(Back row l-r) Kylie Grimmer,
Rosanne Diamente, Beatrice Walker, (front row l-r) Tata Renata Cinelli, Sopa
Mocny, Michelle Brinker and Bronwyn Carey.
The Rayong-Pattaya Ladies Circle (RLC) in cooperation with
Women With A Mission (WMM) organised their first charity dinner dance at the
Hard Rock Hotel Pattaya Beach, Hall of Fame on Saturday 2nd November. The event
is the club’s biggest fundraiser of the year and over 210 members and guests
were in attendance. This spectacular evening also brought many onlookers on the
Red Carpet as well as during the performance shows in the main hall.
The purpose of this endeavor was to throw a fabulous party while raising funds
for the very worthy causes supported by WWM, which is a private voluntary
organisation based in Pattaya. WWM’s original mission was providing food and
shelter for displaced Tsunami victims. They have since expanded to working with
local families with disabilities in the Chonburi region, and providing shelter,
education and meals for children at risk under their Nourish, Educate and Care
programs.
Aubrey Arms and EG Brubaker enjoy a
great event.
To ‘sparkle like a starlet and party like a rock star’ was
the aim and the theme of the evening. The guests wholeheartedly took up the
challenge with the ladies dressed in all their finery and glitzy ball gowns and
the gentleman in their dinner suits. The venue was decorated to suit the
occasion and many thanks go to RLC’s own Renata (Tata) Cordiero Cinelli and also
to Patra Vichakanalun (GodD) and her staff at the Hard Rock Hotel for a
brilliant effort.
The Red Carpet was laid out and the local Paparazzi and onlookers were anxiously
awaiting the arrival of the guests. The Guests duly arrived and the party
started with champagne being served in the reception area of the ballroom.
During this time everyone took the opportunity of having their photographs taken
in front of a prepared photo-shoot backcloth, with the photographs being
prepared during the evening for everyone to take home.
During the reception the guests were able to view displays of art by Ingrid van
der Hayden and a dress collection by designer Erika Ernst for ZuckerBraun, both
from Pattaya.
Chris Parsons, who is well known in the local community, acted as MC for the
evening and welcomed all guests. Then he introduced Transfigure, a spectacular
Art Performance Show, which was a collaboration between Ingrid and Erika
(ZuckerBraun), which exclusively presented the dress collection specially
designed for the event. Combining colour, shape and the human body leads to
human sculpture and the show brought a new dimension of art and fashion through
a common denominator “Creation”. The guests thoroughly enjoyed the display and
showed their appreciation to the artists and the professional models at the end.
Tata Renata Cinelli and Godd from
Hard Rock Hotel give some red carpet smiles.
Following the delicious international buffet, Kylie Grimmer,
Bronwyn Carey and Rosanne Diamente, took the stage and thanked the events’
generous sponsors who included American Axle Manufacturing, Caterpillar
Incorporated, Glow Companies and The Regents International School, Pattaya. The
RLC committee and event organisers (Sopa Mocny, Beatrice Walker, Tata Cinelli,
and Michelle Brinker) then joined WWM on stage.
RLC’s President Sopa Mocny thanked her fellow organisers, the Hard Rock Hotel,
the event project manager and friend of RLC, David Harfield, the Emcee
Extraordinaire Chris Parsons, the numerous volunteers and contributors and all
the guests for coming together to create such a magnificent night. Sopa then
expressed her gratitude for everything that WWM does for the community of
disadvantaged in her native country and vowed continued support to the
hardworking women of WWM.
Dancers from Steps & Rhythms Dance
Academy lead the guests in Zumba.
RLC then presented the biggest of cheques (literally), for
B280,000 to WWM as their donation of funds raised solely by the Red Carpet
event!
There was much fun with the presentations of the Pattaya Oscars, and some great
“lucky seat” prizes for the evening which were provided by local businesses,
Mermaids Dive Shop in Jomtien, Pullman Pattaya Hotel, Amari Orchard Pattaya,
Fairtex Sports Club, Foodland, Coco’s Bar, Planet Football and The Hard Rock
Hotel.
Stephanie Moorhouse’s Steps & Rhythm Dance Academy performed a variety of
exciting and fun dances including a hot Bachatango, Zumba, Bollywood, Cumbia,
Salsa Shine and finishing with the sensual and sexy Argentine Tango. It was
fabulous to see the Zumba performed by guests from the evening after a quick
change of costume.
To conclude the evening, Chris Parsons introduced Harpic Bryant and the Band of
Smiles who played the evening out with their own brand of music. The band was
eventually joined by Pattaya’s very own Kerry-Anne Randall and later Wiki
Hamilton. The dance floor was packed all night long! It was a spectacular
evening out that included art, fashion, music, good food, good wine and plenty
to talk about the day after! Lots of fun was had for a very worthy cause.
The sultry tango was a big hit with
dance fans.
Fashion designer Erika Ernst of
ZukerBraun paraded her collection designed especially for the event.
Guests arrived at the event all
dressed to the nines.
Pattaya Oscars were presented to the
most worthy.
