Full Sail Hosts Wine Tasting to Benefit Variety Children’s Charity of Orlando
WINTER PARK, FL, September 6, 2007 – On Friday, October 26th at 7:00 pm Full Sail Real World Education will be hosting The Dunhill Companies prestigious wine tasting event to benefit the Variety – The Children’s Charity.
The event will be held on the Full Sail campus and will feature an array of fine wines with food provided by Josh Oakley of the Enzian Theater. Tickets for the event are $100.00 for individual tickets, $500.00 for six tickets and $1,000.00 for a dozen tickets.
The last event was held in 2003 at Hard Rock Live in Orlando. The event’s 650 attendees raised over $50,000 for The Arnold Palmer Children’s Hospital. The Dunhill Wine Tasting has built a strong reputation in the five years of the event.
The Dunhill Companies and Variety Children’s Charity will donate all proceeds raised from the event to The Howard Phillips Development Center at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children. Along with Full Sail, Fields BMW is also a participating sponsor. For more information and tickets for the event, call (407) 422-5437 or email kat@varietycluborlando.org.
“Variety Children’s Charity of Orlando is thrilled to announce that the location of our signature Dunhill Wine Tasting event will be held at Full Sail Real World Education,” said Kari Quast, Chief Operating Officer for Variety Children’s Charity of Orlando. “The exceptional facilities including film soundstages and a Hollywood backlot provides an exciting backdrop for our guests to be entertained and showcases a unique educational experience.”
About Variety – The Children’s Charity:
With a seven-decade legacy of caring for children across the globe, Variety has become the largest and most effective children's charity in the world. The organization has grown to 51 chapters in 13 countries, raising over $1 billion to assist the treatment and care for disabled and disadvantaged children.
The mission of Variety Children’s Charity of Orlando is to improve the lives of children around Central Florida. The money Variety Orlando raises stays locally to help the children in our community.
Variety offers support locally through several programs.
Our Kids on the Go program continues to be Variety Children’s Charity of Orlando’s main initiative dedicated to providing mobility equipment for children (ages 18 and under) with mental and physical disabilities.
Locally, Variety has furnished 46 vans in order to provide safe transport for children to appointments and activities. Some of the organizations utilizing our Sunshine Coach program are; The Russell Home for Atypical Children, Boys and Girls Clubs, BETA House, Frontline Outreach, Quest Kids, The Grove and Edgewood Children’s Ranch.
Through Variety at Work volunteers have the opportunity to share in the joy of putting a smile on a child’s face by taking them to the zoo, museums, concerts, sports, amusement parks, etc.
About Full Sail:
Since 1979, Full Sail Real World Education, a college outside of Orlando, FL, has been an innovative educational leader for those pursuing careers in the entertainment industry.
With over 25,000 alumni, graduate credits include work on Oscar, Emmy and GRAMMY-winning projects, best-selling video games, and the #1 grossing U.S. concert tour seven out of the last seven years. Full Sail's 178-acre campus proudly welcomes over 5,000 students from 50 states and 37 countries. Currently, Full Sail offers degrees in the following disciplines: Master of Science Degree in Entertainment Business; Bachelor of Science Degrees in Computer Animation, Digital Arts & Design, Film, Game Development and Music Business; Associate of Science Degrees in Graphic Design, Recording Arts and Show Production & Touring.
Students experience a “real world” education with a professional class structure of 8-12 hours per day and a 24-hour around the clock schedule which earned Full Sail the “Most Innovative Program” Award by the Florida Association of Postsecondary Schools and Colleges. The college has also been named: “The Harvard of Game Schools” by Tips & Tricks Magazine; one of the top three “New Media Schools” by Shift Magazine (alongside the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York University); one of the Top Five Game Degree Programs in the world by Electronic Gaming Monthly; one of the “Best Music Programs” in the country by Rolling Stone Magazine; one of the “Best Music Business Departments” in the Schools That Rock: The Rolling Stone College Guide; and one of the Best Film Programs in the country by UNleashed Magazine.
