Fundraising dinner
Our biggest fundraising event of the year went down a few weeks ago. It was a fundraising dinner with many of our top donors, lots of well-known Australians, actors, personalities, etc. Our Artistic Directors were there (Cate decked out in Armani as per usual--well, he's our patron and the dinner was held in his honor, so that all makes sense), Hugo Weaving (Mr Smith from The Matrix) was there as well as the Olympic gold medalist swimmer, Ian Thorpe. It's a pretty impressive event, actually, pulled off by two of my lovely co-workers with the help of the rest of our development department. I just thought I'd share some pictures of the event because it was certainly the most posh fundraising event I've ever been to. (Err, worked.) It was held on the stage of Sydney Theatre, our largest theatre. They made it snow in the theatre. I don't know if you can see from the pictures, but it was pretty amazing. Though I missed the snow as I was ushering people in, running acros...