At our upcoming benefit, you will have an opportunity to win a selection of beautiful items in our silent auction. Luxury accessories, including pieces from Hermes, Tiffany & Co, and Burberry are included, as well as tickets to numerous performances in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you enjoy dining, Barndiva, The City Club of San Francisco, and Absinthe Brasserie & Bar are represented. We also have a beautiful selection of wine, spirits, and tasting experiences to some of the area’s most exclusive wineries. For sports fans, we have memorabilia from the Golden State Warriors, the San Francisco Giants, and the Oakland Raiders, as well as an exclusive opportunity to golf at the Olympic Club. Other items include skincare products, spa treatments, home accessories, and specialty art.
Here are some of our favorite packages:
Cavallo Point Weekend
Cavallo Point is a charming resort located in Sausalito, CA on beautiful San Francisco Bay. With this stay, you can relax in a beautiful room located in a luxurious and elegant setting. Included is a one-night stay in a historic deluxe room and a tasting menu dinner for two, with wine pairing, at the Murray Circle Restaurant.
Value: $1000
San Francisco Art Deco Walking Tour
Ten people will join tour leader Fred Silverman to discover downtown San Francisco’s legacy of the Jazz Age through skyscrapers and office buildings from the roaring 1920s and early 1930s. You will also receive a bottle of Hartley & Gibson’s Dry Fino Sherry.
Value: $410
de Young Museum Admission and Docent Tour
Eight guests can enjoy either The Art of Bulgari: La Dolce Vita & Beyond, 1950-1990 or Modern Nature: Georgia O’Keefee and Lake George at the de Young Museum. Also included is a bottle of St. Supery Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 1998.
Value: $370
Opera Evening
Two tickets are included to a performance of your choice at the San Francisco Opera, followed by an exclusive half-hour tour before the performance or a tour during intermission. The tickets are wonderful and the backstage tour, typically reserved for major donors, makes this a rare opportunity to see experience SF Opera and see the performers and crew in action before the performance.
Value: Priceless!
Time with Kip Cranna
A two-hour afternoon with Kip Cranna, director of musical administration at SF Opera, for you and your friends is an exclusive opportunity to learn his viewpoint of new American opera. Kip will share first-hand, untold stories about premieres, personal insights about composers and librettists, and how words are transformed into music.
Value: Priceless!
Opera Revealed with Nicole Paiement
You will join Nicole Paiement, artistic director of Opera Parallèle in the orchestra pit for the final dress rehearsal of the 2013-14 season-opening production of Kurt Weill’s Mahagonny Songspiel.
Value: Priceless!
VELOCITY by Michele Sudduth
VELOCITY is a blast of color that accelerates your vision through foreground and background of hot and earthy colors. According to artist, Michele Sudduth, “Painting VELOCITY felt like assembling a jigsaw puzzle with one significant difference: with a jigsaw puzzle, the closer you get to completion, the easier it becomes to find the piece that fits. However, discovering the colors that fit VELOCITY became more complex as the painting progressed.”
Value: $1500
Landscape Design Consultation with Paul Woolford
This is an opportunity to have beautiful landscaping with HOK, a Bay Area leader for nearly 50 years and one of the most prestigious landscaping firms in the world. HOK’s mission is to deliver exceptional design ideas and solutions for their clients through the creative blending of human need, environmental stewardship, value creation, science and art.
Value: $4000