanna Bershire of Twilight and Extraordinary Measures;
  • Celebrity Model: Fox 12’s Sophie Soong confirmed. Other invited personalities will be joining us soon.
  • Teens: screened and selected from those enrolled in MIKE Program, a youth empowerment and mentorship activity to enrich the experiences of low income and/or minority youth by preparing them to apply, adopt, and advocate for health for themselves and others.
  • An audience: who appreciates the spirit of independent design at this spring fundraiser.
Where: California Closets, Main Showroom, 1225 SE Grand Ave. Portland, OR When: March 13, 2010: Doors open at 5:00 PM. Show from 6:00-8:00 PM Why: Because everyone deserves a chance to feel good and look good: And if your kidneys fail, you’ve lost your chance. Obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes coupled with risky behavior increasingly lead to kidney failure, increasingly and especially in low income/minority members of our community.
MIKE Program is there with mentorship and empowerment to the youth of today and their children to prevent chronic diseases leading to kidney failure. Together we’ll Reach up, Reach out, and Reach back