Silent Auction and Dinner to support the Walk Unafraid Anti-Violence Awareness Project
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. - Allium Restaurant in Great Barrington will host a Silent Auction Fundraiser on Sunday, November 1st from 5pm to 7pm for local artist Gabrielle Senza’s public art initiative, Walk Unafraid. Senza’s beautifully rendered landscape paintings and thought-provoking abstract works currently on view at the restaurant’s Railroad Street location will be auctioned off allowing the public an opportunity to bid on and purchase Senza’s artwork at a significant discount. Allium will provide complimentary hors d’oeuvres while guests mingle and bid on the displayed artworks. In addition to the silent auction, allium will donate five percent of the evening’s dinner proceeds to the project.Walk Unafraid, an interactive art installation, is a powerfully transformative tool that raises awareness and educates the public to recognize and prevent abuse while helping to build stronger, healthier communities. “It empowers survivors of physical, sexual and emotional abuse by giving voice to their experiences and using an arresting visual display to effectively convey the tragic outcome of the complex relationships between victims and abusers”, states Senza. “At the same time, it makes people aware of the fact that abuse is everyone’s problem and everyone’s responsibility.”
Senza is funding Walk Unafraid with sales of her artwork and support grants from individuals and organizations. Her goal is to raise enough money to begin making and shipping boxed kits of materials needed for others to replicate her art installation. The artist has received invitations and requests from throughout the U.S. and Europe to install Walk Unafraid in both public and private spaces. She believes it holds universal significance and that the visual and emotional responses of both the viewers and participants transcend all cultures and languages.
Kolok Gallery, a co-sponsor of the event and curator of Allium’s dining space, will be exhibiting an installation of Walk Unafraid in a group show by the same name to open at its North Adams location on November 14. The exhibition will include affordable works by Gabrielle Senza and other artists with 25% of all proceeds going to Walk Unafraid. Kolok Gallery represents and exhibits artwork by emerging and mid-career, nationally and internationally based artists. To see images of the public installations of Walk Unafraid in the Berkshires and NYC, visit: http://theredcollaborative.org.
To view the artwork online or to start bidding, visit http://silentartauction.wordpress.com.
Kolok Gallery is located at 121 Union Street, North Adams or www.kolokgallery.com.
Allium is located at 44 Railroad Street, Great Barrington.
To make dinner reservations please call 413-528-2118
