PBS Reality Docu-Series and Title Sponsor for the PGA Heritage Golf Tournament Adds Up to a Banner 2011 Season for Hilton Head Island, SC, Announces The Vacation Company

Hilton Head Island, SC (PRWEB) July 13, 2011

The mood on Hilton Head Island has changed from cautiously optimistic in the early part of 2011 at the dogged upward climb of the economic numbers in the travel and tourism industry, to outright cheers these past few weeks as the news of two outstanding events were confirmed by officials from South Carolina and Hilton Head?s Chamber of Commerce, Convention and Visitor?s Bureau.

The first, long-awaited announcement came at a press conference where Governor Nikki Haley confirmed rumors that the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) had signed a five-year title sponsorship deal with The Heritage Tournament, a PGA event established in 1969. The surprising bonus of that announcement was that The Boeing Company had also signed on as the local presenting sponsor, a move greatly appreciated by tournament officials. Both corporations fit the cultural framework, which defines The Heritage tradition as evidenced by the many historical markers and Scottish highland references thematic throughout the week of play. The news of this sponsorship package came as a welcome relief for the PGA, sports enthusiasts, island residents, visitors, and touring players alike. The Heritage Foundation generates over $ 1 million for charities each year.

The second event, brewing since early 2010 between the Vacation Rental Managers Association (VRMA), PBS, and Pine Ridge Productions?, is a new season of the reality show/documentary, Getting Away Together, about the growing trend of vacation home rentals as an affordable alternative to more traditional family vacation destinations like theme parks, cruises, and hotel resorts. Last week, it was announced that Hilton Head Island, South Carolina would be the next location for filming of the show.

?What better channel than PBS, known for its commitment to family programming, could possibly give Hilton Head Island the well-rounded coverage it deserves?? Asks Charlie Clark, Vice President of Communications, Hilton Head Island Visitor & Convention Bureau.

Adding to the excitement, is the casting call sent out by Pine Ridge Productions for home video submissions from guests who stay in vacation rentals on Hilton Head Island during the month of July. One showcase oceanfront home will also be chosen from a field of submissions from 10 area vacation rental companies, all of who donated money to PBS to help sponsor the program. Chosen guest candidates will be placed in the showcase home for filming at the end of September.

?This is a wonderful opportunity to draw attention to Hilton Head?s gorgeous shoulder season, which typically runs September ? mid-November, when the climate is still temperate, the water is warm, and the island is uncrowded,? states Beth Henzler, partner, The Vacation Company, a vacation home rental agency on Hilton Head Island.

Hilton Head Island is renowned for endorsing an outdoor-geared lifestyle, long-term conservation efforts, as well as an enduring family-friendly atmosphere. These goals have been maintained by strict town building codes (trees and salt marshes left alone throughout major development), and an agenda of promoting outdoor, family-oriented activities such as tennis, golf, fishing, kayaking, swimming, parasailing, paddle-boarding, endless miles of paved bike trails gliding through lush woods and golf courses, and outdoor live entertainment for children, like Gregg Russell and Shannon Tanner.

The Vacation Company is a rental agency committed to providing top-quality service and accommodations to island visitors, family vacationers, sports enthusiasts, and property owners. With over 20 years experience managing Hilton Head?s luxury home and villa rentals, The Vacation Company continues its own tradition of supporting The Heritage Golf Tournament, recognizing its place as the island?s seasonal springboard into the summer vacation rental season, and PBS family programming, a critical component in the media age to helping children maintain a sense of strong family culture.

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Gold Label Opens ?Leverage? Store; TNT Hit Series Returns June 20 for Season 3

El Cerrito, CA (Vocus) June 9, 2010

Gold Label announces the opening of the official ?Leverage? print-on-demand merchandise store at http://www.goldlabel.com/leverage/. The high-octane series returns to TNT on its new night, Sunday, June 20, 2010 at 9pm ET/PT.

Starring Academy Award? winner Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People, Nero Wolfe), Gina Bellman (Coupling), Christian Kane (TNT's Into the West), Beth Riesgraf (Without a Trace) and Aldis Hodge (Friday Night Lights), ?Leverage? is produced by Dean Devlin's Electric Entertainment. Dean Devlin (Independence Day, TNT's The Librarian movie series), John Rogers (Transformers) and Chris Downey (The King of Queens) serve as executive producers. Season 3 opens with Nate (Hutton) in prison after having to make a tough choice on the most recent con. He could have allowed his team to be arrested or simply given himself up to his nemesis. But that?s only the beginning of Nate?s challenges. In the season 3 premiere, in order to save the life of an innocent inmate, Nate must bring down the corrupt warden of the Super-Max prison where he?s currently incarcerated and escape?whether he wants to or not.

?Leverage fans are excited about Season 3,? said Gold Label?s Creative Director, Sherry Grisham. ?And Gold Label is excited to provide the opportunity for fans to customize ?Leverage? tees, sweatshirts, tank tops, travel mugs, clocks, journals, totes and dozens of other items with official key art and original designs such as Geek Power, The Good Guys and Art of the Con.?

