A Great Investment
If you were among the more than 100,000 people who experienced Sleepless Night 2007, then you understand why the prestigious John S. and James L. Knight Foundation recently selected it as one of only 31 projects funded in the highly competitive Knight Arts Challenge. Knight was looking for projects with “the transformative power to create community;” Sleepless Night 2009 was awarded a $150,000 matching grant to once again open the eyes of our residents and visitors with unexpected cultural experiences. Street spectacle, indoor and outdoor art installations and performances, music, dance (and dancing,) theater, film, comedy, acrobatics and more will be offered at more than 100 different locations spread throughout the City and the 13-hour night.

The first Sleepless Night received more than 33 million media impressions in North America, Europe and Asia. With double the marketing budget for this year’s event, along with a substantial increase in donated media, Sleepless Night 2009 has the power to transform your sponsorship dollars into an amazingly high-yield investment, allowing you to show strength and commitment to the community while receiving the greatest possible return.

Sleepless Night will continue to grow year-by-year in the manner of the South Beach Wine and Food Festival and Art Basel Miami Beach. There are, however, five important differences between those two events and Sleepless Night – five very compelling reasons for partnership and participation:

1.SLEEPLESS NIGHT is FREE. Audiences of every socioeconomic level are able to share the experience more than 130 free events covering the entire spectrum of arts and entertainment.

2. SLEEPLESS NIGHT is HUGE. Our inaugural event drew over 100,000 people, two-and-a-half times the number of attendees at Art Basel or Wine & Food, and we are expecting more than double that at SLEEPLESS NIGHT this year.

3. SLEEPLESS NIGHT is CITYWIDE. Our goal of bringing ALL the arts to ALL the people means intensive programming in all of the diverse neighborhoods of Miami Beach. Free shuttle buses (with onboard movies and performance artists) run from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m.

4. SLEEPLESS NIGHT is COLLABORATIVE. The City of Miami Beach partners with EVERY cultural institution in the City (each with its own extensive membership outreach and networking program), as well as with private businesses and individuals, to ensure maximum participation and exposure.

5.SLEEPLESS NIGHT appealS to the ENTIRE FAMILY. There are performances and exhibitions for every possible audience, from pre-schoolers to senior citizens.

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

TITLE SPONSOR - $75,000
The Title Sponsor receives the premium recognition, support and designation for SLEEPLESS NIGHT and will be the sole sponsor of this level. SLEEPLESS NIGHT will work with the Title Sponsor to cater the package to its needs. Title Sponsor’s name/logo will appear as the sole presenter with the City of Miami Beach and the Knight Foundation on all advertisement, media impressions, marketing materials and communications.

SHUTTLE SPONSOR - $25,000
Your company designated as the official FREE shuttle sponsor of SLEEPLESS NIGHT. Branding opportunities on over 20 shuttle buses and at all (more than a dozen) shuttle stops circulating throughout Miami Beach for 14 hours.

SUNRISE BREAKFAST SPONSOR - $10,000
The opportunity to be the official sponsor of the sunrise breakfast. Branding opportunities on Ocean Drive, Lummus Park and the beach (sand) and to have your material placed in the hands of every attendee at the grand finale breakfast concert on the beach; includes major banner placements and prime program and website advertising.

PERFORMANCE SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

DEEP SURFACE - $15,000
Composer Gabriel E. Pulido created a sensation when he presented an excerpt of “Deep Surface” with the New World Symphony last year at Miami Art Central. Experience the Miami premiere of the complete work, “Deep Surface: Homage to the Sea,” which combines electronic and live music, visual projections and dance.

LEMUR - $15,000
Brooklyn’s League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots presented “Ballet Mecanique” to packed houses at the Wolfsonian during Art Basel 2007. Their new live show features both human and post-human musicians in a truly amazing and startling outdoor concert.

