Zoobilee! Feast with the Beasts 2023 Program

ROGER WILLIAMS PARK ZOO presents

Saturday, June 24, 2023 PRESENTED BY

ROGER WILLIAMS PARK ZOO, PROVIDENCE, RI RHODE ISLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Dear Zoobilee Guests, Welcome to one of our favorite evenings of the year Zoobilee! Feast with the Beasts is back, and we have a fun evening planned for you.

Starting at the main entrance you probably noticed some changes, and a large dinosaur! Strolling through the Zoo under a lush canopy of green, sampling delicious food and drink, perhaps encountering an animal or two – and meeting up to chat with friends and listen to music – we think it is a grand way to kick off the summer. As a guest tonight you will also have the opportunity to explore Dinosaurs Among Us along the nature trail.

Did you know that Roger Williams Park Zoo was recently named one of the top 20 zoos in the country by U.S. News & World Report? According to the publication, “... while not all zoos are created equal, the editors at U.S. News used an extensive research process to create this list of the top zoos in the country. All the destinations receive favorable traveler reviews on multiple websites, are accredited by AZA – an organization focused on the well-being and care of animals – and have been evaluated by experienced veterinarians and animal care specialists.”

The Zoo is a treasure not just for the local Rhode Islanders but has become a destination for many visitors throughout New England. Your support tonight is critical to our success, the accolades and work being accomplished are thanks to supporters like you.

We are so thankful to the restaurants, caterers and beverage purveyors who support Roger Williams Park Zoo by donating their service and their wonderful food and drink. You get to enjoy a great party, too, and it all combines to advance the Zoo’s mission to conserve wildlife and wild places. You might already be aware that we support projects and programs that protect giraffes in Kenya, frogs in Chile, fish in Peru, tree kangaroos in Papua New Guinea in addition to protecting native New England species right here in Rhode Island. What you might not know is that YOU are helping make that happen right now by joining us for Zoobilee.

Bank RI is our presenting sponsor again this year, along with a number of corporate sponsors, and I hope you will join us in recognizing their support. It is a genuine privilege to work in a community that so highly prioritizes its zoo as an educational and recreational institution along with being an advocate for wildlife. We humbly thank our sponsors and hope you will do the same when you have an opportunity.

Finally, it is a pleasure to give a shout-out to our event Chair, Pamela Heffernan and the Zoobilee Event Committee for their energy, creativity, and perseverance. Their hard work combined with that of the RWP Zoo staff team have outdone themselves again to produce this festive gathering for an important purpose.

Cheers!

Stacey Johnson Rhode Island Zoological Society, Executive Director

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Proudly Supports

Roger Williams Park Zoo

Greetings Zoobilee Guests, Tonight’s event marks the official kickoff to summer, and we are thrilled that you are celebrating Zoobilee! Feast with the Beasts with us this year!

This event showcases and celebrates our loyal supporters, community partners, and our wonderful staff. The evening helps us shine a light on our beautiful Zoo grounds, and the animals that we are proud to care for and nurture.

As you enjoy the local food and beverages, dance, and catch up with friends and colleagues, don’t forget to look around. Walk along the Zoo trails and see the life size dinosaur exhibit on the nature trail; look up in awe at the new giraffe shade structure; and check out the area being prepped for the state-of-the-art Education pavilion; all these amazing upgrades and changes are happening now, with more to come in 2024.

Your support tonight is critical to our continued success. Admissions tickets do not cover all the costs to maintain our grounds though. We also rely on all our events and generous donors like you to help care for our diverse animal population and habitats that meet and exceed the requirements of modern-day zoos.

I hope you enjoy all the delicious food and beverages provided tonight by the finest restaurants and caterers in the area. And, there’s still time to bid on our online auction, there are wonderful items to bid on including unique Zoo experiences, weekend getaways, and sporting events.

And finally, a heartfelt thank you to our presenting sponsor, Bank RI, as well as my fellow Zoobilee committee members, the Zoological Society Board of Trustees and all the companies, organizations, and individuals who have generously contributed to Zoobilee.

And special thanks to the participating restaurants, Zoo staff and volunteers who commit their time and hard work to make the evening a fun and safe experience for everyone.

And thank you to all of you for your continued support; we are Zoo-per grateful!

Enjoy the evening!

Pam Heffernan Pam Heffernan Chair, Zoobilee 2023 Event Committee Rhode Island Zoological Society Board of Trustee

Main Program Upper Zoo/Entertainment Tent 7:45 – 8:15 p.m.

• Tony Petrarca and Kelly Kaulnian – WPRI News Team • Stacey Johnson, RIZS Executive Director • Pamela Heffernan, Chair, Zoobilee

8:15 – 9:15 p.m.

