BORO PARTY + FUNDRAISER

Drinks, food, art and fashion.

Network and party in Long Island City!

BORO has you covered.

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Details:

11/11/11
6-9pm
RSVP: PARTY@BOROmag.com
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On November 11th, Z NYC Hotel will play host to the BORO Art Party and Fundraiser, an open invitation event that promises to combine the neighborhood’s love for bargain-priced cocktails with its renowned appreciation for fine art.

It’s no secret that Astoria and LIC have long served as artisanal havens for aspiring artists and entertainers. Affordable rents and spacious apartments in the neighborhoods have gifted residents with unparalleled freedom to explore creative and entrepreneurial crafts.

Now, Boro Magazine plans to channel these boons for a great cause, with proceeds from the evening benefiting Blissful Bedrooms, an Astoria-based non-profit.

The party is open to the entire community. Snag a raffe ticket and a cocktail for $5 – the more you drink, the better your chances of winning a prize. Potential swag to be won includes: Gift certificates to some of your favorite restaurants including !e Astor Room, Manducatis Rustica, and Il Bambino as well as great gifts from Primp and Tease, PNT, Break, SITE and more!

Marking the first of many monthly art shows to be held at Z NYC Hotel, the event willfeature paintings from Boro’s own Editor-in-Chief Julian Lesser, as well as a fashion showcase of AELEIS’ new menswear collection by Philippe Trinh. According to Lesser, the partnership between Z NYC Hotel, the artists and BORO Magazine demonstrates what the Astoria/LIC community can accomplish when it pools together its many talents and resources.

“I think that it makes for a perfect portrait of Western Queens that all of these people can come together to create an evening that is so beautiful, for almost no cost, all to benefit a local charity,” said Lesser.

Featured in a previous issue of BORO magazine, Blissful Bedrooms provides bedroom makeovers for young adults with developmental and/or physical disabilities. Run by Astoria residents Alex Dvoryadkin and Martha Gold-Dvoryadkin, this non-profit has gifted numerous teenagers and young adults with redesigned bedrooms that not only make living easier, but also a lot more fun.

In the end, Lesser hopes the evening will not only entertain, but inspire. The Astoria and Long Island City community has always been generous to its creative denizens, and as a new wave of artists continues to make its way into the neighborhood, the area’s reputation as a hotbed for art and entertainment will only grow.

“I encourage people that move to this neighborhood to do what they want to do – to make art,” Lesser said, “and to keep striving to become whatever they want to become, because anything’s possible.”

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AT THE PARTY:

ARTIST: JULIAN LESSER

Besides being the creator and editor-inchief of BORO Magazine, Julian is also an accomplished artist. His abstract figurative and landscape paintings – created primarily using acrylic inks and paints – have been showcased all over the country. Julian begins his process by covering a canvas with what he describes as a “colorful mess.” He then organizes the muddle by using a fine pen or brush to extract recognizable images from shapes that have formed organically through the paint. www.julianlesser.com
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FASHION: AELEIS, BY PHILIPPE TRINH

Even though the formerly booming garment center in New York City has seen much of its business outsourced overseas, designer Philippe Trinh still ensures that his buzz-worthy AELEIS menswear line is handcrafted right here in NYC. As Trinh explains: “The process is very hand crafted and local, a pattern-maker drafts out the patterns on paper by hand, all of the fabric is hand-cut and then hand-sewn, hand-fused with soft interlinings and made one-by-one in NYC in our signature AELEIS cut.”
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FOR THE BENEFIT OF: BLISSFUL BEDROOMS

Based out of Astoria, Blissful Bedrooms provides severely disabled young adults with complete bedroom makeovers.

As its website says: “The mission of Blissful Bedrooms is to transform the bedrooms of young individuals challenged with a variety of disabilities, as well as economic and family challenges, into sanctuaries so that they can feel peaceful and happy in the very place where they spend so much of their daily life due to their lack of mobility and opportunities in society.”
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HOSTED BY: THE Z NYC HOTEL

Known for its bustling rooftop bar, the Z NYC Hotel features a breathtaking view of the East River. The hotel also houses a restaurant lounge called Diner 24/7 which will be open 24 hours a day.

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