The Michigan Ballet Academy Proudly Presents POINTE FORWARD: A VIRTUAL BENEFIT AUCTION Tenth Annual Benefit Auction

Sponsored by: Supporters of Michigan Ballet Academy Saturday, March 20, 2021 7:00 PM Auction Sponsors Bronze Season Sponsors

Principal Season Sponsor

Platinum Season Sponsors

Thomas and Laurie Gole

Board of Directors

James Schindler Lewis and Norma VanKuiken

Gold Season Sponsor

Auction Chair Marcia McEvoy Madden Silver Season Sponsors Auction Committee Members Rick Ackerman Patti Anderson David Armbrecht Brent and Paula Garvin Bruce and Lorna Jarvis Alix Kayayan Angela Koeller Wendy Lappenga Suzanne Minard Shauna Walwood Nancy Ward Performances 2. Video of an in-studio rehearsal There will be performances by all of our current When She Came Back students, as well as former MBA students who are Choreography: Emily Prymula now dancing professionally in companies around Music: Max Richter the world. The following short performances will MBA’s Advanced Class be interspersed throughout the evening: Video of an in-studio rehearsal Corinne Jarvis Aurora and Friends Variation – Sleeping Beauty Former student of MBA, now a dancer with Choreography: Marius Petipa the National Ballet Company of Mexico Music: P. Tchaikovsky Video of an in-studio rehearsal Meghan Brentana Variation from Paquita Video of an in-studio rehearsal Choreography: Marius Petipa Lilac Fairy Variation – Sleeping Beauty Music: Edouard Deldevez and Ludwig Minkus Choreography: Marius Petipa Corinne Jarvis Music: P. Tchaikovsky Improvisation to Fur Elise MBA’s Intermediate 1 and 2 Classes (filmed during pandemic - Video of an in-studio rehearsal Corinne’s Mexico City apartment) Garland Waltz – Sleeping Beauty Choreography and Video Editing: Corinne Jarvis Choreography: Marius Petipa Music: Ludwig Beethoven Music: P. Tchaikovsky Maria Bellamy MBA‘s Fundamentals 1 and 2 Classes Former student of MBA, now a Soloist with Video of an in-studio rehearsal Central West Ballet, CA Gnomes Dance – Cinderella Video of an in-studio rehearsal Music: S. Prokofiev Variation: Le Corsaire Pas De Trois Choreography: Marius Petipa MBA’s Pre-Ballet Class Music: Adolphe Adams Candid in-class video Julianna Ball MBA’s Creative Movement Class Former student of MBA, now a dancer with Candid in-class video Columbia City Ballet, SC Youth American Grand Prix 1. Video of an in-studio pas de deux rehearsal Classical Competition Preparation 2. Video of a performance Liza Videos of in-studio rehearsals Choreography: Miranda Bailey 1. Evangeline Kragt – Variation from Music: George Gershwin La Bayadere, Music – Ludwig Minkus Katie Brown 2. Evangeline Kragt – Kitri’s Variation fromDon Former student of MBA, now a dancer with Quixote, Music – Ludwig Minkus Fort Wayne Ballet, IN 3. Kendall Wisniewski – Cupid Variation from Video of a dress rehearsal Don Quixote, Music – Ludwig Minkus Till The Seventh 4. Caroline Klafeta – Princess Florina Variation Choreography: Saki Morimoto from Sleeping Beauty, Music – P. Tchaikovsky

Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Youth American Grand Prix Emily Prymula Contemporary Competition Preparation Former student of MBA, now a dance major Videos of in-studio rehearsals at Western Michigan University 1. Olivia Lappenga – This Creed, Choreography 1. Video of an in-studio rehearsal Fever – Amy Wilson, Music – Johannes Bornlof Choreography: Dance Faculty at WMU 2. Caroline Klafeta – Bent, Choreography – Amy Music: Peggy Lee Wilson, Music – Phillip Glass Live Auction Live 5 – Newborn Baby and Mom Basket from Schuler Books & Music Live 1 – One to Two Hour Private Accordion This basket has a little of everything to get you Concert or Accompaniment started in preparing for a new baby. For mom, it Is there a wedding, graduation, birthday party, includes three pairs of compression socks, lip