The 2009 Marquee Ball Online Auction is OPEN!

The Online Auction will run from January 23, 2009 to April 26, 2009.  We will add new items as they come in - so check back often! Proceeds go to Creative Alliance in order to support all of our programming and initiatives.  Auction items range from exotic vacation getaways to donated jewelry and art items guaranteed to delight and surprise.  So, tell your friends, family, community. Let the bidding begin!

The 2009 Marquee Ball takes place on Saturday April 18, 2009. 

Spend a swingin’ sixties night with 007 at Creative Alliance’s 7^th Annual Marquee Ball saluting the James Bond flick Goldfinger. Brian Simms’ Junkyard Saints add high octane energy that promises to shake up The Patterson’s dance floor with Funk, Swing, Latin, R&B and a splash of Zydeco. This suave soiree includes great food, rowdy gambling and silent auction, gadget making, scantily clad cocktail girls, and several bars. You’ll have a shockingly fun evening with a convoy of Bond Burlesque, Contortionistic Go-Go Girls, Fire Eating Spies, Atomic Jugglers and lots of other 007 high jinks. Glam up in your mod gown or debonair tux and experience an unforgettable party that will be the talk of the town! Ball starts @ 9pm.

Adv tixs are a golden deal @ $35, $25 members, Door tix $40 Supplies ltd. Get 'em quick!

The Marquee Ball is preceded by the Shaken Not Stirred Action Filled Dinner where Connie Imboden will receive the Golden Formstone Award for Formidable Contributions to Baltimore Through the Arts. Dinner starts @ 6pm $175 Adv tixs req.

Get your tickets NOW as we plan to sell out early!  For tix click: Order Event Tickets  and then scroll down to 'Marquee Ball'. You can also PREVIEW some of the Silent Auction and Live Auction Items on this site -- but you'll want to be there in your hottest mod-sexy retro look as these will ONLY be offered for Bid at the Ball itself.