‘Night of Hearts’
tickets available

for show

TICKETS FOR the ‘‘Night
of Hearts’’ dinner and
dance taking place at the
Harbourview Room of the
Vancouver Trade and Con-
vention Centre tonight are
still available.

Proceeds from the event will
help support Ronald McDonald
House, which is a home away
from home for families of
children who are undergoing
treatment for cancer at Vancouver
area hospitals.

The Vancouver House was
opened at 4116 Angus Dr. on Oct.
4, 1983. More than 100 such
houses are in operation in North
America.

Although McDonald’s Restau-

tonight

tants provide the initial funds for
the local house program, once
completed, each house is owned
and operated by a_ non-profit
organization. In Vancouver, this is
the Children’s Family House
Society of B.C.

Organizers say the theme for
the dinner and dance is ‘‘a little
bit of France,’’ with the sights
and sounds and romance of Paris.

The black tie event will include
dinner, dancing, entertainment,
prizes and surprizes. The grand
prize is airfare for two to Paris.

Tickets cost $150 per person
and are available until 3 p.m. to-
day by calling 736-2957. Official
tax receipts for the amount of
$100 per person will be issued
automatically.

Arts celebration combines
carnival atmosphere with
artistic experimentation

HOW DO you throw the
ultimate party? Just ask
Odette Jobidon. She’s been

organizing and hosting them’

since 1985.

Over the years her guests have
been treated to everything from
fire-eaters to bag-pipers. Some-
‘one described what they saw as a
scene from a Fellini movie.

' Ty It’s. Painters and ‘Players, a
‘Vancouver © arts. celebration that
combines the ‘spectacle of carnival
with. artistic experimentation in a
single: evening.” As local painters
put.brush to canvas, working in
watercolor, oil and multi-media,
entertainers perform simulta-
neously. -

. This Sunday’s extravaganza
features 20 painters, including
North Shore artists Ferguson

~ says Jobidon,
-modore Ballroom becomes a
. Stage.’”

Neville, Elizabeth Smily, Sally

. Milan, and a list of entertainers

such as Babayaga String Quartet
and the son ‘of Mandrake the
Magician, Lon Mandrake, who
will perform on a bed of nails.

During the show party-goers
will come across 20 or so human
scuiptures as well.

“It’s a multi-disciplinary,
multi-level artistic performance,’’
‘*The entire Com-

She says it takes a crew of more
than 100 volunteers to pull the
event off.

This year’s Valentine gala
begins at 8 p.m. at the Com-
modore Ballroom. At 1! p.m., the
pieces created by the painters will
be auctioned off.

Tickets are $22.

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