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UPCOMING EVENTS
Dearborn 2024 International Para Dance Sport Competition & USA Open
The United States is set to stage the first sanctioned Para Dance Sport (wheelchair ballroom dancing) competition in North America. The Dearborn 2024 Para Dance Sport USA Open presented by the RIM Foundation will take place August 10-11, 2024, at the Dearborn Community & Performing Arts Center. This historic event will welcome some of the world’s best wheelchair ballroom dancers from over 20 countries to Dearborn, MI.
Para Dance Sport is an extremely elegant, graceful and stylish sport which involves athletes who use a manual or power wheelchair due to a physical disability. Para Dance competitions are regularly held throughout Europe and Asia, but never in North America, until now.
RIM Foundation Gala
This annual event honors strength, courage, and selflessness of those who have overcome the challenges of a life changing illness or injury. The Foundation's largest event of the year is host to 800 people. 2024 event will take place at The Huntington Center on Thursday, December 12, 2024.
Applied Under Writers Invitational
Over 78 local tournaments are held all over the country benefitting local charities. Our local event will be held Thursday, June 13, at Lochmoor Country Club. The winning foursome from each local event is invited to compete at the National Finals. In 2024 the finals will be headed to the Midwest, to award-winning Big Cedar Lodge in Missouri, www.bigcedar.com. Big Cedar Lodge is the only golf resort in the world with courses designed by Tom Fazio, Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, and Tiger Woods!
Dancing With Our Stars
This event showcases the dancing skills of community leaders who support the Foundation. On a hiatus since 2020, Dancing With Our Stars is set to return March 21, 2025 The mirror ball trophy goes to the dancer who raises the most money. Each of our dancers will be paired up with a professional dancer and will take lessons from their partner at Fred Astaire Dance Studio.