Dreamers, inventors, entrepreneurs, and auteurs often have big ideas but lack the means to make them a reality. That’s why Jacob Tell, CEO of creative marketing agency Oniracom, helped to found Solutions for Dreamers (SFD), a mixer for creatively minded entrepreneurs and businesspeople and business-minded creatives, artists, and musicians.
SFD will hold its second event Friday, September 18, at 5 p.m. with event sponsors PlayBack Studios at Oniracom (720 E. Haley St.; oniracom.com ), and Tell hopes this month’s meeting will make a roar. Featuring brand-new tiger-themed artwork from Tiger Heroes artist and entrepreneur Matthew McAvene (the man behind Blind Tiger’s namesake glowing-eyed cat) and music from the Dylan Ortega Band and the Jonathan McEuen Trio, the night will go toward funding tiger conservation through the World Wildlife Fund and Panthera.
McAvene, with his activist artistry and civic-minded creativity, was a natural partner for the mixer, Tell said. “We really feel that people respond, especially in this day and age of technology, with visual works of beauty and fine art that are on a large scale,” he said.