LVHRD Celebrates the New Year With the Super Heroes Ball
Underground creative society produces first publicly accessible event to herald the superheroism of ordinary people in the extraordinary times of 2005
December 19, 2005, NEW YORK — The LVHRD Foundation is pleased to announce the Super Heroes Ball, to take place on Friday, December 30. This New Year’s Eve Eve extravaganza will be LVHRD’s first public-access event since the inception of its New York chapter in 2004. The Super Heroes Ball will combine the mischievous, costumed revelry of a masquerade with the more macabre intrigue of a murder mystery. True to the spirit of Gotham City, author/illustrator Paul Pope of “Batman 100†will create original artwork for LVHRD’s holiday spectacular. He will be joined by Chris Rubino, art director and designer of Studio18Hundred, who will contribute his skills as a colorist and typographer to produce 50 handmade, silk-screened posters for the event.
The Super Heroes Ball was conceived by LVHRD Founder, Beauregard H. Montgomery, when he recognized that a positive and creative approach to life is contradicted by the conclusive sentimentality that dominates New Year’s in New York. “Rather than focus on the ball drop and Auld Lang Syne, we should celebrate the excitement of the unknown, of the accomplishments of a year gone by and the promises of the future,†says Mr. Montgomery regarding the event concept. With this message in mind, LVHRD will produce the Super Heroes Ball before the city can raise its champagne flutes in the usual farewell salute to 2005. The event will preemptively welcome 2006 on the eve of New Year’s Eve with due exuberance and anticipation. In this spirit, LVHRD invites its attendees to make their appearance as “super†versions of their everyday selves.
LVHRD has launched a registration site for the Super Heroes Ball. Both members and non-members who are interested in attending are required to reserve their place through the site and provide detailed information regarding their superhero and civilian identities. Tickets are priced at $75 per person and space will be limited to 250 guests. Attendees are also asked to dress convincingly — for reasons of safety, civilians will not be admitted. Admission to the Super Heroes Ball will include cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, live entertainment, and participation in an interactive crime narrative, the winner of which will take home framed original work created by Paul Pope and Chris Rubino specifically for the event..
In keeping with the idea of boundless possibilities and intrepid optimism, the Super Heroes Ball will open LVHRD’s doors to the general public for the first time in the history of the organization. As in the past, however, the location of the event will remain undisclosed until the date of its occurrence, and detailed announcements will be made to registered attendees only. Those who have previously been unable to penetrate the underground element of this creative society are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity, as LVHRD will resume the private nature of its events in 2006.
The Super Heroes Ball will be presented in part by media sponsor WIRED Magazine and beverage sponsors Stella Artois and Pravda Vodka.