?We are thrilled to be launching the Gold Label store just in time for the premiere of season 3 of ?Leverage,? said Executive Producer Dean Devlin. ?We hope the merchandise will satisfy our fans? thirst for all things ?Leverage? until the series returns next month!?

?Gold Label is proud to support Electric Entertainment and TNT with the Gold Label Leverage Store,? said Matt Reed, Managing Director at Gold Label. ?Our community and social media channels are buzzing about the return of ?Leverage.?

To visit the official Leverage site: http://www.tnt.tv/series/leverage/

About Gold Label:

Gold Label (http://www.goldlabel.com) empowers fans of today's hottest TV shows, movies, pop culture and humor brands to customize official t-shirts, hoodies, mugs and other licensed products at Gold Label entertainment merchandise stores. Gold Label licensing partners include ?Leverage,? ?The Office,? ?Weeds,? ?Spartacus: Blood and Sand,? ?Party Down,? ?Gravity,? ?Heavy Metal,? ?The Tudors,? RAMBO, SAW, ?Mad Men,? ?Dexter? and Coca-Cola, among other fan favorite properties. Through strategic marketing and robust social media efforts, Gold Label connects rights holders with massive online communities obsessed with pop culture news, content and licensed products. Established in 2007, Gold Label is based in El Cerrito, California.

To visit the Gold Label Leverage Store: http://www.goldlabel.com/leverage/

For Additional Information Contact:

Paula Hoppe

paula (at) goldlabel (dot) com

(310) 877-0539

About Electric Entertainment:

Electric Entertainment is a full service film, television, and new media production company headed by veteran producer Dean Devlin along with partners Kearie Peak, Marc Roskin and Rachel Olschan. Over the last fifteen years, Devlin has co-written and produced some of the most successful feature films of all time. He co-wrote and produced Stargate and Independence Day, which has grossed over $ 800 million worldwide. He co-wrote and produced Godzilla, and produced The Patriot starring Mel Gibson, which was nominated for three Academy Awards. Electric is currently in production on the third season of ?Leverage,? the 1-hour drama series premiering on June 20 at 9pm ET/PT on TNT. Electric?s most recent film projects include Flyboys, the politically-charged documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?, Cellular starring Kim Basinger and Eight Legged Freaks. In addition to ?Leverage,? Electric?s television credits include Sci Fi Channel?s ?The Triangle,? which won an Emmy for its Visual Effects; "The Librarian: Quest for the Spear,? starring Noah Wyle which aired on TNT in December 2004 and was the highest rated movie on cable that year; its sequel ?The Librarian: Return to King Solomon?s Mines? which won an Emmy award for best music composition; and ?The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice? which premiered in December 2008.

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RENEGADE THEATRE EXPERIMENT CONTINUES INAUGURAL SEASON WITH DRAMA, DANCE, ART, AND COMMUNITY

(PRWEB) August 3, 2002

SAN JOSE, CA?August 1, 2002?No rest for the wicked. After a successful run of Wendy McLeod?s Sin, Renegade Theatre Experiment presents the second show of its inaugural season?Hear Me Roar: women?s images of self. Comprised of two one-act plays and an original dance piece, Hear Me Roar celebrates women while looking unflinchingly at a society which threatens their self-worth. "Everyday we are bombarded with images of what sexy and attractive women are supposed to look like,? says artistic director Sean C. Murphy. ?These messages have devastating effects on women's sense of power and self-esteem.? The evening of theatre and dance exploring this issue opens August 21. Hear Me Roar continues to perform August 22-24 and Aug. 28-31 at Santa Clara University?s Fess Parker Studio Theatre.

The first play, Mary Gallagher?s ?Chocolate Cake,? takes two very seemingly different women (one a country girl and one a city slicker) and throws them together in a hotel room during a women?s conference. In fact, both have compulsive over-eating in common, a fact revealed in funny and poignant fashion. ??Chocolate Cake? centers on the struggle for attaining the societal goal of being Barbie and the damaging effects in has on our characters' self esteem,? says Murphy, the play?s director. ?The average woman stands 5'4", has a 36-37" bust, 29-31" waist, 40"-42" hips, is 145 lbs, and wears a dress size of 14, and yet she is told she must look like a Barbie doll. How many women do you know that are 6'0" tall, have a 39" bust, 19" waist, 33" hips, weigh 101 lbs, and wear a size 4?? The play ?Chocolate Cake? was originally produced and commissioned in 1980 by the Actors Theatre of Louisville with Kathy Bates in the cast, and later produced as part of the off-Broadway hit Win/Lose/Draw.

?Chocolate Cake? is followed by ?Inner Struggle,? a premiere dance piece by Evangeline Maynard, a founding member of Renegade Theatre Experiment. Maynard found inspiration in the dramatic pieces and her own observation of modern culture: "'Inner Struggle' deals with the perceived power of the outer beauty glorified by society and each woman's daily struggle to feel sexy, beautiful and strong inside."

