EmazingLights is the Anaheim, California flow arts company dedicated to progressing the flow art community and the art of gloving. Starting as a company to provide premium flow art products (glow gloves, poi, LED hoops, orbits, and more) to fans of the movement, things quickly grew into something bigger.
One day glover Mike Fernandez shared his brother Matthew’s story with the EmazingLights team, and spurred a new project for the organization.
The story can be found on EmazingLights’ website as follows:
“Matthew Fernandez is a 16-year-old who suffers from a condition called cerebral palsy. One day, his older brother Mike found him playing with his hands, taking after him in his interest in gloving. Mike was an original founder of Puppet Masters [PM], one of the most historic and well-known gloving crews around. He began practicing with Matthew, and in just two months, gloving brought Matthew newfound finger strength. His family says he has improved his movement ten-fold. Not to mention the impact that giving light shows has had on his social life.”
So what did EmazingLights do? They partnered with The Walk and Roll Foundation to start the Glove 4 Glove initiative.
For every pair of Chroma24 gloves sold through EmazingLights, Glove 4 Glove will donate a set of LED gloves to a fan with physical disabilities to encourage a fun and therapeutic form of dance.
This is dance music changing the world, firsthand.
We’ve spoken in the past about how music (particularly electronic music) helps people around the world, and this is solid living proof of it happening each and every day. By taking the bull by the horns and creating the Glove 4 Glove initiative, EmazingLights is showing their dedication to not only the EDM scene but the people in it as well.
Learn more about the Glove 4 Glove initiative here.
