Gather for Good 2.0 is here!

Reminder:

     Today, Tuesday 03/13/18, is our event Gather for Good 2.0 charity event, supporting women's empowerment.

     To purchase advance tix, please CLICK HERE

     Please come / support the cause /spread the word!

     If you wish to make an additional donation or in lieu of attendance, please CLICK on our DONATE page and indicate on the NOTE that you wish to donate to fund our 03/13/18 event, as we still need to cover event production costs.

     Here’s our latest video invite as of today: 

     And our supplemental info video:

 

      Finally, to know more about our involvement with Women Empowerment, CLICK HERE for our story.  We hope to see you tonite!

Gather for Good 2.0: Charity Event for Women Empowerment, 03/13/18

NOTE: To purchase tickets, please CLICK HERE

(To make a donation separately or on top, please CLICK on DONATE page and indicate on the note if you wish to donate to fund our 03/12-03/13/18 events, as we still need to cover event production costs).

- - - - - 

     Yesterday, USA Today began an article series on human trafficking, that elicited quite a strong response amongst my friends on Facebook, such that Imyself promised that I will do something about it next week.

 CLICK HERE to read the USA Today article

 CLICK HERE to read the USA Today article

     March 8 is #InternationalWomensDay & with the #metoo movement engulfing many people across various industries, the impetus to bring awareness to all these related issues of sexual violence and human trafficking couldn’t be any more timelier.

IMG_6378.JPG

      Last year, I launched the Rogue Hearts Foundation to help bring awareness and support to several issues I feel strongly about.

     With #RogueHearts I can tie my regular and create or support special events to help shed light on these causes and do something about it.

     On Monday March 12, I am supporting awareness of the #womenilluminatedfilmfestival which is helping to provide women filmmakers a platform to show films relevant to women’s issues.

CLICK HERE to buy film festival tickets

CLICK HERE to buy film festival tickets

     Tuesday, March 13, I am hosting a #charity #fundraiser at #TheFarm to support Gwen.Live - one of the festival’s founders - and Bloom, a charity founded by one of the festival filmmakers Andrea Bucko.

CLICK HERE to buy Gather for Good charity event tickets at The Farm

CLICK HERE to buy Gather for Good charity event tickets at The Farm

     I hope you can join / support my event: Human Trafficking, sexual violence, #metoo etc - all these causes are related and intertwined in terms of glorifying violence against women.  I grew up with 3 brothers.  My mom and grandmother took care of us- I don’t have far to look in terms of my support of empowering women.

     And doing something about it.

- - - - -  

EPILOGUE

      And as I finish writing this blog, I glanced through my daily news and, while it may not be all dealing with women’s issues, it strikes at the heart of the hypocrisy within our society’s establishment:

 http://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968

 https://nypost.com/2018/03/06/pastor-cop-arrested-in-massage-parlor-prostitution-raid/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=pasteboard_app

 https://nypost.com/2018/03/06/man-accused-of-wanting-to-eat-child-sex-slave-released-from-jail/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=pasteboard_app

 https://nypost.com/2018/03/04/the-best-way-to-fight-sex-trafficking-is-to-legalize-prostitution/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=pasteboard_app

      And this is just this morning’s rundown.

- - - - - 

CLICK HERE for ticketed donation.  To make a donation separately or on top, please CLICK on DONATE page and indicate on the note if you wish to donate to fund our 03/12-03/13/18 events, as we still need to cover event production costs).

Caroline Turns 21

     On January 26-29, we are celebrating Caroline’s 21st Birthday In Las Vegas.  

 

     CLICK HERE for the video invite.

 

     It is also the AVN Awards Weekend.  Whoops.

IMG_5021.PNG

      So, how do we reconcile Caroline’s “innocent” birthday celebration with porn’s most celebrated weekend?

     Enter The Rogue Hearts Foundation .  Through the generosity of some of our sponsors, we are planning trip to bring awareness on the darker side of the Sex industry: human trafficking.

      It is our hope that we can open a conversation with the legitimate Porn industry and enlighten them that this illegal activity is stigmatizing and twisting what is a celebration of human sexuality, and generalizing their lifestyle and work, into what society deems as bad, unfit, unacceptable or, worse, simply akin to be categorically evil.