3-D SPONTANEOUS FANTASIA - $20,000
Put on your souvenir 3-D glasses and experience other worlds with virtual reality wizard J-Walt’s spectacular outdoor live animation performance. Logo projection opportunity and take-home branded 3-D glasses.

NEOGRAFIK - $20,000
Montreal artists Nomig and Alexis Laurence transform the city’s nightscape with non-destructive graffiti and digital paint technologies. Local artists and members of the public can participate in their proprietary laser tagging system while they complete two large digital mural paintings. Logo projection opportunities.

SPECTROPIA - $20,000
New York artist Toni Dove’s stunning and acclaimed experiment in cinematic spectacle making its Florida premiere, an interactive feature-film hybrid of sci-fi and film noir, shown on three screens and manipulated and altered in real time by two artists at a console of laptops, cameras and laser harp.

PABLO CANO’S MUSICAL MARIONETTES; THE TWEAKSTERS; THE SPANGLISH WRANGLER - $20,000
Three terrific shows for kids and their parents: At the first SLEEPLESS NIGHT people lined up for hours as Miami’s own Pablo Cano and his magical marionettes performed show after show to standing-room-only crowds. Southern California’s The Tweaksters present acrobatic, balletic feats of strength and balance in wild costumes under black light. Award-winning recording artist Will Thomas, the “Spanglish Wrangler,” both instructs and delights with his amusing bilingual folk songs. Much more children’s programming is in the works. Opportunity to be “Family Sponsor” for the full program of kid’s events spread throughout the four zones.

SIREN - $25,000
Award-winning artist, composer and performer Ray Lee’s SIREN is a whirling, spinning spectacle of mechanical movement, electronic sound and light. 29 large metal tripods, up to 10’ tall, have rotating arms powered by electric motors; electronic tone generators power speakers at the end of each arm, creating an extraordinary sonic texture, while bright LEDs trace circles of light. Audience members move around the space in the Miami Beach Convention Center at a safe distance while performers within the mass of swirling machinery tune the oscillators while dodging and ducking the rapidly rotating arms. Private cocktail performance opportunity (show lasts approximately 40 minutes.)

DIGITAL PHOTO BOOTH - $30,000
Your photo booth portrait joins a constant stream of giant projected faces on the outside of the Wolfsonian-FIU on Washington Avenue. Each image can be branded; photos can be printed as well, with branding in the image and on optional photo wallet.

THE DREAM ENGINE - $30,000
This amazing street theater group from the U.K. presents the eye-popping HELIOSPHERE: spiraling and spinning and seemingly weightless, an acrobat suspended beneath a giant color-changing helium balloon lantern explores the uncharted space between the beach and the night sky.

MASS ENSEMBLE - $35,000
This world-renowned group has literally created its own performance genre – an elegant and high-impact blend of amazing lights, music, sculpture, dance and visual arts. Fantastic and unique instruments include the Earth Harp, the world’s largest stringed instrument (and a smaller version that audience members can play.)

STRANGE FRUIT - $35,000
This celebrated Australian troupe returns to Miami Beach with “The Spheres”: perched atop 12’ high flexible poles, giant illuminated orbs contain characters that gradually emerge to stand and rise above their spheres of existence – hypnotically beautiful, reverent and sublime.

TEN INSTALLATIONS - $35,000
Ten leading local artists, selected by the internationally-renown curator Jerome Sans, will create site-specific sculptures in and around Collins Park. This project, in addition to its prominent place in the SLEEPLESS NIGHT programming, will have its own catalog and will remain on view at least until December 1. Presented in association with the Bass Museum of Art and the Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council. This project will be heavily marketed to the international art press. Each of the installations will have identifying signage.

BOUNCE THEORY - $40,000
Ileigh Reynolds’ Animate Objects Physical Theater collaborates with electronic music group Phoenicia to present the world premiere of BOUNCE THEORY, a spectacular exhibition of aerial bungee dancing and gravity-defying acrobatics in a 40-foot motorized stage in Lummus Park. Banner and projection opportunities.