Roaring and Restored Gala to Benefit Selah Freedom

Flapper fringe meets a serious purpose at "Roaring & Restored: Hidden No More," the annual Sarasota gala of Selah Freedom at The Westin Sarasota. Guests dress semi-formal with a Roaring '20s flair, but the theme points at something darker: sex trafficking that thrives in silence and in plain sight. The evening is built around breaking that silence and celebrating survivors who have rebuilt their lives. Selah Freedom was founded in Sarasota in 2012 and is now the Gulf Coast's largest anti-sex-trafficking nonprofit, running programs in awareness, prevention, outreach, residential care and consulting. The same gala moves to Armature Works in Tampa in the spring.