Shane Smith Joins Celebrity Dance Challenge

2/16/2017

Guess who just signed on to participate in this year's Celebrity Dance Challenge? Partnering up with Brazilian born beauty, and Atlanta eyebrow legend Milly Castelo - is our very own Shane Smith, Creative Director of Stella Entertainment. Taking place at the Buckhead Theatre on April 20th, the Celebrity Dance Challenge partners Atlanta's hottest celebrities with the city's top professional dancers to compete onstage to raise funds and awareness for EDIN - Eating Disorder International Network. With emcees Christi Paul of CNN and Paul Milliken, Road Warrior of FOX 5’s Good Day Atlanta, and with celebrity dancer/choreographer Bubba Carr as artistic director - it's definitely a show not to be missed! Check out the details below for tickets, sponsorship packages, and for info how you can VOTE for #millyshane. The deadline for sponsorship applications is March 10th!! And don't forget to LIKE or SHARE on Facebook or Twitter. It's for charity. :)

HOW TO VOTE:

Before the Event:
- Crowdrise Instructions:
  1. Visit theIndividual Crowdrise Page
  2. Click on the purple DONATE TO A FUNDRAISER button
  3. Enter the amount you would like to donate and click on the donate button
  4. Complete your donation by entering you billing info and payment information and click
    DONATE

2.   Checks or Cash can be mailed to EDIN:
     The Eating Disorders Information Network Attn: Celebrity Dance Challenge
1995 N. Park Place
Suite 310N
Atlanta, GA, 30339

***Memo section on check - “For #MillyShane” or include letter stating “Milly & Shane”

2. Voting at Celebrity Dance Challenge:
1. Via Crowdrise (from mobile device)
   a. We’ll have signs with how to vote and each couple’s link to their fundraising page to vote!
    b. Vote until the end of the last dance!
2. With cash, check or credit card (via volunteer)
   a. There will be a volunteer designated to cover each section throughout the show
   b. The volunteers will have envelopes to collect cash or checks
c. They will also have credit card readers to accept credit card donations for those
uncomfortable with using Crowdrise from mobile phone.

Don't forget to use #millyshane when voting so it counts! Thanks for you support! xo

"When I was asked to be apart of this year's event, EDIN was a cause that I immediately connected with. As a professional dancer, body image is something that you're constantly aware of from castings, to costume fittings and tour weigh-ins. Over the course of my career, I had a few friends that suffered from various eating disorders, but getting to know the disorder, I've learned that it affects a wide variety of people. As cliche as it may sound, I believe in nourishing not only our bodies, but our minds and souls. And with eating disorders being not only a physical problem, but an emotional one as well - I can only imagine the affect of our society's current fascination with image. So, I'm super excited to support EDIN and help raise funds & awareness in the Celebrity Dance Challenge. And, I hope to see you at the Buckhead Theatre on April 20th!"

Shane ~xo

In the past 7 years, this event has helped raise awareness and funds that have gone directly to the school and community outreach programs which provide speakers for schools, workshops for parents, training for professionals, presentations for coaches, age-appropriate curriculum for teachers and students, and Love Your Body Month events. Founded by Dina Zeckhausen, Dina has been helping people recover from eating problems for over 20 years. She wrote the first children’s eating disorder prevention book called Full Mouse, Empty Mouse: A Tale of Food and Feelings (Magination Press, 2007) which won the Gold Moonbeam Award for Children’s Wellness. In addition she has also written The Ultimate Tween Survival Guide to Eating Disorders: Understanding Them, Preventing Them and Helping a Loved One (Booklogix, 2013) to help young people dealing with a loved one’s eating disorder; and the musical What’s Eating Katie? - about a 13-year-old girl who struggles with an eating disorder. Dina is in private practice with her husband Gerald Drose, and works in both Buckhead and Marietta at Powers Ferry Psychological Associates.