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Mardi Gras Benefit Masquerade Ball

The Lower Eastside Girls Club invites you to join us at our festivities and pageants arranged for your amusement. Come as your most splendiferous self, for the crowning of the Lower East Side King and Queen of the Ball! The gloom of winter will most certainly be banished from our realm!

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16th!

7:00pm to Midnight

Element

225 EAST HOUSTON ST @ ESSEX ST / AVENUE A

You must be 21 and over to enter
 
 
TICKETS

Pay $30 at the door.

Includes open rum and vodka bar sponsored by Teany from 7:00 - 8:00 pm.

3 for $10 raffle tickets: win VIP tickets for 2 to Tom Petty's summer show at MSG, gifts from Regina Spektor and more!

$22 ADVANCE TICKETS also available at select Two Boots locations:
  • 3rd Street and Avenue A
  • Grand Street and Suffolk
  • Bleecker Street between Lafayette and Broadway
  • And at Celebrate Cafe, 308 Bowery @ 1st Street.
$125 VIP tix also available at alliance@girlsclub.org or 212-982-1633 x 107

Presented by our friends at:
Two Boots
 
With help from:
Teany

Special thanks to:
MNE
 
Bowery

 
INVITATIONS
  • FACEBOOK INVITE HERE
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Mardi Gras

Special thanks to Nicolina Johnson for designing the above poster. Signed copies will be available at the event. All proceeds will be donated to Haiti Relief.

 
EVENT INFO
  
Proceeds will benefit the Lower Eastside Girls Club and two other groups we admire: The Batey Relief Alliance (Haiti) http://www.bateyrelief.org/ and the YA/YAs (New Orleans) http://www.yayainc.com/.
 
Lower East Side Queen: CuCu Diamantes
Lower East Side King: Jonathan Ames

Crowning of the Mardi Gras King and Queen at 11:30pm!
 
Live music by Loose Marbles from New Orleans and NYC’s own Hungry March Band

DJ Johnny Dynell and special guest DJs TBA

Live painting and interactive installation by the Free Arts Society

Masks and costumes encouraged!
 
 
PRESS
 
 
 
EVENT CONTACT
 
To find out more and to join the host committee email the Angel Alliance Coordinator at alliance@girlsclub.org
 
 
HOST COMMITTEE
in formation:
 
Kate Ballengee
Stephanie Bargas
Lauren Berkley
Elizabeth Binder
Mickey Boardman
Jennifer Booze
Rebecca Babcock Bradley
Makena Cahill
Sierra Carrère
Amy DeRobertis
Jaclyn Einis
Abrima Erwiah
Elizabeth A. Frank
Jen Gatien
Xochitl Gonzalez
Phil Hartman
Nicolina Johnson
Katrina Monzon
Erin Mulvey
Carrie Panzer
Jennifer Parks
Adria Petty
Caryl Ratner
Raquel Resendiz
Laura Rogers
Jennifer Rubin
Niki Russ Federman
Kat Thomsen
Juli Tolleson
Celestina Villanueva
Emily Pate Voss
Ford West
Raymond Western
Lenny Williams
Christina Witoshkin
 
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
 
Barry Berg
Julia Cheiffetz
Susan Munoz
Lyn Pentecost 
Steve Perricone
Harish Rao
Mary Spink
Lindsay Tucker

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