Dates: Benefiting Care Resource - Florida’s One Source for HIV/AIDS services - the eighteenth annual White Party and the eighth year of events leading up to it will take place November 23 – December 2, 2002 with the main events beginning on Wednesday, November 27. Where does the money go? Because of our sponsors' and volunteers' generous support, Care Resource is able to keep overhead expenses low and turn 86% of total revenues back into 30,000 free services to our clients in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale. Miami has the highest AIDS rate into the nation’s and neighboring Ft. Lauderdale has the third highest. Even though nationally, overall rates of new AIDS cases have decreased, Miami ‘s rate increased last year. With the development of services to meet the growing needs comes the challenge of identifying financial resources to support our work. Money raised from White Party events helps underwrite HIV/AIDS services Care Resource provides to Miami-Dade and Broward county residents, including our HIV clinical trials and research, Partners in Faith outreach program , Riccardia Children and Families program, volunteer services and operational costs related to HIV care management, psychosocial counseling, prevention education, counseling and testing, information services and administration When do tickets go on sale? Passes go sale July 1 online only. Miami-Dade and Broward county residents’ Community Pass go on sale August 1, 2002 by phone. Individual tickets go on sale nationally and internationally online and by phone on September 1, 2002. All ticket sales are first-come, first-serve and events sell out. Please order early. Why white? As Frank Wager, White Party co-founder, said, “White stands for purity. White is elegant, non-political, non-combative and makes people look just plain beautiful.” The sight of thousands of people dancing or strolling the gardens of the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens all costumed in white is truly breathtaking. 5 reasons to go to the White Party: World’s best-looking men! All the best A-list DJ’s! Best White Party at Vizcaya ever (bring your Latin Carnival costume and mask! More lights! More sound! More fashion!) White Dreams at the Miami Seaquarium produced by Mark Baker (Gay Days at Disney), Jeffrey Sanker (White Party Palm Springs) and Johnny Chisholm (OZ, New Orleans). South Beach is the world’s hottest vacation destination – always! New clubs, new restaurants, new stores and new hotels on the gorgeous Atlantic Ocean! The White Party is “the Crown Jewel” of AIDS fundraisers because: It takes place in some of the hottest locations on the planet: chic, trendy South Beach, Of the unique majesty of the Vizcaya mansion, Of the modern formality of the VIP party at South Beach’s newest hotels, Of the historic Art Deco Ocean Drive as backdrop of the Muscle Beach party on the Atlantic Of the colorful Miami city skyline of the White Dreams event at the Miami Seaquarium; Of the great weather It attracts the most attractive, upscale gay travelers on earth and It goes non-stop for six days The White Party week of events is like no other vacation. About the White Party at Vizcaya: Born from fashion, entertainment and a desire to end AIDS... Altruistic, visionary, compassionate, innovative, intelligent Frank Wager, co-founder and guiding light of the White Party represented Miami at its best. Born in El Salvador and educated in Boston, Frank headed for Paris in the mid-seventies where a group of expatriates from four continents were in the process of altering how gay people perceived themselves forever. An integral member of the mythic Club Sept crowd - which included Antonio Lopez, Kenzo, Donna Jardon, Jerry Hall,, Jessica Lange, Grace Jones, Yves St. Laurent, Tina Chow, Karl Lagerfeld, Tom Cashin, and Paloma Picasso - Frank's first business venture was in the world of fashion where, in partnership with the inimitable Guy Cuevas, their first collection caused a furor and inspired St.Laurent's look. The growing political unrest back home in Central America, where, in the eighties kidnappings and political murders had become everyday occurrences, forced Frank back home to the New World. Looking for a place to re-settle his family, he chose Miami for the obvious reasons. Once here, he opened and operated the highly successful Club Clue Non-Stop Boutique in Coconut Grove and South Miami, where he and his staff created and popularized what became the dance club uniform of the 90's - jeans, cut-offs, Doc Marten boots with white socks, sleeveless shirts, neck chains, etc. Moving on to South Beach, his boutique/restaurant/salon Tutti Plein was part of that first wave of trend-setting businesses that helped popularize South Beach as the Ultimate Destination. In 1985, the founders of the newly formed Health Crisis Network asked Frank to head their fund raising efforts and so the White Party was born, netting that first year $16,000. Over the years, it has become an internationally recognized event and helped define the gay party circuit worldwide. The White Party is Care Resource's - the agency born in 1998 out of the merger between Health Crisis Network and Community Research Initiative - largest funding source and has netted over 150 times its original amount. While for many, the White Party is just another date on the circuit party calendar, for those who work on it year round as volunteers and staff, it is still a time of reflection and remembering, of compassion and caring, of love and hope, of joy and of courage, as Frank had originally intended.