     With your support and (tax-deductible) donation, it is our hope that, besides bringing awareness, we are also able raise money to benefit charities dedicated to fight human trafficking, such as The Redlight Children campaign.     

Redlight Children logo

Redlight Children logo

The 2010 feature film “Holly” was part of the Redlight Children campaign dedicated to bring awareness to child slavery. 

The 2010 feature film “Holly” was part of the Redlight Children campaign dedicated to bring awareness to child slavery. 

      We also welcome you to join me and Caroline on this trip.  The more the merrier- the more noise we’ll make, and get everyone’s attention, so that the good and legal majority of the Sex industry can be more accepted by society, and, that if they join the fight against slavery and human trafficking, they may feel better about themselves and/or have higher moral ground to justify their career and lifestyle choice.

      To support or join our AVN Trip, please contact me (Ruben) at RubenPromo@Gmail.com or 9293997075.  If you simply wish to donate instead, to our trip and cause, please CLICK HERE.  Thank you for your support.

-Ruben Araneta

 

 

 

IMG_5020.PNG

Mode Culture Magazine NY Launch and Holiday Party

#OneNightOnly

01/23/18

NEVER NEVER

AT THE MONDRIAN PARK AVENUE

8pm to 11pm

Mode Culture Magazine NY Launch & Holiday Party invite

Mode Culture Magazine NY Launch & Holiday Party invite

     Please join ASmallWorld & Rogue Hearts Foundation as we celebrate the New York Launch of Mode Culture Magazine, as well as our belated holiday party.

     Open Bar 8pm to 9pm

     Click here to RSVP

     Portions of any proceeds to benefit Rogue Hearts Foundation and Women In Need charities. 

     For inquiries by press & PR, influencers, fashionistas, please email RubenPromo@gmail.com and state your occupation / industry along with any questions or inquiries you might have.

-Ruben Araneta

SINS: A Matzo Ball on Xmas Eve

     Merry Christmas to all Saints and Sinners.  If you have finished your family obligations relatively early, ALL are welcome to join God’s Chosen people in a more sinful than usual holiday celebration within our SINS of Sapphire industry party.

-SINS guest DJ Phresh

-SINS guest DJ Phresh

     Sapphire’s doors open at 10pm.  Party goes on until 4am.  For RSVP and table reservations, please text at 9293997075 or e-mail RogueHearts01@gmail.com . 

     Kindly note that a portion of proceeds booked ONLY through Rogue Nights or Rogue Hearts will go towards Women In Need charity.

-Season’s Greetings

-Season’s Greetings

     Thanks and please have a safe and fun holiday season!

 

- The Rogue Hearts and Rogue Nights teams

Rogue Bites: Holiday Toy Drive

Rogue Bites & Rogue Hearts invite you to

18th Annual Holiday Toy Drive

.

by Make A Difference NYC & Bring Joy to the World

.

Friday, Dec 15 2017

@meguworldwide

Open bar + food 10pm-11pm

.

DM4Reservations

( % via Rogue Nights or Hearts go towards fundraiser)

.

-Please bring an unwrapped toy

-Donations at door accepted

.

@rogue.nights @roguehearts01

#roguebites #roguehearts #nyc #nycscenes #nycnightlife #nyclifestyle #holiday #toydrive #fundraiser #community #charity

.

#Repost #evmeyerphoto

・・・

NYC • Quintessential New York at Christmas • Sony A7Rii | Sony 24-70mm f/2.8 GM

IMG_2436.JPG

Rogue Hearts Foundation Launch Period

     This blog entry shall formally serve as my official and main announcement of the launch of my non-profit The Rogue Hearts Foundation, over the next couple of weeks.

      It is with eager determination that I am finally able to put many of the pieces together to make this a relatively working (albeit currently one-man) charitable entity.      

      Rogue Hearts was conceived due to a void-   after 15+ years of parties and partying, I started to feel a little empty inside, after each glass of wine, or after each song the dj played.  Therefore, it was a matter of time that I decided to feel a little bit better about myself, one song, one drink, or one party at a time.  So that my hangover or indigestion the next day, will feel a little bit better, knowing that those drinks and shots last night may have inadvertently helped feed a hungry child or saved someone from human trafficking, somewhere along the way.

