http://www.thewineladies.com Body English at Hard Rock Hotel was the place to be on New Year's Eve, for the "Ultimate Party with a Purpose". The only event of its' kind, where one could, and nearly 500 did, kick off 2012 with a fabulous party, complete with incredible performances by dance teams, world renowned DJ's, live body painted models, and Billboard Award Winning Artist Robin S, "Dance Diva", all the while raising funds for local foster children via Child Focus, Inc for Camp To Belong NV. Hosted by Club Curry www.ClubCurry.com and envisioned by Mark Curry, local philanthropist and entrepreneur the 2 day weekend event launched the campaign to raise $100K for the children. Donations are still being accepted to www.Firstgiving.com/clubcurrynye
New Year's Eve "eve" we were honoured to emcee the "Among Stars" Founder's Celebration Donor Dinner, at the posh Vintner Grill Strip. A beautiful fundraising event featuring special guest performances and musicians, inspirational speakers, and a silent auction with works on the table by Davood Roostaei, artist to Michael Jackson as well as art pieces by Charles White the 3rd, well known for his work for The Rolling Stones, Playboy, Harley Davidson, Star Wars just to name a few.
The menu, created by critically acclaimed Executive Chef Matthew Silverman tantalized our palates, with one of our favorites being the Dungeness crab ravioli with fresh English peas, crimini mushrooms, baby tomatoes and pecorino. Simply divine.
Latoya Holman, http://en-gb.facebook.com/latoya.holman mesmerizing, belted out a number that rocked the room, incredible power in the voice and beautiful persona, while Corinne Olsen and Rick Brandt, well known as the "hot strings" in the Avery Watts http://www.facebook.com/pages/Avery-Watts/135900906433503 live performances kept us entertained throughout the evening. And there was more...a spellbinding performance and presence by singer-songwriter Cymande Jackson, http://www.facebook.com/people/Cymande-Jackson/100002227940750#!/TheMainEventLV coming from the depths of his soul, as his story too is one of pain, recovery and strength. What a line-up!
With the theme being "Future Forward" inviting guests to dare to dream to make the future a better place, there was no shortage of powerful, inspirational speakers to encourage us to do just that. Brian Hutchison, after suffering a life threatening injury, lost the will to live and regained it through strength and mental fortitude, addressed the crowd and spoke of the Hutch Foundation, http://www.hutchfoundation.myevent.com founded to help victims of traumatic brain injury.
The final speaker prompted us to poll the audience on our "newly conceived" wine, The Wine Ladies Lunar Chardonnay or Planet Pinot Nouveau. John S. Spencer, futurist, space architect, Founder and President of the Space Tourism Society, former consultant to NASA, eloquently conveyed his message and his mission to focus inspiring innovation, new ideas and new experiences for the benefit of mankind. It was exciting, exhilarating and inspiring. We commented on the recent discovery of the two planets discovered last month with the potential for life due to the existence of water.... Perhaps grapes could be grown in space too? The audience applauded our leap to Lunar wines, with laughter and enthusiasm.
We would be remiss to not take a moment to say a few words about Mary Curry, the man, the visionary behind Club Curry. When Mark introduced a "family" of children, placed individually in foster care, who were fortunate enough to attend Camp to Belong, and be together, to come up, say "hello", and share their fondest memory, his face beamed with joy, he lept, actually lept with glee as the kids, some shyly announced that one of their fondest memories was coming together, as siblings to Camp to Belong for a full 6 days.
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"Soiree With Angels" Black Tie Blue Carpet Art Gala @ the Giorgio Tuscani Estateby abegabe249 views
I....Fauna Hodel am honored to know Mark Curry....great job...to the team that pulled this all together....Lisa Meller ROCKS....
FaunaHodel1 1 month ago