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** SOCIETY GALA EVENTS & CORPORATE WORK **
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WASHINGTON LIFE MAGAZINE ASSIGNMENTS
- American Heart Assoc. - Annual fashion show luncheon
- Ann Hand - Jewelry show reception, Cafe Milano with Marlena Chalmers, Senator Nunn
- Arts for the Aging with Lolo Sarnoff
- Bachelors & Spinsters Ball - Chris van Roiijen
- Bartender's Ball
- Book Signings:
- Carol Wolfe
- Ron Kessler
- James Jennings Sheeran, The Washington D.C. Book of Facts & Fancies, Caprices &
Curiosities
- Bravo Ball - Valentine's Day gala and Board members reception at Fendi's
- Camelot Circle events/ Kennedy Center
- Cancer and Leukemia Ball with Mr. and Mrs. Bush
- CARE Ball, Mr. Muldoon, Ron and Alma Brown
- Childhelp USA with Former Redskins, Olympic gymnasts
- Children's Defense Fund dinner gala with Maya Angelou
- Comic Relief, at The Palm Restaurant with Mary Matalin, Paul Berry, Norv Turner
- Corcoran Ball and 1869 Society ball- with actor Young Ryan O'Neill, the
Chapotans
- Boarder Babies Gala, with Morris Jones, Larry King, and boxer Riddick Bowe
- Catholic Charities with Cokie Roberts
- Cherry Blossom Festival Ball, with Japanese Ambassador
- Childhelp, with Jeff Bostic, Eric Sievers, Art Donovan
- Christmas for the Homeless/ Mark Russell Benefit
- Decade Society - reception
- 1993 Democratic Convention reception for David Wilhelm, Cafe Milano
- Canali fashion show - Galleria at Tysons/ James Clothiers with Ricky Sanders,
Gary Clark
- DIFFA (Design Industry Foundation for Aids) gala with designer Mary McFadden
- Escada fashion show
- The Eye Ball with Princess Fergie
- Fight Night with Mohammed Ali, James Brown
- Folger Shakespeare Theater gala with Zoe Caldwell and George Plimpton
- For the Love of Children - Mazza Gallerie/Williams & Sonoma benefit with
local celebrated chefs
- Ford’s Theater- Annual gala with Whoopi Goldberg, David Copperfield, Martina McBride
- Friends United for Need (FUN)
- "Free Willy" D.C. movie opening reception
- Gold Cup reception at Tiffany & Co in Tysons
- Harry S Truman reception/fundraiser with President Clinton, Ford & Carter
- Hermes, Tysons Corner - Scarf tying demonstration
- Hispanic Designers Fashion Show
- International Collection by Nieman Marcus
- Kennedy Center Honors with Princess Fergie, Cecily Tyson, Sidney Poitier,
Charlton Heston, Bob Dylan
- Larry King Cardiac Foundation gala dinner- with Donald Trump, Celine Dion, Grant Hill
- Leukemia Ball - with Wynona Judd
- March of Dimes luncheon - with Martha Stewart & Gourmet Gala with Bob &
Bonnie Livingston
- Meridian Ball
- Natinal Italian American Foundation annual gala - Talia Shire, Dom DeLouise,
Donatella Versace, Yogi Berra, Naomi Campbell, Al Pacino
- National Press Club Foundation Awards Dinner - with Carl Rowan, Sam Donaldson,
Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters
- National Rehabilitation Hospital Gala with Gail Devers, Lynda Carter,
Max Cleland,(D-GA)
- National Symphony Orcestra annual gala
- Newsweek Awards at the Kennedy Center Opera House
- Nordstrom Haute Couture Fashion Show
- Opera Ball with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Mexican Ambassador
- Oscar de la Renta Spring Showing, with Barbara Harrison, Alexine Jackson
- Pen Faulkner Awards - Amy Tan, George Plimpton
- River Club Fashion Show
- Saks Fifth Avenue Spring Treasure Hunt
- Salvation Army luncheon with Hilary Clinton, JW Marriott
- Spina Bifida benefit/ Tim Russert roast with Maria & Eunice Shriver,
Jim Lehrer,Ben Bradlee
- Tiffany's of Tysons, Reception for 1995 and 1996 Running of the Gold Cup
