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Friday, December 8th, 7pm
Dundas Valley School of Art
2nd Floor, 21 Ogilvie Street, Dundas, ON
Admission is Free. Raffle tickets available at the event.
Once again, this event will be held on the Second Floor Studio Loft at the Dundas Valley School of Art, located at
21 Ogilvie Street in Dundas, Ontario . This unique venue will host artists, architects, landscape architects and designers who have created houses in the spirit of the gingerbread house in order to support Hamilton's homeless community.
As well as the raffle, the gala evening will also have a live music and a live auction component that promises to be very exciting. Once again, The Valley Gourmet has generously donated the food for the event. Please come out and join us.
For general inquiries contact:
Design Hope
15 Foundry St.
Dundas, ON L9H 2V6
tel 905-628-1500
For media inquiries contact:
Dan Medakovic
tel 905-628-9127
dmedakovic2@cogeco.ca
Design Hope 2005
For the third consecutive year, transit gallery
owners,
Priti Kohli & David Brace will contribute a
piece to the annual
fundraiser, Design Hope.
Usually, architects make buildings and houses.
In Hamilton there is a group of architects who
are trying to contribute to the shocking lack of
architecture—shelter for the homeless.
This
socially conscious group of designers from
competing firms, has come together to form
Design Hope, a project that raises awareness of
and funds for homelessness. Design Hope has
given nearly $88,000, to Hamilton’s Out
of-the-Cold program, a rotating homeless shelter
and kitchen that operates during the coldest
months of winter. Design Hope recruits nearly 20
prominent architects, landscape designers and
artists to create sculpture-houses that are
raffled off at an annual benefit.
Design
Hope grew out of architectural firm Vermeulen
Hind’s annual gingerbread house building party.
Partner Chris Harrison and his spouse Cheryl
Paterson brought home their gingerbread
creation, suddenly mindful of the needs of
others, who didn’t have gingerbread, mantels or
even a home. So they had the idea to recruit
others to make small sculptural houses and raise
money by selling raffle tickets at a big benefit
and collecting donations from building-related
companies supported by the architectural
community.
Funds
collected from the annual Design Hope campaign
enable community churches to carry on the
important work of fighting poverty and
homelessness by helping vulnerable children,
families, seniors and people with disabilities
to have a hot meal and shelter for the evening.
Last year, the money raised by Design Hope
helped Hamilton Out-of-the-Cold to serve 12,675
guests, and gave 1,420 people a warm place to
sleep.
Due to
the growing number of attendees, the Design Hope
2005 Gala event will be held on the Second Floor
Studio Loft at Dundas Valley School of Art,
located at 21 Ogilvie Street in Dundas, Ontario.
This unique venue will host artists, architects,
landscape architects and designers who have
created houses in the spirit of the gingerbread
house, in order to support Hamilton’s homeless
community. This year, as well as the raffle, the
gala evening will also have a live auction
component that promises to be very exciting.
Once again, The Valley Gourmet has generously
donated the food for the event. Please come out
and join us.
Visit the
Design Hope website
for updates leading up to the December 9,
2005 Gala Evening at the Carnegie Gallery,
Dundas. For additional information about Design
Hope 2005 and ways that you can contribute and
get the word out, please contact:
Design Hope
15 Foundry St.
Dundas, ON L9H 2V6
tel 905-628-1500
Media contact:
Cheryl Paterson
Tel
905-628-0118,
charrison85@cogeco.ca
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