SAGES Social Programs

SAGES/IPEG Welcome Reception

Date:Wednesday, March 12, 2003

Time: 5:00 - 7:00 PM

Place: Exhibit Hall

Fee: No Fee for Registrants & registered guests

Dress: Business or casual

 

Special promotions, presentations and entertainment. Great food! Open bar!

Note: Children under the age of 14 will not be permitted in the Exhibit Hall due to safety considerations.

 

“HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD!”

A Viennese Dessert Buffet & An Evening at The Trocars !

The First Annual SAGES Foundation Fundraiser

Join your friends and colleagues for a classic Hollywood Gala. We may not be giving away any “Oscars” but we have “trocars” galore, along with our version of the red carpet celebrity interview, merrymaking and a calories-don’t-count dessert buffet. A chance to support the Foundation, laugh
and enjoy a fun evening with friends! A portion of your ticket purchase price is deductible as a charitable contribution. The portion of the ticket price which is not deductible is $35. The remainder of the ticket price qualifies as a charitable deduction to the extent allowed by law.

 

Date: Thursday, March 13, 2003

Time: Approx. 9:30 PM

Place: Bonaventure Hotel

Dress: Elegant Casual or Business Attire

Donation: $100.00

 

“Universal” Soiree

An Evening at Universal Studios Hollywood

Date: Friday, March 14, 2003

Time: Approx. 7:30 PM

Place: Universal Studios Hollywood

Dress: Casual

Fee: Included in Registration for SAGES Scientific Session and Guests

 

Dine on a sumptuous buffet dinner at the Universal Studios Hollywood Globe Theater, Baker Street, and Parisian Courtyard. Get a closer look at where and how your favorite movies are made on the studio tour. Let your hair down and join us for a vintage SAGES event. And, after all that partying, cap the evening with…

The Sixth Annual SAGES International “SING-OFF”

What could be more appropriate than the world’s funniest and even a few talented surgeon performers doing their “thing” at Universal
Studios Hollywood? Don’t fail to notice that this year we give the M.C. “pull the plug” privileges!

SAGES Sing-Off Instructions

SAGES/IPEG Accompanying Guest Tours

Tour #1: Inside Historic L.A.

A Downtown Walking Tour

Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2003

Approx Time: 9:45 AM

Length: 2 hours

Fee: $25.00

 

Explore a cityscape virtually unchanged since the golden era of Hollywood. See the “Broadway Historic Theatre District.” Your guide will lead you INSIDE some of America’s most beautiful original picture palaces and historic buildings including the Palace Theatre, Warner Bros. Downtown Theatre, Grand Central Market (a European style food hall), the opulent ballrooms of the Biltmore Hotel, Central Library, Clifton’s Cafeteria, the Art Deco landmark Edison and Title Guarantee Buildings and the extraordinarily beautiful Bradbury Building.

Downtown L.A. has the largest contiguous concentration of historic pre-WW2 architecture in America. It is often used as a movie “back lot” for turn-of-the-century New York or Chicago. Films shot here include “Bladerunner”, “The Sting”, “Ghostbusters”, “Chaplin”, “Pay it Forward”, “Vertigo”, “Arthur”, “48 Hours” and “Terminator 3”. When you visit Downtown LA you never know who you might see! We will use a unique “Live Enhanced Audio” system, so everyone can hear the tour guide clearly.

 

Tour # 2: Inside Historic L.A.

A Downtown Walking Tour AND High Tea at the Elegant Biltmore Hotel

Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2003

Approx Time: 1:30 PM

Length: 3 1û2 hours

Fee: $57.00 Including High Tea

 

Explore the city (see Tour #1) and land at the Elegant Private Dining Room of the Historic Biltmore Hotel for High Tea in the English tradition, including scones and clotted cream, sandwiches, petit fours, etc!

 

Tour #3: The Fabulous Getty Museum

Date: Thursday, March 13, 2003

Approx Time: 10:00 AM

Length: 6-7 hours

Fee: $68.00 Including Lunch

 

An opportunity to see the world’s wealthiest museum. One of the great oil tycoons endowed this extraordinary museum with Greek antiquities, European paintings, decorative arts. Join us for this special tour since advance reservations are required to visit the museum on your own. Have lunch at the Museum café which boasts one of the great views of West L.A. A docent will guide you through the garden and acquaint you with the stunning architechture of The Getty.

 

Tour #4: Hollywood Movie Star Experience

Date: Friday, March 14, 2003

Approx Time: 10:00 AM

Length: 6 hours +

Fee: $75.00 including lunch

 

Focus today on the Hollywood Experience with a behind-the-scenes tour of Tinseltown and a glimpse into the life of a movie star. See where the stars live, shop and party as you tour the Beverly Hills Movie Stars Homes (see 40-50 breath-taking mansions of today’s hottest celebrities & Hollywood legends including Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Charlie Chaplin, Ozzy Osbourne, Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, Brad Pitt & Jennifer Aniston), Rodeo Drive & the Sunset Strip. We will have lunch at the “Pig and Whistle,” a favorite of the stars. Finally, come & see “Inside” the Heart of Historic Hollywood where the stars are trained & celebrated. Visit the Stella Adler Acting Academy where stars like Warren Beatty, Melanie Griffith & Benecio Del Toro trained. Go inside the historic movie palaces where the stars have their Movie Premieres. Discover where the stars received their first and the latest Oscars (the Roosevelt Hotel and the Kodak Theatre). See Hollywood Blvd., Walk of Fame, Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, and, of course, the Hollywood Sign.

Tour #5: Cultural Contemporary L.A. & the MoCA

A Walking Tour with Lunch

Date: Saturday, March 15, 2003

Approx Time: 10:00 AM

Length: 5 hours

Fee: $45.00 including lunch

 

Los Angeles is a world center for contemporary art. Stars of the worlds of art and architecture such as Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne, David Hockney and Robert Graham call Los Angeles their home.

 

On this tour, visit the new world-class contemporary Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, designed by famed Spanish architect Jose Rafael Moneo. We journey through the Cathedral’s awe-inspiring interior where the natural light is filtered by the world’s largest installation of alabaster windows and visit America’s largest underground mausoleum. Then we visit fantastic Modernist sites such as the Los Angeles Music Center, Colburn School, Well’s Fargo Center and DWP Building, as well as Post-Modern edifices such as the Library Tower Gas Co. Tower, MoCA, and Frank Gehry’s fantasy-like Disney Hall. You’ll also see artwork by Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, Joan Miro, Robert Rauschenberg and Frank Stella.

After the tour, relax and enjoy a great lunch at Joachim Splichal’s Patinette Café in the plaza at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA). After lunch, you will have time to visit the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA). Founded in 1979, MoCA has developed one of the nation’s most renowned permanent collections of contemporary art in two unique downtown facilities.


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