PALM BEACH’S WILDEST NIGHT CELEBRATING THE PALM BEACH ZOO BORN TO BE WILD DINNER DANCE SELLS OUT AND RAISES NEARLY $1 MILLION

PALM BEACH (January 30, 2012) – The Breakers Palm Beach was crawling with the wild and woolly Friday night, January 20, but the colorful two-legged critters were not in cages. They were the party animals attending the Palm Beach Zoo Born To Be Wild Dinner Dance.

"Born to Be Wild" was the theme of Palm Beach’s wildest night, chaired this year by Lillian Fernandez, Karin Luter and Carol Mack with Whitney Wood Bylin and Thomas C. Quick serving as Event Chairmen and Samantha Storkerson as Auction Chair.

Palm Beach Zoo President Andrew Aiken reported that the party at The Breakers sold out and raised close to $1,000,000,000 thanks in no small part to the efforts of generous sponsors and underwriters.

The nearly 500 guests had the opportunity to sidle up with the animals in the hotel courtyard during cocktails and bid on luxury items after dinner with legendary auctioneer, Jamie Niven of Sotheby’s making the call-outs. After the successful auction, revelers danced the night away to Heatwave who had the entire party on the dance floor.

The theme for the 2012 event was a most appropriate choice honoring the arrival of the three Malayan tiger cubs born in May. Last year, the Palm Beach Zoo was one of only two institutions to successfully breed Malayan tigers. In Partnership with Panthera and the Wildlife Conservation Society through their Tigers Forever project, The Palm Beach Zoo is proud to be a part of a global effort to help protect tigers and their habitat.

Tigers are nearly gone and three subspecies of tigers are already extinct. The worldwide wild tiger population has dropped from more than 100,000 in 1900 to fewer than 3,200 today. The World Wildlife Fund estimates that at the current rate of decline, tigers will be extinct within a generation.

Host Committee members included: Mr. and Mrs. Kane Baker, Ms. Lavinia Baker, Mr. Donald Burns and Gregory Connors, Mrs. Kim K. Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Roberto de Guardiola, Mr. and Mrs. J. Pepe Fanjul, Jr., Mrs Tina Fanjul, Mr. and Mrs. James Fifield, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Freitas, Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Gannon, Mr. and Mrs. Rick Goldsmith, Mrs. Robert M. Grace, Mrs. Martin D. Gruss, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Busch Hager, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. William Hamm, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kessler, Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Lamb, Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Malloy, Mrs. Talbott Maxey, Mr. and Mrs. Dale McNully, Mr. and Mrs. James Meany, Mr. Stephen Myers, Mrs. William Pitt, Ms. Patricia Quick, Ms. Tiffany Reborn, Mr. and Mrs. John Raese, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ramos, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Rooney, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Ross, Mrs. Frances Scaife, and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Van der Grift.

Proceeds from Born To be Wild will help the zoo to advance its mission to protect wildlife and wildlife habitat, and to inspire others to value and conserve the natural world.

The Palm Beach Zoo has become a national leader in conservation and endangered species survival and is committed to the highest professional standards of animal care, providing high quality exhibits and facilities that sustain its growing collection of wildlife. Since 1969, the Palm Beach Zoo has been a place where children can participate in an open-air classroom of living creatures while fostering an awareness, appreciation, and respect for animals. The Palm Beach Zoo is one of the largest educational institutions in Palm Beach County, reaching more than 100,000 individuals over the past year alone. The Palm Beach zoo is home to more than 1,400 animals and is nationally accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). For more information on the zoo, please visit www.palmbeachzoo.org.

For more information on this topic or to schedule an interview, please contact: Linda Soper by emailing: linda@lindalanemarketing.com or calling 612.308.4159.

Photos Courtesy of: Lucien Capehart Photography

Karin Luter and Whitney Bylin

ARTIST DANIEL BOTTERO FEATURED IN QUEST

Artist Daniel Bottero and his prized artwork can now be seen in the January issue of Quest Magazine now on newsstand. To read more, check out the below:

The artist, a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, graduated from the National School of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires. Upon graduation, Bottero moved to Italy where he earned his Master’s Degree at the Academia Italiana di Belle Arti in Lucca, Italy and then moved to Paris where he resided from 1986 to 1990. Bottero moved to the U.S. in 1990 and has called the U.S. home ever since. Living and working between New York and Miami, Bottero has now opened a showroom in Palm Beach.