balm, or retirement party in your future? If so, you will thank you notes, a book of Letters to my Baby, want to bid on this item! Michael Schaeffer is a and a C.R. Gibson memories baby book. For baby, professional accordionist with a vast repertoire of it includes five baby board books, toys, and a international music, including a specialty in French Michigan Robin onesie. It also includes baby musette and Italian music. Michael has played with shower party supplies. the Grand Rapids Symphony and is the artist in Schuler Books & Music residence at a number of local restaurants. He can provide background music for any private event of Live 6 – For Golf Lovers! your choosing. Il est magnifique! Do you love to golf? If so, this is the item for you! Dr. David Armbrecht Bring your friends, because this great golf package Michael Schaeffer includes golf for four and a cart at your choice of golf courses – Watermark, Stone Water, Live 2 – Escape Room, Movie Outing, Sunnybrook or Thousand Oaks. and Dinner for Two Redwater Golf Collection This package can be enjoyed by children or adults! If you have never been to the Grand Rapids Escape Live 7 – Two Tickets to the Doobie Brothers Room, you will have a blast solving clues and 50th Anniversary Tour and Dinner at puzzles to escape a variety of rooms with your Terra Restaurant partner in 60 minutes. After the Escape Room, Don’t miss the North American tour of four-time enjoy dinner for two at The Winchester Restaurant, GRAMMY award winners and Rock & Roll Hall of and then a movie of your choice at AMC Theatre! Fame nominees the Doobie Brothers! This is the Ron Kragt and Alix Kayayan first time they are touring together in nearly 25 years. These legends will perform their full catalog Live 3 – Take Me Out to the Ball Game! of timeless hits, including Listen To The Music, This special day includes two of the best Detroit Takin’ It To The Streets, and Black Water. Tigers baseball tickets to the game of your choice The Anniversary Tour is at the Van Andel Arena (premium seats behind the dugout), cash for food on September 12th at 7:30 PM. and beverages at the ball game, and cash for gas! Enjoy a delicious dinner before the GO TIGERS! show at Terra Restaurant! Robert Carlton Terry and Marcia Madden

Live 4 – Chef’s Table for Four with Four Course Live 8 – Three Nights at the Pine Bluff Resort Dinner and Hand-Crafted Cocktails in the Upper Peninsula at Mexo-Downtown This is a real getaway package! Have you thought This is an incredible opportunity to enjoy a four about a gorgeous fall color tour? How about a course dinner for four guests at the chef’s table! winter ski or snowmobile weekend? Spend three Mexo will deliver a menu highlighting Executive nights at Pine Bluff Resort in the heart of the Upper Chef, Oscar Moreno’s Pre-Hispanic Modern Mexi- Peninsula, close to the Mackinac Bridge. Stay at a can cuisine, which brings the cooking methods and stunning three bedroom cabin for up to 6 people tastes of Old World Mexico together with those of overlooking Manistique Lake! today’s familiar Mexican cuisine. Wine pairings or Available September through December hand-crafted cocktails are included. A vast Tequila and March through May. and Mezcal collection is offered. Pine Bluff Resort, Roger Betten Sr. Rick and Amy Ackerman Gift Card Frenzy – 1! Laifoo Ballet/Pointe Shoe Dryers with Timer - $30 Rick and Amy Ackerman Eleve Dance Wear (the coolest leotards ever!) - $75 Eleve Dance Wear Hot Stone Massage at Barton Chiropractic Office (Leonard Street NE) - $75 Wing Doozy - $25 Ron Kragt and Alix Kayayan Marcia Madden Two tickets to 2021 Grand Rapids Symphony Virtual Biggby Coffee - $55 Performance of Your Choice - $40 Biggby Coffee The Art of Dance with the Grand Rapids Ballet Sobie Meats - $40 Lights, Camera, Music! - The Works of Sobie Meats John