Saturday, December 5th * 6PM ’til LATE
THE SKINNY DIP @ KITCHEN 305
A Concert To Benefit Melanoma Research and Awareness
In Memory of Linda K. Snyder
…dipping into our wallets to save our skin!

Kitchen 305 in The Newport Beachside Hotel and Resort
16701 Collins Avenue
Sunny Isles, FL

Hosted by Shawn Snyder
MC’d by Channel 10’s Will Manso

A Multi-Bill Concert Featuring:

The U-School Testostertones
Uncle Scotchy
The Big Bounce
Big Poppa E and the E Band
Shauna Sweeney
Michael Shivers
Arboles Libres
Shawn Snyder
AND
Lanzallamas Monofonica

$25 ALL YOU CAN DRINK! All NIGHT!
$25 ALL YOU CAN DRINK! ALL NIGHT!
$25 ALL YOU CAN DRINK! ALL NIGHT!

Live Music ’til 11PM!

VIP After Party Follows! With DJ and GES Model Fashion Show at 1AM!

$10 Suggested Donation At The Door!

Raffle and Silent Auction Throughout The Night!

Including, for starters, a Weekend at the Newport Beachside Hotel and Resort, Dinner at Kitchen 305, Dinner at Gotham Steakhouse, Spirit Air Vouchers, Spa Treatments, Sports Memorabilia, Artist CD Packages, a Dwyane Wade Signed Jersey, a Steely Dan Signed Guitar!

Proceeds to Benefit:

The Melanoma Research Foundation
AND
The Richard David Kann Melanoma Foundation

Officail Website: www.THESKINNYDIP.org

The Story:

One year ago, my mom, Linda Snyder, passed away from StageIV Melanoma at just shy of sixty years old. What started as a mole on her thigh ended up, three years later, metastasized in her brain. It’s surreal, to say the least, and still, at times, altogether inconceivable.

Beyond the essential fundraising facets of The Skinny Dip, the effort to increase awareness is of utmost priority.

The Susan G. Komen Foundation and the Pink Movement, at large, have done an incredible and admirable job at branding and marketing Breast Cancer Research and Awareness. Melanoma, on the other hand, nobody seems to want to talk about, despite having the fastest growing incidence rate of all cancers – it’s stuck with a Black Ribbon, a starkness that speaks on multiple levels. When caught in advanced stages, it can be one of the most unpredictable and hardest cancers to fight, and brings with its diagnosis some of the grimmest numbers and devastating outcomes. And yet, it happens to be one of the easier cancers to prevent and to detect and has one of the highest survival rates when discovered and treated early. Sun caution and skin care, frequent visits to the dermatologist and full-body checks, are usually all it takes to stay vigilant.

Living in South Florida, where sun-worship is religion and dermatology often caters to vanity more than prevention, we’re hoping to take some cues from Komen, adding some edge and some trend to an otherwise stiff, rather uncomfortable, and often taboo topic, to try to make even a small dent in the way of public consciousness and precaution.

Please Join Us!

The Melanoma Research Foundation

and

The Richard David Kann Melanoma Foundation

GET SCREENED IN SOUTH FLORIDA:

University of Miami Health System’s Melanoma Surveillance and Detection Clinic

A GREAT EDUCATIONAL POWERPOINT:

Skin Cancer, South Florida Sun, and Self-Skin Examinations from UMSylvester

Miami New Times Music – The Skinny Dip: A Concert to Benefit Melanoma Research and Awareness

The Skinny Dip | CityLink Metromix South Florida

Thank You Colleen Dougher (CityLink/Metromix), Arielle Castillo (Miami New Times), and Lee Zimmerman (New Times, As Well), for good measure!