Event Date:
Monday, May 11, 2009 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Cooking or Gourmet
Fundraiser
Gala or Ball
Fashion
MONDAY, May 11
Heart of America "Sweet Charity" Chocolate Fashion Show
Mandarin Oriental
1330 Maryland Avenue, SW
6pm-9pm
Tickets: $95-$115
http://www.heartofamerica.org/special_events.htm
Silent and Live Auction: 6pm-8pm
Dress: Business
At the event:
Emcees: Leon Harris, ABC7/WJLA-TV News & WTOP’s “Man About Town” Bob Madigan
Ken Harvey, selected recipient of the 2009 Hero of the Heart Award
Chocolate Fashion Show with celebrity models
More than forty award-winning chefs
Sweet & savory tasting stations
Mind-bending chocolate sculptures
Silent auction (including sports memorabilia, wine, food, theater tickets, etc.)
Sweet Charity is a benefit organized to help The Heart of America Foundation’s® Books from the HeartSM program. The program provides books for disadvantaged children with little or nothing to read. Sweet Charity was created and is co-hosted by Albert Uster Imports, an importer and distributor of fine gourmet foods. The proceeds from ticket sales and silent auction will help replenish under-resourced libraries and classrooms in the greater Washington region.
In 2008 more than 60 participating chefs actively applied Albert Uster Imports chocolate to design fanciful chocolate fashions. Models and their clothing were decorated predominantly with chocolate, a metaphor for every child’s sweetness and innate potential.