"during the gala" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to activities that happen during a specific gala event. For example, "The guests had a wonderful time during the gala, enjoying a delicious meal and dancing the night away."
So it was during the gala on Sunday night at Avery Fisher Hall.
In addition, the Limon Dance Company will perform its legendary "Moor's Pavane" during the gala for Her Majesty, Queen Beatrix.
(You could have deduced as much from the tony home movies of his childhood, which were shown during the gala).
Several awards were given during the gala, including the Aviv Award for artistic achievement, presented to Tovah Feldshuh, the first American actress to receive the accolade.
"It's not only clothes, it is art," said, of all people, Daniel Radcliffe, on his way out of the exhibition on Monday night, during the gala preview that is also known as the Party of the Year.
This week's Goings On About Town section opens with a trompe-l'oeil photograph taken by Martine Fougeron during the gala for MOMA's "Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen," which explores "the twentieth century transformation of the kitchen as a reflection of social, economic and political change".
Let us judge the president and the G.O.P. on how they do so during the galas, and let them enjoy their laurels.
Recently Rosselló posted a photo on Twitter with Vice President Pence at the White House during the National Governors Association gala.
All 10 prize finalists will attend the Zambezi boot camp on the MIT campus during the IIC gala in Boston Nov. 5-9.
Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images 8.50pm BST Taking centre stage, President Vladimir Putin addresses the audience during the Grand Gala Concert to mark the opening of the newly restored Mariinsky Theatre in St . Petersburg
Heists run in their family, as Debbie masterminds a girls' group of thieves trying to purloin some jewels during the Met Gala.
