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2023 GALA AUCTION ITEMS
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.
Reservation for 4 at Tatiana — One of NYC’s Most Difficult-to-attain Reservations
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.
Enjoy an exciting excursion that marries music and food - a performance and dinner for four at City Winery NYC! Indulge your senses with globally influenced cuisine, award-winning wines, and nationally touring musicians in a unique, intimate, and state-of-the-art venue.
Recently opened in Hudson River Park, City Winery is one of the hottest spots for live music, intimate concerts, great food, and locally made wine. The venue is the brainchild of Michael Dorf, founder of NYC’s iconic Knitting Factory, one of NYC’s longest-running musical venues.
Dinner and Show for 4 at City Winery
Woodland Retreat Staycation in Litchfield, CT
Experience all the charms of picturesque Litchfield, CT, in a weekend getaway to a woodland retreat. This gorgeous modern interior will make you want to stay put and read all weekend, but there is so much to do in the area – from hiking the scenic forests in Black Rock State Park, to touring the local wineries, to exploring Litchfield Village Green, where you can enjoy shopping, fine dining, and visit historic sites.
The airy interior of this heavenly haven accommodates up to 6 guests with 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. Bid now to escape your normal hustle and bustle and sink into woodland serenity!
Astro-intuitive Session with Goop Health Psychic
90-minute Astro-intuitive reading with Suzanne Guillette, a featured psychic at numerous wellness events including in Goop Health, and a featured healer in Goop’s Guide to Healers. As a writer and astrologer, Suzanne’s work has been featured in O Magazine, Tin House, and ELLE.
Suzanne connects clients to their inner wisdom, in the service of healing and finding empowerment and joy, regardless of present challenges. Her style is direct, heartfelt, and energizing. A trauma survivor and advocate for child welfare and safety, she has a special appreciation for humans' ability to survive adversity in our own unique ways and timelines. With a Master of Fine Arts in Non-Fiction, Suzanne specializes in personal narrative and memoir and combines her intuitive skills with her literary background to guide the development of creative projects, a professional creative muse.
Author of Much to Your Chagrin: A Memoir of Embarrassment (published by Simon & Schuster in 2009), and Battle Dress: What I Wore to Confront My Past, she was also the writing collaborator for Boundary Boss (2021) by Terri Cole. She conceived, produced, and performed in Moving, for You: A Tribute to Empathy (2017), a short film directed by Austin Wideman that honors the relationship between grief and joy.