Events
- Basics
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- Why Attend Makeover Medicine: An Evening of What to Wear? Because it's Time to Own your Fashion!
- If you were invited to a fashion show, would you attend?
- Big Reveal Makeovers
- Auction Items
- Pre-Event Makeover Bar
- Sponsors
Basics
Does your image reflect your expertise? Do you wear your scrubs to the boardroom? Perhaps your favorite t-shirt and jeans are getting too much wear?
From scrubs to black tie, to travel wardrobes - this evening of " what to wear" for both men and women will include makeovers that inspire confidence, and guarantees to reveal the latest research on how to look great, and dress for success wherever you are. Martinis, munchies, and models on the catwalk: A must for the health care professional! Join us for what promises to be a memorable night.
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Telus Convention Centre - MacLeod Hall
Calgary, Alberta.
4:30 PM to 7:30 PM - CFWH Pre-Event Makeover Bar - Sign up at ACM (Price not included in Makeover Medicine Ticket) Make-up by Estée Lauder, Chanel, Stella McCartney, Origins and more! Mini-Manicures, Hair Styling.
7:30 PM to 10:30 PM - Main Event
Tickets: $125.00 (with a charitable tax receipt for $75.00)
Tickets available online Click here to purchase tickets.
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- $250 Look Good Fell Better Skin and Make-Up Giveway for Physicians
- Amazing Professional Fashion Show
- Live / Silent Auction: Professional Auctioneer, trips, sports tickets, fashions, art.
- CBC's Shelagh Rogers Master of Ceremonies
- CFWH Pre-event Makeover Bar - Make-up by Stella McCartney, Origins, Chanel, Estée Lauder and more, mini-manicures and hair (price not included in event ticket sign-up at ACM)
Why Attend Makeover Medicine: An Evening of What to Wear? Because it's Time to Own Your Fashion!
by Dr. Jennifer Blake, Chair, Canadian Foundation for Women's Health
It is probably fair to say that most of us spent our critical young career years buried behind piles of books and racks of test tubes, getting a medical education. All the while, others our age were spending time honing their career and personal fashion, finding their unique "style".
Well, the Canadian Foundation for Women’s Health is here to help with Makeover Medicine, an evening of great food, drink and fashion that is all about you. If youfeel intimidated when you walk up to a make-up counter or sales clerk in a clothing store, then this night is for you. Ifyou need to tryon three outfits before figuring out what to wear for a special meeting or occasion, then this night is for you. And if you still have suits from the ’80s getting heavy rotation in your closet, then this night is definitely for you!
Even if you are the rare fashionista amongst us – the ones reading this thinking, “finally, some of my colleagues might move into the 21st century” - well, come and enjoy the show. Better still, volunteer and share your tips! And if your idea of a fashion event includes a parade of near-anorexic size zero models, then come - but be prepared to have your assumptions challenged.
Makeover Medicine is for men and women and is a fun night to celebrate who we are and how to look our best. Our very own Dr. Lalonde, Dr. Wylam Faught and Dr. Diane Francoeur will be some of our makeover participants, and many recognizable members will be our models. It is about feeling and looking great, about taking fashion and turning the tables,putting it to work for us, so we are in charge. Learn what to wear in clinic, business travel and black tie events.
I invite you all to come out to this event, spend some time with friends from the past, make some new ones, and have a laugh or two over good food and drink. All the while, we’ll be raising money for your foundation, the CFWH - the only national foundation dedicated to the women we care for and their sexual and reproductive health.
We look forward to seeing you and your guests at Makeover Medicine: An Evening of What to Wear, June 28th. Be sure to book your pre-event makeover at the SOGC Annual Clinical Meeting. Visit the CFWH booth on site for details.
Jennifer M. Blake, MD
Chair of the Canadian Foundation for Women’s Health
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If you were invited to a fashion show, would you attend?
By Ben Barry, Board Member, Canadian Foundation for Women’s Health
If you were invited to a fashion show, would you attend? Most likely not. Your response would not be surprising. Not many of us can relate to the models on the runway. We live in a world where the average female fashion model is a size zero and the average Canadian woman is a size fourteen.
The Canadian Foundation for Women’s Health is changing this fact. On June 28, the group is hosting an evening of food, drink and fashion that will not only reflect you, it will feature you. We are calling upon our guests to be our runway models, to show great clothes on great people. We need you to breathe energy, spirit, and character into the clothes to make the fashion show real.
You can show that beauty does not have a static and narrow definition; it is fluid and complex, based on character and spirit. Being part of this will supplant uniformity with variety, stoicism with dynamism, and limiting traits with limitless ones as we shift understandings of beauty away from the fictions of fashion towards the realities of their lives.
This will not be the first time society has rejected a beauty myth: From the whalebone corsets of 19th-century Europe to the bound feet of ancient China, oppressive forms of fashion have rightly been toppled. The woman who posed for what is regarded as the West's most beautiful and enduring female sculpture, the Venus de Milo, is too short and too curvy to be a model today.