- Tiny Jewel Box - In-house party with designer David Yurman
- Harry S Truman dedication with President Clinton, Ford, Carter, VP Gore
- Uruguayan ambassador's home/ Honor new U.S. ambassador to Uruguay with Senator
Chris Dodd
- Vera Wang wedding fashion show
- Viennese Opera Ball - with Charlton Heston
- Washington Antique's Show
- Washington Ballet - reception at Embassy of Finland
- Washington Flower and Garden Show
- Washington Performing Arts Society - Annual Gala/ Convention Center
- Zoofari, with local restaurants
SEVA RASKIN Photography
Phone: 703-963-7466
Society & Corporate Events
sevarask@erols.com
http://www.erols.com/sevarask
INDEPENDENT SOCIETY PHOTO ASSIGNMENTS
- Bark Ball (Washingtonian assignment) - Black Tie ball to benefit Humane Society
- Best Friends, show, donor dinner, reception with james earl jones, miss america 1996, Dionne Warwick,
Scott Grady, Colin & Alma Powell
- Bozzuto Property Management, Annual awards dinner
- Choral Arts Society of Washington
- Belgium embassy reception in honor of conductor Mr. Rostropovich with Bob and Olga Ryan and Barbara Harrison
- Choral Arts Society Ball with the Chapotans
- 30th anniversary party at the Japanese Ambassador's Home with Bob Ryan, Justice Scalia, Chip Reid of Fox 5
- Discovery Store Opening/MCI Center - VIP opening party with Abe Pollin
- Epicurean food and wine auction - Les Dames Chefs, Union Station
- Environmental Inaugural Ball with Vice President and Mrs. Gore
- Fendi of Tysons Corner - Fashion show at Tango Alaska
- Fairfax Symphony Ball
- Hechts - Headquarters
- Runway fashion shows with local celebrity models including MS Society fashion show
- Charity luncheons
- Headshots of staff for publications
- In-house programs for clients/shoppers
- Launch of Chanel's new fragrance
- Celebrity visits
- Hispanic Heritage Awards - Televised show, dinner, press conference with Gloria Estefan, Andy Garcia, Rita Moreno, Jimmy Smits
- 1997 Inaugural Ball - Women's Political Caucus
- Jack Morton Productions
- Booz, Allen & Hamilton corporate function with Bruce Hornsby
- American Bankers Assoc. with Crosby & Nash
- Japanese Embassy - Ambassador Kuriyama's retirement reception with Tipper and AlGore, Speaker Foley, Donna
Shalala, Bitsy Folger
- March of Dimes - Gourmet Gala with Capitol Hill as "celebrity chefs" including Trent Lott, Bob
Livingston
- MS Society - Ambassador’s Ball; celebrity Sports Night auction with Redskins; fundraiser at Canandian Embassy
with Cong. Bill Archer, Norv Turner, Erskine Bowles
- Mt. Vernon University, Celebrity reception for annual tennis tournament with Donna Shalala, Geraldine Ferraro
- National Kidney Foundation - Annual gala
- Newseum opening, VIP grand opening reception with Arianna Huffington, Al Neuharth, Cissy Baker
- Nieman Marcus - Tysons Corner
- Corporate headshot of sales associates
- Documentation of visit from Mr. Marcus
- Private shopping charity event with Ronald McDonald House
- DKNY and other runway fashion shows
- Celebrity visits
- Nieman Marcus - Washington, D.C.
- Receptions for clients with President of Oxxford suits, Italian designer Vittorio Missoni, designer Victoria
Mackenzie-Childs and Judith Lieber, celebrity chefs reception to benefit WALA
- Phillips Collection - Patrons Dinner
- The Recording Artists (DC branch) - DC opening party
- Red Cross of Montgomery County
- Charity Ball with the Marriotts
- Charity shoot for Washington Post advertisement with Parvizian Carpets
- Corporate golf tournament with pro Fred Funk
- Clara Barton awards lunch with Cokie Roberts
- Restaurant association awards dinner - (Washingtonian assignment)
- The Ritz Carlton, Washington, D.C.
