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Chaplandia Benefit is Colorful Celebration of Children’s Healing Art Project – CHAP

There was a photo booth featuring crazy-CHAP-hats decorated by the staff and volunteers. Board members Lauren Holden Kilbane, Kim Sordyl, and ED Roxie McGovern.

Portland, November 3rd. Guests like Board members Lauren Holden Kilbane, Kim Sordyl, and ED Roxie McGovern were asked to ditch their black dresses for an auction benefiting the Children’s Healing Art Project (CHAP). CHAPlandia raised funds to expand the hospital and Art Club programs bringing the healing power of art to more kids and families facing medical crisis.

Auctioneer extraordinaire, Brian Bice, wore a custom tux designed by Janine Martin. With Wieden+Kennedy as the presenting sponsor, the event featured a silent and live auction and sit down family style dinner.

Robin Glaunert was the winning bidder for one a week stay at a beach front home in Belize.

MC and Board co-president Lauren Holden Kilbane introduces the people who bring the magic to the kids in hospitals and the Art Club: Mike and Roxie McGovern, Mary Miller Doyle, Carolyn Brecht, Maxine Hartswick, Sharon Alexander, Megan Neil, and Jamie Snider. (missing is Wendi Kincade).

The theme that captured the spirit of the evening, and everything CHAP does, is “Behind the Darkness there is Light”

Guests were asked to ditch the little black dress and suits and dress with color and joy. Dinner was provided by Tommy Habetz and team from Trigger, and cakes for desert were donated by Baker and Spice.

CHAPpy Hour- During the silent auction there was a “CHAPpy Hour” featuring cocktails from Aviation Gin and hors d’oerves from Nel Centro, Boxer Sushi, and Miho Izakaya.

There was a photo booth featuring crazy-CHAP-hats decorated by the staff and volunteers. CHAPs invited a young artists at Doernbecher to create a one of a kind work of art to be auctioned off. Stella , a cancer survivor, was able to come to the event and tell her story. Stella’s painting sold for $1,100!

Children’s Healing Art Project (CHAP) brings the healing power of art to children in crisis and their families through a mobile team of teaching artists working in partnership with hospitals, schools, community organizations and local businesses, creating programs through which children are known for their creativity and ingenuity and not by their disease, diagnosis, or disability. CHAP has created art classes tailored to the needs of the children and families we serve in our partner facilities: Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, Harold Schnitzer Diabetes Center, Knight Cancer Institute and Shriners Hospital for Children.

Elisa Klein

I’ve been a professional journalist and writer since 1987, (and long-time reporter for KOIN-TV.) As a nationally published reporter, with a Master’s Degree in Journalism, I love to report positive news and information. Journalism has also connected me with another non-profit where I served as a leader; the Northwest’s biggest writer’s organization: The Willamette Writers.