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Blacktie photojournalists have professionally covered hundreds of events from benefit runs, walks, and thrift store openings to intimate and enormous fund raisers and of course, blacktie galas. Here you will find the events that our members wanted covered. Many of the over 100,000 pictures from the thousands of covered events from the last seven years are here for all to enjoy and share
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Project Angel Heart Presents A Taste For Life
What: Project Angel Heart--A Taste For Life Dinner
Where: Seawell Ballroom, Denver Center for the Performing Arts
When: November 2, 2006
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Ticket Prices: Presenting Sponsor: $10,000; Gold Sponsor: $5,000; Silver Sponsor: $2,000; Anniversary Sponsor: $1,200; Anniversary Ticket: $115
Beneficiary: Project Angel Heart
Gala Chairperson(s): Dr. Terry Brewick
Honorary Chairperson(s): Congresswoman Diana DeGette and Mayor John Hickenlooper
President(s): BJ Dyer
Catering: Tastings provided by Amore, The Avenue Grill, Bonnie Brae Tavern, Inc., Gelato d’Italia Café, Gateaux Specialty Cakes and Pastries, The House of Commons, Lifestyles Catering, Mezcal, Mirepoix, Opus, Panzano, Project Angel Heart, Randolph’s, Starbucks, Tamayo and Zengo.
Entertainment: Note-ables
Sponsors: Bouquets, CGIA, Frederic Printing, Out Front Colorado, Westword, 5280 Magazine, Infectious Disease Consultants – Rebekah Gass, MD & Ray Blum, MD, Kennedy, Childs & Fogg, PC, Merrill Lynch and State Farm Insurance – Nancy Staub.
Auctioneer: Unique reverse silent auction bids are lowered every ten minutes at the ring of a bell
Attendance: 570
Attire: cocktail
Board of Directors: BJ Dyer (president), Lee Rudofsky (vice president), Dr. Mark Thrun (vice president), Melissa Feig, David Alexander, Erika Brown, Pam Clifford, Mark Cornetta, Jeff Giadone, John Grigsby Jr., Rosalie Goldman, Paul Jeselnick, Dean McConnell, Flynn Rivenbark
Blacktie Photos by: Christine Cool
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It was short and sweet when Executive Director Erin
Pulling's son Morgan took the podium after his mother
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On Thursday November 2nd guests gathered at the beautiful Seawell Ballroom in the Denver Performing Arts Center to attend Project Angel Heart’s A Taste of Life, celebrating the organization's 15th year of success. Project Angel Heart was founded in 1991 as an organization dedicated to providing hope and well-being to people living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-threatening illnesses by providing home delivered meals, which are made from scratch meet the heightened nutritional needs of the clients. What better way for Project Angel Heart to promote their mission than holding the A Taste For Life benefit event. Guests were treated to a sampling of gourmet appetizers, entrees and desserts from over 20 of Denver’s best restaurants and caterers. While guests walked around the ballroom sampling some of Denver’s finest cuisine, they were encouraged to bid on an array of silent auction items in a unique “reverse silent auction." Items began high and were then lowered every ten minutes at the sound of a bell. This forced guests to bid at a higher price or lose the item to another bidder. At around 7:30 p.m., Executive Director Erin Pulling took to the stage to speak briefly on the work Project Angel Heart has accomplished these past 15 years. Afterwards, Project Angel Heart Founder Charles Robbins and Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper cut the beautifully decorated cake celebrating the 15th anniversary. Immediately after the cake was cut and being served, Jim Hill and Lanny Dick from St. Barnabas Episcopal Church presented Robbins and Executive Director Erin Pulling two burners retrieved from the St. Barnabas kitchen where Project Angel Heart first began, symbolizing the thousands of lives Project Angel Heart has touched and the thousands more still to come.
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