On November 12 our annual charitable auction was held for the 12^th time. As usual the auction was led by the world famous doctor-clown Patch Adams.

This year we managed to raise $ 107 000. This amount of money together with other donations and grants will allow us to keep our working programs and start some new ones in the upcoming year.  

We are very grateful to all our donors, sponsors, guests and volunteers! Our special thanks to the hospitable and comfortable Katerina City Hotel which receives our auction for the second time. Our special thanks to Rosinter Restaurants corp. for providing refreshments for participants and guests.   

Our volunteers-clowns were playing with children and drawing a collective picture. Children from the boarding school #4 with their teachers Zoya I. Zinovieva and Olga I. Sidorova came as well.

There was a buffet served before and after the event, thanks to Rosinter Restaurants corp. and personally to Elena Bubnova.

Our friends and volunteers musicians entertained our guests till late at night. Thank you, Alexey Cherniy, Nickolay Sadikov, Daneel Roschupkin for piano, guitar and violin music. For the 4^th year Ilya Kolmanovsky the interpreter comes for this event. Thanks to his skillful interpreting we feel as if we all speak the same language.

Our wonderful volunteers helped us to welcome guests, to hang paintings, to take pictures and video. They also talked about our various studio programs. THANK YOU, EVERYONE!