Fireball: Russian Heat

One steamy night!

Fireball 2009 was a sold out event and this year we are turning up the heat with a Russian inspired theme. Escape into the world of Russian Heat with an all inclusive evening of food, entertainment and much more!

The Party

Fireball brings together over 500 of the city’s movers and shakers to the Capitol Event Theatre for a steamy night on the town. Guests are invited to sip on cocktails, indulge in oysters on the half shell, enjoy Russian inspired delicacies, bid on sizzling silent auction items and test lady luck at the raffle. The dance floor moves and grooves all night long and is awash with red-clad guests keeping rhythm with the DJ. This year it’s guaranteed to be the hottest ticket in town celebrating Russian Heat!

The Cause

Fireball’s goal is to raise much needed funds for Sheena’s Place; a non-profit organization providing support for men and women affected by eating disorders. Since its inception in 1999, Fireball has raised over $850,000 net for programs at Sheena’s Place.

Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Over 15% of people with anorexia will die from complications related to their disorder. With only 20 publicly funded beds and limited private inpatient beds wait times can range from 6 months to over a year.

When

Saturday, November 6th, 2010
8 pm ’til Late.

Where

The Capitol Event Theatre.
2492 Yonge Street. map

How much

$120/ticket until October 24th
$150/ticket October 24 onward and at the door
(ticket prices include HST)

What else

Dress to impress. Tickets go on sale on Monday, September 6! This event is restricted to those who are 19 years or older. Tickets are non-refundable.

Raffle ($10/raffle ticket)

Raffle Draw will be held November 7th, at 12:00 am at the Capitol Event Theatre. Winners will be posted November 10th on the Fireball Website. Details

http://www.sheenasplace.org/fireball/details.html

Carnival in August

Last Days of Summer!

Join us for a fun night out on August 31^st.

To celebrate the final days of summer we are hosing a night out at Spacco. Join us for appetizers and free pool, as well as live Samba dances.

Also with the mayoral election around the corner Rocco Rossi will attend. With  the election only months away we wanted to provide people the opportunity to meet one of many candidates running for Mayor.

Date: AUG.31st 2010
Time: 8 PM – 11 PM
Location: SPACCO RESTUARANT & BILLIARD  BAR
2415 YONGE STREET, TORONTO ON
Theme: Enjoy a night of Samba music with Appetizers, Free Pool and a Samba Brazilian Performance
Ticket: $10 at the door

Three Wacky Lenzr Photo Contests END July 1st

There are three equally fascinating and wonderfully diverse photo contests on Lenzr this month. The prizes are every bit as imaginative as the themes, and voting on images is entertainment. Take a look at the serial photo contest website for amusement, if nothing else.  Lenzr is the place where the membership decides who wins the prize. Go here to marvel at the creative submissions that have already been added to the index, and the generosity of the prizes… Ask yourself, which photo will win? Which photo do I want to win?

The 50 Going On 15 photo contest is downright absurd, and so is the prize.

The 50 Going On 15 photo contest on Lenzr will reward the member that uploaded the highest rated photo with over 50 lbs of dark chocolate as a prize!

This challenge is sponsored by an emerging baby boomer magazine for people over 50 in Toronto. The content is written by and for fifty year old people living in this great city.

Winning this contest might be more of a curse than a blessing esp if you are a woman over 50 and trying to lose weight.  You can read more about this over 50 magazine sponsor and prize on the Lenzr blog.

Crowded Places might just give people a new reason to appreciate traffic jams.

A highly respectable Toronto web developer is generously offering a Blackberry curve phone as prize in the crowded places photo contest on Lenzr.

The contest asks crowd photographers and budding anthropologists to submit shots of large gatherings of people, and use the caption to tell stories.  A Lenzr photo contest can be decided by the quality of the story hook in the caption, as often as the quality of the photography itself, which tends to be wonderfully amateur, raw and inspired.

The Portable Luxury contest is also kinda weird. The theme asks for images of the handiest conveniences you can take with you on the run. The Portable Luxury photo contest on Lenzr is looking for exceptional storyfull pictures that highlight things you could stuff in a knapsack that would make you feel more at home wherever you end up in the world – basically how do you move your comfort zone?

The theme is certain to glimpse hand-held conveniences and inventions that nicely define the differences between humans from animals. Beautiful expensive jewellery will no doubt be popular, but also advanced tech gadgets. And a thermos full of expensive coffee, anyone?

The prize is a Las Vegas vacation for two people courtesy of the contest sponsor, a portable toilet rentals company that’s arranged to provide airfare and hotel accommodation for two people for three days and two nights in Las Vegas.

Lenzr admin hopes the winner will be generous with photos and stories of the adventure in Las Vegas, for the Lenzr blog.

Must be over 18 to enter and win this contest, and you must be Canadian and unfortunately Lenzr photo contests are still not translated into French language and therefore still not available in Quebec.

What happened last month? There is a full chronology of who won what contests on Lenzr? last month written up in the Lenzr blog on site.

Backyard Party Events was a rather queer web challenge because the actual photo contest sponsor won, and yes… that’s allowed. Or at least there is no rule against it. But don’t go thinking it was deliberate or that it was a mistake because it wasn’t… It wasn’t a mistake because his photo was really terrific.

John Kenyon the marketing director at Absolute Tent and Event Services actually won his own company’s Lenzr photo contest. But of course he yielded to second place, because the last thing he needs is another $500 gift certificate or a 10×10 pop up tent. And he admits, that he yielded because of the strength of the second place submission, which was his personal favourite picture uploaded to the entire online event.

But Instead of hogging the company’s generous prize for himself, John gave it to a member named ‘Sausma’, (2nd place photographer) for a picture she submitted called ‘He Really Nailed That Pig’.

Here’s Sandra Ausma the 2nd place contestant standing beside John Kenyon in front of the loading dock at Absolute Tent and Event Services at 185 Eastern avenue in Toronto.

Sandra’s photo was excellent; she totally deserves the 10×10 pop-up tent, and the $500 gift certificate to be spent on anything and everything this unique Toronto party rentals warehouse stocks.

Thanks everyone who participated in this Lenzr photo contest.