| TOP 100 EVENTS 05.16.08 12:23 PM |
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Toronto's Top Benefits 2008
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 | The 2007 Look Good, Feel Better ball
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1. Bloor Street Entertains
With 23 exclusive boutiques in the Bloor-Yorkville neighbourhood hosting gourmet dinners, this annual fund-raiser for Canfar is the most prestigious benefit in the city. The 2007 event, which attracted 848 people, was marred by a bomb threat outside the Royal Ontario Museum, which led to the last-minute cancellation of the venue’s after-party. (Canfar staged an online auction in early December in an effort to raise additional funds.) The 2008 event will be held at the ROM on November 26.
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Toronto's Top 100 Events, Canfar, H2O Africa, HealthyKids International, Right to Play, SickKids Foundation, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Toronto Public Library Foundation, Design Exchange, Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation, Art Gallery of Ontario, Jeanne Lottie, Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research, Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Canadian Opera Company, Children's Aid Foundation, Reach for the Rainbow Foundation, Grocery Foundation, Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of Canada, Villa Charities Foundation, Mount Sinai Hospital, Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care |
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| NEWS 02.21.08 12:30 PM |
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Introducing Our Event Style Award Winners
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 | CTV's Doctor Zhivago party
Photo: Gary Beechey for BizBash |
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At our annual trade show yesterday at the Direct Energy Centre, we announced the winners of the BizBash Event Style Awards. Here's a rundown:
Best Entertainment Program/Concept
Nexen Inc.’s "Feel the Beat" party, submitted by Experiential Events
Experiential Events packed Calgary’s Telus Convention Centre with eight styles of entertainment for Nexen Inc.’s employee-appreciation party in September. The oil and gas company wanted to branch out, and the event planning company chose to include musical, cirque, and dance performances. To keep guests on their toes, the acts performed on multiple stages around the venue, and attendees were encouraged to take part in salsa lessons and playing a floor-to-ceiling harp.
Best Corporate Event Concept (Budget More Than $50,000)
Piller’s 50th anniversary celebration, submitted by Big Events Inc.
Piller’s enlisted Big Events Inc. to create a Western-themed 50th anniversary party at the meat company’s Waterloo headquarters last June. Although the celebration was relaxed and fun, it managed to be upscale at the same time, with sleek white couches, cowhide pillows, and a wood floor dressing the tent for 600 V.I.P. clients (900 staff members also attended). The entertainment stayed true to the party’s theme, and included a rodeo, pig races, and barn dancing with fiddlers.
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Anica, CTVglobemedia, Cushman & Wakefield, Film Italia, Flare Magazine, Italian Trade Commission, Make-A-Wish Foundation, National Bridal Show, Nexen Inc., Piller's, Professional Convention Management Association, Spafax, Women in Insurance Cancer Crusade, World Airline Entertainment Association |
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| EVENT INTELLIGENCE 02.19.08 11:30 AM |
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How to Choose an Auctioneer
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 | Sharon Stone served as auctioneer for Amfar's Cinema Against AIDS fund-raiser in Rome.
Photo: Daniele Venturelli/Getty Images |
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As event professionals well know, one of the key aspects of producing a successful live auction occurs months out, as staffers, board members, and friends of the organization secure (read: often beg for) items so unique, so desirable, that attendees (with the added bonus of helping a good cause) will open up their wallets to get them. Let’s say you’ve scored walk-on roles on Grey’s Anatomy and The Office, a private performance by Hannah Montana, and the guitar on which Bruce Springsteen wrote “Born to Run.” Your work is done: This stuff sells itself, right?
Unfortunately, no. On the night of an event, the duty of moving live auction items, ideally for impressive sums, falls to the person taking—and, hopefully, nudging up—the bids. So what makes an effective auctioneer, and how much can your choice affect the success of an auction—and ultimately, the bottom line?
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Auctions, Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association, Robin Hood Foundation, Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation, Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation, N.F.L. Players, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Catalina Island Conservancy |
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| EVENT REPORT 12.10.07 1:05 PM |
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Make-A-Wish Foundation Hosts Arabian-Inspired Benefit
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 | The Carlu's concert hall, dressed in purple, red and gold.
Photo: Courtesy of Distinctive Foto Imaging |
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The Make-A-Wish Foundation's second annual One Wish gala on November 22 raised funds for children with life-threatening illnesses with a Moroccan-themed benefit reminiscent of the Arabian Nights. Event management firm Solutions With Impact created the theme for the fund-raiser under the direction of Jennifer Branco, the foundation's manager of corporate development.
As they arrived at the Carlu, the 500 guests stepped off the elevator and passed through an Arabian tent to enter the event. Inside, a young performer dressed as Aladdin sat perched on an antique Howda chair as three belly dancers swayed to the rhythms of Gurpreet Chana and his tabla ensemble. Mickey Mouse was also on-hand to pose with arriving guests while photographers from Distinctive Foto Imaging snapped pictures.
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Make-A-Wish Foundation |
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