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  • Thursday, April 7, 7:00 pm – Champagne Evening with Floral Designer On Thai

    The Andover Garden Club is hosting a festive evening filled with beautiful flowers. Attendees will be invited to sip champagne while watching internationally known floral designer On Thai create stunning arrangements. Wine, cheese, crackers, fruit, and desserts will also be offered.

    The event is being held in the lovely and historic Andover Town House, 20 Main Street in Andover, which is handicap accessible. Tickets ($35) may be obtained by emailing from Anne Feeney at pianopasta@comcast.net.

    Since 1991 when he created it, On Thai has been the owner of Surroundings Floral Studio (http://www.surroundingsfloral.com/), a full-service florist that specializes in floral designs for weddings, parties, and corporate events. His notable accomplishments in New York’s capital region include designing the floral décor for the National Racing Museum’s Hall of Fame’s annual ball, as well as The National Dance Museum’s ball during the racing season in Saratoga NY. In addition he has designed private parties hosted by the most influential members of Saratoga’s social scene.  Photo of his work below from the Daily Gazette.

    Thai is active in local and regional competitions and has won numerous awards for his entries, including the Teleflora’s People’s Choice Award and awards from several Capital District garden and flower shows. Each year he participates in New York in Bloom, a fundraiser for inner-city youth. He also regularly holds demonstrations for garden clubs throughout the Northeast. For example, Thai presented a selection of floral designs before the National Horticultural Society Convention in Boston MA; made presentations before the Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts Federated Garden Clubs and for the Garden Club of America in Seattle WA. Thai also executed a design presentation for the Creative Floral Arranger of America in Orlando FL.

    Internationally, Thai has demonstrated and taught contemporary design at the Club in the Park, a leading garden club in the United Kingdom.

  • Wednesday, October 23, 8:00 am – 2:30 pm – Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts Fall Conference

    Please join President Marisa McCoy for the 2013 GCFMA Fall Conference on Wednesday, October 23 at the Sheraton Framingham Hotel & Conference Center, 1657 Worcester Road in Framingham.

    8:00 a.m. Registration, Coffee and Boutique Shopping

    9:00 a.m. Welcome, Announcements and Business Meeting

    9:30 a.m. The Federation…Who we are and what we do! Communications, our schools, our councils, our outreach and you!

    10:45 a.m. Awards and Presentations

    11:00 a.m. Boutique Shopping and Social Hour

    12:00 p.m. Luncheon

    1:00 p.m. Designs with On Thai, AIFD, owner of Surroundings Floral Studio in Schenectady, New York.  Mr. Thai has been a member of AIFD since 1990 and is has won numerous awards in local, regional and national competitions. He won Best of Show in the International Flower Show two years running, and took first place in Teleflora’s People’s Choice Award, and seven times Best of Show in the Northeast Floral Exposition. He has made many garden club demonstrations for the Federated Garden Clubs of the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Massachusetts; and has been a lecturer/demonstrator for the Northeast Floral Expo held in Connecticut and for the Garden Club of Seattle, Washington. A few years back, Mr. Thai presented a floral design program in the United Kingdom before The Club in the Park, a prominent and innovative garden club in the north of England. While there, he instructed a class in the art of contemporary floral design. He has kept busy on such assignments as creating floral arrangements for the annual Whitney Ball during the racing season in Saratoga, N.Y. as well as the New York State Thoroughbred Gala at the Saratoga Golf and Polo club, the annual National Museum of Racing Ball and the Betters Ball at the Saratoga Track.

    2:15 p.m. Raffle and Registration Report

    2:30 p.m. Adjournment

    For Boutique space contact Lisa Bourgeois at lbourgeois@lowellgeneral.org. For overnight accommodations please call the Sheraton Framingham Hotel & Conference Center at 508 875 2541. Ask for the Garden Club rate of $149.00.  To register for the Fall Conference, visit http://www.gcfm.org/MeetingsandEvents/FallConference.aspx and click on to the Registration Form link.

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