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Powerball: Quarter-Life Crisis

For those in the know, Powerball at The Power Plant is a highly anticipated annual celebration.  For the gallery’s 25th anniversary, Power Ball’s “Quarter Life Crisis” was a well-attended evening with 1,700 guests.  Those in attendance read like a who’s-who of Canadian and Toronto socialite fame including Melissa Grelo, Mary Kitchen, Jian Ghomeshi, Tanya Kim, Rick Mercer.

Greta Constantine

Greta Constantine

We spotted our own personal favourite musician, Clara Venice, who performed at our recent Local Artist event at ING.  Looking forward to her next performance at Drake Hotel!

Clara Venice

Dragonette performed for the VIP portion to kick off the night and DJ’s Alex Merrell and Diego Armand kept everyone dancing late into the night.

Many guests were dressed in fashionably provocative attire, Perrier cocktails and Kronenbourg 1664 beer were available at many bar stations (albeit with lineups at each due to the massive turnout), and Chef Marc Thuet of Petite Thuet kept us well-fed with a bison sandwiches from a 400 pound bison roast and BBQ corn.

It was good to see #PowerBallTO trending worldwide and the reasons were obvious!  Looking forward to Powerball again next year!

About Power Ball:

Power Ball is the gallery’s largest annual fundraiser. From its inception in 1999, Power Ball has set the standard as the most influential, vibrant and original contemporary art party. Attracting a sophisticated “who’s who” crowd of artists, fashionistas, celebrities, and financiers from the world of film, advertising, music, design, and art, this is one sensational party providing vital funds to the exhibition and public programs at The Power Plant.

About The Power Plant:

The Power Plant is Canada’s leading public gallery devoted exclusively to contemporary visual art. It is a vital forum for the advanced artistic culture of our time that offers an exceptional facility and professional support to diverse living artists while engaging equally diverse audiences in their work. The Power Plant pursues its activities though exhibitions, publications and public programming. It fulfills its mandate by generating: exhibitions that represent the range of advanced practice in visual arts; publications that increase knowledge of contemporary art; lectures and symposia that encourage debate and further understanding; interpretative tools that invite visitors to question, explore and reflect upon their experiences; programming that incorporates other areas of culture when they intersect with visual art.

For more information, please visit the The Power Plant website.

SummerWorks Soiree VIP Dinner July 5th

  • July 4, 2012
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SummerWorks Performance Festival is hosting a VIP dinner, Thursday July 5th, as a fundraiser for the upcoming 2012 festival and we would like to extend an invitation to you.

Hosted by award-winning playwright and actor Michael Healey, the elegant three-course dinner features the culinary combination of Toronto top chef and owner of Cow Bell Restaurant, Mark Cutrara and Brockton General chef Alexandra Feswick. Providing you the opportunity to have a first taste of Cutrara and Feswick’s new restaurant Samuel J Moore, opening on the main floor of the Great Hall in July.

This dinner is an opportunity for you to experience Samuel J Moore before the general public does when it opens.

Tickets are limited for this exclusive fundraiser. Come rub elbows with arts patrons, theatre lovers and foodies.

As this is a charitable donation TAX RECEIPTS will be available for $75.
Tickets can be purchased online for $100 at: http://www.eventbrite.ca/org/1121096121
Cocktails will be served at 6pm, followed by dinner service at 7pm.
The Great Hall – 1087 Queen Street West

For more information visit summerworks.ca

Mount Sinai Soiree

The Mount Sinai Soiree

Young professionals gathered at Maro for the Mount Sinai Soiree for a night of black-tie chic, fashion and opulence. The Sinai Soiree showcased lingerie from Italian fashion house Cosabella and luxury shapewear line, ResultWear.  Models from Scene Queen and Nuvo Burlesque delivered tantalizing performances.

Ben Mulroney, anchor of ETalk on CTV, opened the elegant black-tie evening with his own personal reflections on the importance of fundraising for women’s health and cancer research at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Knowing that Food Dudes were going to be there, we knew it would be a great night.  The liquid nitrogen chocolate truffles were an interesting indulgence that we hadn’t seen from them before.

