If you claim to love travel and culture but aren’t yet aware of Packed Panda, until just now, you’ve been quite the walking contradiction. Packed Panda is a website acknowledging just how big the world really is and the endless amount of culture and diversity there is to experience within it. Even more to that end, Packed Panda spotlights how important it is to be able to experience that culture and diversity through travel. The internet allows for us to be globally connected, but Packed Panda is taking that a step further and aiding in providing you the opportunity to be a part of a larger community that makes a very big world, a much smaller place.
To educate and to support education through travel experiences is an integral part of Packed Panda’s mission. With emphasis on the importance of programs like Study Abroad and Student Exchange, on April 11th, Packed Panda has organized it’s first fundraising event with proceeds benefiting Pitt Global, The University of Pittsburgh’s Study Abroad Program. A portion of the proceeds will go directly towards a scholarship fund to help students in need of assistance to travel.
Join the party to support an incredible cause and have a night of great drinks and entertainment at Pittsburgh’s 2nd Annual “Roaring 20’s Champagne Soirée.”
Purchase tickets here on the Roaring 20’s Champagne Soirée event page.
ABOUT EVENT
Enjoy an evening of prohibition-inspired cocktails, vintage fashion, great conversation, dancing, and electroswing music. Experience a night that synthesizes classic with contemporary, that fuses the sounds of the first Great Depression with the cutting-edge technology of the second. Featuring…
INCLUDES
*20s style networking (6pm)
*prohibition-inspired libations+
*complementary hors d’oeuvres
*rooftop fashion show (7pm) with designs by Sofiya Mozley
*electro-swing dance party downstairs (9pm) with DJ Phunkphonic
*And many more sexy surprises!ENTERTAINMENT
The event will feature various electro-swing elements. For those unfamiliar with the electroswing movement: Electroswing music has its roots in the swing jazz music of the late 1920’s & early 1930s. By the early 1990s, swing samples & influences were becoming popular again. By 2004, the first attempts to fuse swing music with electronic house music started to appear, spawning the term ‘electroswing.’ The juxtaposed style rose to popularity in underground clubs around Europe (in cities like London, Paris, and Zurich) circa 2008-2010, and has since started to make its way into North America and Asia.
**UPDATE**
Use the promo code “packedpanda” and receive 20% off your ticket.
If you aren’t able to make the event, you can get in touch with Packed Panda directly at any of the links below to find out how you can still support the Pitt Study Abroad Program scholarship fund.
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You can also contact me down in the comments with any questions you might have as well.
Over the next few days, don’t be surprised to see an invite from me to Packed Panda’s Facebook page. Be sure to accept the invite so you can keep up with all of the pictures and stories of everybody’s travel tips and experiences, and even better, contribute some of your own.
Whenever you’re not keeping up with the other world travelers on Packed Panda, you can keep up with all my personal exploits on facebook, twitter and instagram.
By: Eli Rebich