The evening concludes with ?The Most Massive Woman Wins,? a powerful and celebrated one-act play by Madeleine George, directed by Elizabeth Thies. Set in the waiting room of a liposuction clinic, the play uses unconventional theatrical technique?emphasizing monologue but including playground chants?to illuminate the forces which shape self-image in women. According to Thies, ?The characters move from memories of struggles and feelings of isolation to a sense of community, support and acceptance--of each other and of themselves.? ?The Most Massive Woman Wins? premiered at the Public Theater in New York City as part of the 1994 Young Playwrights Festival.

The evening?s ensemble cast of actors and dancers includes Thies and Maynard, as well as Sarah Almazol, Iris Benson, Janine Saunders, Whitney Q. Stebbins, Katie J. Thies, and Adrianne Wilkinson. All are local actors.

RTE?s newly christened technical director Jim Gross (lighting designer for Sin) heads up a technical staff including set designer Keith Marshall (Sin), lighting designer Erin Murphy, sound designer Kevin Kelly (Sin), costume/makeup designer Adrianne Wilkinson, and props designer Danielle A. Perata.

Aug. 23rd and 29th performances will be followed by a talkback with directors, cast, and community leaders (including San Jose State professor Robin Lasser and U.C. Davis professor Kathryn Sylva). A display of photography from Ms. Lasser?s and Ms. Sylva?s Eating Disorders: Disordered Culture project will be presented in the Fess Parker lobby throughout the run.

The Renegade Theatre Experiment began in May 2001 as a group of alumni from Santa Clara University joining together to develop as actors. The group practiced monologues in a workshop format for a couple of months, but then collectively decided that--rather than auditioning for local theatre companies?they could be a local theatre company. A core group of committed ?renegades? formed the board of directors, set to work picking shows, finding venues, and planning for an uncertain future. The driving force, Sean C. Murphy, stepped forward as Artistic Director of the company. The rest of the founding board of directors includes Peter Canavese, Kevin Kelly, Keith Marshall, Evangeline Maynard, Whitney Q. Stebbins, and Blythe Thomas.

Renegade?s 2002 inaugural season kicked off in June with Sin, Wendy MacLeod?s modern morality play, which blends comedy and drama in telling the story of a woman who reevaluates her life in the wake of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. In October, RTE mounts Stephen Malatratt?s baroque horror thriller The Woman in Black, in which the old-fashioned ghost story gets a spine-tingling, purely theatrical update.

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YogaSoul Center Offers a Free Week of Classes to New Pilates Students - Creating the Gift of Fitness and Community During the Holiday Season

Eagan, Minnesota (PRWEB) December 15, 2011

Release holiday stress and create whole-body fitness with Pilates classes at YogaSoul Center in Eagan. All new students receive 1 week of unlimited classes!

The full-scale studio offers a full range of Pilates classes that strengthen without adding bulk, increase flexibility, develop core strength, improve posture, increase energy, as well as promote weight loss. Pilates can also create a long, lean appearance.

Pilates creates body awareness that can change the daily lives of people of all ages, ranging from the average person to athletes, as well as those with physical injuries and in need of rehabilitation.

YogaSoul Pilates instructor Shannon McGarrigle can attest to Pilates? power.

?I have gained abdominal control and strength, and have defined arms and legs that are stronger than the ones I had during high school when I was in tennis, track, and cross country skiing,? said McGarrigle, who has been teaching at YogaSoul since spring of 2009. ?Pilates is a way to invest in your body. The concentration and focus used leads to increasing your own knowledge of your posture, as well as your learned bad habits. The Pilates method creates a stronger center to rely on, and teaches you how to be more effective in your movements, whether it be running on a treadmill, skiing or even carrying groceries.?

She said Pilates at YogaSoul is special because it creates a community environment where people can practice without a sense of ego or competition.

Mat classes, equipment and private sessions are available. Mat classes give an overall body workout and teach the fundamental floor exercises and principals of breathing, concentration and coordination. Reformer, Chair and Cadillac Pilates equipment were invented by Joseph Pilates to bring the mat principals to a whole new level. With the equipment, resistance is built into the exercises and utilizes hundreds of exercise variations. It can also be modified to suit the needs of any fitness level, as well as people rehabilitating from injury.

YogaSoul Center?s mission is to help clients win the battle against stress. It has an extensive class offering in several styles of yoga, including Kundalini, Hatha, Yin, and Vinyasa. It boasts a fully equipped Pilates studio and offers many kinds of classes, including Zumba, Tai Chi and belly dancing. Its full roster of teachers and healers provide clients with a variety of healing services, including intuitive readings, Reiki, Thai yoga bodywork, Ayurveda, energy work and several others. YogaSoul also hosts special workshops and Kundalini yoga teacher trainings.

To see a full schedule, make an appointment with a healer or sign up for a class, visit YogaSoul?s website, http://yogasoul-center.com/. New students get their first week of classes free.

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