![]() ![]() When Anna Maria was alive, it had a totally different vision and it reflected her personality, which was very inclusive she was hardworking and dedicated to raising essential funds. The case never went to trial after our lawyers responded. Due to her minor injury, she claimed loss of sex and companionship with her husband and loss of ability to care for her children and husband. She sued the Convention Centre and the Brazilian Ball for millions of dollars. In trying to step over the rope, she tripped and took a fall. A slightly inebriated woman stumbled over the rope to get closer to the prize. Many years ago, cordoned off near the entrance to the Ballroom was a "water-ski surfboard" donated by David Nugent as a raffle prize. de Souza, husband of the late Anna Maria de Souza president and chief executive officer of The Brazilian Carnival Ballīy the end of the night, there were always a few over-refreshed bold-faced business names trying to out-samba the impossibly hot dancers, much to the horror of their wives. Luis de Castro, director of decor, Brazilian Carnival Ball owner, Dream Maker Events ![]() By the time I leave, it's 9 or 10 in the morning. Then the chairs and tables get taken away and finally the panels. We run because nothing else can be done before that. I can take away all the table linens and chair covers in an hour. I have a team of 10 to 15 to assemble the space, and then to take everything down, there are 20 people. The day before, I needed to sit on the floor at one point and Bonnie said, "Are you having the baby now?!" I told her no, but we laughed because the money would be benefiting Mount Sinai's diagnostic centre and there would be a lot of obstetricians in the room.Kathie Gayda, executive director, Brazilian Carnival Ball By the time the ball came around, I was eight months pregnant. I had worked in fundraising previously and then Bonnie Gottlieb hired me in 1995. Executive director Kathie Gayda and director of decor Luis de Castro have been among the ball's few constants. Many attribute this variety tothe Brazilian Ball's success. As it expanded, the ball flirted with various venues across Toronto – mostly hotels but also the Eaton Centre and the Granite Club – before landing at the Convention Centre in 1998.Įach year brought a new beneficiary and new co-chairs as selected by Ms. de Souza staged her soirée in the Sutton Place Hotel on Bay Street. In 1975, nearly a decade after her first carnival-themed get-together, Ms. de Souza's death, the ball that she began in a church basement 46 years ago will have its swan song. Three days before the fifth anniversary of Ms. de Souza persuaded Toronto's power players and elite influencers that this was the single most important event on their social calendar. Through what many describe as incomparable persistence and joie de vivre, Ms. As a single annual event, the ball is among Canada's most successful, having raised more than $57-million over its history, each year for a different set of charities (this year's beneficiaries are the Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology and the De Souza Institute Foundation). But before the feathered headdresses and beaded bikinis are put away for good, the Brazilian Carnival Ball, Toronto's longest-running – and most star-spangled – gala fundraiser will have one last hurrah on Sept. ![]() And most have been missing founder Anna Maria de Souza since her death in 2007. For others it will be the live samba music, inevitably driving enough to get those with two left feet onto the dance floor. Some might miss the dancers and their nearly naked bodies spray-painted in gold. ![]()
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