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03/18/2013 - The Perlman Music Program Cocktails, Dinner and a Chamber Music Concert in Palm Beach
03/15/2013 - Asia Week New York Kick-off Reception at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
03/12/2013 - Third Annual Fountain House Associates Spring Breakfast: “Between The Sheets”
03/05/2013 - NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER’S FACES GALA HONORING LEON CHARNEY RAISED $4.5 MILLION
02/23/2013 - "I Have A Voice" fundraiser for Gigi's PLAYHOUSE
02/23/2013 - Eleventh Annual “Thanksgiving in February” Feeds over 500 of New York’s Needy
02/21/2013 - The French Heritage Society's Annual Palm Beach Gala Dinner
02/21/2013 - 24th Annual Gala of Heart & Soul Charitable Fund Auction at Christie’s
02/21/2013 - Eva Longoria Hosts Benefit for “Food Chains” Documentary - Exposes Exploitation in Am’s Farm Labor
02/13/2013 - Verdura hosts a fundraiser for“The Michael Feinstein American Songbook Initiative”
02/13/2013 - Lost and Found: The Pinajian Discovery, a benefit preview for the Fund for Armenian Relief
02/08/2013 - 56th Annual Red Cross Ball in Palm Beach
02/07/2013 - Lost and Found: The Pinajian Discovery benefit preview for the Fund for Armenian Relief
02/06/2013 - All Star Orchestra’s Preview Screening of their New Classical Music and On-line Education Television
01/29/2013 - Urban Greenwalk
01/23/2013 - The Perlman Music Program Fourth Charity Wine Auction
01/20/2013 - Budapest Festival Orchestra
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YOUNG AUDIENCES NEW YORK’S 11TH ANNUAL CHILDREN’S ARTS AWARD BENEFIT
03/12/2012 - By New York, NY

YOUNG AUDIENCES NEW YORK’S 11TH ANNUAL CHILDREN’S ARTS AWARD BENEFIT

On Monday, March 12, 2012 Young Audiences New York (www.yaNY.org) hosted over 500 luminaries from New York City’s business, media, arts and education sectors in celebration of its 11th annual Children’s Arts Award Benefit.

On Monday, March 12, 2012 Young Audiences New York (www.yaNY.org), one of the nation’s leading non-profit arts education organizations, hosted over 500 luminaries from New York City’s business, media, arts and education sectors in celebration of its 11th annual Children’s Arts Award Benefit. This year’s benefit honored the following elites for their advocacy of children’s arts education: Lea Thompson, actor and arts activist; Jacki Kelley, Global CEO, Universal McCann; and Amanda Richman, President, Digital, MediaVest. Emmy Award-winning actor and Broadway star Richard Thomas served as the emcee. The celebrated Music Unites Young Audiences New York Youth Choir, a group comprised of local high school students, performed songs by Green Day and Lady Gaga under the direction of Deepak Marwah. In addition, third and fifth grade students from P.S. 110 The Monitor School in Brooklyn performed a special song and danc e number to honor the one-year anniversary of Young Audiences New York’s Donna Salvatore Fund for Storytelling. The signature benefit raised $538,000, which will allow yaNY to provide arts education programs to underserved New York City students in grades pre-K through 12 across all five boroughs.

The 2012 Children’s Arts Awards Benefit Chairperson was Robert Riesenberg. Benefit Committee members included Thomas Bartholomew, Andrew Budkofsky, Marianne Gambelli, Kim Greenberg, Julie Kantrowitz, Mike Mohamad, Lynne S. Randall, Beverly Weinstein and Linda Yaccarino. The co-chairs were: Wenda Harris Millard, President and COO, MediaLink and Rick Song, General Manager, Easter US Microsoft Advertising.

The awards presentation featured a dinner and live auction led by David Rago of Rago Arts and Auction Center. The gala took place at Cipriani’s Wall Street in Manhattan.

Notable attendees included:

Lea Thompson (Honoree), Jacki Kelley (Honoree), Amanda Richman (Honoree), Kim Greenberg (yaNY Board Chair), Bev Weinstein (yaNY Board President), Thomas Heymann (President & Executive Director, yaNY), Robert Riesenberg (Benefit Chair), Councilman Robert Jackson (NYC Council’s Chair of Education Committee), Arielle Foucek (yaNY Jr. Committee), Lizzie Greenberg (yaNY Jr. Committee), Wenda Harris Millard (Benefit Co-Chair), Skye Lehman (yaNY’s Jr. Committee), Claudia Morse (yaNY’s MELODY Committee), Douglas Morse (yaNY’s MELODY Committee), Nathan W. Pearson, Jr. (yaNY’s MELODY Committee), Rick Song (Benefit Co-Chair), Richard Thomas (Benefit Emcee), Irma Vaccaro (yaNY Board), Matthew Vaccaro (yaNY’s Donna Salvatore Fund for Storytelling), Eve Wolff (Director of Programming, yaNY), Michael Woloz (yaNY Board), and George Young (yaNY Board).

Photos: yaNY 2012/Lyn Hughes


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