Vol 8: May We Remember (Great Eats, Great Treats, and Great Experiences)

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*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Fighting the Good Fight Recap Two months ago, when we all went into shelter at home, we heard firsthand from healthcare professionals that they were in dire need of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). We wanted to help in any way we could, so we immediately launched the Fight the Good Fight Initiative... To everyone who was able to contribute to the Good Fight Initiative these past couple months, THANK YOU! With your help we were able to raise $14,554 to procure over 17,000 KN95 and surgical masks. On behalf of the healthcare workers of our local area hospitals, we are eternally grateful for the community's support. THANK YOU also to Rave Wonderland, Suay LA, Equipe Athletics, and Goodfight for your generous mask donations! With these donations, we were able to distribute 47,850 masks! Over a hundred volunteers stepped up to help deliver PPE to local hospitals! Below are a few hospitals that our good fight volunteers helped support: Beverly Hospital (Montebello, CA) KECK Medicine of USC San Antonio Regional Hospital Upland, Ca Children's Hospital of Los Angeles  Temecula Valley Hospital  Good Shepherd Shelter Garden Grove Hospital Fountain Valley Hospital LAC+USC Medical Center Alvarado Hospital and Paradise Valley  Hospital.  San Diego Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles City of LA Skid Row Good Samaritan Hospital White Memorial Medical Center and California Hospital and Cedars Sinai Kaiser Baldwin Park Methodist Hospital of Southern California in Arcadia Veterans Hospital UCI Medical Center Kaiser Permanente Anaheim Kramer  Kaiser Irvine Kaiser San Jose NewYork Presbyterian, The Allen Hospital  The Good Fight continues with the mask exchange program. For civilians who have the flexibility to no longer use disposable masks, we’re partnering with Goodfight to offer anyone who has a stash of disposables to get their hands on a sustainable and fashionable replacement! If you have unused and sealed hospital-grade masks, you can exchange them for a high quality designer cloth mask!  If interested in the mask exchange program, please email Carl at carl@ingreat.co. Please note that all maks must be sealed and unused to be eligible for the mask exchange program. *|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Email rsvp@ingreat.co HERE! Join us tomorrow for our Weekly Wednesday LunchStream to meet world-renowned poet and spoken word artist, Beau Sia, as he features excerpts from his newest book, Well Played.  "The poetry in Beau Sia's Well Played are fearless, hard-hitting, uncompromising. His own unflinching self-reflection on race, colonialism, assimilation, representation, white supremacy, and identity is a ever-shifting kaleidoscope of words, timelines, and layers of being that spin into something like a survival guide, a trickster's song, a call to action, [and] incantation for a kinder and more just world." - Yumi Sakugawa, author of Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with the Universe Pre-order your own copy of Well Played today!    PRE-ORDER! Last week, we had fun impressing each other with our oh-so great drawing skills in a virtual game of Pictionary! Take a peek below! 10 weeks ago, our company was slated to achieve record numbers, fulfill our dream goals, and was staffed with the best-in-class team members who shared a passion for everything experiential. Then, storytelling in the form of immersive-themed entertainment irrevocably changed overnight, at least for the foreseeable future. 9 weeks ago, our vision for 2020 may have shattered, but our team never changed. We remained passionate about staying connected to our community and decided to launch a newsletter as our way to stay in touch with partners and collaborators. To achieve a sense of normality, we even launched a weekly LunchStream to eat, laugh, and play together.  A rollercoaster. A blur. A lot of dreaming...   So what Now? We have evolved, and we're ready to share with you our NEXTCHAPTER, a Graphic Media Platform that will deliver interactive storytelling in a new medium. We like streaming, but we LOVE tangible stories, told by storytellers we believe in.  As we kick-off our venture into the world of publishing, we are honored and excited to present this story by SEAN CHEN, the artist behind BLOODSHOT (before he was Vin Diesel) and WOLVERINE (before he was Hugh Jackman), as well as the artistic steward of BATMAN BEYOND. Our first story will be THE SECOND TO THE LAST SEAL.  We invite you to join us on this journey as it unfolds. Follow us @nextchapterpost. Where we go next, we don't need roads...  Nuff Said,  Carl Feeling hungry? Wishing you could go out and enjoy that hot and delicious meal at your favorite restaurant? Luckily some of the best restaurants in LA have adapted to better accommodate take out and delivery, so you can still enjoy your favorite foods at home. Just to be sure to tip your dogs well when they clean your plates ;) Anyone else missing some good ol' KBBQ comfort food? Well guess what, our favorite Korean BBQ champs Soowon Galbi have perfected their dishes for take out so you can now enjoy delicious KBBQ in the comfort of your own home. Premium cuts of meat, an addicting secret marinade, and plenty of satisfying banchans. Invite a few friends to order as well, and voila! You have communal KBBQ, virtual style ;) As much as we all love lasagna, we all know how time-consuming and difficult it can be to cook at home. Luckily, Ceci's Oven, with Francesco Lucatorto, chef from Providence, Angelini Osteria, and BRERA Ristorante, is making sure that we can still get the best of both worlds, and enjoy mouth-watering lasagna at home with the cooking left to the professionals! Check out Ceci's Oven's weekly menu for new deals and Italian dishes that will take you straight to Italy via your tastebuds. Buon appetito! Cooooookie! We all have a little bit of a cookie monster inside. And now you can go wild with custom designed cookies with Lil Em's Cookies! Designed and baked by Emily Yetter, there is no limit to the imagination with these cookie creations! A fellow actress within the immersive community, Emily can craft virtually any design or idea you wish, creating stunningly delicious cookies. Follow @lilemscookies for classes, live decorating, and more! Want to share your favorite take-out eateries? Tag us @thegreatcompany! May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! To celebrate, we have been enjoying many inspiring short films with unique stories, told by innovative APIA filmmakers. Continue the celebration and connect with us for a stimulating roundtable conversation featuring Asian Pacific American Visionaries!  Sponsored by HBO,  APA Visionaries is a short film competition that highlights emerging directors of Asian and/or Pacific Islander heritage, and provides an opportunity to showcase their work.   On Friday, May 29th at 2pm PT, join us for a look at the HBO APA Visionaries program and a heartfelt conversation on the multiple and evolving layers of the APA filmmaker experience of today. E! host and correspondent Erin Lim, hosts Visionary finalists from across three classes, Dinh Thai (MONDAY), Maritte Go (REMITTANCE), Nirav Bhakta (HALWA), and Gayatri Bajpai (HALWA), joined by actress and filmmaker Sujata Day, for a conversation on what it means to be a storyteller and a leader. WATCH HERE! FRIDAY, MAY 29 AT 2PM PST Hope to see you there! #InGreatCo