By Nadine Kam

Nadine Kam photos
Many guests came prepared with their own masks.

Started Saturday night at the Honolulu Academy of Arts Starlight Ball, themed “Circo di Notte,” where it was a night of mystery and masquerade, with stilt walkers, jugglers and DJs, plus food in six courtyards by a whole slew of restaurants, including Cassis, E&O Trading Co., Michel’s at the Colony Surf, Pacific Club, Kevin’s Two Boots, and more.

One of the prosthetic/makeup artists from Prosperity Corner said he spent all day fashioning the horns glued to his head.

One of the booths was manned by Hokulani Bake Shop. Funny, I had eaten a Hokulani cookie and some homemade chili before leaving home, so wasn’t hungry. My boyfriend was like, “I don’t know why you did that,” as he snacked on E&O’s steak pupu.

Men were dressed as well as the women.

So we walked around, checked out the auctions, including the sponsor Prada auctions. Then I had to ditch the boyfriend so I could get over to the Indashio show being sponsored by our company at Honolulu Design Center.

When he got home, I found out he had bid on and won the biggest painting up for auction, and it looked much bigger in our tiny house than in the museum. I was like, “Why’d you buy that for?” But, since we were hanging art at midnight, I brought out a couple paintings I had bought at last year’s Showcase and was hiding from him.

Guests also entertained themselves on the dance floor, with balloons overhead.

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