Friends for Haiti

Friday, September 9, 2011 from 6:30pm-11pm on Duxbury Beach

>> Click here for a printable version of the Friends for Haiti Event Invitation

A new and exciting addition to this year’s Oyster Festival is our Friday night benefit, “Friends for Haiti”. Your $250 ticket includes cocktails, passed hors d’oeuvres, an amped up raw-bar and unlimited short plates created by elite chefs from Boston, New York, Chicago and Nantucket. There will be a live auction, with Annie Copps and Chef Angela Raynor as our auctioneers, interactive chef stations, late night live music with Dwight and Nicole and Island Creek Oyster style fun. All proceeds from this event and the live auction directly benefit ICOF’s collaboration with Caribbean Harvest in Haiti.

For those of you who are unable to attend the event, ICOF is excited to offer online proxy bidding for our hottest once-in-a-lifetime auction opportunities. To find out more, please click here for auction information and Proxy Bid Forms.

Your $250 ticket ($160 tax deductible) includes return admission to Saturday’s Oyster Festival (3:00 – 11:00). Purchase tickets here.

Sponsorships are available – see the Sponsorship page for more information.

ICOF Projects

Earlier this year the William J. Clinton Foundation connected ICOF with the Caribbean Harvest Foundation. By sustainably farming fish, Caribbean Harvest strives to re-make a domestic fishing industry, create jobs, - and provide nutrition and social programs for the people of Haiti. Beginning in the fall of 2011 ICOF will place its full support behind Dr. Valentin Abe, Caribbean Harvest’s founder, in the hopes of greatly expediting the building of this sustainable tilapia industry in one of the world’s poorest countries. With Friday night’s Friends for Haiti event, we hope to raise enough money to provide 40+ families (nearly half a village) with a Tilapia Farming Starter Kit which will subsequently boost each family's annual income from $400 per year to $3,800 per year.

Additional proceeds from the Oyster Festival Weekend will fund the ongoing work of the Foundation including our collaboration with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Zanzibar where a shellfish hatchery is being successfully developed, as well as towards future projects where sustainable aquaculture can bring relief and hope to impoverished areas around the globe.

Island Creek Oysters Foundation is a 501C3 non profit organization #26-3007335.

The Party

ICOF is pleased to have so many illustrious chefs supporting Friends for Haiti. We can’t wait to taste what they create:

Jody Adams, Rialto, Cambridge; Trade & Co, Boston

Jonathan Benno, Lincoln Restaurant, Manhattan

Erling-Wu Bower, The Publican, Chicago

Jackson Cannon, Eastern Standard Kitchen, Boston

Joanne Chang, Flour Bakery, Boston

Brian Huston, The Publican, Chicago

Sam Mason, Empire Mayonnaise, New York

Ton Maws, Craigie on Main, Cambridge

Frank McClelland, L'Espalier, Boston

Angela and Seth Raynor, The Pearl, The Boarding House, Corazon Del Mar, Nantucket

Michael Schlow, Radius, Tico, Via Matta, Alta Strada, Boston

Jeremy Sewall, Island Creek Oyster Bar, Lineage, Eastern Standard Kitchen, Boston

Ming Tsai, Blue Ginger, Wellesley

Friends for Haiti chefs will be assisted by students from the BU School of Culinary Arts

It wouldn’t be an Island Creek party without great tunes! Check out Dwight and Nicole, our headliner for Friends for Haiti.

All proceeds from Friends for Haiti benefit Caribbean Harvest.