Williams Beethoven and Haydn: The Student Becomes Six Punch Family Swim Pass to Goldfish The Master Swim School - $90 Grand Rapids Symphony Ron Kragt and Alix Kayayan The Melting Pot Restaurant - $100 Field’s Fabrics - $30 Crystal Flash Field’s Fabrics Celebration Cinema - $25 Flowerland - $30 Crystal Flash Flowerland One Hour Massage at Schneider Family Leigh’s Women’s Fashions - $50 Chiropractic (Forest Hills) - $75 Leigh’s Women Fashions Schneider Family Chiropractic Southside Flower Market - $60 Eighteen Holes of Golf For Two at GVSU Migena Furxhi The Meadows - $65 GVSU The Meadows Golf Course Fricano’s Pizza Restaurant - $50 Live Auction Continued! Ron Kragt and Alix Kayayan Live 9 – Two Premium Third Row Center Orchestra Seats to Broadway Grand Rapids One month unlimited pass - Forest Hills Fit Come From Away and Dinner at Body Boot Camp - $100 Bistro Bella Vita Restaurant Forest Hills Fit Body Boot Camp Broadway Grand Rapids presents the original Spirit Dreams (Eastown) - $25 musical Come From Away, a New York Times Critics’ Spirit Dreams Pick and Best Musical Winner. This show takes you into the heart of the remarkable true story of 7000 D & W - $50 stranded passengers after 9/11 and the small D & W – Gaslight Village town of Newfoundland that welcomed them. Matchbox Restaurant (EGR) - $25 Uneasiness turns into trust, music soars into the Terry and Marcia Madden night, and gratitude grows into enduring friendships. Enjoy two premium third row Haircut from Anita Simic at Luka Salon center orchestra seats at Devos Performance Hall th (29 Street SE) - $70 on Saturday, September 25th at 8:00 PM. Enjoy Anita Simic dinner and drinks at Bistro Bella Vita Restaurant Cakeabakery - $25 downtown before the performance. Ron Kragt and Alix Kayayan Terry and Marcia Madden Suzanne Minard New Holland Brewing Company - $100 Jen Wixom New Holland Brewing Company Live 10 – Skin Renewal Basket of Products Live 13 – Chef’s Table for Six at This wonderful basket of products was hand-select- the Bonefish Grill ed by the skilled staff of Dermatology Associates of Michael Kringstad, the Managing Partner of West Michigan. The items include ultra-lite facial Bonefish Grill, will lead you and five friends cream, anti-oxidant cleanser, SPF 50+ physical sheer through a series of courses that explore the oceans’ water resistant sunscreen, hydra plus serum, and treasures paired with the finest spirits. The evening intensive hand cream. Your skin will thank you! starts with an assortment of signature martinis Dermatology Associates of West Michigan and cocktails in their Big City Bar. Next, you will be indulged with a variety of signature appetizers, Live 11 – Exclusive Private Taste and Tour of including Bang Bang Shrimp, Ahi Tuna Sashimi, and Founders Brewing Company for 10 Guests Mussels Josephine. Your entrée consists of an Enjoy an exclusive private taste and tour of assortment of fresh fish grilled over an oak fired Founders Brewing Company for 10 guests! grill, and served with signature toppings. This America’s Home Brewers ranked Founders the best course is paired with a selection of red and white brewery in the country. Founders also just won the wine chosen from an extensive list. The night is prestigious World Trader of the Year Award. It is finished off with tastes of their indulgent dessert one of the largest craft breweries in the U.S., with list paired with a cordial of your choice. Coffee, awards from World Beer Cup, European Beer Star, espresso and hot tea are also offered. Great American Beer Festival, Rate Beer, and Beer Bonefish Grill Advocate. Beer lovers come from all over the country to tour the Founders facility right here in Live 14 – Petoskey Getaway Package Grand Rapids! Enjoy a weekend getaway on the shores of Founders Brewing Company Lake Michigan in the beautiful and quaint