What do you get when you mix great wine with tasty food, fabulous auction items and live entertainment? Answer: A fundraiser (yawn…).

Now… What do you get, if in addition to the above, you also mix in lots of laughs, roving incognito characters, Madame Merlot – a lees-reading fortune-teller, improv comedy performances and wine-themed hilarity? Answer: Grapes of Laugh at Vancouver TheatreSports™. Add in MC’s Fred Lee (Vancouver’s ‘Man About Town’) and Howard Blank and you have a laugh-filled, wine-fueled evening that is sure to delight wine snobs and plonk-drinkers alike.

This special evening on Thursday, February 25th supports Vancouver TheatreSports™ community outreach and youth programs. It allows Vancouver TheatreSports™ to give regular free performances at Ronald McDonald House and to provide free tickets to organizations such as The Children’s Wish Foundation and Covenant House. It also helps underwrite the cost of Vancouver TheatreSports™ province-wide school tours. Last year Vancouver TheatreSports™ visited more than 110 schools and performed to more than 35,000 school children.

Guests have the opportunity to bid on some pretty wonderful auction items such as the Cheap and Cheerful Wine Tasting including a private wine tasting in your home given by wine journalist/blogger Ron Wilson of Cheapandcheerful.ca. An in-demand consultant, Ron will guide you through a tasting of selected whites, rosés, and reds. Ron will leave behind a basket of some of his favourite wines to get your collection started.