LIC event planner starts
online campaign to help women artists
and entrepreneurs
BY ALEJANDRA
O’CONNELL-DOMENECH
A Long Island City woman is
asking for community help
in funding VenDiva, an event
that will promote women-owned
business, entrepreneurs and
artists.
Jasmine Rosario, VenDiva’s organizer,
has created an online campaign in order
to help raise funds. The goal is to raise
$10,000 within the next 198 days.
“I want to prove that good things come
out of when we get together and support
each other,” said Rosario, a spoken word
poet who recently started her own event
planning business, Rose Garden events.
Although Rosario does have pro-fessional
experience in planning, this
VenDiva will be the biggest event she
has ever organized. The event will be
held at The Bordone LIC and will feature
live music, spoken word performances,
live art and a handful of guest speak-ers
touching sexual abuse on social
media, domestic violence and breast
cancer survival.
According to Rosario, the inspira-tion
for the event came after a brief but
dark period in her life when issues with
depression and anxiety were become
difficult to manage. But luckily she was
able to take few months away from work
in order to prioritize her mental health.
“I had this epiphany,” said Rosario.
She realized that she had to power to
help other women and that she needed
to do so.
Visit fundly.com/vendiva for further
details.
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