| EVENT REPORT 09.27.06 3:31 PM |
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| Cool Gala Celebrates TIFF Opener |
| The temperature of the main party space at the opening party of the Toronto International Film Festival was set to freezing in recognition of the opening-night film, Journals of Knud Rasmussen. |
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| The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, an account of the first contact between European explorers and the Inuit, opened the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival and starred at an opening gala for 4,000, held at the Liberty Grand. Planner Barbara Hershenhorn, president of Party Barbara Co., incorporated.phpects of the film, which is set in Canada's North West Territories, into the production and design of the event. A large faux igloo housing a bar from Laird FX created a dramatic impression in the courtyard. Iceman contributed ice cocktail tables to complete the setting. The main event space resembled a desolate northern environment. The temperature was kept at freezing, and white cocktail tables and ghost bar stools were scattered like snow-covered ice floes at one end the long white bar, all from Contemporary Furniture. White clouds hand made hung above the bar, while floor-to-ceiling white curtains covered the walls. Overhead lighting from ESG, designed by Bruce Duncan lit the curtains, creating the illusion of ever-changing northern lights. A secondary event space featured normal room temperature and floral arrangements with evergreen branches and blooms, suggesting the far north in summer. |
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 | | Laird FX created a faux igloo housing a bar in the courtyard of the Liberty Grand for the opening gala of the Toronto International Film Festival. |
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 | | In the main event space, overhead lighting from ESG lit floor-to-ceiling curtains, creating the illusion of ever-changing northern lights. |
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 | | Iceman supplied ice cocktail tables in the courtyard. |
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 | | Florals from Emblem decorated the buffet tables in the secondary event space. |
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 | | Linens from Around the Table resembled mounds of icy snow. |
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 | | Ice blocks decorated the Liberty Grand entrance. |
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