- VIP dinner and reception
- Opening of new Fairfax Club
- Senator Joe Tyding's family party - mother's 90th birthday
- Siemans Corp., Student/ teacher award ceremony
- Smithsonian - Board dinner/ opening of new jewels wing
- Tiffany's, Inc., Chevy Chase, MD & Tysons Corner, VA
- Grand opening of new store with Art Buchwald
- 1998 Corporate Christmas card
- USO World gala with Katie Couric and the Forrester Sisters
- The Washingtonian Magazine - Saks Fall Haute Couture fashion show at Sesto Senso, Restaurant Association Awards,
Ronald Reagan Bldg. Opening, Versace fashion show at 9:30 club
- University of Delaware - Alumni events and portraits
- Woodrow Wilson House
- Veteran's Day Benefit
- Spring Garden Party
- Cocktail reception - Italian Ambassador's home
- Wolf Trap
- Summer gala with Marilyn Horne, Jose Carreras, Donna Shalala, Lynda Carter
- Annual Board members dinner
- Remembrance dinner for founder, Mrs. Shouse
- Donor night receptions
- Fall Associates ball
- Private reception for artist Peter Sculthorpe
- Holiday Parties
- Headstart program with Wolf Trap artists with Middleburg bank
- Kids with Santa holiday brunch
- Executive environmental portraits
SEVA RASKIN Photography
Phone: 703-963-7466
Society & Corporate Events
sevarask@erols.com
http://www.erols.com/sevarask
CORPORATE EVENTS
- American Heart Association - Cover photo for trade journal
- Anstec - Publicity shots for Washington Entrepeneur of the Year Award/Ernst & Young
- Apartment Shoppers Guide - Staff group shots for company yearbook
- Arthur J. Schultz & Co., Inc., Washington, D.C.
- Documentation for company clients: Architecture, events
- Franklin Square Association events, award ceremonies with D.C. Police Chief Fred Thomas, anniversary gala
with Mayor Kelly and the Drifters
- Georgetown Association group annual dinner
- P.R. for Doubletree hotels
- American Bankers Association awards dinner - Crosby & Nash concert
- American Chemical Society - new corporate offices
- Bell Atlantic - Sales staff awards dinner
- Bozzuto Management - Awards Dinner
- Booz, Allen & Hamilton corporate dinner with Bruce Hornsby
- Challenger Center awards ceremony with Mr. and Mrs. Bill Marriott
- Cleary Gottlieb law firm - dinner reception
- Clyde's Restaurant Group
- Octoberfest, Reston Town Center
- Polaroid pictures during holidays; in-house for customers
- Corporate headshots for media placement
- Restaurant-sponsored community events
- Columbia College - Staff magazine - alumni portrait
- Combined Properties
- Tenant dinner with the Hafts
- Business awards dinner, community events
- Bull Run Mall grand opening festivities
- Corcoran School of Art
- Commencement ceremony and reception for graduates
- President's Council dinner
- Corcoran Museum - Awards ceremony for longtime donors
- Crabtree & Jemison - Corporate party, document tradeshow exhibit
- Deloitte & Touche - Fast 50 awards ceremony (technology awards), corporate breakfasts
- Discovery Store opening/MCI center - (for Ruder-Finn Public Relations)
- Elon College - Document alumni on the job in and around Washington for University alunmi magazine
- Emphasis - Odyssey Cruises anniversary cruise, VIP event
- Epicurean Food & Wine Auction - Les Dames D'Escoffier dinner/auction celebration of local celebrity female chefs
- Events USA - dinner awards ceremony for Easter Seals
- Excellence 2000 Awards, Asian-American awards
- Fairfax Symphony, Document conductor, Bill Hudson in concert, audience and other orchestra members for
newsletter, media release
- Fannie Mae annual dinner and awards
- Franklin Square Annual Luncheon - Local politicians with Wes Unseld
- Fred Ezra, Inc. reception for clients - Duke Ziebart's with Marion Barry
- Georgetown Holiday Inn - Hotel's catering/marketing brochure
- Georgetown University Hospital/ Lombardi Cancer Center - annual gala
- Hechts Department Stores - Headquarters Merchandising Department, Special Events,runway fashion shows
- Holocaust Museum - Award ceremony for resistance fighters and their families
- Japanese Embassy - National Day dinner reception with Vice President Gore
- Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue law firm - Group portrait of summer associates
- Jr. Achievement, National office - annual dinner, Capitol Hill testifying
- Jubilee Housing Foundation reception and award ceremony, annual dinner and gala
- Kennedy Center - 25th anniversary luncheon and events; multi-cultural book fair for children, private reception with
Bobby McFerrin
- League of Women Voters, Awards ceremony
- Lindy Promotions
- Publicity for area pub crawls
- Awards dinner/ceremony for Bell Atlantic Mid-Atlantic sales
- Lombardi Cancer Center/ Georgetown Univ. Hospital - Major donor reception
- Mayflower Hotel - Sales brochure for international clients
- Mid-Atlantic Cars, Inc. - In-house photographic "secret shopper" program
- Mt. Vernon College - Women In Politics Forum/ Cokie Roberts, Cynthia Steele, Andrea Mitchell, Howard Baker, Helen Thomas
- NASDAQ - Mindshare technology reception
- National Assoc. of College and University Attorneys - Board of Directors corporate picture
- National Assoc. of Industrial Office Parks (NAIOP)
- Speakers forum and lunch reception with Julien Studley
- Document project workers for Christmas in April charity
- National Abortion and Reproductive Action League (NARAL)- Annual awards luncheon in celebration of Roe v. Wade with Al and Tipper Gore, Hillary Clinton, Betty Friedan
- National Governors Association, annual winter meeting and partnership with business leaders (achieve)
- National Italian American Foundation
- Forum on Italian aid to Jews during WWII, Holocaust Museum
- Document art work
- Press conference/ forum
- National Legal Defenders Association (NLADA)- Annual awards and appreciation dinner
- National Victims Center - Awards presentation
- National Women's Law Center annual dinner with Hillary Clinton
- New York Mercantile Exchange - Awards ceremony, dinner, Annual Meeting
- Northern Telecom Service Awards, 1997 Inaugural private party
- National Automobile Dealers Assoc.
- Convention banquet with flutist Pete Fountain, Pink Flamingos
- College training brochure
- Corporate executives for Annual report
- National Legal Defenders Assoc. annual awards dinner - with Detroit mayor
- Newseum Museum opening - (For Ruder-Finn PR firm) Opening gala with Ethel Kennedy, Nina Totenberg, Betty Friedan
- NSO gala/ pre-gala dinner - Private home of Tennis Pro Coach Kathy Kemper
- Nieman Marcus (Tysons Corner), Reception honoring Mr. Marcus and his new book; DC location: fashion shows,
WALA chef event with the Zagats and Stanley Marcus
- Northern Virginia Technology Council - Holiday receptions, awards ceremonies, annual report
- Pan Asian Chamber of Commerce- Sponsor of Marion Barry/Carol Schwartz television debate
- Property Management Association annual awards dinner, annual trade association convention floor
- Race For The Cure - Ambassador luncheon
- Red Cross, Montgomery County, Community Disaster drill and annual gala
- SAIC - Holiday party
- Spaulding & Slye real estate firm awards banquet
- Susan Davis International - Corporate reception and awards dinner, Meridian House
- Troy Systems Corporate holiday party
- University of California, Berkeley - Document Chancellor Berdahl’s Capitol Hill visits, alumni events
- University of Delaware - D.C. alumni events, portraits of alumni for alumni magazine
- USO World - Group portrait of 90+ world affiliates
- USO Metro - Pentagon and Senate publicity tour for country western band, Confederate Railroad
- UU COM- Corporate party
- Victims Rights - Capitol Hill testifying
- Virginia Opera- VIP events
- White House News Photographers’ Association annual gala - with Brian Williams
- Williams & Sonoma AIDs charity - For The Love of Children association convention floor
- World Learning, Awards ceremony
- XPRIZE press function- National Press Club and Air & Space museum with author Tom Clancy
PRIVATE PARTIES
• Birthday • Anniversary • Portraits • Graduation • Wedding
SEVA RASKIN Photography
Phone: 703-963-7466
Society & Corporate Events
sevarask@erols.com
http://www.erols.com/sevarask
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