      Besides its traditional fundraising elements, I try to impose my passive fundraising doctrine whenever I possibly can.  Passive fundraising means that I’ve determine a set % of an event’s proceeds to go towards the foundation and the charity, if any, that Rogue Nights happens to be supporting at the time.  So, any dollar amount you may have spent at the bar or the dining table, a certain % goes to charity.  Granted, these amounts can be small or even tiny.  But over time and multiplied by hundreds of parties, plus more traditional fundraising methods, it adds up.

      Also, my experience and network as a promoter allows me leverage and minimize my costs in terms of event-planning and other related resources.

      I’ve also designed Rogue Hearts to support multiple charities - which allows me to support the multiple causes that I feel strongly about, but was too many for me to manage on my own.  The foundation greatly enhances my capabilities. 

      When my grandmother died of Alzheimer’s, when several of my friends died from suicide or drug overdose, when one of my closest friends was trapped at Tower A on 9/11, it can become a daunting list of tragedies to make sense of.  And a lot of the times, you end up doing not so much, or you become overwhelmed and paralyzed.

     But with the foundation, I can support mine or my friends’ causes and charities, and they in turn can support me, be more effective in a fundraising or awareness campaign, allowing us to help others in a better capacity.

     My only restriction is to not get involved in political or religious events.  My goal is to be a uniting force and, as I have friends in both sides of either arena;  therefore, to choose between polarizing agendas is ultimately an unfortunate waste of time and resources. At least from my perspective.

     You can follow Rogue Hearts Foundation on this blog or its website RogueHearts.org or on Instagram or Facebook under @roguehearts01   

      If you would like to donate, please click on the link below:

https://www.roguehearts.org/donate/

      Any amount helps tremendously and is greatly appreciated.  At the very least or first simple step, please follow us on social media and/or share us.

     Our first major launch event will be held in Miami during Art Basel 2017, to help the launch of our new lifestyle magazine Mode Culture, which in turn, is supporting my friend and artist Shawn Kolodny’s Fake Fulfillment Center exhibit.  All proceeds from our magazine event, via Rogue Hearts, will go towards The Caron Foundation, which is a drug rehabilitation center, and Shawn’s charity of choice.  It goes well in hand with the overall theme.  And I look forward to Rogue Hearts being one of the umbrella elements of this project.

      Our second launch event will be held in New York City, sometime after Basel.  We’ll keep you posted on the details as we progress.

     Thank you very much for all the support you’ve given us.  And I look forward to growing Rogue Hearts, and be a part of the solution.

- Ruben Araneta, Founder

The Rogue Hearts Foundation

 

DINNER PARTY

PS. Tonite please join us for a low key dinner party at Megu 930pm celebration our launch.  Proceeds of ALL dinner reservations made via Rogue Nights or Rogue Hearts will go towards Women In Need charity.  Thank you.

IMG_1799.JPG
FullSizeRender.jpg

Artist Shawn Kolodny’s Fake Fulfillment Center

IMG_2063.JPG

Mode Culture Magazine launch invite

The Orchid Foundation fundraiser

     On Tuesday, December 5, The Orchid Foundation is hosting a charity event at Loft 29, New York, NY.  Details are on the invitation below.

      @TheOrchidFdn is a mentorship nonprofit for underserved young women, in a one-on-one environment.  The Rogue Hearts Foundation is proud to support this empowering event.

      If you wish to volunteer, donate significantly, or have questions please don’t hesitate to contact us.  Thank you and hope to see you at the event.

IMG_1627.JPG
IMG_1628.JPG

#GivingTuesday

Just when you thought Black Friday, Small Biz Saturday, SINS Sunday 😂 & Cyber Monday was over ... they now throw in ... #givingtuesday

 

Sweet Jesus.  I hope there’s still gas in your MasterCard tank 🙈

 

But this is a day to give back - so pls feel free to seed me some $ for my newbie charity.  We’ve already started to do some good:  

https://www.roguehearts.org/donate/ 

IMG_2067.PNG