Give It Up

Those looking to get a jump on holiday shopping this year can do so while helping to support a worthy cause. Live and Let’s Give, a community sale of handmade gifts by more than twenty local artisans, hopes to boost holiday spirits as it funnels much of its profits to Charley’s Fund, the local nonprofit founded by Benjamin and Tracy Seckler, whose son has been diagnosed with the fatal Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The money raised by Charley’s Fund is used to help find a cure.

Held at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts in downtown Pittsfield, Massachusetts, November 6 through 8, the event kicks off with a ticketed cocktail reception on Friday night, allowing serious shoppers to snap up the most-coveted items, including jewelry, knitwear, leather goods, ceramics, cosmetics, furniture, photography, and edible delights, before the sale opens, free of admission, to the public for the remainder of the weekend. Shopping to help find a cure—it gives retail therapy a whole new meaning. [OCTOBER 2009]

THE GOODS

Live and Let’s Give
Cocktail reception
Nov 6 at 4
$25, all proceeds benefit Charley’s Fund
Artisan Sale
Nov 7-8
Free
Lichtenstein Center for
the Arts
28 Renne Ave.
Pittsfield, Mass.
www.charleysfund.org