Spring Benefit Preview
On
May 2 (next Friday!) at 7 pm at the Tabacco Warehouse
at Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in Dumbo, we will celebrate 100
years of the Brooklyn Friends Upper School and 140 years of the school
as a whole at our Spring Benefit, “Raising
the Roof.” It is going
to be an awesome night with great food and drink, music and dancing,
and an amazing live and silent auction!
Here are just a handful of items that will be auctioned off by
three very special BFS personalities—Upper School faculty members
Jeremy Richards, Mark Buenzle and Vlad
Malukoff, who will be our auctioneers
for the evening! If you haven’t bought your tickets, time is
running out so reserve your spot today!
- Tickets to the season home opener of the 2007-2008 Super
Bowl winning New York Giants! (The winner will also get tickets
to another game during the 2008-2009 season!)
- Autographed baseball with the signatures of EVERY player
on the 2007 All Star team!
-
Children’s art projects—we have the hard
work of our creative, talented students from the pre-school all
the way to the 4th grade.
- Birthday party run by Phys Ed teacher extraordinaire Staci
Otto!
- Sports equipment from Nike—football, soccer ball,
basketball, jump rope, weights, gym bag … and more!
- Gift certificates for hair salons, nail salons, restaurants,
Yoga, Pilates
- Learn how to DJ in a private studio session with international
DJ Victor Calderone.
- Tickets to a Mets game, Yankees game and autographed posters
of Jets and Giants players!
-
Best Books of Brooklyn—This remarkable package features
seven critically acclaimed works of fiction from Brooklyn’s
most celebrated writers, including the recent work of Paul Auster,
Siri Hustvedt, Jhumpa Lahiri, Jonathan Safran Foer, Anya Ulinich
and Rudolph Delson. Each hardcover book will be personally inscribed
by its author to the winning bidder.
- Sous chef for a day will choose the school menu, help prepare
and serve, as well as pick a special dessert for their class!
- Spend an exciting day on the set with Robert De Niro as he
films his next movie—watch the cast at work and learn about
life behind the scenes.
- Three $1500 discounts on your 2008-2009 BFS tuition will
be given away!
All proceeds from the event will benefit the Financial Aid program
and the Financial Aid Endowment. We hope you will join us on this
festive evening by the Brooklyn Bridge as we celebrate our school.
It is an event not to be missed!
To buy tickets go to: brooklynfriends.maestroweb.com
Download “Raising the Roof” poster
Download directions to the Tabacco Warehouse
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