Take a sneak peek at a selection of our auction items — with more to come — and be sure to check back on Monday, September 11, when the Silent Auction opens!
2023 GALA AUCTION ITEMS
Reservation for 4 at Tatiana — One of NYC’s Most Difficult-to-attain Reservations
Attain the impossible! This is your chance at a reservation for four to one of the hottest restaurants in town, Tatiana by Kwame Onwuachi. This shimmering newcomer inside Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall has earned ecstatic reviews in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Esquire, Forbes, Time Out, Eater, Grub Street, and more, with accolades such as “The Future of Fine Dining” and “New York’s Most Impossible Table.”
Celebrity chef Kwame Onwuachi curates an extraordinary menu of dishes drawing on his personal history in an inspiring autobiographical culinary exploration. The Afro-Caribbean restaurant draws on traditions from Onwuachi’s Bronx roots and multicultural flavors throughout NYC, as well as New Orleans, Nigeria, and the Caribbean. Onwuachi rose to early fame on Top Chef, was named as one of FOOD & WINE’s Best New Chefs, Esquire Magazine’s 2019 Chef of the Year, and won a James Beard Foundation’s Rising Star Chef of the Year Award in 2019.
Pair of camera seats to Met Opera: Live in HD
Get an insider's view of the Met Opera: Live in HD broadcasts with a pair of camera seats at a live broadcast show, and visits to 2 normally off-limits spaces.
David Frost, producer and 22-time GRAMMY Award winner, will greet you an hour before curtain for a sneak peek inside the “Video Truck,” packed with tech to capture the stage magic. From your seats next to one of the cameras (unavailable to the general public) you'll get an exclusive view of the stage plus a glimpse into how the cameras capture the stage action. Meet David in the audio booth during intermission to see how the opera is recorded and mixed live while being simulcast globally.
Choose one of three operas:
X: The Life and Times of Malcolm (Pulitzer Prizewinner Anthony Davis) —Saturday, November 18 at 12:55pm
Roméo et Juliette (Charles Gounoud) — Saturday, March 23, 12:55pm
La Rondine (Giacomo Puccini) — Saturday, April 20 at 12:55pm
One-hour Education Consultation with Teru Clavel
Parents and grandparents: let’s talk anything education!School choice, college admissions, international education, school funding: you choose the topic(s).
Learn about the increasingly complex education landscape with internationally acclaimed education advocate, journalist, author, and public speaker Teru Clavel. Featured on Fareed Zakaria’s GPS on CNN, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, and CNBC’s Squawk Box, among others, Teru authored bestseller World Class: One Mother’s Journey Halfway Around the Globe in Search of the Best Education for Her Children. Teru has been published in The Times of London, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Psychology Today, among others.
Gain insights into education/school choice, empowering a student toward their ideal educational opportunities, or applying to college today. Teru’s depth of expertise comes from extensive work in the field and her own journey as mother of three who have been educated in local public/private/boarding schools in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, Palo Alto, and New York.
One-hour Private Session with John West, Founder of Presenting Solutions
Experience the method Seth Godin calls, “life-changing.” This includes a one-hour diagnostic/strategy session with the founder of Presenting Solutions, one of the country's leading providers of speech and executive presence training. Presenting Solutions serves as a resident speech coach for Amazon, Forbes, and Nasdaq, among others. Whether you'd like to improve your own speaking or that of your colleagues, in your time together, John will identify a targeted approach for instant impact.
Held virtually, this can be a 1-on-1 “personal training” session in which you explore the background and context of your own communication needs, whether relating to executive presence, speaking voice, anxiety, and more. In this holistic, all-encompassing service, John will devise a custom approach to address your needs and give you tools for both immediate and long-term progress. Alternatively, meet with John to discuss and evaluate the needs of your entire team. John will strategize actionable ways to improve your team’s communication prowess and will provide exercises for them to accomplish long-term improvement and growth.
Private Walking Tour of NYC’s Financial District
Step back through time with a private walking tour of NYC’s iconic Financial District! Your captivating guide, CAG Board Member Aaron Cahn, brings a deep love for history and storytelling to this 90-minute exclusive experience. A native New Yorker, Aaron’s decades-long and FiDi-based legal career affords him unique insights into the extraordinary intersections between law and finance, politics and protest, progress and prosperity, industry and architecture, which can be traced from past to present throughout this bustling hub.
You’ll cruise past cobblestone streets, stroll beneath skyscrapers, and meander around monuments to commerce in an unforgettable journey that delves into the fascinating characters and stories that have shaped this dynamic, restless, and vibrant neighborhood.
End your excursion with sky-high drinks at the Bar at Manhatta, a Danny Meyer restaurant, where you’ll enjoy spectacular views 60 floors above the terrain you just traversed. Complementing the panoramic vista of the glittering cityscape below, a menu of creative cocktails invites you to continue your exploration of NYC and beyond.