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Jim Crane, Whitney Crane, Tissy Harding,Rusty Hardin

Rania Mankarious, HPD Chief Troy Finner, Metro PD Chief Vera Bumpers

Dror Zadok, Senator John Whitmire, Jonathan Zadok Gala Chairs Sheridan and John Eddie Williams

CRIME STOPPERS OF HOUSTON SLAMS ONE OUT OF THE PARK AT THEIR ANNUAL GALA

Held at the field of the 2023 World Champion Astros Minute Maid Park the annual Crime Stoppers of Houston’s ‘Leading the Way to a Safer Houston’ Annual Gala, was chaired by Sheridan and John Eddie Williams and raised a record-setting over $1,355,000 for crime prevention programs and critically-needed victim services.

Committed to public safety, gala co-chair Sheridan Williams, who has made it her personal mission to help victims of violent crime, took to the stage and delivered an important message about the need for the community to come together. Sheridan then continued with the honoring of Professional Baseball Hall of Famer Jeff Bagwell, United States Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, and Jim McIngvale, who have all “risen to do so much more.”

Visit www.crime-stoppers.org for more. Laura Ward, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, Rachel Bagwell, Whitney Crane

Supporter Jordan Seff

Margaret Alkek Williams, David Wuthrich

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, Hall of Famer Jeff Bagwell, Sheridan Williams, Jim McIngvale Matress Mack, Rania Mankarious

Maurine Ford and Charles McClelland, Yvonne Cormier and Rufus Cormier

Francois de Menil and Susan de Menil

Isabel Lummis and Ransom Lummis

Michael Govan, Kara Vander Weg, Jenny Saville Elizabeth Young and Barry Young

MENIL COLLECTION CELEBRATES 35TH ANNIVERSARY WITH ‘CIRQUE SURREALISTE’ GALA

The Menil Collection welcomed 500 guests for Cirque Surréaliste: The Menil Collection’s 35th Anniversary Gala. All proceeds directly support the museum’s green spaces, art buildings, and programs, which are free and open to everyone.

With the theme of a 20th-century circus, the décor was inspired by the museum’s world-renowned collection of Surrealist art, specifically Alexander Calder’s Two Acrobats, 1929, and Fernand Léger’s Julie, The Beautiful Cyclist, 1945, and Study for the Grand Parade, 1953-54. The Events Company turned the event space into an over-the-top circus, complete with a cocktail tent with red and gold drapery. Colorful orbs continuously moved from the ceiling, and a circular bar with center stage showcased a clown’s pre-show preparation. The dining tent was resplendent with chandeliers, two grand stages, and oversized vintage French circus posters lining the walls. Vintage 15 provided music throughout the evening, along with performances by a ringmaster, stiltwalkers, jugglers, clowns,a roaming caricaturist, a juggling unicyclist, and performing dogs. Lynn Wyatt

Mike Stude and Mariquita Masterson Photos: Jenny Antill and Daniel Ortiz

Amy Ryan, Hilda Curran, Lindsay Holstead

Janet Hobby and Paul Hobby