Variety show, auction part of Pie project

By Kersten Rettig

More than a dozen of Dallas’ top chefs will gather together for one night to raise money for FestEvents Foundation, an organization dedicated to workforce sustainability and development in the restaurant and hospitality industry. Piehole Project Live! The Variety Show will include award-winning chefs such as Anastasia Quiñones-Pittman, Bruno Davaillon and Matt Balke preparing dinner for 12 guests each within their own mini kitchen theaters, while live entertainers such as comedians, magicians and an aerialist perform on a center stage. 

Piehole Project Live! The Variety Show will take place Thursday, Oct. 28 from 7-10 p.m. at On the Levee, 1108 Quaker Street in the Design District. Individual ticket prices range from $300 to $500. There are three levels of table sponsorships: Promote, Inspire and Elevate. Piehole Project Live! will include a cocktail hour, dinner, entertainment, a pie raffle and some entertainment and culinary surprises. 

Chef Janice Provost.
Photo of courtesy of the Piehole Project

Piehole Project’s Second Annual Pie Auction will feature pies baked and donated by some of Dallas’ most distinguished chefs and will also include unique auction items such as cooking alongside a chef. Chefs and bakers including Junior Borges of Meridien, Dunia Borga of La Duni and Matt McCallister of Homewood are donating pies. The Pie Auction will be conducted online and will launch Oct. 18 and conclude on Oct. 28. The link to the Pie Auction is https://event.gives/php2021. 

Created and produced by Alison Matis and Cheryl Weis (pictured) of FestEvents Group, Piehole Project Live! The Variety Show is an extension of last year’s successful Piehole Project Pie Auction, which raised $14,000. 

Matis and Weis established FestEvents Foundation in 2019 to help support the industry that feeds bodies and souls and, in 2019, generated $63.5 billion to the Texas economy. 

Tickets and sponsorships are for sale on EventBrite at pieholeprojectlive2021.eventbrite.com.