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Wildflower Gala

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Mark your calendar for Austin’s first Green Gala, May 1, 2009. This year’s Wildflower Center Gala and Silent Art Auction will be an elegant, eco-friendly fundraising event to showcase the Wildflower Center’s beautiful gardens and our leadership work in environmental sustainability through the use of native plants.

The theme of this year’s gala is Shades of Green: Celebrating Environmental Sustainability. Lady Bird Johnson’s granddaughters, Nicole Covert and Catherine Robb, will serve as honorary co-chairs of the event. You may purchase tables at $25,000, $10,000 or $5,000, or individual tickets at $2500, $1000 or $500. Donations and expense underwriting are also welcome.

The Silent Art Auction features "the art in nature," and showcases the artworks of 60 of the regions finest artists.

For this year’s Green Gala, we will expand our sustainable practices to show by example how to have an elegant, fun evening and protect the environment in the process by:

• Using Forest Stewardship Council certified printers,
• Renting all furniture, linens and tableware,
• Using potted native plants for décor,
• Using energy efficient lighting,
• Using electronic messaging,
• Encouraging alternative transportation,
• Recycling all cans, bottles, plastic, paper and corks,
• Composting all organic material, and
• Serving locally grown, organic, in-season food.

Your dollars make a difference! This event provides much of the annual funding that is so critical to the Wildflower Center’s operations, and our ability to pursue real environmental solutions to advance our sustainability agenda.