resort community Petoskey, Michigan, which includes a Live 12 – Rare Tour of the Old Gypsum one-night stay at the Historic Stafford’s Perry Hotel, Mines for Eight with Sampling of Local Craft dinner at Vernales – the best steak house in Beers and Snacks Petoskey, and gift certificates to both American This package is a rare treat! It has been over 30 Spoon and McLean & Eakin Booksellers in years since folks have been able to tour the site of downtown Petoskey. It also includes a gas card! the early Grand Rapids Gypsum mines (now Mich- Stafford’s Perry Hotel igan Natural Storage). These tunnels are like the Vernales Chophouse Mammoth Caves of Michigan! Take a tour of this McLean & Eakin Booksellers fascinating old quarry with Ron Kragt, President of American Spoon Michigan Natural Storage. After your exploration of Terry and Marcia Madden this unique site, enjoy a variety of local craft beers Nancy Ward and snacks. Children are welcome too! Non- alcoholic refreshments will be served to kiddos. Live 15 – Custom Basket of Coffee and Ron Kragt, President Related Products Michigan Natural Storage If you are a coffee drinker, you will love this basket. Ferris Coffee & Nut carefully selected many of their most popular products for you! These include specialty coffees Brazil Forteza, Brazil Santos, West Coast Blend, and Woosah/Ferris. It also includes a craft beer nut mix, a fruit and nut mix, almond butter, peanut butter, and Ferris drink tokens good for café drinks at any Ferris Coffee location. Ferris Coffee & Nut Company Gift Card Frenzy – 2! Shooting Package for Two (Range Time, Ammo, Eyes/Ears Protection) - $100 Hop Cat - $25 Barracks 616 Terry and Marcia Madden Five Passes to Shows of Your Choice at One Hour Massage at Schneider Family Chiropractic Circle Theatre - $120 (Forest Hills) - $75 Shows include: Cabaret (Musical), Noises Off Schneider Family Chiropractic (Comedy/Farce), Hair (Musical), Always …Patsy Cline (Musical) Kingma’s Market - $25 Terry and Marcia Madden Kingma’s Market Two 50 Minute Private Pilates Sessions, Coffee Taste and Tour with Product for water bottle, and t-shirt - $115 6 People - $120 Pilates in Ada Ferris Coffee & Nut Company Redwater Collection Restaurants - $200 Basket of Olive Oils and Balsamics - $60 Cork Wine & Grille, Gravity Taphouse Grille, Old World Olive Press Rush Creek Bistro, Firerock Grille, Redrock Grille, Brewery Vivant $50 gift card, logo scarf, and logo Boatwerks Waterfront Restaurant, Reds at beer glasses - $70 Thousand Oaks Brewery Vivant Dr. David Armbrecht One Hour Massage (downtown) - $75 Oh Hello! Paper and Gifts (Monroe Center) - $50 A Healing Touch Transformational Bodywork, LLC Dr. David Armbrecht Aqualuxe Deluxe Facial (Forest Hills) - $200 Whiskers Resort & Pet Spa - $100 Renewal Skin Spa Whiskers Resort & Pet Spa Biggby Coffee - $45 One Year Subscription to Dance Magazine - $20 Biggby Coffee Dance Magazine Four Express Platinum Car Wash Passes - $72 Southside Flower Market - $30 Mister Car Wash Migena Furxhi Manna Café - $30 Manna Café Fund-A-Need Family Membership to the John Ball Zoo - $115 John Ball Zoo Despite this difficult year, the Artistic Faculty and Board of Directors have worked very hard to Panera Bread - $50 create a thriving and growth-filled environment for Andre and Jennifer Beaumont our students. As you are all aware, MBA’s budget One Month Unlimited Pass (Virtual or In-Studio) has been seriously impacted by Covid-19 related and Branded T-Shirt (Forest Hills, Eastown, or revenue losses. The Fund-A-Need process is an Downtown) - $100 important opportunity to help us stay strong and Funky Buddha Yoga Hothouse fiscally solvent until we are through this pandemic. Here is where we need your help Harvest Health Foods - $100 for a special donation matching process. Harvest Health Foods We have very exciting news to share! We have Sundance Grill/Bagel Beanery/Beltline Bar/ received a matching Fund-A-Need gift of $10,000 Rockwell Republic/The Omelette Shoppe - $50 which we hope to match or surpass tonight! 