{"id":163,"date":"2009-04-14T01:09:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T09:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2009-08-12T15:17:49","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T23:17:49","slug":"memorial-for-tom-in-the-sf-bay-area-plans-and-how-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Memorial for Tom in the SF Bay Area May 1st, plans and how to help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Tom and Ripper\" src=\"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/images\/tomandripper600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"329\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you can contribute money,\u00a0 please donate via paypal via this button<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=EMWDR6NNERKA8&amp;lc=US&amp;item_name=Loving%20Tom%20Fest&amp;button_subtype=services&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;bn=PP%2dBuyNowBF%3abtn_buynowCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donate_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" \/> <\/a><br \/>\nand designate if you prefer your donation to go towards <span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">defraying costs of the memorial events or towards Tom&#8217;s family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There are <span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">three <\/span>email addresses for all things related to remembering Tom and submitting stories, images and condolence notes, plus an email specially for helping with the celebrations of his life across the US.<\/p>\n<p>Pat Kennedy, Tom\u2019s mom, is collecting stories and pictures for a work of art she is making in Tom\u2019s memory. If you have something you want to write, or have written,\u00a0 or an image or a condolence note\u00a0 you can email\u00a0 <a href=\"mailto:pictsandstories@tomkennedyart.com\" target=\"_blank\">pictsandstories@tomkennedyart.com<\/a> to help on this grand snapshot of the man, that so many have been enhanced by.<\/p>\n<p>If you have anything else from ways you want to help and be part of\u00a0 the upcoming celebrations in Oakland, Portland, Minneapolis, Houston, or New York ( or even elsewhere) email to <a href=\"mailto:everythingelse@tomkennedyart.com\" target=\"_blank\">everythingelse@tomkennedyart.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">Volunteers are needed!\u00a0 See details below.\u00a0 Email <a href=\"mailto:volunteersspeakersperformers@tomkennedyart.com\" target=\"_blank\">volunteersspeakersperformers@tomkennedyart.com<\/a> to volunteer and\/or if you would like to speak or perform at the Memorial service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Tom in the bus at NIMBY\" src=\"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/images\/400tom_in_military_industrial_bus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" \/><br \/>\nAll announcements will be here on the tomkennedyart.com website<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLEASE FORWARD:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Memorial for Tom in the SF Bay Area<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>the date:<\/strong> Friday May 1st, 6pm-4am<br \/>\nthe first part of this event will be a memorial in Tom&#8217;s honor, with storytelling, a co-created altar, and more to be determined soon.<\/p>\n<p>The evening will continue, as Tom would want, into a full blown celebration of his life, our life and our future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>the place<\/strong>: American Steel, in the secret warehouse: 1901 Poplar St, Oakland, CA<br \/>\nparking will be inside the main warehouse<\/p>\n<p>Calling all <strong>Tom Kennedy art cars<\/strong>!<br \/>\nwe are looking for any details about cars, running or not, created by\u00a0 Tom Kennedy, whether they are able to attend the memorial, whether they need drivers<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nwe need:<\/strong><br \/>\ndrivers<br \/>\ndonations for gas<br \/>\nhelp to organize the event (any production manager types willing to volunteer)<br \/>\nperformers<br \/>\nvolunteers<\/p>\n<p>If you can do any of this email <a href=\"mailto: everythingelse@tomkennedyart.com\">everythingelse@tomkennedyart.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donations can be made via\u00a0 paypal<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=EMWDR6NNERKA8&amp;lc=US&amp;item_name=Loving%20Tom%20Fest&amp;button_subtype=services&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;bn=PP%2dBuyNowBF%3abtn_buynowCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donate_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" \/> <\/a><br \/>\nor donate at the event.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Tom in the Orange Show Parade in 2008 by Harrod Blank\" src=\"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/images\/600PuppetActCowboy-160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can contribute money,\u00a0 please donate via paypal via this button and designate if you prefer your donation to go towards defraying costs of the memorial events or towards Tom&#8217;s family. There are three email addresses for all things related to remembering Tom and submitting stories, images and condolence notes, plus an email specially&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/?p=163\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Memorial for Tom in the SF Bay Area May 1st, plans and how to help<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}