Bottero’s modernist works are featured in the corporate collections of Citibank, Xerox, Avon, Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan Chase Bank and are a part of many private collections including those of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Dan Marino, Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Isaac Mizrahi, Al Pacino, Steven Segal, Mark Shriver, and Oscar de la Hoya. In addition, Bottero has exhibited at several famous museums throughout the world and several paintings have been featured at both Sotheby’s and Christie’s auction houses in New York.

ANNUAL BOAR’S HEAD FESTIVAL RETURNS TO BETHESDA-BY-THE-SEA, JANUARY 8, 2012

A Perennial Holiday Favorite returns with the Boar's Head and Yule Log Festival at The Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach Sunday, January 8, 2012 with performances at 2:30 and 4:30 PM. The festival presents a medieval London Lord Mayor's Boar's Head banquet, complete with Beefeaters, Palm Beach Pipes & Drums, Lords & Ladies, strolling singers, instrumentalists, sprites, shepards, huntsmen, pages, jesters, dancers, and parishioners. With over 160 cast members, the performance is a re-enactment of the sacred songs and telling of the Christmas and Epiphany story, carrying forth the light of Christ's birth to all people.

An epiphany is a revelation and a climax of the Advent/Christmas Season. The Twelve Days of Christmas are usually counted from the evening of December 25th until the morning of January 6th, which is the Twelfth Day. Western churches celebrate the Epiphany season as it marks the moment when the Three Kings arrived in Bethlehem to deliver gifts to Christ, therefore revealing to the world that he was the Lord. The Boar’s Head is a mixture of old English and Christian tradition where favorite Christmas Carols, fantastic costumes and performances celebrate the joy of the holiday season and the Twelve Days of Christmas.

WHAT: Bethesda-by-the-Sea’s Annual Boar's Head and Yule Log Festival.

WHERE: The Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, located at 141 South Country Road at Barton Avenue, Palm Beach (just south of The Breakers Hotel)

WHEN: Sunday, January 8th, 2:30 PM and again at 4:30 PM

TICKETS: Seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis. A suggested donation of $15 will be collected at the door

INFO: www.bbts.org or by calling 561-655-4554

The History of the Boar’s Head Festival:

An ancient legend serves as the basis for this Festival: an Oxford University student, while strolling in the forest reading the works of Aristotle, was charged by a wild and raging boar. The student, quick thinking, thrust his volume of Aristotle into the throat of the boar, putting an end to this deadly threat.

After the telling of this tale, the head of the boar was borne into a feast at Oxford. The celebration for the student's life came to represent the overcoming of brute force with reason. When the Church adapted the Festival, it gained a new, profoundly Christian significance: the boar's head, symbolic representation of evil, is overcome by good through the teachings of Christ (symbolized by light). Thus, Christ becomes the snare for evil.

The Festival we know today originated at Queen's College, Oxford, England in 1340. By 1607 an expansive ceremony was in use at St. John's College, Cambridge, England. The boar's head was decorated with flags and greenery sprigs to be carried in state to the strains of the Boar's Head carol. The Festival included lords, ladies, knights, historical characters, cooks, hunters, pages, Yule log, plum pudding and mince pie. Eventually, Good King Wenceslas, shepherds and wise men were added to tell the Nativity story. Persecuted French Huguenot Protestants who had learned this custom while exiled in England brought this ceremony to colonial America near Troy, New York. In 1888 a descendent established this ceremony at the Hoosac Episcopal School. Here Rev. Burroughs first saw it. He brought it to Cincinnati in 1939 and gave it a church setting. From a light and mellow celebration, it has evolved to a profoundly moving experience, for participants and spectators alike.

If you would like more information on this topic or to schedule an interview, please call Linda Soper at (612) 308-4159 or email: linda@lindalanemarketing.com.

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