Pixar Totoro Forest Art Auction Benefit tix on sale Monday

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Many of you have been wondering when and how you can buy tickets for the upcoming Totoro Forest Art Auction Benefit Event to be held Sept. 6 at Pixar. The first pre-sale will start at 10 a.m. Monday.

Here’s the options available - Please note that all tickets include the stunning Art of Totoro Forest Book (worth $40)
Forest Friend - $100 regular admission + book.
Forest Sponsor - $200 includes admission + book + signed limited edition print
Forest Champion - $300 includes middle VIP live auction seating + book + signed limited edition print + gift certificate to Blowfish Sushi
Forest Hero - $500 includes front VIP live auction seating + book + an original drawing by one of the artists

Onlline tickets sales will begin Monday at 10 a.m. Pacific! Visit www.TotoroForestProject.org for more information and a link to the online ticket sales. There will be a rather limited numbers of tickets so act quickly if you want to be part of this very special event.

Remember many of the donating artists will be in attendance, as will some “key figures” in the film business. It will be a night to remember!! All the “Totoro inspired” art is up for preview at www.TotoroForestProject.org. Please take a look at these marvelous works by clicking on the gallery link or alphabetically by artist and see if you don’t find a half-dozen or more favorites that appeal to your individual taste.

All proceeds will be donated to the Totoro Forest Foundation, to help save and preserve a wooded area near Tokyo that was an inspiration for Hayao Miyazaki’s “My Neighbor Totoro.”

Organizers are planning to have remote online bidding for those who cannot come to the night of the event. More details will be posted as they become available.

The $40 book is mainly for auction attendees. Any remaining copies will be on sale at www.tortoroforestproject.org shortly after the auction.

Following the auction, the works will be displayed to the general public at the Cartoon Art Museum, beginning Sept. 20.

Check this site in a couple weeks to learn even more about the benefit auction and public exhibit.

– Information forwarded and edited by Leo N. Holzer

Oh why have I been cursed to live on the eastern side of the US? :frowning: Heheh. No really, attending this event would be a dream, especially for an aspiring artist like myself.

I look forward to details about the online auction.

Thanks, Leo.