Bullfeathers Restaurant Hosts 2002 MAGNUM Migraine Disease Awareness Fund Raiser Art Exhibit

Alexandria, Virginia (December 15^th, 2002)- MAGNUM, The National Migraine Association, announced it is holding a Migraine disease awareness fundraising art exhibit this Wednesday December 18^thin Washington, D.C. area’s prestigious Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. MAGNUM works regularly with the media, medical community, U.S. government, and foreign governments to improve international understanding of Migraine disease public health issues. To that fact, MAGNUM (Migraine Awareness Group: a National Understanding for Migraineurs) is working with well known local restaurateur Gordan King to hold an exhibit of nationally renowned artist and public health advocate Michael John Coleman’s fine art photography on Wednesday, December 18^th 2002, from 6:00-10:00pm at the popular Bullfeathers Restaurant in Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia.

Mr. King has hosted several successful exhibits featuring Mr. Coleman’s artwork in the past and is pleased to hold this exhibit to help raise awareness and funds for MAGNUM’s non-profit health education activities. Mr. Coleman will be donating all proceeds from the sales of his award-winning artwork to the NGO.

DC Social Insider will be promoting this fun and educational event. DC Social Insider is known for having the essential list of the hottest restaurants, clubs, bars, lodging, & events of belated Chanukah gifts, AND want to help those who suffer from head-pain disorders, stop by Bullfeathers for the catered opening December 18^th (catered by Bullfeathers of course!) from 6:00PM to 10:00PM.

Michael has exhibited his artwork and lectured on Migraine and art internationally, most recently were an exhibit last year in Rome, Italy, as well as recently lectured in Istanbul, Turkey this past summer.

For those of you are not familiar with MAGNUM and what they do for the American people, you may be interested to note that they were the first medical NGO to address Migraine as a neurological brain disease a decade ago. The non-profit was founded by Old Town’s own Michael John Coleman, former Torpedo Factory artist and nationally known photographer, along with co-founder Terri Miller Burchfield, former Congressional investigator. The two formed the non-government organization (NGO) in 1993 due to severe Migraine disease hardships Coleman had endured due to his debilitating episodic disability. Burchfield, also is a Migraineur, suffers occasional attacks while Coleman’s Migraines are intractable.

The two have taken the non-profit from working locally out of the back of Principle Gallery, to an well known international NGO featured on the cover of the FDA Consumer Magazine and now is operating out of their headquarters office on South Saint Asaph Street, in the Washington, DC Old Town Alexandria community. MAGNUM represented the United States a few years ago at the World Health Organization (WHO) while the WHO drafted its Blue Book Report on the severe impact of Migraine and headache disorders as a major world health issue. Just last year MAGNUM worked with the White House and was issued the first ever policy letter from President Bush, the first U.S. President to issue such a letter on Migraine as a major public health issue. MAGNUM staff hand-carried the official letter from President George W. Bush to the International Headache Congress (IHC) 2001 in New York City.

MAGNUM has also worked closely with many important leaders in government and medical affairs. From Tipper Gore, to former Speaker Newt Gingrich, to current leader list Senators Bill Frist, M.D. (R-TN), John Warner (R-VA), Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD), Paul S. Sarbanes (D-MD), George Allen (R-VA); and Congresspersons James P. Moran (D-VA), Frank R. Wolf (R-VA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Cliff Stearns (R-FL), and Thomas M. Davis (R-VA) to name a few key government leaders. MAGNUM also works with the nation’s best Migraine disease thought leaders such as Drs. Fred Sheftell (Director New England Center for Headache), Richard Lipton (former President of AHS), Joel Saper (Director MHNI), and Merle Diamond (Chairman NHF).

For more information, visit MAGNUM’s top-rated and award-winning healthcare website www.migraines.org. For further information on Migraine and headache disorders also visit the American Council for Headache Education (ACHE) at www.achenet.org, the World Headache Alliance at www.wha.ws, and www.headaches.about.com.

"Artist & MAGNUM founder Michael John Coleman posing at the latest highly successful "DC Social Insider’s Eros" opening this past February in Washington, DC. He is pictured here with two of his favorite models, former girlfriend Cassandra Eckert (left) and long time best-friend and MAGNUM co-founder Terri Miller Burchfield (right). Both women's images have featured in awarding winning artwork by Coleman that have hung in multiple exhibitions."

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