The Alzheimer’s Affiliation California Southland Chapter is placing the ending touches on its program for the upcoming Magic of Music Gala at Sony Photos Studios in Culver Metropolis on Might 9.
The fundraiser, designed to honor “Alzheimer’s heroes,” will assist assist the mission of the Alzheimer’s Affiliation and the native California Southland neighborhood. Jane Lynch and Kate Flannery will function the night time’s co-hosts — alongside gala chairs and enterprise leaders Peter and Camille Goldstein — and the pair will even carry out songs from their “anti-cabaret,” Two Misplaced Souls. Honorees for the occasion embody the 2014 movie Nonetheless Alice, celebrating its tenth anniversary this 12 months, in addition to Maria Shriver and Patrick Schwarzenegger and hosts Lisa Foxx and Valentine.
“We’re excited to co-host this 12 months’s Magic of Music Gala and carry out songs from our cabaret present,” mentioned Lynch and Flannery. “Alzheimer’s is a devastating illness that deserves our vital consideration. Occasions like this one are motivating and galvanizing to see individuals rally collectively to assist the imaginative and prescient of the Alzheimer’s Affiliation — a world with out Alzheimer’s and all different dementia.”
Kate Flannery and Jane Lynch
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Additionally on this system: a menu ready by Wolfgang Puck Catering, a dwell public sale and dancing. The Tony Guerrero Band will accompany musical performers together with Antonia Bennett, daughter of the late Tony Bennett, and Broadway star Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer will even take the stage.
Shriver and son Schwarzenegger shall be acknowledged with the innovators in mind well being honor for a dedication to elevating consciousness of mind well being and dwelling a wholesome life-style. Shriver has been an advocate within the battle in opposition to Alzheimer’s for many years whereas Schwarzenegger donated proceeds from his MOSH protein bars to the Girls’s Alzheimer’s Motion at Cleveland Clinic.
Hosts Foxx and Valentine from Valentine within the Morning shall be introduced with music trade honors on behalf of iHeartMedia Los Angeles for its lengthy standing relationship with the Alzheimer’s Affiliation California Southland Chapter.
To mark the tenth anniversary of Nonetheless Alice, centered on the affect of Alzheimer’s on a lady (Julianne Moore) and her household, filmmaker Wash Westmoreland shall be feted with a movie trade honor for the 2014 movie that received Moore a greatest actress Oscar.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, co-creators of South Park, lend assist as symphony sponsors together with the latter’s spouse Angela Stone, all longtime supporters of the group. Tickets and tables for the gala at the moment are on sale.