The TN Aquarium's 10th Annual Sustainable Seafood Fundraiser takes a virtual twist this year

The TN Aquarium's 10th Annual Sustainable Seafood Fundraiser takes a virtual twist this year

It's just glad to have you back with us as we do list tuesday morning to the team for an moore's weather gets a little more comfortable.

Moreover, thi warning get outside and do something downtown.

I got just the place in just a guy that ca fill you in.

It is tom benson from the tennessee aquarium tom good morning good morning to him.

Well look at it.

Pages and pages of stuff you guys about going on down at the aquarium tell me where we began.

Well, we can begin with.

I'm going to visit you know it doors open were doing everything we can to make a safe and enjoyable, relaxing experience for everyone on saturdays.

The chattanooga river market is up for the new next weekend.

Some those markets are taking place on broad street from greenway down to earth, so this is like no mushroom and big river grill ben & jerry's after tables outside of the enjoy the beautiful weather and enjoys restaurants downtown, so that's the reason why that particular part of the street is been walked off a bit of either a couple of times over the past couple weeks but it was earlier in the day and i wonder what ar they doing now we know it's been a lot of fun and people been taking advantage of it all the way up and so nine p.m.

Is when they closed it down.

It's really nice things for.

I and were to take this food theme a little bit further.

Thanks.

What you guys are doing the tennessee area.

You've already thought about every possible question that i could come up with how you do this in a responsible properly.

Social distance manne and is the food to be good and obviously very well and incredibly so we have is the us is the chef sure that we need right yet so check tammy cook is our producer and she's been wit us for 10 years for sustainable seat fundraising event which this-year-old eyesight, october first and it's going to be in person and hybrid event will have a very small studio audience for a live stream broadcast.

We around the world during our facebook live events during our closure calling in from the marshall islands, finland, and ukraine.

All of us so we there's opportunity for people to enjoy the show and that's also combined with online auction which has all kinds of things.

We got some art here.

This is a work was done by no fish broke and the ark.

The next you auction this is done by digger one of our river otters that you look really closely here in one and we have some very, very talented staff members who greeted artwork for this.

This is from her senior graphic designer karen estes who drew this beautiful well watercolor that is just amazing and so we have that, along with some behind-the-scenes experiences you packages to feed our bit to the sharks we want t get the water for those that yo will chance that jack immediately mercer beats her grandson's letter the cool things in the online auction begins on september 20 or going just past the actual date of ou virtual seafood dinner which is october first so this this this tele-cuisine concept.

Obviously you guys have done this for number years, but with the the current situation.

Well, talk about having to pivot and readjust the eyes of literally turn this thing over and over and over.

Yes, so we can shots from all over the country participate this year were very happy to have sherry castle who is 16 cook next to her name.

She was a senior food or for southern living.

She is a contributing editor for southern living right now and she's humorous.

She's done a lot of cooking shows and some of those in a virtual world.

So between tammy and sherry to deliver ver entertaining informational session and that worried our contribution to get the online ticket you also get a virtual cook, which has some of us recipes that we've had over the last 10 years.

So you learn how to be a great chef in your own kitchen you'll have the lifestream cannot only watch live which can also watch what along with them and tim is developing some very cool appetizers that her seat.

She's focused on entries and lasted nine years.

This year, reducing seafood appetizers which i think in this environment when one has all her gatherings of friends, family appetizers and see what a wonderful combination.

October is national seafood months.

He kicked off with our sustainable seafood.

Now you had mentioned a moment ago about a berries all studio audience how small.

And for those determined that they were to get in there is price.

What are the steps i can take or is there even such a thing.

Yeah so those seats are already taken b our majors.

Orders of the events will be less 50 will have that in imax great hall.

Traditionally it's our imax for that to cooking studio and we do this live network style show which has a lot of humor.

What we call seafood with wisdom to pass along and so the show will be the same.

It's just that this smaller audience.

I think for the virtual audience having a you as a live studio audience will help to make that show much more enjoyable is the audience reacting with state such a great time there will be a chat box will have an opportunity to ask questions during the show as well is the give-and-take in a setting like that is to ... it is and no one of these virtual events when your comedians are playing to an empty room.

If you don't have that audience interaction lower the watch ability everything you wrote fun one for watch.

I have no doubt tom benson.

Thank you very much.

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