When : Friday, September 18, 2009
Where : The Loeb Boathouse in Central Park






Timeline

7:00 pm    VIP and Sponsor's Reception
7:30 pm    Live Performance - Navegante
8:30 pm    Live Performance - secret band
9:00 pm    Doors open to Gold ticket-holders
                Live Bands in Banquet Room
10:30 pm  Ainsley Earhardt - Introduction
10:35 pm  NY4C Founders Toast
10:40 pm  Live auction begins
12:00 pm  Committee Photo in Banquet Room
2:00 am    The evening adjourns

Attire   Black Tie with some spice

Music   5 Bands in Banquet Room
            2 Bands at VIP-Sponsor reception

Host    Ainsley Earhardt of Fox News and other Special Guests

Purchase Tickets Now at www.NY4C.com

Sponsor - $1,000
Access to an ultra-exclusive lounge (limited to 40 people) with Ainsley Earhardt-Fox News Anchor and other special guests, heavy hors d'oeuvres, carving stations, open bar, dancing, acknowledgement in www.NY4C.com, live auction, access to the VIP Lounge, private bars and gift bags

VIP - $250 in advance, $350 after 9/11/09
Heavy hors d'oeuvres, carving stations, open bar, dancing, acknowledgement in www.NY4C.com, live auction, access to the VIP Lounge, private bars and gift bags

Gold - $150 in advance, $200 after 9/11/09
Heavy hors d'oeuvres, open bar, dancing, acknowledgement in www.NY4C.com
                           
                          Tickets will NOT be available for purchase at the event

"Nihonga" solo exhibition of Fareen Butt
New works on show from the Mirage Series
Exhibit from September 4th to the 11th

TAAAP/Attica/Hedgefund Co. private opening: September 8th 6pm-9pm
Keiretsu Forum/Emirates Capital/TIE private opening: September 9th 6pm-9pm
LRBT Foundation/Loomba Foundation opening: September 10th 6pm-9pm

RL Fine Arts
39 West 19 Street S uite 612 (between 5th and 6th avenues)
New York NY 10011
gallery hours:
Tuesday to Saturday 11:00 to 6:30 pm, Sunday 12:00 to 4:00 pm
www.rlfinearts.com

A few words on the Mirage Series:
The works are of abstracted landscapes, the landscapes are places rendered as sacred by the indigenes of North America. Each painting had a legend of creation associated with it. Expressed through “moving” points of color, these works pursue the vital energy embodied, ebbing, in these spaces. The original people who inhabited these spaces left many testaments of sacredness.
On a more visual level, in the final paintings, most of the sections are created by using a surfeit of contrasting and/or harmonious colors. When viewing the work, an overall definite color emerges, the color of other sections remain ambiguous. Still other sections are one metallic color. It is not clear as to whether the mass is solid or liquid (such as flatlands or a river). Yet, it is clear that all the planes have mass and a surface. That (like a river) even though the movement of the water can be seen by the eye only on the surface, it is a representation of the movement in the mass, in its entirety. Each section moves, or "flows"... this movement cannot be seen, but can be intuited.  
The technique of application is similar to pointillism; well known artists of this style include France’s Seurat and the more contemporary abstract expressionist Richard Pousette-Dart. Each point of paint is approximately 1-3 mm. The paints are created in the ancient Japanese technique of Nihonga, using pigments derived from precious and semiprecious stones. Contemporaries of this technique include Hiroshi Senju, Chen Wenguang, and Makoto Fujimara.  
 
About the Artist:
 
Fareen Butt is an abstract Nihonga Pointillist artist who has been painting and exhibiting for a decade now. She spent her childhood in California and South Africa, and has also lived in Mexico, Cameroon, Canada, and Pakistan. She has traveled extensively around the world, exhibiting in Dubai, Pakistan, New York, Egypt and will be exhibiting next year in Canada, Paris, Germany, New York, Dubai, Bangladesh and India. Butt's technique is a cross between South- and Far- East Asian, as well as European classical methods. Pointilism has been the signature of Seurat in the 1800's and Pousette Dart in more recent times, both employing oil paints as a medium. Nihonga has been employed for thousands of years by a variety of artisans from Japan to Persia, in which the medium consists of precious and semiprecious stones and metals. Butt has studied and experimented with this technique for seven years, and has now started to use minerals more traditionaly known to geologists and rock collectors for their physical characteristics and abilities.
 
Conceptually, the Mirage Series has been inspired by Native American creation legends. The Akasa Series has been inspired by Sufi and Vedic philosophies of light.  www.fareenbuttart.com

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009, 6:30pm
High Water Women Foundation 4th Annual Casino Night Gala at 7W
7 West, 34th Street
New York, NY
(Between 6th Ave. and 5th Ave.)

High Water Women Foundation 4th Annual Casino Night Gala is on Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 6:30PM at  7W, on 7 West 34th Street, New York City Featuring Texas Hold’em and Black Jack Tournament, Roulette, Craps, sit-down dinner and more.
 
High Water Women is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) foundation of women in the financial sector focused on the economic and social empowerment of women and children.  This year, High Water Women WW will raise funds to help women and children survive during these dire economic times.  This year our beneficiaries need your support more than ever to continue providing their most essential and fundamental programs, such as: education, alleviation of family homelessness, at-risk teens and women's health, and the overall economic empowerment of women.      

Business Attire  
 
Co-Chairs:  Kathleen Kelly,    Kingdon Capital Management LLC;  Eileen Kotecki, Juniper Capital Group; and Tracy McHale Stuart, Corbin Capital Partners.
    
For Tickets go to: http://www.highwaterwomen.org/philanthropyevents.html   
 
For event and sponsorship details, please contact Jessica Marsillo at hww@thejfmgroup.com or at 914.235.1490 ext 14.

Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street | NY, NY 10003
Telephone: 212.539.8500
Website: www.publictheater.org

Founded by Joseph Papp as the Shakespeare Workshop and now one of the nation's preeminent cultural institutions, The Public is an American theater in which all the country's voices, rhythms, and cultures converge. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Mara Manus, The Public is dedicated to embracing the complexities of contemporary society and nurturing both artists and audiences, as it continues Joseph Papp's legacy of creating a place of inclusion and a forum for ideas.