{"id":105,"date":"2013-10-17T00:43:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T00:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suka.org\/stage\/?p=105"},"modified":"2014-02-26T00:35:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T00:35:56","slug":"event-the-great-gatsby-ball-december-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suka.org\/home\/event-the-great-gatsby-ball-december-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Event: The Great Gatsby Ball December 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suka.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/gatsby2013.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-106\" alt=\"gatsby2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suka.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/gatsby2013.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/suka.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/gatsby2013.jpg 550w, https:\/\/suka.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/gatsby2013-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/suka.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/gatsby2013-100x148.jpg 100w, https:\/\/suka.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/gatsby2013-150x221.jpg 150w, https:\/\/suka.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/gatsby2013-200x296.jpg 200w, https:\/\/suka.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/gatsby2013-300x443.jpg 300w, https:\/\/suka.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/gatsby2013-450x666.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The much talked about SUKA Annual Ball is back on the circuit this year ! The Great Gatsby meets Downton Abbey meets 1920s Shanghai Tang ! Come dress as a Lord and Lady of the Manor, or as a gangster and his moll from 1920s Chicago or Shanghai !<\/p>\n<p>Great entertainment in the form of a live band playing music from that era and a Charleston dance performance. Guests will also be taught some dance floor moves of that period.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, please bring your camera as we will have life-sized props set-up in the hotel which were the recent Great Gatsby movie promotional props (kindly donated by Harrods of Knightsbridge). We also have an auction that evening where a fabulous and collectable one -third scale mannequin dressed in 1920s dress and accessories , also donated by Harrods , will be put up for sale . And not forgetting a pair of SIA return tickets to Singapore with hotel stay which is also up for auction.<\/p>\n<p>The evening will end with our famous SUKA Raffle Draw, with a return ticket to Singapore to be won and also many other valuable prizes.<\/p>\n<p>Cheques to be sent to SUKA, PO Box 6358, London W1A 6BF and please email <a href=\"mailto:yee2_ut@yahoo.co.uk\">yee2_ut@yahoo.co.uk<\/a> to confirm your attendance. We will also email you a confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>See you there and for now here&#8217;s a quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I like large parties. They&#8217;re so intimate. At small parties there isn&#8217;t any privacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much talked about SUKA Annual Ball is back on the circuit this year ! The Great Gatsby meets Downton Abbey meets 1920s Shanghai Tang ! 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