Special Events

GALAS: SHOW OF SUPPORT

BY NATASHA GARBER

While a corporate event firm's heart may be in the right place, says Marcy Manley, when it comes to choosing charity events to support, You just can't...

HOW THE LEFT COAST HELPED THE GULF COAST

BY ANN REBENTISCH, CMP

Noted wine expert Ian Blackburn has been hosting an ongoing series of Friday night wine and food tastings through his Santa Monica, Calif.-based company...

Deco dream: Emmy gala a winner for Sequoia

Some 2,800 guests at the Emmy Awards Governors Ball last week sailed away to an art deco dream dinner thanks to the team headed by Cheryl Cecchetto of L.A.-based Sequoia Productions (www.sequoiaprod.com). This year's Emmy gala was one of four events produced by Sequoia during Emmy week, hosting a total of 6,750 guests, and the eighth straight ball for client Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The stunning art deco look—created with strong diagonal lines and a dramatic palette of indigo...

FRINGE BENEFITS: EDGY GALAS DRAW CROWDS AND CASH

BY NATASHA GARBER

ANY charity event can offer good food, good drink and something nice to watch. But it's those benefit ftes that give guests access to opportunities they...

GALAS: HOLIDAY PARTY CREATES SOUTHERN COMFORT

BY NATASHA GARBER

THERE'S no place like home for the holidays. Especially when the home in question is a lavish Nashville, Tenn., estate set on spectacularly landscaped...

GALAS: NUIT D'ARGENT GALA SHINES

BY NATASHA GARBER

WHAT started out as a low-key Academy Awards night house party with a passing of the hat to raise cash for AIDS sufferers has become one of San Francisco's...

CONFETTI: FANCIFUL FUND-RAISER IS THEATER OF THE ABSURD

Kelly Wardle

MEMBERS OF THE Redmoon Theater in Chicago are used to putting on elaborate productions it's part of the job. So when it came time to produce their third...

GALAS: CIRQUE DE SOLEIL ENTERTAINS ITSELF

BY NATASHA GARBER

WHEN YOU'RE CIRQUE du Soleil, you've got a reputation to uphold one for a level of sensory excitement unmatched on the global entertainment scene. That...

GALAS: TORONTO'S HISTORIC DISTILLERY CREATES A SPIRITED AFFAIR

BY NATASHA GARBER

ON JAN. 19, in the midst of a frosty Canadian winter, Toronto's Distillery Historic District was a bona fide hot spot. That's when the complex of event...

CONFETTI: CAMARGO CREATES EXHIBIT SPACE FOR MUSEUM GALA

KELLY WARDLE

When board members from the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati contacted David Murphy to design an event area for the May grand reopening of the museum...