Periton adds that they hold themed weekends, Oscar's nights, and arrange trips out to the pub and bowling for the young people at Helen & Douglas House.
For the public, Mr. Viola has taken the sometimes rough or hermetic ideas of Mr. Nauman and his contemporaries and neatened and normalized them for wider distribution, making them technically dazzling and adding big, easy-to-hold themes: mostly large doses of New Age family values.
He opened two more galleries last year and holds theme exhibitions for target audiences, like paintings for the nursery, or "How Steel Is Tempered" for owners of metallurgical plants.
Then, to promote the events — and lure a new generation of younger buyers into the auction house — he turned Christie's into a discothèque, holding theme parties like "Bubble Bash" and "Think Pink".
Initiatives such as inviting parents to tasting sessions, holding theme days to highlight different cuisines and giving pupils a say in the dishes they are offered has gradually overcome resistance.
School students have also been trained as "health ambassadors" – taking the healthy message to their classmates by holding theme-led assemblies and teaching them how to carry out CPR and other lifesaving first aid skills.
The jury awarded privately held Theme Promotions, a company with $10 million in 2004 sales, $7 million in damages this past August.
It holds themed exhibitions of media based on national holidays, including Independence Day, the anniversary of the Youth Pledge, and National Press Day; the museum may also take some of its collection on a mobile exhibition.
He was also casting for the words "connectivity, communication and travel," he said, and thought the balls might hold those themes, too.
Several baseball teams hold ethnic theme dates to build their fan bases, and with the New York Mets playing in Queens — perhaps the most polyglot spot on the planet — it might stand to reason that they schedule a veritable mosaic.
Every semester we hold different themed lecture series and bring outside speakers to Wellesley's campus to shed light on things that they are working on or are passionate about.
