Your fall formalwear is going to join your summer dresses and spring gowns on the bench. After much of the spring season was rapidly canceled or postponed to the fall, back when we were all still in denial over the longevity of the pandemic the reality of the upcoming fall social season is beginning to take shape (well, sort of).
Some of the seasons most anticipated events most of the performing arts fund-raisers, for instance are off the schedule for the rest of the year, without a fall performance season to account for. Many of the more social causes have committed to virtual benefits. First up is the Kips Bay Presidents Dinner on Sept. 10, which the team says is practically sold out. The evening will feature video messages from Misty Copeland and Lin-Manuel Miranda and will honor interior decorator John Rosselli; pre-event cocktail hour will happen in the form of individual breakout rooms, so each table can have a chance to mingle. The Restoration Hardware table, for instance, will be chatting over a bottle of wine from RHs wine cellar at Yountville in the Napa Valley, which will be sent to each table guest.
Also on the online social schedule is Planned Parenthood of Greater New York, which will host a party (Questlove is DJing) and benefit auction with a bevy of artists slated to attend on Sept. 21; the BCRF will host a virtual symposium and luncheon on Oct. 16, following the success of their virtual hot pink party in May that raised $5.2 million (not bad considering last years IRL event raised $6 million).
The New York Academy of Art is also pivoting to digital for its fall fund-raiser auction, re-branding it from Take Home a Nude to Artists for Artists. Works by artists like Jeff Koons, Kiki Smith, Lola Schnabel, Shepard Fairey, Laurie Simmons, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin will be exhibited at the Academy for a month visitors can stop by for a socially distanced viewing and auctioned through Artsy. NYAA will also host a livestreamed event on Oct. 20 with a live auction component.
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October (usually) culminates with Hulaween, New York Restoration Project founders Bette Midlers Halloween costume benefit gala. Plans for this year are still in the works, but it will include a virtual event on Oct. 30 as well as pre-Halloween treats and entertainment. Hulaween could not come at a better time as there is a renewed need for funding to support NYRPs 52 parks and gardens, says Erica Helms, chief advancement officer for NYRP. All of which provide green space for historically underserved communities to grow their own food, connect with neighbors, and access safe, open space close to home during the COVID era and always!
Hopeful in-person events include the New York Botanical Gardens, which are uniquely well-positioned given, you know, its an outdoor garden. Their Fall in Love With the Garden Again fall party, honoring Hearst director Gilbert C. Maurer, is planned for early October, and still set for in-person. The Golden Heart Awards, which benefit Gods Love We Deliver, have shifted back from their usual October date to early December, on World AIDS Day, with both a virtual option and a plan for in-person, if such is allowed in New York by then. If virtual, the committee will send a care package to guests homes to re-create the usual dinner gala as best they can.
As for the seasons other hallmark charity events The Central Park Ladies Luncheon, American Natural History Museum gala packed with SNL personalities, the MAD Ball, MoMAs Chanel-supported film benefit no word yet on whether they will sit the season out altogether.
Although Broadway remains dark until at least early next year, the industry will gather belatedly virtually, that is to honor talent from the shortened season. The Tony Awards, typically held in June, will take place this fall on a date still to be revealed. Eligible shows to be nominated include Slave Play, Moulin Rouge, Jagged Little Pill and The Inheritance. The IFP Gotham Awards, which honor independent filmmaking, were originally scheduled to take place at Cipriani Wall Street on Nov. 20 but have been postponed until January.
On the film front, the New York Film Festival will play on. The festival runs Sept. 17 through Oct. 11, with films screening virtually and at drive-in theaters at the Brooklyn Army Terminal and New York Hall of Science in Queens. The opening night film is Steve McQueens Lovers Rock, with other anticipated premieres to follow, including Chlo Zhaos Nomadland and French Exit.
Cinema Societys Andrew Saffir, who has been hosting socially distanced outdoor screenings in the Hamptons all summer, is optimistic that events will slowly but surely start to take place this fall. I do think it will take some time before people are comfortable in a crowded theater (and were still waiting for theaters in New York City to open back up), but I do think theres an opportunity to do something along the lines of what weve been doing this summer smaller screening events, where everyone is spaced safely apart, in nontraditional spaces acting as theaters, and with invitees we know have been careful, Saffir says.
The season wont be going on with its usual warm-weather bang, since Art Basel Miami Beach has officially been canceled as of this week. In the meantime, well see you online.
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