Solving Millennial Loneliness
Body//Talk Party
Co-Founder, Event Director, Art Director
Background
With my group of best friends, I co-founded an Orlando event company in 2013. We’ve reached over 15,000 people in the US and Europe and organized ourselves around a mission to solve Millennial post-college loneliness by connecting people to a community engine via nightlife.
Brand Strategy
First of it’s kind nightlife experience designed to create community, not one-night-only party experiences. A party that model social practices that spur connection and meaningful relationships. It was engrained in the way we treated guests— like we were waiting to meet them and introduce them to 1,000 new friends. It was the icebreaker games we designed, the group activities off the dance floor and way staff interacted with guests that produced the effect of Body//Talk. Out of a dance party, we helped people form real friendships.
Partnerships
Pabst Blue Ribbon, Red Bull. III Points
Earned Media
USA Today Top 10, NPR, TedX Orlando, Spectrum 35 TV, 91.5 FM WPRK, Orlando Weekly, Bungalower
Hosted 15k attendees
Directed 36 events
Founded volunteer program, 40+ person roster
Grew ops team to 9 dedicated staff
Special Events
Contact Music Festival
How do we tell the story of an overlooked city experiencing a cultural renaissance? Our answer was to bring together Orlando's most forward-thinking groups for one thunderous celebration of local culture we called Contact Music Festival. To learn, dance and smile, together.
Bernie Fest
Politics often feels so removed from our daily lives. We experience it on tv, news sites, and Facebook… but we wanted to change that. We created Bernie Fest to concretize the passion and fervor that our community had for our favorite Vermont senator in a festival atmosphere–with music, art, drinks, and vendors.
Late Night Swim
Billed as downtown Orlando’s indie dance party, Late Night Swim was Body//Talk's younger, clubbier sister that got the basics right: big sound, immersive lights, and killer tunes.
“One of my favorite memories is at one Late Night Swim, when it was still early in the night, and the Shallow Seas episode of Planet Earth was projecting onto the screen to accompany some sweet, sweet techno. The immersion into so much of what I love in life was a relief, and a reminder that Orlando was a home. I was in the company of people who understood me.”
— Anonymous Comment, Youtube
The Body//Room
The Boiler Room has always been a sacred lifeline to the cutting-edge music we just can't find anywhere else. Inspired by their goal to make great dance music accessible, we decided to capture that same spirit, and infuse it with Body//Talk’s energy.
Promo video for The Body//Room
The Team
Thank you to everyone who was ever a part of Body//Talk.
You are loved.
Phil Santos - Founder, Music Director
Jahfre Colbert - Co-Founder, Designer, Event Director
Ben Feistmann - Organizer
Kate Hamelin - Organizer
Alison Jacobson - Organizer
Nick Sawyer - Videographer, Event Director
Alex Bryson - Event Director
Natalie Montanez - Event Director
Francisco Hererra - Volunteer Manager
Countless volunteers that made the party possible.