IBG Inc's "Conversation with Allison Mack" event to benefit ASTEP

Oct. 25, 2011 - PRLog -- IBG Inc. and co-host Edgemar Center for the Arts are proud to announce the beneficiary charity for the November 5th "A Conversation with Allison Mack ft. special guests Kelly Souders & Brian Peterson". The proceeds raised from the ticket sales will be going to Artists Striving to End Poverty (ASTEP), and organization that Mack hand-selected and works with year-round.

Artists Striving to End Poverty (ASTEP) connects established and emerging artists with undeserved youth to use the arts as a tool to foster creativity, teach life skills, and awaken young people's imaginations. Since 2003, ASTEP has partnered with established community organizations to deliver after-school, holiday, and summer programs that are grounded in arts education. ASTEP builds a child's capacity for self expression and inspires youth to develop the skills they need inside and outside the classroom. You can visit ASTEP online here: http://www.asteponline.org/    

"A Conversation with Allison Mack ft. special guests Kelly Souders & Brian Peterson" will be IBG, Inc's final 2011 Conversation Series event, designed to bring fans up close and personal with the actress, producer, and director. Foregoing a moderator, this will be a candid and one-of-a-kind opportunity to hear behind-the-scenes stories from Mack-- and now Souders and Peterson. The event is taking place in the afternoon of Saturday, November 5th 2011 in Los Angeles CA. As with all of IBG’s Conversation Series, a limited number of admission tickets, as well as photo and autograph opportunity tickets with the panelists, are already on sale. A list of ticket types and pricing options are available on IBG Inc's website: http://www.ibginc.org/conversationseries

Allison Mack starred as Chloe, The Daily Planet’s eager journalist and longtime friend/confidante to Clark Kent, on The CW series, Smallville. She has also directed two episodes of the series.  Since beginning her career at age 4 in a commercial for German Chocolate, Mack has consistently worked in television and film.  She garnered much attention for her portrayal of a teenager who abuses and inflicts wounds to her wrist on 7th Heaven. In the fall of 2000, she starred in The WB's The Nightmare Room, and The Opposite Sex and had a recurring role in Evening Shade. Mack also starred in Showtime's critically-acclaimed feature My Horrible Year! which was Eric Stoltz's directorial debut.  Mack also starred in the Disney features Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, Camp Nowhere and voiced the character of Tiffany Nickle in Warner Brothers hit animated feature The Ant Bully.  She made her New York theatre debut last year with The Westside Theatre production of Love, Loss and What I Wore and recently starred in Lynn Rosen’s Apple Cove at The Women’s Project in New York.

Kelly Souders is producer/writer, who also became the show runner on the final years of CW’s long running hit Smallville. She has since joined the new CW hit The Secret Circle  and is also currently working on Vortex.  

Brian Wayne Peterson is producer/writer, who also became the show runner on the final years of CW’s long running hit Smallville. He has since joined the new CW hit The Secret Circle and is also currently working on Vortex.

IBG, Inc. is an official non-profit campaign focusing on utilizing the power of philanthropy through the arts to benefit a wide range of microfunded charities worldwide. We function as a fundraising facilitator for selected charities by holding special events and auctions, as well as generating merchandise sales and promoting online giving. IBG provides the venue, the advertising and arranges for talent involvement for organizations that would otherwise struggle with the logistics and costs associated with event fundraising. Donors can be confident that their funds are getting to the people who need them the most. All events will solely benefit charity.

For more information on this event or on IBG, Inc in general, please contact publicity@ibginc.org.