Hoboken Museum To Host 'Masked Ball' Fundraiser

From the Hoboken Historical Museum: In homage to its black-and-white photography exhibit from the 1980s, the Hoboken Historical Museum is hosting a Black & White Masked Ball and Auction on Saturday, May 6. Proceeds will support the museum’s exhibitions, education programs, and collections campaign.

This year, the event will be hosted at a new venue, David E. Rue Building, 301 Garden St., with a special Honorary Chair, Marci Rubin of News 12 New Jersey. Details and tickets are available here or by calling 201-656-2240.

The event will include a buffet dinner from AD Catering, an open bar, and an evening of dancing with a live DJ. The centerpiece of the evening will be a live auction featuring:

• A summer pass to the Shipyard pool
• Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade uptown viewing stand seats
• A year of indoor parking in uptown Hoboken
• An early fall dinner for a party of 10 from chef Pino, with wine pairing from Bin 14
• A vacation week in a condo near Winter Park, Colorado

Tickets are $150 each, with proceeds supporting the museum's educational programs, exhibitions and preservation of collections and research. They are available online here or here.

Get into the Black & White Photo Contest – Win a ticket

The museum also invites the wider Hoboken community to get into the spirit of the gala and exhibition with a black-and-white photo contest. To enter the contest, snap a current image of Hoboken in black and white, and post it to Instagram, Facebook or Twitter, tagging @HobokenMuseum and using #HobokenMakesHistory. Each Thursday until May 4, the Gala Host Committee will choose a weekly winner of a pair of tickets to the gala. Everyone has three chances to win, enter as often as you like between April 17 and May 5. Original photos only, subject matter must include Hoboken. Each week’s winner will be contacted via social media, and the winning photographs will be added to the museum’s website.

Expanded Silent Auction

An expanded silent auction this year will include dozens of tempting packages, artworks, and gift certificates for local businesses, including tickets to a Broadway show and a Hoboken Memorial Day Parade ride on a fire truck for kids. Smart-phone bidding will be available to bid on packages as a night at the W Hotel or the Standard Hotel in NYC, tickets to performances at NJPAC, an unlimited month of workouts at Local Barre, a NY Waterway pass, cooking lessons at Hudson Table, two seats on Big Bus Tours of NYC, an unlimited month of Prime Cycle classes, or gift cards to Cellar 335 in Jersey City, Massage Envy, Pilsener Haus, Arielle's Apothecary.

The event is made possible through the support of Platinum sponsors, AD Catering & Events and Quest Events; Gold sponsors, CarePoint Health, the Schmalzbauer Family and Nancy Lynch and Chris Falkner; and Silver sponsors, Hufnagel Landscape Design & Construction Group, Halstead Properties NJ, JDA Hoboken Business Center, Strategic Insurance Partners, BCB Community Bank, W Hotels Hoboken, Bijou Properties, Cindy Cray, Haven Savings Bank, Hackensack Palisades Medical, Clifton Savings Bank, Dragonfly Imaging, Dawn Melanie Designs, Party Rentals Ltd., Grace Church, Hoboken Ale and Rhythm in Motion.

Flyer image via the Hoboken Historical Museum