{"id":23107,"date":"2026-03-04T16:06:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=23107"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:18:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:18:01","slug":"2nd-annual-venetian-masquerade-soiree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/2nd-annual-venetian-masquerade-soiree\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd Annual Venetian Masquerade Soiree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Isaiah Frizzell<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Venetian masquerade ball in the Valley? In March? Sign me up!<br \/>\nAsk folks and you may hear \u2018not much happ\u2019nin\u2019 in the Valley during this season\u2019. We\u2019re still engaged in a weird winter while some call it \u2018the spring sigh\u2019; however, open eyes and ears know there\u2019s always something culturally beautiful to do here.<br \/>\n<strong>THE SPOT<\/strong><br \/>\nA boutique, nonprofit theater company, The Spot is one of the Valley\u2019s most exciting and perhaps best-kept secrets. Now celebrating its 11th anniversary, The Spot is a 501(c)(3) operating out of Ketchum. Its a unique blend as an educational venue where young artists collaborate with professional mentors. The output is extraordinary, contemporary and classical art generated while collaborating with some of the Valley\u2019s most beloved organizations.<br \/>\nCo-founder Yanna Lantz works primarily with Brett Moellenberg, of administration, finance and production, as well as technical operations director Samuel Muller as the primary team. \u201cWe have a fantastic team. There\u2019s a few of us. We all work together as a collective to execute our vision for The Spot,\u201d said Lantz.<br \/>\nCommunity, humanity, arts and trust&#8230; everything you need to know to put The Spot on your \u2018let\u2019s do it\u2019 list!<br \/>\n<strong>Venetian Leap Into Spring<\/strong><br \/>\nWhile listening to a Mozart serenade in D, Adagio-Allegro Asai (composed at the age of 17!), The Spot\u2019s up-coming event explodes across the mindscape. Pure release! Sweeping images of beautifully dressed, twirling dancers, splendid music and fine food, with a chance to win some extraordinary experiences. In its second year, this one will fill up fast.<br \/>\n\u201cThe event sold out last year. It\u2019s culinary excellence, dazzling drinks, entertainment, and Venetian flair in support of The Spot\u2019s main-stage productions and our tuition-free youth programming. So funds from this fundraiser will directly support our upcoming main-stage production of Pulitzer Prize-winner Top Dog\/Underdog [by Suzan-Lori Parks] in April, as well as our tuition-free middle school production of Something Rotten! Jr. [by Grammy Award-winning songwriter Wayne Kirkpatrick with screenwriters Karey Kirkpatrick and John O\u2019Farrell] in May, which features students from all Valley middle schools,\u201d Lantz excitedly exclaims.<br \/>\nThis is one of their many collaborations with the Sun Valley Culinary Institute. \u201cThere\u2019ll be exceptional cuisine from the Culinary Institute, who are partners with The Spot throughout the year. We just love the Culinary Institute and their immersive, intimate environments, which are pretty similar to The Spot. There\u2019ll be incredible drinks and costumes! Some people really go all out with their costumes, and, you know, the photos alone are worth it.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s rare to see everybody really dressing up and going all out, so that\u2019s a fun part of the event, too,and a reason to really come together as a community and, you know, commit to a theme.<br \/>\nOf course, we\u2019ll have silent auction packages that are really geared around experiences.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Luxury Prizes<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThere\u2019s everything from private dinners at your home to a trip for four to Tulum, Mexico, or a trip to New York, or tacos and tequila at Apple\u2019s Bar and Grill. All these packages go towards supporting fearless theatre at The Spot and our programming.\u201d<br \/>\nAn absolute joy to speak with, Lantz is elated and ready that they\u2019ll be able to directly interact with you! \u201cIt\u2019s a great way for us to connect with everyone offstage. You know, oftentimes we\u2019re just staring out from the stage and there\u2019s not much time to connect. So one of the beautiful things about this event is it allows us that personal time with our patrons and supporters.\u201d<br \/>\nThe photos will tell all and there\u2019s a few ways to make this an unforgettable night. With the event happening March 12th, 6 p.m. at the Sun Valley Culinary Institute. There\u2019s time to find some enlightening and possibly period-accurate dress. The authentic aesthetic is 18th century Venetian aristocratic, but the possibilities are wide.<br \/>\n<strong>You\u2019ve Got the Look<\/strong><br \/>\nThink elegant formal gowns for women and a dark formal suit for men while the decorative mask secures the look. There\u2019s plenty of YouTube channels to refer to or simply browse online photos (fashion books if you have them!) to inspire the imagination. There are no rules, slide into the heights of wild 18th-century Venetian elegance where opulence and joy meet melancholy and glorious tension. Layered, sweeping, architectural, corsetted, Venetian red, gold, powder blue, moonstone white, smoky amber, slightly muted and alive with expectation!<br \/>\nReset the rules, respect the shine and sing as you may!<br \/>\n<strong>Blessed Creativity<\/strong><br \/>\nCreativity and imagination are two words to describe \u201chow we save the world.\u201d The threats of AI, police state, \u2018everything fatigue\u2019 and any general doldrums \u2013 we must remember imagination. The Overton Window often excludes positions of individual power and joy, and social media can devour it in a single scroll. The Spot stands out.<br \/>\nBe sure to visit their website for tickets and see their genuinely amazing prizes:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.spotsunvalley.com\/masqueradesoiree<br \/>\nThe Spot:<br \/>\ninfo@spotsunvalley.com<br \/>\n(208) 928-6241<br \/>\n220 Lewis Street #2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Isaiah Frizzell A Venetian masquerade ball in the Valley? In March? Sign me up! Ask folks and you may hear \u2018not much happ\u2019nin\u2019 in the Valley during this season\u2019. We\u2019re still engaged in a weird winter while some call it \u2018the spring sigh\u2019; however, open eyes and ears know there\u2019s always something culturally beautiful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":23109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,4,6,7,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art","category-entertainment","category-event","category-event-preview","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23108,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23107\/revisions\/23108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}