An overview of human trafficking and highlight a current outreach project of Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST) by Imelda Buncab in partnership with Tatiana Rodzinek, Russian Community Outreach Coordinator with the City of West Hollywood.

Special presentation: experts from a documentary-in-process featuring revealing interviews of Eastern European women in USA on immigration and trafficking problems.Event organized by CAST, STOP, City of West Hollywood and Russian-American Business and Arts Council.

Acapulco Restaurant
Presentation by the Lending Bee (lendingbee.com) by Boris Dorfman and Vladimir Isperov. How to get 100% financing, Downpayment / Gift Assistance Program. Recent changes in Lending.

Acapulco Restaurant, 385 N. La Cienega
Presentation by Leon Gershkovich, Real Estate Broker, the owner of Prime Banker Realty Inc. with 12 years experience in foreclosures and short sales.

Bel Age Hotel, Debussy Room. 1029 N. San Vicente Boulevard, West Hollywood

Chellie Campbell is a past owner of a business management firm and a former musical comedy actress with thirteen employees who's been a professional speaker for over sixteen years. She's the author of The Wealthy Spirit: Daily Affirmations for Financial Stress Reduction (Sourcebooks, 2002), a GlobalNet book-of-the-month Dr. Laura radio show book-of-the-week selection. Chellie has been quoted in Good Housekeeping, Lifetime, Essence, Woman;s World and many books, and she's featured in How to Run Your Business Like a Girl by Elizabeth Cogswell Baskin and Money, A Memoir: Women, Emotions, and Cash by Liz Perle. Her new book, Zero to Zillionaire: 8 Foolproof Steps to Financial Peace of Mind, will be released in spring, 2006. Campbell, who speaks to organizations from Northrop Corporation to the Screen Actors Guild. Her best-selling book, The Wealthy Spirit, was a featured Book of the Week on Dr. Laura Schlessinger's popular nationwide talk show.

Please join us to learn about positive thinking while dealing with financial issues. Chellie helped people get out of debt and launch successful careers.

Don O'Melveny Gallery, 5472 Wilshire Blvd. 90036

This seminar helps parents of aspiring actors and models to understand the specifics and legal aspects of working in show business. We will advise you how to find a right agent or manager, how to prepare portfolio, how to select a good acting coach or a proper acting school. This seminar will teach you to avoid enormous unnecessary expenses and psychological traumas caused by fictitious “agents”, “managers”, “acting coaches” or “acting schools.”

The seminar is conducted by Dmitri Boudrine, SAG, ACTRA, UBCP, Professional actor, director and producer, Member of Screen Actors Guild of America and Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists, who teaches acting for over 15 years in US and Canada.

Concurrently:
Don O'Melveny Gallery presents a new exhibition featuring the collages of two women who dare to create OUT OF THE BOX: Artwork by Georganne Aldrich Heller and Lark (Larisa Pilinsky). Curated by Peter Frank, L.A. Weekly art critic.

May 4, 2006 @ 7:30 p.m.

Educational Seminar: The Art of Networking
Connecting and Empowering Business and Arts Professionals.

Sportsmen's Lodge, Waterfall Room
12833 Ventura Boulevard, Studio City, CA 91604

Featured guest: Jeff Hoffman, Founder and CEO LincLA.com, an award-winning professional speaker and mortgage broker.

March 29 , 2006 @ 7:30 p.m.

Educational Seminar: Improve Your Credit Score
How to improve your credit score and get the best rates for credit cards, car loans and mortgages.

Guest Speaker: Neil Daly, CEO
CEO of The Daly Financial Group, Credit Restoration and Management

The Old Spaghetti Factory: 5939 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028

February 8 , 2006 @ 7:30 p.m.

Educational Seminar: Identity Theft
"Identity Theft" Mixer at the Crystal Russian Restaurant. Held together with the West Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and the Russian Advisory Board.

We had over 65 people, and a very useful presenation. Gifts were sponsored by "Night Watch" - "Nochnoi Dozor" - a Russian blockbuster film released that week in Los Angeles.

April 21 , 2005 @ 7:30 p.m.

Business Seminar: "How To Sell"
Sportsmen's Lounge, Studio City

Guest Speaker: Peter Krauss, Principal of Interwoven, consultant speaker for SBDC (Small Business).

March 13 , 2005 @ 7:30 p.m.

Educational Exhibit and Reception: Heritage of the Russian Ballet
Kierkhoff Hall, UCLA

Heritage of the Russian Ballet - over 150 years of history. A photographic exhibit, which traces the illiustrios history of the Russian Ballet protraying leading soloists and personalities of famed Mariinsky / Kirovsky and Bolshoi Companies from the Golden Age of Ballet to present day. As a collection, the photographs have not been seen before. Presented archives starting from 1861 to photographs taken by Judy Cameron, a performing arts photographer and film historian. Her work has been featured in over 25 boosk. She is the author of "The Bolshoi Ballet" & "The Art of Gone With the Wind".

Location: Lunaria Restaurant: 10351 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90025

Guest Speaker:
John Taylor, CPA

Location: Lunaria Restaurant: 10351 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90025

Guest Speaker:
Howard K. Cooper
MAP Senior Consultant

Location: Lunaria Restaurant: 10351 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90025

Guest Speaker:
Peter Kraus
Principal of Interwoven, consultant speaker for SBDC
June 17, 2004 was the official opening night of Russian-American Business and Arts Council (RABAC) - new Southern California network organization which promotes business and cultural interaction among Russian speaking individuals and businesses. Its current members and over 40 participating guests enjoyed the informal presentation of key-note speaker - Peter Kraus who is a principal of Interwoven and leading consultant with Small Business Development Center of Los Angeles. Combining pleasant informal atmosphere of business discussion and relaxed live music, drinks and food of well-known Restaurant and Jazz-Club like Lunaria of West LA really were the right ingredients for elevated mood and desire to participate in events like June 17 in the near future. Many participants expressed their interest to join the RABAC organization (it has open membership) and excitement to see another event as soon as August, 2004

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