Raffle tickets are $50 each or three for $125, available at the WAG front desk/Gallery Shop (300 Memorial Boulevard in Winnipeg), by calling 204.789.1765, or at the Centennial Ball on October 20 if you already have tickets to attend this sold out event. Rolex raffle sold night of event only.
Raffle 1: Only 920 tickets available
Rolex Watch from Birks
Rolex Oyster Perpetual Datejust, 36mm, in 904L stainless steel with a 18 karat white-gold fluted bezel.
Suggested retail value of $8,100 (+tax)
The front-runner in a collection of legendary watches, the Oyster is the pre-eminent symbol of performance and prestige. Over time it has become an archetype. The Oyster benefits from all the technology and know-how of Rolex. Aesthetically, these models have evolved subtly over the years, but their unmistakeable identity has always been respected.
Features of this memorable raffle include: iconic aesthetics; instantaneous date with CYCLOPS lens (2.5x); officially certified Swiss chronometer (COSC); self-winding mechanical movement, Manufacture Rolex calibre 3135; Paramagnetic blue PARACHROM hairspring; OYSTER case, waterproof to a depth of 100 metres (330 feet).
Visit Birks in Winnipeg at 191 Lombard Avenue and see what Canada’s premier luxury jewellery brand has for you. As the country’s most respected designer and manufacturer of fine jewellery, timepieces, sterling silverware and gifts, Birks represents a heritage of trust, uncompromising quality and courteous service.
Raffle 2: Only 1120 tickets available
Wanda Koop
Dawn at Port-Cartier, SEEWAY series, 2011
Acrylic on canvas, 49” x 84″
Valued at $31,500
Wanda Koop is one of Canada’s most distinguished and inventive artists. Her career spans three decades and includes over 50 solo exhibitions. From the very beginning of her career, Koop garnered critical acclamation for her work. Starting in the 1980s, she charted new directions for painting, pushing the boundaries of presentation and display with her all-encompassing installations. Over the last decade she has become recognized for incorporating poetic video work into her painting environments.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1951, the daughter of Russian Mennonite immigrants, Koop moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba as a young child and has called this remarkable city home ever since. While still a university student, Koop’s work was included in an exhibition in 1972 at The Winnipeg Art Gallery. She graduated in 1973 from the Lemoine Fitzgerald School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. Over the course of her career, she has been the recipient of numerous national and international awards in recognition of her achievements as an artist, such as the Canada Council “A” Grant, the Paris Studio, the Japan Fund Award, and the Manitoba Arts Council “A” Grant. In 2002 she was honoured with the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal and received her Doctors of Letters from the University of Winnipeg. She was granted her second honourary doctorate from the Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver in 2007. Her alma mater, the University of Manitoba, has recently awarded Koop with a Doctor of Law at Spring Convocation 2009. The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts elected her as a member in 2005. Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, appointed Wanda Koop a member of the Order of Canada in 2006. This award was established in 1967 to recognize outstanding achievement and service in various fields of human endeavour. It is Canada’s highest honour of lifetime achievement.
Koop travels extensively as part of her working process and has exhibited across Canada and the USA, as well as in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Brazil, Japan, India, China, and Italy (in conjunction with the 2001 Venice Biennale). Koop’s creative output has been consistently featured in national art publications such as Canadian Art and Border Crossings. In 1997, The National Film Board of Canada and Buffalo Gal Pictures produced a documentary on her life and work.
Her work is included in numerous private collections and is represented in several prestigious museum collections such as The National Gallery of Canada. The Winnipeg Art Gallery, and the National Gallery of Canada are currently working in partnership on an exhibition of Wanda Koop’s oeuvre that will tour across Canada and internationally from 2010 on. This exhibition will focus on Koop’s practice from almost three decades, delineated by distinct suites yet tied to an overarching critique of how modes of technology impact nature.
Guest and Spa Stay for Eight People at The Fort Garry Hotel
Includes four guest rooms on a Saturday night stay, Sunday brunch for two guests per room, fruit plate on arrival, late checkout, complimentary parking, and coffee, tea, and cookies delivered to guest rooms plus a fully-loaded Hamam for 8 people.
Valued at $3000
The Fort Garry Hotel — an iconic hotel, spa, and conference centre in the heart of downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. For almost 100 years this historic property has set the standard for grandeur, elegance, pampering, and culinary excellence. Discerning business and leisure travelers to Winnipeg downtown hotels will find The Fort Garry Hotel, Spa & Conference Centre is second to none in terms of service, luxury, and location.