ALA Ladies in Lighting occasion to characteristic comic, prizes, networking, extra

DALLAS- The American Lighting Affiliation’s Ladies in Lighting Committee will host an occasion throughout subsequent week’s ALA Digital Symposium, and which is able to embrace a speaker, prizes and a particular fundraising initiative.

The ALA pivoted to the digital symposium after canceling its in-person convention in September, on account of wildfires. The digital symposium, Nov. 1-4, is free to all ALA members.

Held through the symposium, the ALA Ladies in Lighting occasion will kick off on Nov. 1 at 4:45 p.m. CDT (5:45 p.m. EST), with a 30-minute presentation by skilled speaker, comic and creator Christina Irene. The session, sponsored by Dallas Market Middle, will cowl Irene’s “SuperPowerment” strategy of eliminating the interior limitations that always preserve ladies from pursuing what they really need, a launch mentioned. As a girl working in a male-dominated trade, Irene understands and is a proud advocate for girls in addition to folks with disabilities, it added. Her presentation will supply entertaining tales, humor and distinctive tips about thriving and reaching in opposition to the percentages.

After Irene’s presentation, members may have the chance to community – with different attendees in addition to Irene – in smaller breakout teams. After the complete group reconvenes, there will probably be a random prize drawing for donated merchandise together with: an Allegri Crystal Vasari 5-light chandelier in a two-tone silver forged body with Swarovski Spectra crystals (27” excessive, 23” deep), a Bulbrite 14-foot 10-socket ornamental string gentle package, a Hubbardton Forge Folio desk lamp with ribbons of hand-forged metal in a bronze end (25.1” excessive), a Progress Lighting Manvel 60-inch three-blade indoor/outside ceiling fan and a Varaluz Stopwatch 30-inch spherical mirror in a alternative of black or gold. Contributors have to be current to win.

Moreover, the ALA Ladies in Lighting Committee has launched its fundraising initiative for the Ovarian Most cancers Analysis Alliance (OCRA) within the title of Karen Krieger, the vp of BC Gross sales, who just lately handed away. Her husband Brad, president of BC Gross sales, serves on the ALA Manufacturing Consultant Steering Committee, and Karen’s cousin, Martha Graham of Martha Graham & Associates, is an concerned ALA Ladies in Lighting Committee member.

Ladies in Lighting has created limited-edition collectible pins to have commemorated the 2021 ALA Convention with the intent to determine an annual fundraising initiative for a worthy trigger round every Convention. This 12 months’s pins are sponsored by Visible Consolation & Co. making it doable to donate one hundred pc of the $20 buy value to help OCRA in Krieger’s reminiscence. Anybody could buy a pin and/or make a donation by way of the web ALA Member Retailer, which might be accessed by Ladies in Lighting’s web page right here. The affiliation and Ladies in Lighting Committee are grateful for the chance to honor Krieger and her household.