We COO-CHELLA’d our tail feathers off! (Aria Jalali photo)
Wow! Wow wow wow! Our COO-CHELLA party Saturday 9/22 was awesome! We had so many amazing people and birds all gathered together in a big love fest! (Here’s our party playlist, courtesy of Ellie Paterson!) We were maxed out with more than 120 guests and together we all had great fun, learned a lot, made new friends, showed our #PigeonPride, and raised $4120 to help birds! Everything was donated! Everything! SF SPCA donated the space, our special guests donated their time and travel, our volunteers and supporters donated all the delicious food and beverages and the awesome decorations and treasure and prizes! I don’t even know how to express how incredibly grateful Palomacy is to you all. THANK YOU!
Come in! (Decorations created by Christiana Reed, Lara Speece photo)
So many people contributed so much to make COO-CHELLA special & no one more than amazing, heroic Christiana! (Ryan Reed photo)
Sophia & Nathan welcome you to COO-CHELLA (Lara Speece photo)
Welcome to party time! (Aria Jalali photo)
Our program by Suzy Cincone
Special Guest Commander Holly & First Officer Feathers (Thomas McLellan photo)
Commander Holly, Foggy & Ashley (Aria Jalali photo)
Jessica & Commander Holly & First Officer Feathers! (Photo courtesty of Jessica Waite)
Special guest fine art photographer Andrew Garn
Andrew Garn signing his books (Nina Roberts photo)
Andrew’s presentation was awesome! Rave reviews, including from international viewers!
COO-CHELLA rockstars Andrew Garn & Christiana Reed with Cadence (Ryan Reed photo)
Pigeon joy! (Aria Jalali photo)
Our amazing hosts- SF SPCA Humane Ed team: Lara with Winter, Maggie & Kat
Photo booth fun with Super Cheryl & Oyster (Elizabeth Young photo)
Sam & Emma & Penny
Ash, Cricket & Jenny (Lara Speece photo)
Jill & Maryam nom nom nom! (Aria Jalali photo)
We feasted! Thank you, Ellie & team! (Ryan Reed photo)
Ellie again led our amazing food team & the food was awesome!
“My friends were surprised that vegan food could be so good!” Uhhh, yeah!
L-R: Anton, Carole, Winter, Bob, Luis, Barna! Cheers! (Ryan Reed photo)
Barna brewed & served his home-crafted Pepe’s Weissbeir & Josette & Luis donated & served all the wine, sodas & water
THANK COO!!! (Ryan Reed photo)
Palomacy heartily thanks our amazing food and beverage volunteers and donors: Ellie Paterson, Clare Malone Prichard and Bob Prichard, Barna Mink, Josette Maury and Luis Maury-Cruz, Ranjini Subramaniam, Jill McMurchy, Chava Sonnier, Cheryl Dickinson, Ash VanNess, Steve Anderson, Chris Okon, Mariah Simoni-Wong, Margie Gear, Peggy Hartlein, Cinnaholic, Rainbow Grocery SF, Trader Joe’s SF, Gus’s Community Market and Target Albany!
Shae was busy all night staffing our merchandise table & raising funds for the birds
FleaCircusDesigns.com donated 60 adorable must-have pins plus an additional $2K (from the Poe Egglesworth campaign!)
Artist & Palomacy volunteer Ashley Dietrich donated a framed portrait of Violet
Four of five original watercolor paintings Artist Elizabeth Gold of @TheNativePigeon donated to support Palomacy
Thank you so very much to all of our incredibly generous donors and volunteers: Andrew Garn, Commander Holly, Flea Circus Designs, Ashley Dietrich, Meg Germundson, Lagunitas Brewing Company, A. Fulmer Pigeon Pants, Pet Food Express, The Native Pigeon, CuriOdyssey, Exploratorium, Oakland Zoo, Andrew Finkel, Pandemonium Aviaries, California Academy of Sciences, Cheryl Dickinson, Dr. Jackie Gai, Cynthia Zhou, Christiana Reed, Bob Loew, Emma Thomas, Ellie Paterson, Josette Maury, Saska Kanalve, Aria Jalali, Sarah Meyer Design, Suzy Cincone, Ryan Reed, Mickaboo, Maggie Amiano, Lara Speece, Kay Huang and the San Francisco SPCA!
Saska created special crafts just for the kids!
Saska’s DIY & world’s cutest bird puppets!
The artist as a young Riley
Super Cheryl providing expert bird advice (Aria Jalali photo)
Ashley & Foggy (Aria Jalali photo)
Party birb Internet star @Gregthedove (Lara Speece photo)
Jen & Eric & foster pigeons Boba & Cooper (Aria Jalali photo)
Nina & Foggy (Aria Jalali photo)
COO-CHELLIN’ (Aria Jalali photo)
Ms. Pidge & Lara (Photo courtesy of Lara Speece)
Zach & Chava brought Jonah & Ms. Pidge (Ryan Reed photo)
(Ryan Reed photo)
Riley & Saska (Shae Irving photo)
Gracie Cricket making friends (Aria Jalali photo)
Ranjini & José (Lara Speece photo)
Maryam & her Rango (Ryan Reed photo)
Birds relaxing
Sushi, straight out of the shelter, stopped at COO-CHELLA on her freedom ride
Arcas in her pod
There were three pigeons rescued (all by different attendees) on the way to COO-CHELLA
Maryam comforts the squeaker Cynthia & Jamie rescued on the way (Cynthia Bardouka-Large photo)
Rescuers Elizabeth, Lindsay & Holly (Holly selfie)
Cynthia & Arcas & Jamie & Miu (Aria Jalali photo)
Arcas & Miu (Aria Jalali photo)
Cleaning up & somehow, Christiana is still standing & still smiling. Truly an earth angel.
Andrew & Christiana- goodbye for now
Amazing Ellie of the Flowers, still smiling after so much work!
We did it! Here’s a little party video I posted live to Facebook that night and here’s another of the start of Andrew Garn’s amazing slideshow (neither does them justice). I truly can’t convey to you how fun and wonderful and special it was to all come together in celebration of the birds and people of Palomacy! To all who came, thank you for sharing this amazing event with us! For those of you who couldn’t be there, we missed you! Your support makes an important difference for Palomacy no matter where you are! And we’ve already picked the date for next year’s party- 10/19/19. Mark your calendars!
Peace out! (and great big huge thanks to artist Sarah Meyer for all of her generous support)