Mystique

9:00 p.m.

Last Call at Lower Zoo Bar

9:45 – 10:55 p.m.

Mystique

10:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.

Last Call at Upper Zoo Bars

Not To Be Missed 5:40 – 5:50 p.m.

Interactive Bird Show

Dinosaurs Among Us Plaza

6:00 – 7:30 p.m.

Education Animal Encounters Sampling of Animal Exhibits open until dusk

Zoo-Wide Zoo-Wide

6:00 – 10:45 p.m.

Wine & Beer Bazaar

Upper Zoo

7:00 – 7:10 p.m.

Interactive Bird Show

Farmyard Stage

7:00 – 10:00 p.m.

Dinosaurs Among Us

Wetlands Trail

PRESENTING SPONSOR

ELEPHANT ENTOURAGE

SNOW LEOPARD LEAGUE

Janci Foundation

Sponsor listing as of 6/23/23

BISON BRIGADE

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TREE KANGAROO CREW Beacon Mutual Insurance Company

First Hartford Realty Corp.

Captain Morgan

Jonathan & Maya Nelson

Coastline Trust Company

Pamela & Bill Heffernan

Domenic & Sandy Coletta

Saccoccio & Associates Architects

The Color House

Textron

Dimeo Construction Company

GIBBON GANG A.B. Munroe Dairy, Inc.

Liz & Frank Mauran

Bentley Companies

Miles River Direct

The Bentley Foundation, an affiliate of DiSanto, Priest & Co.

Navigant Credit Union

Bootstrap Compost

Parsons Kellogg

Arthur Bradford & Caitlin Clark David & Kelsey Coletta Maureen Dumas & Craig Gulla Foster Veterinary Clinic Stephen & Diana Lewinstein Marcum LLP

Jane S. Nelson Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP Ron & Joanne Patalano SDS Disposal, Inc. The Stoico / FIRSTFED Foundation Washington Trust

TORTOISE TROOP Nancy J. Allen

Patrick T. LeBeau and Meghan Rawson

Jean, Rachel & Becky Aubin

McAdams Charitable Foundation, Mr. & Mrs. Norman McCulloch, Jr.

Bally’s Twin River Lincoln Casino Resort Roxanne Beretta, Realtor RE/MAX Big Blue Bug

Jack Murray & Lynn Morgan NEC Solar North-Eastern Tree Service Inc.

Martha Bower

Donna Ottaviano, Ed.D. - East Bay Educational Collaborative

Sarah Denby Zack Denoncour

Pier Fish Company

Eastern Ice

Karen & Stephen Prest

E.W. Burman, INC. Ferestien Feed & Farm Supply Inc Meg Ferguson

PVD Food Truck Events Signature Printing Spirol

The Holt Family

David & Jill Wolff

Alden G. Hough

Woodlawn Gardens Florist

Ron & Linda Isaacson Lahlaf Geotechnical Consulting, Inc.

Mario Zocchi & Tonya Brainsky

SPECIAL THANK YOU Rhode Island Zoological Society Staff Roger Williams Park Zoo Staff Sponsor listing as of 6/23/23

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ATTENTION GUESTS: Photographs will be taken by Zoo staff during the course of the evening for use in future public relations materials such as our annual report, on-site event promotion posters, invitations, or on social media.

Your Generous Support Makes a Difference!

• engaging and educating the public • • bringing the wonder of wildlife to the community • • saving threatened and endangered species •

PLAZA

Thanks to these fabulous food and beverage providers!

DINOSAURS AMONG US PLAZA (SERVING TIME 5:30-7:30PM)

Barefoot Wine & Bubbly Little Rhody Foods / Del’s Lemonade

LOWER ZOO (SERVING TIME 6:00-8:30PM)

Chaska Kabob and Curry Legal Sea Foods The Original Italian Bakery Providence Bagel Rasa Rasoi Service Systems Associates Snookers Sports Billiards Bar & Grill Tavolo Wine Bar & Tuscan Grille Trinity Brewhouse TwoTen Oyster Bar Union Station Brewery

UPPER ZOO (SERVING TIME 6:00-9:30PM)

110 Grill Arooga’s Grille House & Sports Bar Dolores Edible Arrangements GPub Granny Squibb’s Organic Iced Tea Hill’s Home Market The Martucci Group featuring: Besos, Chianti’s Catering, KAI, Pasta Patch, Safehouse, The Trap Brew Pub & Grill

Mill’s Tavern Restaurant Neon Marketplace Not Your Average Joe’s Res American Bistro Vita Coco spiked with Captain Morgan XACO TACO

DESSERTS & COFFEE GG’s Pretzels Gregg’s Restaurants Sarcastic Sweets Service Systems Associates Starbucks Coffee Company Syroya’s Bakery Three Wishes Bakery Val’s English Tea & Pie Shop

BEVERAGE PROVIDERS Douglas Wine & Spirits Eastern Ice Pepsi Bottling Company Vita Coco spiked with Captain Morgan

DRINK TICKETS - $3 EACH 1 ticket 2 tickets 3 tickets

Soda/Bottled Water Beer/Wine/Mocktail Zootinis & Mixed Drinks

Don’t miss out!

