ONE OF THE best parts of my job is watching the Gala Awards ceremony at The Special Event (see the winners on pages 22-36). It's wonderful to be in the audience as winners — the perennial pros and the newbies, the first-time entrants and the...
And the Gala Award goes to … The year's best event work was applauded at the annual Gala Awards ceremony, held Jan. 8 at The Special Event show in Miami. Here, Special Events Magazine presents the winners in 35 categories covering all facets of...
At a 1920s-theme dinner on Saturday night, Special Events Magazine named the winners of its 2004 Gala Awards, the most prestigious award in the event industry. The Gala Awards ceremony marked the end of The Special Event 2005 trade show, held in...
Once again, the Special Events Magazine Gala Awards judges have combed through hundreds of entries to find the best events in 35 categories covering all aspects of the event industry, from creative food design to show-stopping entertainment. On...
WHAT BETTER WAY to give preferred meetings clients a taste of your properties' culinary talents than by letting them experience your top toques in action? Such was the bright idea behind Festivex Special Events' “Iron Chef” theme dinner for client...
THEY MAY HAVE had a hometown advantage when it came to participating in Chicago's long-awaited Millennium Park inaugural gala. But, say staffers of 35-year-old Chicago event and concert production veteran JAM Productions and famed caterer Wolfgang...
A MILLION-PLUS bucks may seem a rather extravagant gift for your average birthday celebrant. But Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art is no average honoree. Likewise, the party celebrating MOCA's 25th year was not your typical anniversary gala...
WHEN IT COMES to keeping Montreal's biggest fund-raiser fresh, 55,000 daffodils will go only so far. Alison Silcoff, whose Montreal-based Alison Silcoff Events produces the Daffodil Ball for the Canadian Cancer Society, says original decor...
ALL RITA, EVERY YEAR. That's the theme scheme behind the annual Alzheimer's Association's Chicago Rita Hayworth Gala, which has been nominated for a Special Events Magazine Gala Award. The event honors the legendary movie star, who succumbed to...
WITH SO MUCH to celebrate — a new science building's grand opening, the creation of a scholarship, and the impending retirement of an esteemed university president — Jeannie Henderson knew that the University of San Diego's June gala would be both...