4GR8Food Brands Thanks to the generous donations of three anonymous donors, MBA has a chance this evening to double the donations for Fund-A-Need. Amsterdam with the Dutch National Ballet Contributions of any amount will help us reach School. that match, dollar for dollar. Please help us unlock • Another former scholarship student is cur- and double the impact of the $10,000 matching rently at the Royal Ballet School in London gift, turning it into $20,000! Every donation counts full time. - whether it is $2500 or $25. This is a great • A third is now on full scholarship at the opportunity to support Michigan Ballet Academy! American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School. Your donation for the Fund-A-Need portion of the • A fourth danced professionally at both evening will go to three vital needs: Oklahoma City Ballet and San Antonio First, MBA needs your help with operating Ballet, and is now guesting with different expenses that pay for faculty salaries, monthly rent, companies. and utilities. The pandemic has hit us hard in this • A fifth is dancing professionally with regard. During this pandemic year, tuition has only Ekklesia Contemporary Company in covered 55 percent of our annual operating budget. Connecticut. • A sixth is on scholarship at Western Second, Michigan Ballet Academy is launching an Michigan University for dance, and took th th original version of Sleeping Beauty on June 4 , 5 , senior level ballet classes as a freshman. and 6th. We plan on giving away complimentary tickets to underserved children and their families, Since we opened our doors 10 years ago, we most of whom have never seen a live ballet have launched 14 professional careers and have performance before. We also hope to offer free helped our students achieve substantial academic lecture-demonstrations about the art of ballet scholarships for dance at colleges and universities before the Sleeping Beauty performances for Girl across the U.S. Scouts and their families from across Michigan. Your dollars can TRANSFORM LIVES. They In order to provide this production to the can make DREAMS COME TRUE. PLEASE GIVE community, we will need to rent a theatre, GENEROUSLY TO OUR FUND-A-NEED TONIGHT. backdrops, a scrim, fog machines, a marley floor, and hire a production manager, backstage crew, How Fund-A-Need Works and lighting designer. Please help MBA fund this The auctioneer will start out the donation level new production! Tuition revenue does not cover at $2500. He will allow time for everyone who is any part of our expenses for community interested in donating at that level to place their performances. $2500 donation amount in the chat feature of the Third, we would like to increase our Student zoom platform. Your donation will be recorded Tuition Scholarship Program. Ballet lessons can be for that amount. He will then move to the $2000 quite expensive, and once students get on pointe, donation level for those of you interested in a single pair of pointe shoes costs anywhere from donating $2000. Then, he will proceed to the $70 to $100. A student dancing and performing $1000 level, the $500 level, the $250 level, the intensely can go through a pair of pointe shoes in a $150 level, the $100 level, the $50 level, and finally day or two. We have students with large dreams, the $25 level. Help us unlock our Fund-A-Need and we want to be able to provide the intensive matching pledge this evening so we turn our training they need to fulfill these dreams by $10,000 pre-pledge into $20,000 for the Academy! providing tuition assistance for many of them. Each pledge is 100 percent tax deductible. Every