Sundance auction bidding online through Sept. 5
CAMP Rehoboth is responding to the unprecedented needs of the community by turning its Sundance event virtual with a United in Love celebration, fundraiser and community-building experience culminating the evening of Saturday, Sept. 5.
A key part of Sundance is the popular auction, and this year, attendees will be able to browse at their leisure and bid online from the comfort of their homes.
To view and bid on items before 8 p.m., Sept. 5, go to www.camprehoboth.com.
Items up for auction cover a wide range of categories and price levels, so there is something for everyone. In the Home and Hearth category, bidders can consider a deluxe wine cooler refrigerator that can be freestanding or built-in and holds 31 bottles of champagne or wine donated by Natalie Moss, an elegant Marcel charcoal shagreen lamp donated from Ocean Furniture, a Beatriz Ball Anchor bowl with coordinating silver lacquer napkin box and weight donated from Mod Cottage, a Char-Broil Commercial Stainless Steel 3-Burner Liquid Propane and Natural Gas Infrared Gas Grill donated by Allen Jarmon and Ward Ellinger, a delightful cocktail ring donated by Holland Jewelers, and four stunning coral fish print pillows donated by the Design Center of Rehoboth.
In Travel and Adventure, Olivia Travel has donated a superior room for two at the L Word Generation Q Caribbean Resort Vacation May 1-8, 2021, transferable to a later date if necessary. An eye-catching Vera Bradley luggage set donated by Maggie Ottato and deluxe Coach Academy backpack set donated by Robert Wright and Jack Lim are also up for bid.
In Health and Wellness, five lucky winners will each become a member of the Love Wine Club with one bottle of exceptional wine selected each month, September, October and November, and donated by Loves Liquors. Gift cards up for bid include Lori’s Oy Vey Café, One Spirit Massage, Coho’s Market and the Sussex Family YMCA.
Unique Experiences up for bid include a virtual tour of the NBC4 Studios with NBC anchor Eun Yang donated by Wes Combs and Greg Albright, or having one’s house be a stop on the Pie Ladies 2021 Tour, with pie included, donated by Grant Oines and the Pie Ladies. With Queen for a Day, it will be the winning bidders’ chance to be powdered and fitted and fluffed and strut onstage with Mona Lotts and Kristina Kelly of The Pines for their own drag brunch cameo plus four tickets for friends, donated by “parties involved” and The Pines.
Art category item top bidders can spruce up those four walls and hang more art in their Zoom rooms. A special section curated by CAMP Rehoboth Arts Committee chair and board Vice President Leslie Sinclair, Health and Wellness Director Salvatore Seeley, and Sundance Co-Chair Sondra Arkin showcases a number of artists popular at Rehoboth and Washington, D.C. galleries including Rod Cook, Yvonne Frankis, Caroline Huff, Gary Fisher, Donna Deely, Susan Finsen, Ellyn Weiss and Ellen Sinel, among others.
More featured original artwork includes highly desirable works from Bill Snow; Ward Ellinger; Murray Archibald; Joan Erbe, aka the Grand Duchess of Baltimore Painters; and a rare Howard Schroeder oil painting from around 1970, done at the Rehoboth Art League and called “Makeshift Table in My Studio.”
The online auction format gives a great platform to showcase some excellent memorabilia including an autographed Billie Jean King tennis ball, a Gary Beach signed La Cage program, a Super Bowl XXXIII seat cushion autographed by halftime star Gloria Estefan, and an authentic headdress from “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,” with stand, worn during the 2012 Broadway production.
For more information about Sundance 2020, United in Love, go to camprehoboth.com.