Future Sinai (@futuresinai on Twitter), a division of the Mount Sinai Hospital Auxiliary, is a group of young professionals  who work to advance, promote and fundraise for Mount Sinai Hospital.  For this year, Future Sinai collaborated with Leadership Sinai (demographic of professionals aged 30 to 45).

The event raised $67,296 for Mount Sinai Hospital with more than 400 guests in attendance.

About the Mount Sinai Hospital Auxiliary

The Mount Sinai Hospital Auxiliary was founded in 1953 to assist Mount Sinai Hospital with raising funds and community
awareness to provide the best patient care. Through special events and fundraising programs, the Auxiliary is one of the largest single donors to Mount Sinai Hospital.

About Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount Sinai Hospital is an internationally recognized, 472-bed acute care academic health sciences centre affiliated with the University of Toronto. It is known for excellence in the provision of compassionate patient care, innovative education, and leading-edge research. Mount Sinai’s Centres of Excellence include: Daryl A. Katz Centre for Urgent & Critical Care; Frances Bloomberg Centre for Women’s & Infants’ Health; Christopher Sharp Centre for Surgical Oncology; Centre for Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Centre for Musculoskeletal Disease and the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute. For more information about Mount Sinai Hospital, please visit www.mountsinai.ca

Jamaica 50 Celebrates with Jamaican Rhythms Rocumentary June 28th

We had an opportunity to interview Sandra Whiting, the co-Chair of the Gala and Performing Arts for the “Jamaica 50” celebration.

The Jamaica 50 organization itself is 2 years old and started with the goal of celebrating Jamaica’s 50th anniversary of independence (1962 to 2012).  Funds raised will help to pay tribute to Jamaica.

Sandra Whiting says that Jamaicans have been in Canada since the 1700s with the Maroons followed by waves in the 50s and 60s.  Jamaicans love Toronto for its diversity, and acceptance of people form many parts of the world allowing them to share their culture and who they are.  Sandra came to Toronto for adventure and wants to share what Jamaica has given to the world with others.

When we asked Whiting what Torontonians love about Jamaica she replied that Torontonians love that Jamaica has the warmest, welcoming people, the reggae music, rum, and cool vibe.  It’s an “irie” place where you feel like you’re part of the “sinting”.  We can’t disagree with that.

What’s next for Jamaica 50 after the series of festivities? Money raised will help charities in Jamaican and Canadian charities.

We look forward to the celebrations at the Jamaican Rhythms Gala at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts on June 28th starting at 7:30pm!

The evening will feature Roots, Rock and Reggae:

‘60s: Iconic Fab 5 Band – paying tribute to SKA
‘70s: Classic John Holt
‘80s: Magnificent Marcia Griffiths
‘90s: Fantastic Yellow Man
2000: Grammy Winner Maxi Priest
2010: King of the Dancehall, Grammy Award Winner Beenie Man
CAN CON: 2012 JUNO NOMINEES: Jay Douglas, Steele, Exco Levi backed by Mountain Edge.

For more information and to get tickets click below or call 647-799-6546

http://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/10004873F9E1A1E4?artistid=1710446&brand=sony&camefrom=cfc_sony_centre_sonyweb_Jamaican

The Field MMVA Pre-Party

To warm up for the MMVAs we were invited to the The Field’s MMVA Pre-Party at Tryst Nightclub, a star-studded event.  DJ Heather Van Viper, Diva Girl Fitness, Classified and These Kids Wear Crowns were among those  in attendance.  Also, Karl Wolf chatted with us about his new album, Finally Free, which will be released on July 10, 2012.

Bacardi cocktails were served, Corona was being handed out.  Hypnotiq had tasty drinks as well.  A little bit of rain didn’t deter us from having a great time on the Tryst patio. Inside the club, there was a ton of stuff to do as well including cupcakes, the Kiss FM 92.5 booth, jewellery from Madame NiNoN, and great swag bags.

Congrats on the Field for snatching 20 MMVA nominations including 3 awards!

www.thefield.ca

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