Van Andel Institute’s twelfth annual Hope on the Hill Gala celebrates “A Night in Oz,” where “there is no place like Hope.”  The gala includes cuisine from Grand Rapids’ finest restaurants and catering companies, martinis mixed on bars of chiseled ice, dancing to live music by Drop 35, live auction with 97 LAV & WJRW’s Tony Gates and live entertainment by LUMA, a state-of-the art, cutting-edge show that uses the dark as a canvas and light as the brush.  Thanks to Title Sponsor Fifth Third Private Bank, Entertainment Sponsor Merrill Lynch Wealth Management (Veldheer, Long, Mackay & Bernecker Group), and VIP Party Sponsors Bank of America, Fred L. Hansen Corporation, GR Outdoor, Metagenics and Mills Benefit Group.  More than 800 guests are expected and the event is projected to raise more than $500,000 for cancer and neurodegenerative disease research and science education with  100% to Research, Discovery & Hope. For tickets visit www.vai.org

More information and a map to the event can be found here:

http://www.vai.org/about-vai/news-and-events/upcoming-events/a-night-in-oz.aspx

WHEN: THURSDAY, October 25, 2012

TIME:                         6:30 P.M. - 12:00 A.M.

WHERE: Van Andel Institute, 333 Bostwick Ave. NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503