donation counts! Thank you so much for your These scholarship funds can positively impact the generosity! lives of young people for years to come. Here are some real-life examples: PLEDGE LEVELS • One of our former MBA scholarship stu- dents performed with American Ballet $2500, $2000, $1000, $500, $250, $150, $100, Theatre Studio Company, and is now in $50, $25 Live Auction Continued Live 19 – Traverse City Wine Weekend for Four If Northern Michigan wine adventures are on your Live 16 - Two Premium Third Row Center bucket list, this is the package for you! Experience Orchestra Seats to Broadway Grand Rapids wine tasting on Old Mission Peninsula on the 45th Hairspray and Dinner at San Chez Bistro. parallel famous for producing amazing wines! Take Broadway Grand Rapids presents the hilarious in the beauty of East Grand Traverse Bay while comedy Hairspray, a Tony award-winning best enjoying a flight of wonderful wines paired with musical! Join 16-year-old Tracy Turnblad in 1960’s hors d’oeuvres for you and your friends at Two Lads Baltimore as she sets out to dance her way onto Winery. The knowledgeable, witty, and charming TV’s most popular show. Can a girl with big dreams tasting room staff will give you a private tour of the (and even bigger hair) change the world? You will winery, and make your visit memorable! Next, love this beloved score filled with hit songs. Enjoy receive a guided tour for four through the cellar two premium third row center orchestra seats at and vineyards of Bonobo Winery, and sip on your th Devos Performance Hall on Saturday, January 15 , choice of both a sparkling wine and signature wine. 2022 at 8:00 PM. Enjoy dinner and drinks at San This package includes an overnight stay at a Chez Bistro downtown before the performance. hotel of your choice in Traverse City, a gas card, Terry and Marcia Madden and beautiful Logo wine glasses. Todd and Annette Schautz Two Lads Winery Bonobo Winery Live 17 – A Fantastic Night on the Town MBA Board of Directors Do you have an anniversary or birthday coming up? Dean and Nancy Ward Score big points with this romantic downtown night for two. Start the evening at Divani Grand Rapids Live 20 – Dance Bag Filled with for signature cocktails. Next, stroll down the street Dance-Related Goodies to the upscale Chop House for a delicious dinner Be a hero to your dancing child! William Schutte, and dessert. Top the evening off with a beautiful owner of Kicks Dancewear, has hand selected some room at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel! wonderful items for your dancer. Your child will Amway Grand Plaza Hotel love the cool new warm up booties, the matching Bruce and Lorna Jarvis dance bag, an Ainsliewear leotard, a foot roller, Wendy Lappenga a balance board, a resistance band, and a unique Terry and Marcia Madden pointe shoe keychain! Kicks Dancewear Live 18 – Chef’s Dinner with Wine Pairings for Two at Reserve Wine & Food Live 21 – Grand Haven Getaway Package Enjoy a seasonal selection of gourmet fare at the Treat your favorite person! Start the evening with beautiful Reserve Wine & Food downtown. Each cocktails at Noto’s at the Bil-Mar on the shore of delicious course is carefully paired with an exquisite Lake Michigan. Next, stroll along the Boardwalk and wine selected by one of the Reserve’s very own enjoy a delicious waterfront dining experience at wine experts. If you have never seen the stunning Snug Harbor overlooking Grand Haven’s large scale oil painting entitledOpen Water, winner Channel into Lake Michigan. After dinner, stop in of the 2009 Art Prize $250,000 grand prize, it is on for a beer at Odd Side Ales Brewery. Spend the display at the Reserve! night at the beautiful Harbor House Inn with a Reserve Wine & Food lakefront view. After a delicious breakfast, enjoy some great shopping with gift certificates to several downtown stores including Fortino’s General Store, Sweet Temptations, and Grand Haven clothing stores. Oh sweet weekend! Harbor House Inn Steve and Carole Loftis, Harbor Restaurants Odd Side Ales Brewery & Tap Room Frank’s Market (NW Grand Rapids) - $25 Sweet Temptations Frank’s Market Fortino’s General Store Eighteen Holes of Golf for Two at Robert and Shauna Walwood GVSU The Meadows - $65 JJ Marche GVSU The Meadows Golf Course Dune Dollars – Grand Haven Chamber of Commerce Barnes & Noble - $50 Noto’s at the Bil-Mar Ron Kragt and Alix Kayayan

