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The second Annual Dessert Before Dinner With Bubbles and Bons fundraiser will be held October 3, 2021 at Garvan Woodland Gardens Pavilion, 550 Arkridge Rd., Hot Springs, Ark., 2 p.m. – 6 p.m. This year’s guests will be treated to an Architecture Bake-off. Architecture and engineering firms competing in the bake-off include Little Rock firms, Cromwell Architects Engineers, Revival Architecture, and Woods Group Architects; and Hot Springs firm, Nature Angle.
The Architecture Bake-off is an edible design challenge, where award winning architects and designers will transfer their design talents from buildings to cakes by baking, designing, and constructing an iconic building. Judging the bake-off will be bakery connoisseurs and owners, including Ann Potter Baking, Cocoa Bell Chocolates, Community Bakery and Sweet Love Bakes.
In addition to the must-see bake-off, guests will hear well wishes and greetings from supporters, including actor and producer, George Takei.
Included with a purchased ticket, guests can tour Garvan Woodland Gardens, savor bubbles and bon bons, enjoy a fabulously inspired and delicious dinner, and top off the evening with the Billboard charted hit songwriter, recording artist and music producer, Steve Azar. Arkansas Times Comedian of the Year Nate Williams will host the fundraiser.
The celebration will be a two-day event to coincide with World Architecture Day, an annual observance on the contributions of architects to the built environment. Monday, October 4, Alex Foundation, in partnership with Heifer International, will donate books on the built environment to elementary students in Hot Springs and the Southeast Delta.
The fundraiser is to help provide support for STE+AM® particularly with rural, limited access and underserved students to have opportunities that they normally would not have.” STE+AM® represents science, technology, engineering, plus architecture and math.
Garvan Woodland Gardens, an entity of the University of Arkansas System, has the following COVID 19 protocols in place: Masks and social distancing are optional for vaccinated individuals. Masks and social distancing are required for unvaccinated individuals.
