We are excited to announce The Palapa Society is the beneficiary of the silent auction and raffle held during this year’s GastroVino Food and Wine Festival held Sunday, May 7th in the Town Plaza from 2 – 6 p.m.

Features include:

• Nearly 100 auction items available for onsite bidding and immediate sale
• One exclusive piece of art by Ezra Katz available only through online bidding.
• Two exciting adventures available for an onsite Raffles
• A Buy It Now feature for all onsite Silent Auction items

Exclusive Online Auction
Painting by Ezra Katz

Ezra Katz, noted Todos Santos artist recently donated an original painting to benefit The Palapa Society. This piece will be auctioned online only from Tuesday, April 25 with bids closing Tuesday, May 9, 2017.

The 108 X 108 cm (42 X 42 inch) painting, “Storm Watchers,” is a signed oil painting on canvas by renowned artist, Ezra Katz as part of the GastroVino weekend and will be featured in the auction tent for viewing May 7 during the Town Plaza event, and online for bidding.
Click here to view and BID NOW.

The auction will start on April 25 and ends on May 9, 2017.

More about Ezra Katz: click to learn more about Ezra Katz. http://ezrakatz.com/

Onsite Raffles

Todos Santos Eco Adventures
WIN a Magdalena Bay Whale Watching
Trip for 2
Value: $1,270 USD
2 days includes transportation, meals, one night hotel, and 2 three-hour whale watching sessions with bilingual naturalist. Click here to view their website.

Black Sheep Motorsports 
Value: $8,000 MXP
WIN a Adventure Trip for 2. Take a ride in one of Black Sheep Motorsports side-by-side Can Am Commander. Choose from a variety of self-guided GPS tours up to $8,000 MXP. This is an excellent way to day-trip and explore. Click here to view their website.

SILENT AUCTION

An amazing collection of nearly 100 items for the Silent Auction are available for bid or a “Buy It Now” price (a new feature) for high quality art, jewelry, lodging, restaurant, services, and retail shop items. A popular feature of GastroVino, look for the big tent and enjoy a shopping bonanza.

Here is a sampling of items for bid.

Scroll through the below businesses for a complete list of all items up for auction. Set your sights on what you want to bid on.

Live Art Auction
Come out and see the artists at work! 

Carlos César Diaz Castro, from La Paz, Mexico, is a photographer, graphic designer, painter, communicator, and teacher whose pictorial work presents honest images of a generous environment of forms and details linked to his admiration for the land. Without idealizing the iconography of the everyday, he takes his notes directly from the nature of the moment and then executes his definitive works in the studio. His work can be found at Centro de Artes Populares in La Paz, BCS, Mexico.

Brian Guffey is a self-taught artist with images from his life experiences and childhood loosely represented in his paintings. Storytelling, children’s books, and his grandmother are all inspirations for conceptualizing imagery and themes. His work can be seen as either light-hearted, thought-provoking, or both simultaneously.

Tori Sepulveda is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara where she majored in fine art, then taught high school advanced placement art for 37 years. She is please to continue teaching and painting here in Todos Santos where she can use her experience to inspire others and support the community. Her art can be seen at Mangos Gallery as well as her own studio.

Robert E. Wood is a Canadian artist adept at portraying a wide variety of subject matter including landscape, seascape, still life, street scenes, and more. He has been a frequent visitor to Todos Santos since 2007, and this is his 4th time painting on location at GastroVino to benefit local causes. Robert has been honored to have won first place in the only art competition he ever entered: Arabella art magazine’s 2014 “Great Canadian Landscape Painting Competition.” His paintings hang in private and corporate collections around the world, and his work is represented by the Diaz Castro Galleria in La Paz.