Live 22 – A Delightful Day of Wine Tasting, Four Week Introductory Yoga Class Shopping, and Eating in Rockford (downtown) - $50 Head up to Rockford, and enjoy a wonderful wine Iyengar Yoga Center of Grand Rapids tasting at the Kaela Rae Cellars. Gourmet cheese Six Family Swim Passes at Goldfish and crackers will be served with your wine. You can Family Swim- $90 bring up to nine friends to this wine tasting, or you MBA Board of Directors can keep it intimate for the two of you. Next, enjoy shopping at several of the quaint downtown stores. Manna Café - $30 After shopping, have dinner for two at the Grill 111 Manna Café in Rockford, and then mosey over to Rockford Wealthy Street Bakery - $25 Corner Bar for after dinner drinks. Denise Olson Kayla Rae Cellars One Year Membership for Two People with Tote Dale and Patti Anderson Bag, Mug, Colored Pencils, and Sketch Book - $125 Glik’s Boutique Grand Rapids Art Museum Wendy Lappenga The Pump House Frozen Yogurt Bar Jimmy Johns (28th Street SE) - $40 Rockford Corner Bar Jimmy Johns Ric’s Food Center Three 20 Minute Infrared Sauna Sessions at BodyMind Pilates (28th Street) - $55 Ron Kragt and Alix Kayayan Gift Card Frenzy – 3! Nantucket Baking Company - $50 One Hour Massage at Schneider Family Chiropractic Nantucket Baking Company (Forest Hills) - $75 One Hour Massage at Barton Chiropractic Office Rick and Amy Ackerman (Leonard Street NE) - $72 Romence Gardens - $40 Barton Chiropractic Office Romence Gardens Complete Set of Harry Potter Book Series - $70 Diamond Peel Microdermabrasion Facial Scholastic Bookfairs (Forest Hills) - $100 First WoK Chinese Restaurant Dermatology Associates of West Michigan (Three different locations) - $50 The Local Kitchen & Sports Lounge Dr. David Armbrecht (NW Grand Rapids) - $50 Southside Flower Market (Breton Village) - $50 The Local Kitchen & Sports Lounge Southside Flower Market Mr. Burger - $25 Harder & Warner Landscaping & Mr. Burger Garden Center - $100 Uccello’s Restaurant - $50 Harder & Warner Landscaping & Garden Center Dr. David Armbrecht Family Four Pack of Tickets to Frederik Meijer Live 25 – Opera Grand Rapids Gardens & Sculpture Park - $50 and Dinner at Leo’s Restaurant Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park Enjoy two premium orchestra seats to any Opera Grand Rapids production of your choice for Forest Hills Foods - $50 either the 2021 or 2022 season. Opera Grand Forest Hills Foods Rapids offers a variety of visual, dramatic and musical feasts for the senses, including Turandot by Giacomo Puccini and Aida by Giuseppe Verdi at Live Auction Continued! Devos Performance Hall. These towering masterpieces about love are not to be missed! Live 23 – Full Case of Mixed Beer and Before the performance, enjoy a wonderful Half Case of Mixed Wine downtown dinner at Leo’s Restaurant. Treat your palette to a variety of flavors with these carefully selected signature alcoholic beverages Opera Grand Rapids from the brewmeisters of Speciation Artisan Ales. Peter Zhang and Lin Tian Enjoy a variety of Native Species wines, including Live 26 - Four Tickets to Grand Rapids Griffins Seyval Blanc – Wolves of Winter, Marquette Game of your Choice and a Behind-the-Scenes Nouveau – Embers, Le Crescent Nouveau – Omens, Game Day Experience