Bonaire Lions Club Sponsors Innovative Fundraiser for Bonaire Charities
The Bonaire Lions Club has come up with a creative idea to raise funds for the renovation of the Skol di Arte building, as well as for the Sosiedat Diabetiko Boneriano, and Drecha Kas, along with other pending Lions Club projects. Workshops will be held where prominent Bonaire citizens will make, with the assistance of local artists, their own signed works of art. These unique masterpieces will be then auctioned at a BBQ.
The workshops will be held at the Kas di Arte (Playa Pabou, on the seaside promenade) on January 17 and 18 starting at 5:30 PM. The exposition of these unique works of art will be from January 21 through 28, from 5:00 to 8:30 PM. The culminating auction will be held in conjunction with a BBQ on January 28, starting at 8:00 PM. Aimed Ayubi and Felix ("Papi") Cicilia will be the auctioneers.
The lucky participants (in alphabetical order) are: Boi Antoin, Jackie Bernabela, Elsmarie Beukenboom, Ramoncito Booi, Geraldine Dammers, George DeSalvo, Captain Don, Hector Daal, Herbert Domacasse, Richard Hart, Maarten Maartense, Evert Piar, Raymundo Saleh, George Soliana, Jan van der Straten, and Ernst Wesselius.
They will be assisted in their endeavors by the following local artists (in alphabetical order): Frans Booi, Renate van der Bijl, Nochi Coffie, Winfred Dania, Josephine Ebing, Ady Figaroa, Janice Huckaby, Erwin La Cruz, Nina Ledezma, Sedney Maarten, Germaine Nijdam, Henk Roozendaal, Rien van Silfhout, Marianne Sluizeman, Sipke Stapert/Dianir Rivas, and Eefje van Twillert.
Tickets for the BBQ and auction are now available for FL 50.00 per person ($28.08 per person USD) by calling or faxing 717-3015, or emailing to dickdisselbonaire@flamingotv.net. (Source: Bonaire Lions Club)
Note Update January 22, 2007: Photos of the art in progress, as well as the final masterpieces, are available on the Bonaire Insider Photo Gallery. To view the images, courtesy of Jackie Bernabella, click here.
Note Update January 29, 2007: As a final note on this event, the top three selling entries were as follows:
1) Evert Piar (Director of MCB Bank) with his painting, “Bonaire is not for sale"--Sold for NAFl 3000.00 (USD $1685)
2) Captain Don (Environmentalist and Activist) with his painting “Bonaire on the cover of Time magazine in Dec’ 07"--Sold for NAFl 3000.00 (USD $1685)
3) Gezaghebber Herbert Domacassé’ painting of Bonaire “Together with Holland we can make it"--Sold for NAFl 2800.00 (USD $1573)
