Arts Beats & Eats on 5th Charity Preview
From the desk of Tom McGannon (Chair, Royal Oak Civic Foundation)
Many thanks to everyone who made Arts, Beats & Eats on 5th Charity Preview 2024 a great success for the city of Royal Oak!
Here’s to:
Jon Witz and Shannon Wojtas – What an outstanding preview event you hosted last evening! Many thanks from my volunteer colleagues at the Royal Oak Civic Foundation for your incredible partnership with us to produce the second annual Arts Beats & Eats on 5th as a charity fundraiser for our community. It was a great gathering of community leaders, and we appreciate you helping us host our important guests while raising funds for a number of non-profit organizations. You consistently go above and beyond to help us as we grow our operations and our fundraising to provide resources for the Royal Oak community. Last evening’s event was an outstanding effort by your team from top to bottom, and we appreciate your incredible, ongoing, and valued support. I personally appreciate how you and your organization showcase Royal Oak in a consistently positive light throughout the year.
Commissioners Cheezum, Herzog, Hunt, Kolo, and Macey – Thank you for your support in attending the event last night as well. We were delighted to host you and so many other civic leaders during a beautiful summer evening in the heart of our downtown. Your generous attendance made all the difference as this event became a power-networking event for Royal Oak civic leaders. Thank you, again, for your personal commitment to helping us grow this new event.
Mark Wollenweber – Thank you for encouraging many of your team to attend and for attending the event to show support for our efforts.
Mayor Fournier – As always, thank you for your continued support of the Royal Oak Civic Foundation.
To my colleagues with the Royal Oak Civic Foundation (Christopher Bower, Howard Collens, Commissioner Sharlan Douglas, Alex Fike, David Guest, Julie Lyons Bricker, Darian Neubecker, John Peetz, Peter Provenzano, Amanda Sears, and our staffer Jill Martin) –
Many thanks for the roles that each of you played in year two of this new event: fundraising, connecting with our non-profit partners, marketing and promotion, financial management, and attending the event to network with the civic leaders in attendance.
Please accept my hearty thanks to each of you for your role in helping us create a new, sustainable, exciting, power-networking event as the preview for one of the region’s best summer events over the Labor Day holiday weekend.
Best regards,
Tom McGannon
Photos of Arts, Beats & Eats on 5th Charity Preview by Derek Cookson
Next Year’s Arts, Beats & Eats on 5th Charity Preview Benefitting the Royal Oak Civic Foundation
Thursday, August 21st, 2025 on 5th Avenue
Details for This Year’s Event
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Civic Leaders Meet & Greet Cocktail and Mocktail Reception for Event Sponsors & VIP Ticket Holders
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Preview Food Truck Strolling Dinner, Artists & Entertainment
This special fundraising event is hosted at 5th Avenue, Royal Oak’s iconic hotspot and multi-level event venue. Premium patio and deck seating for event sponsors are wrapped together with an adjacent street party on 5th Street for a unique indoor-outdoor sneak peek of festival highlights. (Charity preview will be held rain or shine and moved indoors at this location if inclement weather occurs.)
Your sponsorship of this high-visibility community gathering demonstrates support of thriving Royal Oak community programs and provides the following business promotion, client hospitality, and networking benefits:
- Marketing & Advertising Benefits:
- Sponsor logo featured in presenting position under event logo
- Sponsor logo highlighted on a digital screen and televisions within 5th Avenue venue (full screen and premium rotation) during the event
- Digital appreciation affinity ad provided to sponsor for distribution to sponsor’s network by e-mail or social media
- Opportunity to provide giveaway items to guests with company logo
- Logo with link to sponsor website featured for 10 months on www.royaloakcivicfoundation.org
- Company name included in media releases (one to two planned)
- Hospitality & Networking Benefits (FMV $600):
- 10 VIP Tickets, including access to Civic Leaders Cocktail and Mocktail Reception from 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm, preview party dinner, and entertainment
- Reserved table(s) to host 10 guests at the event (on either 5th Avenue Deck or outside patio
- 30 beverage tickets for sponsor guests
- Marketing & Advertising Benefits:
- Sponsor logo featured in supporting listing on promotional materials
- Sponsor logo highlighted on a digital screen and on televisions within 5th Avenue venue (1/2 screen and frequent rotation) during the event
- Logo with link to sponsor website featured for 10 months on www.royaloakcivicfoundation.org
- Company name included in all media releases (one to two planned)
- Hospitality & Networking Benefits (FMV $300):
- 5 VIP Tickets, including access to Civic Leaders Cocktail and Mocktail Reception from 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm, preview party dinner, and entertainment
- Reserved table seating for 5 guests at the event
- 15 beverage tickets for sponsor guests
- Marketing & Advertising Benefits:
- Sponsor logo featured on a digital screen and televisions within 5th Avenue venue (1/4 screen and select rotation) during the event
- Company name included in all media releases (one to two planned)
- Hospitality & Networking Benefits (FMV $120):
- 2 VIP Tickets including access to Civic Leaders Cocktail and Mocktail Reception from 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm, preview party dinner, and entertainment
- 6 beverage tickets for sponsor guests
- Marketing & Advertising Benefits:
- Company name listed on digital screen during the event
- Hospitality & Networking Benefits (FMV $120):
- 2 VIP Tickets including access to access to Civic Leaders Cocktail and Mocktail Reception from 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm, preview party dinner, and entertainment
- 6 beverage tickets
VIP Tickets and General Admission
For the first hour, sponsors’ guests and $100 ticket holders will attend a VIP reception with civic and business leaders. Holders of $50 tickets enter at 6:30 pm on August 22nd, 2024.
