| EVENT REPORT 10.30.09 3:47 PM |
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Baycrest Foundation Stages Ballroom Dance Competition for Annual Gala
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Taking a cue from Dancing With the Stars, the Baycrest Foundation enlisted six community leaders and created its own ballroom dance competition for the organization's annual gala, held at the Sheraton Centre on Thursday. Michael Rosen, Baycrest's director of special events and corporate sponsorships, used lighting and lots of sparkle to create the feel of a television studio for the event, dubbed the Dancing With Our Stars Gala.
"We wanted it to be fresh, sparkly, and clean. There are no programs on the tables, no gifting, not a lot of flowers. Really what we've done is we've created a television show within a hotel ballroom," said Rosen who called on Gary Topp of Toppnotch Services Inc. to produce the event. The company constructed a stage and dance floor for the competition and worked with Metalworks Productions Inc. on the audiovisual and lighting for the event. "The whole idea is sparkle. When the lights go, it's going to be wild," Rosen said.
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| EVENT REPORT 04.30.08 4:22 PM |
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Big Band Era Inspires Mount Sinai's 55th Anniversary Ball
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 | The silent-auction room
Photo: BizBash |
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Creating a new spin on an event that's been running for 55 years might sound daunting, but for Lisa Colt, director of the Mount Sinai Hospital Auxiliary, choosing to honour the past was the logical choice for this year's event—entitled "From Dusk Till Dawn"—at the Fairmont Royal York on Tuesday.
"We are taking the event back to its roots—we're celebrating the 55th anniversary of the Mount Sinai Ball, so we're trying to take the event back to its original glory days with black-tie, first-class dining, and dancing," said Colt, who worked with designer Sinclair Russell to create the theme for the evening. "We're trying to create that big-band, '40s-'50s feel," she said. "Really, the theme is glamour."
Russell dressed the third floor of the hotel with floral arrangements, draped fabric, and hundreds of sparkling gold butterflies. "We've taken over the whole floor," Colt said. Tall boxwoods covered in butterflies set the scene in the reception area, the first of three spaces created through the use of draped white fabric, courtesy of Micki's, and archways made of greenery, which led guests to the silent auction. The hospital auxiliary used the Silent Auction Company to secure items like an NBA basketball signed by Michael Jordan, a red guitar autographed by the Rolling Stones, a hockey jersey signed by Wayne Gretzky, and the hat worn by Harrison Ford (which he signed) in the Indiana Jones films.
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Mount Sinai Hospital, C.I.B.C., RioCan, CTV, The Globe and Mail, The Printing House Ltd., Tribute Communities, First Capital, Onex |
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