Aqua Girl Celebrates
Six years with record breaking attendance and monies raised
(Miami, Florida)

South Florida’s Women’s Community Fund is proud to announce the success of Aqua Girl 2006. The fundraiser celebrated its sixth year surpassing all expectations. This year’s attendance was a whopping 7,600 plus. The weekend crowd was an incredible array of gay women from all over the world. The Aqua Girl committee worked diligently to make this year’s events bigger and better than ever before.

There was something for everyone which including an amazing comedy show at the newly restored Colony Theatre featuring national comedienne Lisa Koch and indie rocker, Steph Taylor. The ladies laughed all way to the swanky exclusive oceanfront nightclub, Pearl. The dance parties ranged from elegant to sexy, and to many the ocean side pool party – was the weekend’s highlight with thousands of women who love women scantily clad in their swimsuits under the Miami sun.

In addition to the dance parties, pool party, and Comedy , this year’s jazz brunch, and poolside tea dance, were all big hits.. with attendees and talent coming from all over the world, including legendary DJ/Producer Tracy Young, who kept the floor shaking Saturday night at the Candyland main event.

Many might not recall this weekend festival started as a fundraising dance by a group of dedicated community-minded women from Miami and New York. Wonderfully enough, it has successfully grown into the amazing weekend it is today. “Proudly, [our] event has been singled out as the nation’s largest, non-profit women’s weekend in the United States,” said Clara Eshkenazi.

Produced by The Women’s Community Fund, and led by Aqua Girl Co-Chairs Vivian Lamadrid and Soraya Swingen and the dedicated all-volunteer Aqua Girl Steering Committee, Aqua Girl has become one of Miami’s most significant fundraising weekends. “This year we raised over $120,000. We couldn’t be happier, stated co-chair Lamadrid.”

In past years, guests have hailed from around the globe, to attend this colorful celebration where 100 percent of all net proceeds benefit the not-for-profit Women’s Community Fund (WCF), whose primary mission is to promote the equality, strength, health and visibility of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender women through education, awareness and a grants program.

WCF President Alison Burgos, also a renowned activist lead the talented group of community minded Committee members within the gay community to make sure Aqua Girl 2006 kept true to its reputation: an annual celebration of culture, diversity, and networking for an extremely important cause. “We work for months to produce this weekend because it’s so paramount for the Women’s Community Fund. It’s about having a great time, sharing and meeting women from all over the world and educating and empowering our community.” said Burgos.

For additional information, please log onto www.aquagirl.org.

Get ready for Aqua Girl 2007!