Donna Karan and Mira Nair Co-Host Benefit for Iyengar Yoga and Maisha, In Conjunction with The Namesake Premiere

Tuesday, March 6, 2007, Screening at Chelsea West Cinemas, 333 West 23rd Street between 8th & 9th Avenues, at 7 p.m. followed by a Benefit Celebration at the Stephan Weiss Studio, 711 Greenwich Street, New York City. Mira Nair and Designer Donna Karan co-hosted a special benefit evening in conjunction with the Fox Searchlight Premiere of The Namesake, based on the Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri and directed by Mira Nair; to benefit Maisha, a training program for filmmakers in East Africa and South Asia founded by Mira Nair, and the Iyenger Yoga Association of Greater New York City /IYAGNY, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to the study, teaching and dissemination of yoga as taught by B.K.S. Iyengar, author of Light on Yoga. Benefit Committee Co-Chairs: Sylvia Kier and Laura Shapiro Kramer. Leadership Committee Chairs: Caroline Baron and Anthony Weintraub, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Ajit and Tinku Jain, Laura Shapiro Kramer and Jay Kramer, Sylvia and Nelson Kier, Mira Nair, Lydia Dean Pilcher, Nancy and Frederic Poses, Amite Rodman and Viren Mehta, Chandrika Tandon, Jakob Trollback, Forest Whitaker. Vice-Chairs: Marie Brenner, Robert Bresnan and Lauren Versel Bresnan, Amita and PC Chatterjee, Victoria Cook, Sofia Coppola, Diller, Scofidio & Renfro, Katja Goldman and Michael Sonnenfeldt, Ellen Hanson and Richard Perlman, Eric Roth, Peter Saraf, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Lisa Weinstein. MEDIA: Beth Amorosi President, Amo Communications LLC | tel: 917-208-7489 | e-mail: amocomm@yahoo.com PHOTO CREDIT: ©Manhattan Society.com 2007 by Gregory Partanio |tel:718.614.7740 |e-mail: PrinceGregory@manhattansociety.com