$100 VIP Admission Ticket (5:30 pm – 8:30 pm)
- Hospitality & Networking Benefits (FMV $70):
- 1 VIP Ticket including access to Civic Leaders Cocktail and Mocktail Reception from 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm, preview party dinner, and entertainment
- 4 beverage tickets
$50 General Admission Ticket (6:30 pm – 8:30 pm)
- Hospitality Benefits (FMV $40):
- 1 Ticket for admission to preview party dinner and entertainment
- 2 beverage tickets
For more information about this exciting event or for details on sponsorship opportunities, please contact Jill Martin at (248) 254-6490
This is the third year for Arts Beats & Eats on 5th Charity Preview and is presented by Arts, Beats & Eats and the Royal Oak Civic Foundation.
* This event is a preview for Arts, Beats & Eats on Thursday, August 21st, 2025. Thanks go out to Jon Witz from Arts, Beats & Eats and Tom McGannon from the Royal Oak Civic Foundation. The benefits from this charity preview helps to support Royal Oak civic entities and charities.
Don’t forget that returning Labor Day weekend, Oakland County’s favorite summer festival celebrates art, food, music, and community at Arts, Beats & Eats in Royal Oak!
Stay tuned for the 2025 lineup, including local and national performers, starting Friday, August 29th. For more information on Arts, Beats & Eats 2025, click here. Hope to see you there!
Make plans to see all of the numerous local bands playing at multiple stages during Arts, Beats and Eats 2025. Find out what day/stage your favorite band is playing, and discover more about this year’s event at https://artsbeatseats.com
SPONSOR BENEFITS
Our updated sponsorship benefits listing is attached for your review. Please review and advise if any of this is out of synch.
- We took down the number of drink tickets at the various levels.
- We added an on-site advertising component as a benefit for sponsors to display logos.
- Can we have your tech group add two larger video screens to the budget with a laptop linked for this display?
- Does Fifth Avenue have another set of internal screens that we can access as well?
- We ran into a snag with direct Royal Oak vendor engagement but have a work-around. Our committee is creating our sponsorship target / follow-up lists now.
- With your review and approval of the attached sponsorship benefits, Christopher Bower, copied here, will have his team create our sponsorship collateral (a PDF), and Jill will begin setting up our Blackbaud Tapestry software to become the online source for sponsors or ticket-buyers to go online and purchase.
- Our plan is to launch all announcements, sponsorship brochures, and open our website for sponsorship purchase / ticketing on June 30.
Royal Oak Civic Foundation and Arts Beats & Eats Join Forces!
Save the Date for Next Year’s Charity Preview Event
In its third year, Arts, Beats & Eats on 5th Charity Preview, 2025, will affirm the success of the previous two years. This event will be the highlight of the season, offering a charity preview of all that the annual Labor Day weekend Arts Beats & Eats festival has to offer.
From 5:30 to 6:30 Royal Oak civic and business leaders will meet and greet the guests of event sponsors and holders of VIP tickets. (You might also be surprised to encounter county, state and federal leaders, all of whom are invited.) The festivities continue from 6:30 to 8:30 with the strolling dinner, craft cocktails and mocktails, entertainment and exclusive shopping with festival artisans.
The party will take place on August 21st, 2025 under summer skies on Fifth Street in Royal Oak. In case of rain, the fun will not abate; it will move into the adjacent Fifth Avenue nightclub.
Sponsors of the event enjoy dedicated seating, marketing recognition, and VIP ticket packages. Individuals can choose VIP tickets or general admission tickets.
This year we’ve offered six local charities the opportunity to sell event tickets and keep the profits. They are Blessings in a Backpack, Metro Detroit Youth Clubs, Outreach on 7th, Royal Oak Football Club, the Royal Oak Chamber of Commerce scholarship committee, and Stagecrafters.
Arts Beats & Eats on 5th Charity Preview event will run from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm.
For the first hour, sponsors’ guests and $100 ticket holders will attend a VIP reception with civic and business leaders. Holders of $50 tickets enter at 6:30 pm on August 21st, 2025.
