City Harvest Presents The 2025 Gala: Carnaval

City Harvest’s Annual Gala brings together celebrities, influencers, and NYC’s high-profile individuals to recognize supporters who have played a significant role in helping us provide nutritious free food to our neighbors experiencing food insecurity. The Gala serves as City Harvest’s most important fundraising event of the year and honors generous supporters of City Harvest and New York City. Designed by celebrity event planner Colin Cowie, our 2024 Gala was a record setting evening, raising enough to help provide more than 10 million meals to New Yorkers in need.

Past attendees have included Antoni Porowski, Chrissy Teigen, John Legend, Neil Patrick Harris, David Burtka, Tyson Beckford, Nas, Darren Criss, Richard Gere, Julianne Moore, Chelsea Clinton, Karen Pittman, Dascha Polanco, Brooks Nader, Cynthia Nixon, Elizabeth Olsen, Benjamin Bratt, Ryan and Emilia Serhant, Taye Diggs, Busy Philipps, Desus Nice, Tayshia Adams, Ubah Hassan and Martha Stewart. Chef supporters have included Eric Ripert, Geoffrey Zakarian, José Andrés, Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons, Melba Wilson, Anne Burrell, Ron Ben-Israel, Marc Murphy, Marcus Samuelsson, Emma Bengtsson, Donatella Arpaia, Dominique Ansel, Ochi and Cedric Vongerichten, Eitan Bernath, Rocco DiSpirito, and Ted Allen.