In keeping with those requirements, the network's team hosted the June 14 celebration—held the night prior to the Daytime Emmy award ceremony—at chic and eco-friendly venue Boulevard3. In addition to being equipped with 95 percent LED lighting, the space also featured 60 trees (some permanently planted in the courtyard, others potted and movable), which worked well with the event’s eco slant. Barrington Flowers supplemented the venue’s existing plant life by adorning the main room and the step and repeat with bamboo plants, and also designed floral arrangements that were frozen and rearranged for Jeff Sekido, director of ABC Television Network special events, who used the creations the following night for ABC’s post-award-show party.

The network donated staging elements to local theater programs and schools. Pedestals served as platforms for a series of live statues—professional dancers who periodically shifted into different poses. Makeup artist Nelly Recchia created two statuary styles meant to symbolize the symmetry between man and nature, including a Greek-inspired marblelike creation that covered subjects in white from head to toe, and a more organic design that decorated dancers in vibrant green vines, red roses, and brown branches that extended down to the fingertips of the models’ hands.

While the event’s eco-friendly touches were subtle, the cable network made sure that the space unsubtly bore the Soapnet logo. A plasma television featuring an animated Soapnet logo sat in Boulevard3’s outdoor reflection pool, while Entertainment Lighting Services swathed the venue’s interior in red lighting—the network’s signature color—and decorated it with Soapnet logo gobos.   —Rosalba Curiel