Bid on these exciting items!

SPORTS

4 Tickets to See a NE Patriots Preseason Game!

VALUE: $400

Two Tickets to See the Boston Red Sox vs. Detroit Tigers in the Effectv Suite VALUE: $1,000

ENTERTAINMENT

Two (2) Newport Jazz Festival Tickets with Parking VALUE: $225

Visit & Bid

$500 Gift Card to Andino’s on Federal Hill VALUE: $500

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ZOO VIP

A Behind-the- Scenes VIP Elephants Encounter VALUE: PRICELESS

A Behind the Scenes VIP Sloth Encounter VALUE: PRICELESS

Be a Keeper for a ‘Day’ VALUE: PRICELESS

An Original Komodo Dragon Painting VALUE: PRICELESS

GET-AWAY

7 Night Stay in Panama at Los Establos Boutique Inn VALUE: $3,750

Nantucket Day Trip for Two VALUE: $162

Don’t miss out!

Bid on these exciting items!

GET-AWAY

One-Night Escape to the Cape VALUE: $175

One Night Stay at Weekapaug Inn VALUE: $700

ENTERTAINMENT

Charles River Boat Tour for Four VALUE: $105

2 One-Day Passes to Story Land!

VALUE: $110

Two Jason Aldean concert tickets at Xfinity Center Mansfield!

VALUE: $200

Family Fun Package from Mulligan’s Island Golf & Entertainment VALUE: $70

What you need to know: WINE & BEER BAZAAR Help support the Zoo and purchase a wine bottle or a six pack of beer with a surprise gift certificate valued at $25 or more

There’s still time to bid!

The online auction is open for bidding until Monday, June 26, 12:00 p.m. Visit biddingforgood.com/ rwpzooauction

Visit the new Grab & Go Bar

Don’t forget to save room for desserts near the gift shop

Last Call is at 10:30pm

Buy your drink tickets before heading to the Zootini Cocktail Bar

Stop by the American Association of Zookeepers booth to learn more about its mission to advance professional animal care and conservation.

2023 Zoobilee Online Auction and Wine & Beer Bazaar Donors Thank you to the following friends who generously donated unique items for this year’s online auction and wine/beer bottle bazaar.

110 Grill Aidan’s Pub Nancy J. Allen Alpine Country Club Amanda Klein Co. The AMP Andino’s Restaurant Anonymous Apponaug Brewing Company Arooga’s Grille House & Sports Bar Audubon Society of Rhode Island Avon Cinema Ballet RI Bally’s Twin River Lincoln Barrington Books Battleship Cove Bayside Resort The Beef Barn The Block Island Ferry Boston Professional Hockey Association Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum Bradford Portraits Broadway Bistro Bromley Mountain Cabot Creamery Cooperative Susan Callori Cape Codder Resort & Spa / Catalina Hospitality Group Capital Genealogy Cardi’s Furniture Co. Carl M. Freeman Companies Cat Country 98.1FM- WCTK Catering by Dave’s Marketplace CAV Restaurant Charles Riverboat Company Chow Fun Food Group Cindy Ko Photography Circe Restaurant Citizens

Coast Guard House Sandra L. & Domenic M. Coletta Maxine Colvin Concord Museum Cox Communications Cumulus Media Daniel Doke Photography Dave & Buster’s DeQuattro Restaurant Group DeWolf Tavern The Discovery Museums Douglas Wine & Spirits EcoTarium Edible Arrangements Effectv Enchanted Lotus Endicott Dance Cindy M. Erickson Escape Rhode Island Essex Steam Train & Riverboat Evelyn’s Drive-In Mathew Ferreira Mary & Heriberto Figueroa Foxwoods Resort & Casino/ CAO Frances Fleet The Freedom Trail Foundation Gamm Theatre Gather Glass Ghost Tours of Newport, RI Gillette Stadium Gooseneck Vineyards Graduate Providence Grapes & Grains Fine Wine & Spirits The Great Escape Room Providence Groundswell Cafe & Bakery The Guild Pawtucket Shandi Hanna The Hard-Pressed Cider Co. Hartford Yard Goats

The auction is open until Monday, June 26 at 12:00pm.