It seems that beauty ideals have gotten off track and it’s time to get them back. It’s time for fashion to get real. Be a leader, attend this event, raise money for your foundation and have fun. Isn’t that what fashion should be? Visit www.cfwh.org for more information.
Ben Barry, BA (Toronto), MPhil (Cambridge)
Founder & CEO, Ben Barry Agency, Inc., www.benbarry.com
Columnist, Globe and Mail, www.globeandmail.com
Dr. André Lalonde
Dr. Donald Davis
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Dr. Wylam Faught
Dr. Sandra de la Ronde
Dr. Christina Dolhaniuk
Dr. Joan Murphy
Dr. Diane Francoeur
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Auction Items
One week accommodation in Tuscany Italy
Il Nido (the Nest) is a small house in the centre of Anghiari. It is approximately 600 years old, but completely rebuilt a few years ago. A door in the stone wall opens onto the house’s own small garden, rare in a medieval town. The front door is off the garden, ensuring privacy.
Pink Blackberry Pearl 8130 Smartphone
The BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8130 smartphone is designed to help you do everything you want with your life. It comes complete with advanced phone features, multimedia, digital camera, video recording, built-in GPS* and expandable memory.
Approximate Value: $499.00
Lucian Matis Designer Dress from his Fall 2008 Collection
Bubble dress with beaded stripes, in crinkle memory fabric
Value: $795
Calgary Stampeders Owners Box Tickets
4 tickets for the Calgary Stampeders owners box
Passion...Intensity...Excitement...Tradition...Energy...These are just a few ways to measure Horsepower. And the Calgary Stampeders are ready to take the field for another excitting CFL season. Don't miss out on experiencing Stampeder Football.
Approximate value: $650.00
Ottawa Senators Tickets
2 sets of 2 tickets for the 2008-2009 Season
Approximate value $250.00 per set
Ottawa Senators Tickets
4 x 100 level tickets for the Ottawa Senators vs. Toronto Maple Leafs
Approximate value $ 550.00
Toronto Raptors Tickets
2 Lower Bowl End Zone tickets for the 2008-2009 Season
Approximate value $225.00
Mountain House in the Laurentians
One week stay at Dr. André Lalondes Mountain House in the Laurentians. 150 Km from Montreal and Ottawa in the Laurentians on Lac Spectacle, a beautiful 3 bedroom and loft house on 250 feet lake front , no motor boats, excellent swimming, canoeing ,tennis court.etc. Available summer ,fall and winter at a time to be negotiated with the winner
Approximate value $3000.00
Day at the Members only Turf Club Dining Room at Woodbine race Track with Dr. Blake and Dr. De Petrillo.
The package includes lunch for two, admission to the Turf Club, daily racing form and handicapping tips. Dine overlooking the breathtaking beauty of Woodbine’s magnificent thoroughbred and standard bred race courses.
Julie Dorion Painting "i see @ 6 A.M."
Mixed Media
Approximate value $ 1250.00
Country place near Fredericton
Accommodates 8 people near Fredericton, NB on the St-John’s River (Mid July to Mid August 2008)
Lunch with the RT. Hon. Joe Clark and Maureen McTeer
Rideau Club in Ottawa or the Ranchman's Club in Calgary.
Golf game at Camelot and dinner for 3 people with Dr. André Lalonde
Camelot Golf & Country Club is a private equity golf club comprised of 450 shareholders. Situateda mere15 minutes from downtown Ottawa, the club opened in 1991. In that year, Golf Digest Magazine rated Camelot the 2nd bestnew golf course in Canada and 5th best in North America. We are sure that Camelot will challenge and charm you; it’s memorable course will leave you wanting more.
Fashion Design Council of Canada
2 VIP passes to L’Oreal Fashion Week 2008 (with complimentary gift bag)
Bottle of "Osoyoos Larose" Limited Wine
2005 Great Estates of the Okanagan
Approximate value $45.00
Bottle of "Nota Bene" Limited Wine
2006 Back Hils Estate Winery
Approximate value $45.00
Myka Necklace, earrings and bracelet
Approximate value $350.00
In Accessories sterling necklace, bracelet, earrings
Approximate value $365.00
Originals by Andrea semi-precious necklace
Approximate value $190.00
Karen McClintock necklace
Approximate value $ 328.00
High Fashion leather Croco fushia handbag
Approximate value $200.00
Chistopher Kon leather bag
Approximate value $350.00
Golf Town Gift Card (Ottawa)
Value: $100.00
Bon Appetit Gift Card (Ottawa)
Value: $100.00 @ Swiss Chalet, Montana's, Kelsey's, Harvey's or Milestones.
Sea Kayaking Lessons
Sea kayaking lessons with Dr. Scott Farrell (SOGC President-Elect)
Overnight Burberry bag
Urbane Scrubs
BBQ Utensil Set
Fragrance gift baskets from Coty (one male and one female)
Premier Spa Salons Professional Beauty Teams From The Bay
$15 Make-up - Stella McCartney, Origins, Chanel, Estée Lauder & more
$15 Mini-manicures
$20 Hair
*$40 Hair/Makeup/Mini-manicure Special*
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