By Hazel Afroilan
The summer has started and so has the planning for the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame's second Silent Auction and Cocktail Party. As one of four DePaul students interning at the CLHOF this summer, I’m excited to help plan an even more successful and brilliant affair than last year’s inaugural event, which was CLHOF’s best fundraiser to date.
The primary goal of the evening is of course to raise money, but the evening is also meant to celebrate literature and the arts.
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| One of Hilton's canvas painting hung at the Hilton/Asmus Contemporary art gallery. |
Guests will be able to bid on items from first-edition books to vacation homes to dinners with local celebrities.
Money raised at the event will help fund the third annual induction ceremony; our newly-formed Chicago Book Club; events to honor inductees like Cyrus Colter, Langston Hughes, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright, and Jane Addams; our sculpture project for the inaugural induction class; prizes to school-age Chicago writers; and much more.
This blog serves to keep our followers up-to-date on the details of the silent auction, including features on donations and donors, upon whose generosity the whole evening hinges.
We will offer Buy-It-Now options on select items—available only to our newsletter contacts. We’ll give details on that as we start to post donations to the blog.
Tickets are now on sale at: http://clhofsilentauction.eventbrite.com/
Check back often.
Hazel Afroilan is a junior at DePaul University majoring in English and minoring in art history. She is currently interning at the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame and is leading the organization of this upcoming event. Afroilan is interested in creative writing, literature and the arts. Writing is something she humbly appreciates and learns from everyday and is taking advantage of the opportunity CLHOF has given her. Originally from a small suburb in Maryland, Afroilan has fallen in love with the city of Chicago and its expansive literary traditions.
Hazel Afroilan is a junior at DePaul University majoring in English and minoring in art history. She is currently interning at the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame and is leading the organization of this upcoming event. Afroilan is interested in creative writing, literature and the arts. Writing is something she humbly appreciates and learns from everyday and is taking advantage of the opportunity CLHOF has given her. Originally from a small suburb in Maryland, Afroilan has fallen in love with the city of Chicago and its expansive literary traditions. 