Mongoose Junction’s annual Evening in the Courtyard is a holiday shopping event that gives back. It will be held from 4-9 p.m., Friday, Nov. 27, and will benefit Gifft Hill School’s Scholarship Fund and other programs. Mongoose merchants are donating items, which will be silent-auctioned in each of the stores, and there will be music and dance performances by Gifft Hill School students, as well as gift-wrapping and other services.
In addition to the silent auction, many Mongoose shops will also feature activities and presentations. They will include a book signing by Caroline Rogers of her latest collection of pictures, Coral Reef Stars, A Galaxy of Undersea Images, at the Friends of the Park Store and a special show at Bajo el Sol that will feature Livy Hitchcock’s pastel paintings, "A Puerto Rican Celebration," and will have her new paintings, whose inspiration is from a collection of black and white photos taken in the 1950s by George Stuckert’s grandmother. They will have Puerto Rican appetizers and wine, so come join the fun and bid on the silent auction items to benefit Gifft Hill School.
Popular with St. John art buyers for years, Sugar Birds will show a series of new watercolors by Shari Erickson, done especially for The Evening in the Courtyard, along with a collection of her oil paintings. Bougainvillea will have beautiful new holiday dresses and accessories. Silent auction and raffle winners will be announced at 8 p.m.
For more information, contact Beth Jones of the Gifft Hill School at 776-1730 or Radha Speer at 779-4566.
