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Star Pomegranate
Celebration
with the invisible bridge author julie Orringer
to Help “Bridge the Gap” for those in Need
An exceptional evening of celebration is in store on March
15th, 2012 for women who help “bridge the gap” for those in
need by contributing at the Pomegranate and Star levels to
the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County annual
campaign. Julie Orringer, the award-winning author of the
novel, The Invisible Bridge, will headline the evening at
Woodfield Country Club,
3650 Club Place, Boca Raton.
At 7:00 pm, women of all ages from throughout the community
will share great company, champagne, desserts, coffee and a
keynote from the acclaimed author. Chaired by Liz Goldstein
and Shirley Solomon, the event is open to Star contributors
of individual women’s gifts of $365 or higher to the
Federation’s annual campaign. The couvert is $36 and dietary
laws will be observed.
Prior to the Star Celebration, at 6:00 pm Orringer will join
a private wine and hors d’oeuvres reception for Pomegranate
donors, whose individual 2012 campaign gifts range from
1,800 to $4,999. Rebecca Appelbaum, Women’s Philanthropy
Vice Chair, Pomegranate and reception Chairs Joan Hauser and
Randi Winter have planned a luxurious event to celebrate the
Pomegranates’ contributions.
The combined couvert for this reception and the
Star Pomegranate Celebration is $54.
“It’s so exciting and rewarding to bring together women from
all elements of our Jewish community and at different giving
levels, whose awareness and commitment shape our sisterhood
of caring,” said Kathy Green, the Federation’s Women’s
Philanthropy Vice Chair, Community Development. “We’re
thrilled to provide this opportunity for them to hear from
an author whose work is so popular with such a wide variety
of women.”
Orringer’s novel, The Invisible Bridge is a grand love story
set against the backdrop of Budapest and Paris, chronicling
one family’s struggle against the forces that threaten to
annihilate it. Orringer is also the author of How to Breathe
Underwater, a short story collection. She is a 1996 graduate
of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she held a two-year
Creative Writing Teaching Fellowship. She was a Stegner
Fellow at Stanford from 1999-2001, and Stanford’s Marsh
McCall Lecturer in Fiction from 2001-2003. (additional
biographical information below)
For more information, contact Kari at 561-852-3142 or
Kariz@bocafed.org
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The Dorothy Seaman Department of Women’s Division is
generously sponsored by Wells Fargo. Fine Things is the
generous sponsor of the Star Pomegranate Celebration, and
The Boca Raton Observer is the event’s Exclusive Magazine
Sponsor.
Julie Orringer is the acclaimed author of The Invisible
Bridge, a novel and How to Breathe Underwater, a short story
collection. She is a 1996 graduate of the Iowa Writers’
Workshop, where she held a two-year Creative Writing
Teaching Fellowship. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford
from 1999-2001, and was Stanford’s Marsh McCall Lecturer in
Fiction from 2001-2003.
Orringer received a 2004-5 grant from the National Endowment
for the Arts for The Invisible Bridge. She continued work on
the novel with the assistance of fellowships from the
MacDowell Colony in the summers of 2005 and 2006, and from
the Corporation of Yaddo in the summer of 2007; in 2006 she
won the Anne and Robert Cowan Writers’ Award from the Jewish
Community Foundation. Orringer has been the Distinguished
Visiting Writer at St. Mary’s College of California and
California College of the Arts, and was the Helen Herzog
Zell Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the
University of Michigan. From 2008-9 she was the Rona Jaffe
Foundation Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and
in the fall of 2009 she taught at Columbia University.
Orringer lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the writer Ryan
Harty, and she is at work on a novel about Varian Fry. For
additional bio information, visit
www.julieorringer.com/about.html
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