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Oct 20, 2024 | 
hautelivingsf.com | Drew Altizer |Actor Profiles
It was a star-studded party the lucky guests won’t soon forget, as Glenn Close welcomed supporters–and some of her best celebrity friends–to a fundraiser for her mental health nonprofit Bring Change to Mind (BC2M). This year the annual Revels & Revelations Benefit was held on World Mental Health Day, October 10. The event raised over $1 million to support teen mental health, and featured lively entertainment, heartfelt conversations and more than a few inspirational moments.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
hautelivingsf.com | Drew Altizer |Actor Profiles
The Human Needs Project (HNP) celebrated its 10th anniversary on Wednesday, October 2 at Fort Mason in San Francisco, raising critical funds to support its work in Kibera. Kibera is a division of Nairobi, Kenya, and the largest urban slum in Africa. Hosted by acclaimed actress Connie Nielsen, an HNP founder, the evening was a spectacular tribute to HNP’s decade-long impact, blending philanthropy, music and community engagement.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
acleddata.com | Héni Nsaibia |Actor Profiles
A series of military coups in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger in recent years have transformed military dynamics in the region, shifting bilateral assistance from traditional Western partners like France and the United States to Russia, through mercenaries from the Wagner Group and its successor, Africa Corps.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
hautelivingsf.com | Drew Altizer |Actor Profiles |Haute Scenes
The historic Vogue movie theatre in Presidio Heights was the scene for a gathering of proud, born-and-bred San Franciscans showing up in support of a home-grown piece of cinema: the San Francisco Premiere of the award-winning feature film Jaunt by SF native Alexi Papalexopoulos.
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
hautelivingsf.com | Drew Altizer |Actor Profiles |Haute Scenes
San Francisco Opera presented the U.S. premiere of Innocence, the final opera by the late Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, on Saturday, June 1. The work which follows the survivors and victims’ families ten years after a mass shooting incident at an international school has won wide acclaim in Europe and was proclaimed “a masterpiece” by the New York Times.
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May 14, 2024 | 
hautelivingsf.com | Drew Altizer |Actor Profiles |Haute Scenes
Tipping Point’s annual Benefit blew away expectations by drawing nearly 1,000 guests to the event at the Mission District’s Skylight at The Armory. On May 2, assembled friends and community members came together to raise over $14.5 million in one evening. Every dollar Tipping Point’s donors give goes directly to innovative poverty-fighting organizations and programs in the Bay Area.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
hautelivingsf.com | Drew Altizer |Actor Profiles |Haute Scenes
181 Fremont celebrated the art of actress Sharon Stone with an exclusive reception at the gallery on April 10th. Surrounded by 18 never-before-shown paintings, reception guests got to witness a wide-ranging conversation between Stone and 181 Fremont’s Matt Lituchy. Titled “My Eternal Failure,” the collection explores the power of confronting vulnerability, and is partly inspired by Stone’s life in San Francisco.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
hautelivingsf.com | Drew Altizer |Actor Profiles |Haute Scenes
April 19 was a starry night, as global research program Part the Cloud welcomed celebrities like actress and Suits star Sarah Rafferty, Grammy Award-winning pianist and composer Jon Batiste and retired US soccer player Brandi Chastain to benefit Alzheimer’s and dementia research. A sold out crowd of over 300 guests gathered in Woodside for cocktails, dinner and a live performance of jazz standards from Batiste.
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
hautelivingsf.com | Drew Altizer |Actor Profiles |Haute Scenes
California State Governor Gavin Newsom joined filmmakers Geoff Callan & Mike Shaw for this landmark screening celebrating two decades of same-sex unions and marriage equality. An exclusive anniversary film screening event, sponsored by Salesforce, took place on February 1st at the historic Castro Theatre in San Francisco.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
hautelivingsf.com | Drew Altizer |Actor Profiles |Haute Scenes
181 Fremont’s Gallery 181 was the setting for a spectacular new exhibition of photographs by renowned photographer Timothy White. White’s portraits of celebrity entertainers in music and entertainment spans forty years and includes rarely seen images of Audrey Hepburn, JayZ, Al Pacino, Robin Williams and others.
