The Royal Ontario Museum and Canada’s National Ballet School both put on glamorous early-March fundraisers
The Royal Ontario Museum marked the opening of the exhibition Treasures of a Desert Kingdom: The Royal Arts of Jodhpur, India, with a benefit gala on March 6 inspired by the sights, sounds and tastes of India. The sold-out gathering, co-chaired by Deepak and Neera Chopra, and Victor and Maureen Dodig, netted north of $500,000 to support the Toronto institution.
Treasures of a Desert Kingdom: The Royal Arts of Jodhpur, India runs in the ROM’s subterranean Garfield Weston Exhibition Hall to September.The following evening, on March 7, Canada’s National Ballet School held its annual fundraiser, this year dubbed the Glam Rock Gala and co-chaired by Andrea Stairs Krishnappa and Nicole Watts.
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