Green Galactic is located in Los Angeles, California. Please call [213.840.1201] or email [lynn@greengalactic.com] for mailing address.

Established in Hollywood, California in 1993, Green Galactic (GG) provides publicity and marketing consulting services primarily to arts and entertainment clients. Specifically, Green Galactic develops strategic media campaigns, publicizes new initiatives, and builds audiences. GG’s primary goal is to generate exciting media attention for its clients. As a boutique lifestyle marketing firm, Green Galactic’s client focus is on innovative culture producers. Within this niche, GG offers a full range of services guiding clients from the initial planning stage all the way through to media placement. Green Galactic’s core strength is in building and maintaining media relationships — nationally, regionally, and locally — in order to access desirable culture seekers including art consumers, music lovers, affluent populations, youth culture, and related industry professionals. Green Galactic is conscious of the world we live in, striving to support progressive concerns and nonprofit organizations. Founder Lynn Hasty has a special interest in philanthropy and has served on numerous charitable boards over the years. Ultimately, its mission is to enthusiastically promote organizations and people who make the world hipper, healthier, and more beautiful.

Clients:
Green Galactic’s clients come from the world of arts and entertainment, frequently blurring the lines between fine art and popular culture. In any given month, Green Galactic is working with music, art, film, theater, dance, book, fashion, circus arts, and restaurant clients, as well as charity and nonprofit organizations. PR campaigns are typically focused around a live event component (record release parties, film screenings and premieres, art openings, etc.). For details on Green Galactic clients, including key campaign results, please see the Client section of this site.

Key Services Offered:
• Media Campaign Development
• Media Relations
• Press Kit & Marketing Tool Development
• Website Consulting & Content Development
• Online Marketing (social networking, calendars, blogs, Wikipedia, directory listings, etc.)
• Wikipedia Page Creation
• Media Sponsor Negotiation
• Brand Development
• Artist Development
• Soundtrack Supervisor Servicing
• Special Event Consulting
• Specialty Niche, Community & Industry Outreach
• Radio & Street Promotion
• Strategic Planning
• Marketing & Business Development Consulting
• Image Enhancement Consulting
• Spokesperson Facilitation/Media Training for Interviews

Lynn Hasty:
For 17 years, Green Galactic Founder Lynn Hasty has been the go-to publicist for alternative art and culture producers in Los Angeles, representing clients on a local, regional and national scale. Growing up in the suburbs of Detroit, Hasty, an avid music and movie fan, created the firm on the foundation of electronic music. First with Green House Record Pool in 1993, helping dance music record labels disburse and promote their 12″ vinyl records to the top DJs on the west coast and in 1994 she become partners in Public Space, a “live ambient” club that would grow into a long-running home for live electronic music concerts at various venues around Hollywood, CA. Since then, her promotional focus and client base has grown to include all things of interest to her including music, art, film, theater, dance, fashion, books, restaurants, and more. Hasty has a BS in Television Production from Ferris State University in Michigan. Prior to forming Green Galactic, she worked as an Assistant Producer for retail accounts with ad agency McCann-Erickson in Detroit as well as Business Manager of the Los Angeles branch of Fleet Street, a San Francisco-based post-production facility. Hasty is also drawn to helping charities and nonprofit clients – she currently sits on the boards of nonprofits NextAid and Linda Carmella Sibio’s Bezerk Productions.  She is also on the Honorary Board of Flea’s Silverlake Conservatory of Music.

Charlene Boehne:
Charlene Boehne has worked in professional marketing, administrative, and project management positions for 20 years, including seven years with media arts nonprofit LA Freewaves and nine years with Fortune 500 McKesson Corporation. That experience, together with her BA in Journalism from San Francisco State University and MFA from UC Santa Barbara’s Art Department, gives her a rare combination of skills and conceptual understanding to market cultural producers. She was the Assistant Director for LA Freewaves where she was responsible for marketing, website project management/content development, event planning, the open call, and online curation process. She first met Lynn Hasty through LA Freewaves as the pair collaborated together on the organization’s marketing and publicity efforts between 2002 and 2008. Prior to her work with LA Freewaves, Boehne held marketing planning, strategic planning, and business development project management positions at McKesson Corporation for nine years in San Francisco. With a personal passion for contemporary art, her own work has exhibited primarily in Southern California. Boehne loves to discover new music and make mix CDs for friends, she sings karaoke badly, and is also a social networking geek.

Green Galactic Audio Interview:
Please click on the audio player below to hear Green Galactic’s Lynn Hasty and Charlene Boehne speak about the firm, publicity in general, when to hire a publicist, and when not to.  The interview was conducted on July 26, 2010 by Creative Consultant Diana Rivera for her Co-Creator Series, a program which unearths information from experts in creative fields in order to set the stage for the skills, strategies, and synergies that ignite creativity and productivity. (32 min.)