Heritage Apple – Astral Dominion, Michigan Red Have fun with four tickets to an action-packed fall Wine – Anoxia, and Seyval Blanc – Inside The Sun. 2021 or spring 2022 Grand Rapids Griffins Hockey The beer variety includes barrel aged sour ales, game with friends or family members! Make fermented wheat ales, mixed culture wild ales with fantastic memories with a game day experience Papaya and Tamarind, open fermented sour wheat that entails a behind-the-scenes tour of the arena ales with black currents, ale aged in a gin barrel, and game operation room. Next, have the privilege and more! of watching pregame warm ups on the glass from Speciation Artisan Ales the Zamboni tunnel before the start of the game. Finally, one of your lucky party of four gets a special Live 24 – Wine Tasting and Tour for 10 with Zamboni ride before the game! Hors D’Oeuvres at Bowers Harbor Vineyard in Traverse City Grand Rapids Griffins This boutique winery on Old Mission Live 27 – Premium Products from Paris Peninsula overlooks scenic Bowers Harbor. for Hands, Face, and Nails Take in the breathtaking views during a tour of This special basket filled with premier products was the vineyard. The Stegena family operates a cozy, carefully selected by the stylists of Panopoulos Sa- informative, and friendly tasting room where you lon. These Kerastase products from Paris include: and nine of your friends will sample premium shampoo, cream rinse, shaping, moisturizing oil award-winning wines while enjoying delicious mist, hair lotion, hand sanitizer, exfoliating cuticle hors d’oeuvres. This interactive taste and tour will treatment, and five kinds of nail polish. leave you with a new appreciation for the Michigan wine region. Panopoulos Salon Bowers Harbor Vineyards Live 28 – Virtual Art Tour of the Streets of Two Tickets to Show of your Choice at 2021 Hope Paris, France for up to 14 Online Guests Summer Repertory Theatre - $80 Join your expert art hostess and exemplary Hope Summer Repertory Theatre storyteller, Kasia Klon, from the Street Art Tour Boulder Ridge Wild Animal Park - $50 Paris Company, for an interactive seminar and virtual tour that explores urban art in Paris. Kasia Boulder Ridge Wild Animal Park will give you the fascinating history of the One Hour Hot Stone Massage at Barton contemporary urban art phenomenon known as Chiropractic Office (Leonard Street NE) - $92 Neo-Muralism. U.S. News & World Report rated Barton Chiropractic Office Kasia’s tours as one of the best in Paris. In 2020, Trip Advisor rewarded Kasia’s company with a Electric Cheetah Restaurant Traveler’s Choice Award, ranking it in the top 10 (Eastown and Cascade) - $25 percent of attractions worldwide. This virtual tour Terry and Marcia Madden can be for up to 14 guests, so bring your friends Two General Admissions to the Grand Rapids along as you meander through the streets of Paris Public Museum - $18 from the comfort of your homes! Grand Rapids Public Museum Wendy Lappenga Buddy’s Pizza Party Package for 10 - Three Large Pizzas and Choice of Salad (28th Street SE) - $85 Buddy’s Pizza Gift Card Frenzy – 4! Westside Social American Tavern JT’s Pizza & Spirits (Forest Hills) - $25 (NW Grand Rapids) - $50 JT’s Pizza & Spirits Westside Social American Tavern Pretty Woman Package - Manicure, Pedicure, Wealthy Street Bakery - $25 Haircut, and Style - $145 Ron Kragt and Alix Kayayan Design 1 Salon Spa Sundance Grill/Bagel Beanery/Beltline Bar/Rock- Sundance Grill/Bagel Beanery/Beltline Bar/ well Republic/The Omelette Shoppe - $50 Rockwell Republic/The Omelette Shoppe - $50 Terry and Marcia Madden 4GR8Food Brands Forest Hills Foods - $100 Four Admission Passes to The Field Museum - Forest Hills Foods Chicago - $90 Real Food Café - $25 The Field Museum - Chicago Real Food Café

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