Visit biddingforgood.com/rwpzooauction to place your bid!

Harvard Museums of Science and Culture Hawthorne Hotel Pamela & Bill Heffernan Henry Bear’s Park The House of the Seven Gables Hy-Line Cruises The Institute of Contemporary Art/ Boston International Tennis Hall of Fame Jackson Ski Touring Foundation John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Cynthia C. Kaplan Kay’s Restaurant Knights Wine & Spirits La Gondola Providence Lake of Isles Legal Seafoods LEGOLAND New York Luciano’s Mary Originals Massachusetts Audubon Society Massage Envy Spa Matunuck Oyster Bar Karen Melo Ticas Mohegan Sun Montaup Country Club Mulligan’s Island Golf & Entertainment Center Mystic Seaport Museum Naples Zoo Narragansett Beer National Baseball Hall of Fame New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill New England Revolution Charitable Foundation New England Wild Flower Society Newport Art Museum Newport Bay Club & Hotel The Newport Experience Newport Playhouse Newport Restaurant Group Newport Vineyards Norman Bird Sanctuary Not Your Average Joe’s Old Sturbridge Village O’Rourke’s Bar & Grill Alayna Paquette Pats Peak Peabody Essex Museum People’s Liquor Warehouse Phantom Farms

Douglas Phillips Pittsburgh Steelers Plimoth Patuxet Museums Red Stripe Restaurants Renaissance Providence Downtown Hotel Rhode Island Monthly Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra and Music School RI Rainbow Nail Spa RISD Museum Rock Spot Climbing Gym Ross-Simons Jewelers Rota Portrait Design Salem Witch Museum Showcase Cinemas Signature Printing, Inc. Sky Zone Snookers Sports Billiards Bar and Grill Sandra Sosa Splitsville Luxury Lanes and Howl at the Moon Springfield Museums The SSA Group Starbucks Coffee Company Stop & Shop Story Land Studio B Salon Tavolo Telemundo Thames and Kosmos Theatre By The Sea Three Wishes Bakery The Tree House Tavern & Bistro Treetop Adventures Triggs Memorial Golf Course Trinity Repertory Company United Skates of America Weekapaug Inn Westport Rivers Vineyard & Winery Whisky Mentors Wines & More Wonderworks Orlando Woodlawn Gardens Florist Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority WPRI 12 & Fox Providence Wright’s Dairy Farm Inc. Yip Fitness Zoo Atlanta Zoo New England ZooTampa at Lowry Park

The auction is open until Monday, June 26 at 12:00pm.

Visit biddingforgood.com/rwpzooauction to place your bid!

Thank You for Your Support!

We are grateful for your presence tonight. It is through your support at events like Zoobilee, that the Zoo is able to contribute to the conservation of our earth’s animals and natural resources.

Because of YOU this year we are able to: • Create memories for nearly 800,000 guests.

• Provide exceptional medical care to over 606 Zoo animals.

• Bring the Zoomobile to over 4,000 school children last year.

• Share the importance of wildlife conservation with thousands of students who come on field trips, engage with the Zoomobile, partake in virtual programming or participate in internships.

• Provide curriculum appropriate environmental science programming to over 150 schools in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.

• Save animals both locally and globally including the American burying beetle, New England Cottontail, red wolf, Matschie’s tree kangaroo and snow leopard.

Thanks to you, Roger Williams Park Zoo continues to instill a sense of wonder and caring for the natural world in all those who visit.

2023 Zoobilee Committee Members: Pamela Heffernan, Chair Nancy Allen Claire Carrabba Cheryl Cohen Maxine Colvin Bob Conrad Sarah Denby Cindy Erickson Jennifer Foster Elizabeth Grover Judy Lockard Karen Silva Tempie Thompson Lauren Ustaszewski

celebrating Zootini Cocktail Bar Here’s your once-a-year chance to enjoy a refreshing Zoothemed cocktail! All proceeds from the Zootini Cocktail Bar (and all Zoobilee bars) benefit the Roger Williams Park Zoo. So, have a great time (responsibly) while helping out a worthy cause.

Donated by Douglas Wine & Spirits

Wine & Beer Bazaar Purchase a bottle of wine or a six-pack of beer for $35 and win a gift certificate guaranteed to be valued at $25. But most are worth much more! Do you want to win a gift certificate to area restaurants, tickets to local attractions, spa treatments and more?

Then pick up a bottle or a six-pack (or two) to win!

Groove to the Music of

Mystique

Put on your boogie shoes and dance the night away! Named Boston A-List’s Best Wedding Band of 2014, Mystique likes to party and it shows. They play a wide variety of music with a high energy performance that you won’t soon forget!