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DEL.ICIO.USMaking the best of bad timing
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Mother Nature cancelled a Saturday evening event that would have benefited Mother Nature - but rescue workers enjoyed the fab feast instead.
Organizers were expecting about 250 people for a cocktail reception at Maxim Prime Steakhouse, the new 150-seat restaurant that has replaced the short-lived B.E.D. at the Glenn Hotel on Marietta Street. The posh event was to have featured cocktails and hors d’oeuvres.
The $10-at-the-door donation would have benefited to the Captain Planet Foundation, an environmental advocacy organization. Captain Planet’s board chair is Laura Turner Seydel, whose dad Ted Turner’s downtown penthouse was walloped by the storm.
Since the party planning was well underway when storms hit, Maxim Prime decided to make the best of bad timing and donated the food that would have been served to downtown rescue workers, said publicist Liz Lapidus.
A new date for the party has yet to be determined. Captain Planet’s headquarters, in the same building as the downtown Ted’s Montana Grill, was without phone or Internet service.
An event to “Chairish”
My colleague Stacy Shelton covers the environment, so pinch-hitting for the Butterfly came naturally to her. Here’s her dispatch from a recent fundraiser:
About 300 people attended Chairish, the 14th annual gala auction to benefit the Furniture Bank of Metro Atlanta at the Foundry at Puritan Mill.
The signature auction items were chairs and other furniture pieces decorated by local artists. One of the most expensive items of the night was a four-piece TV dinner table set painted in Wizard of Oz characters that sold for $525.
The nonprofit, located off Chattahoochee Avenue in Atlanta, furnishes homes for about 40 families a week. Many of them are referred by homeless shelters, executive director Megan Anderson said.
One of the clients who attended the gala, Daniel Box, 55, said he began volunteering at the Furniture Bank after he received help.
“They housed me, they fed me, they clothed me, they furnished my apartment,” Box said.
High Time for High Tea
Members of the Atlanta Chapter Of The Society, Inc., a local women’s group that supports fine arts development for African American youth, hold their annual High Tea at the Michael C. Carlos Museum on April 6.
Guests will receive a private docent led tour of the new exhibit, Lost Kingdom Of The Nile: Nubian Treasures from the Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston.
Dunwoody High School senior Teresita Hollins, who has demonstrated an interest in the arts, and plans to study architectural design, will be awarded the Dr. Aline Rivers-Jones scholarship award.
The Society’s president is Dr. Darlene Charles. The guest speaker will be Michael Kimanga, director of the Southwest Arts Center.
The Society’s affiliations include, including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Talent Development Program, McClendon School of Dance, Hammonds House Galleries and Resource Center, the High Museum of Art, True Colors Theatre Company, the Alliance Theatre, and city of Atlanta and Fulton and DeKalb county art departments.
For more information call 678-231-5515.
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