[BCMA] Langley Museum hosting Garden Party Art Auction July 20th

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
[July 9, 2013]

Langley Centennial Museum hosting a Garden Party Art Auction on July 20th

Fort Langley, BC - A Garden Party Art Auction will be held at the Langley Centennial Museum on Saturday July 20th between the hours of 1:00 and 4:00 pm.  The sale is a fundraiser for the Langley Memorial Hospital Foundation's "It all Starts Here" campaign.

During the months of May and June the Museum and the Langley Memorial Hospital Foundation collaborated on a unique exhibition, entitled The Art of Motherhood.  The exhibit featured 58 works of art in various mediums including sculpture, painting, mixed media, and drawing, by local and provincial artists, all of whom agreed to donate between 50 and 100 percent of the proceeds from the sale of their works back to the LMHF.

The Museum and Foundation were celebrating motherhood through art in order to raise awareness and funds for The Vandekerkhove Family Maternity Centre at Langley Memorial Hospital.  "We saw this show of motherhood-inspired art as the perfect opportunity to raise funds for the ongoing campaign to expand the Maternity Centre," said the Museum's Cultural Services Manager, Peter Tulumello.

"LMH was built sixty five years ago and has natal facilities that have not kept pace with the birthrate," stated Errin Young of the Langley Memorial Hospital Foundation.  "It has one of busiest maternity units in the region, with approximately 1,800 births per year.  Statistics demonstrate that the projected number of births here is expected to increase to more than 2,300 by 2020."



The number of births at Langley Memorial Hospital has increased from 85 per year in 1948 (when LMH opened) to 1,800 per year in 2010.  But the number of beds has only increased by 2 - from 11 to 13.

Under the theme "It All Starts Here", the Foundation has undertaken a capital campaign to raise $5.35 million for a long-overdue expansion to LMH's maternity unit and clinic, so it can continue to give the newest members of our community the best possible start in life.  The Foundation relies on the generous support of the community to ensure that the highest quality of healthcare can continue to be delivered here in our community hospital, and is pleased to announce that more than $3 million has been raised to date.

The live auction will take place in conjunction with the opening of the Museum's next exhibit, From Bedpans to Bandages: the History of Medicine in Langley.

The July 20th event's Auctioneer is Ken Passmore, a veteran of the local auction circuit. "Ken is an outstanding and well known auctioneer," said Tulumello, "and is bound to entertain our audience and encourage bidders to be generous in support of the new Maternity Centre".

For more information, for an auction catalogue, or to place an advance bid, please contact the Langley Centennial Museum at 604.532.3536.

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For media inquiries, please contact:
Kobi Christian, Arts & Heritage Curator
Langley Centennial Museum
604.533.6090 ext. 5007        kchristian at tol.ca<mailto:kchristian at tol.ca>


For media inquiries, please contact:
Kiersten Custodio, Executive Assistant
Langley Memorial Hospital Foundation
604-.533.6422  Kiersten.custodio at fraserhealth.ca<mailto:Kiersten.custodio at fraserhealth.ca>
www.lmhfoundation.com<http://www.lmhfoundation.com/>







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