Actors' Playhouse
The mission of Actors' Playhouse is to enrich South Florida's cultural vitality with the highest caliber classic and contemporary live theatre productions; to provide comprehensive educational and outreach programs to multi-cultural audiences; to provide a supportive and creative work environment for Florida-based theatre professionals; to encourage the creation and production of new works for adults and children; and to maintain the identity of its home venue, the historic Miracle Theatre.
Why we Contribute:
This theater is an integral part of the local community. It serves the cultural needs of all ages. We support their cultural enrichment.
In the words of Howard Shalwitz, Artistic Director at Wooly Mammoth Theater Company about the importance of theater: "... it influences the way we think and feel about our own lives and encourages us to take a hard look at ourselves, our values, and our behavior."
Miami Music Project
Mission
Miami Music Project uses music as an instrument for social transformation, empowering children to acquire values and achieve their full potential, positively impacting community throught the study of music and performance.
Why we Contribute:
We believe that music as a Vehicle for Social Change: helping children unlock the intellectual potential for academic achievement and gain the self-confidence needed to succeed, ultimately overcoming the disadvantages of poverty and inequality.
Miami Music Project provides the musical education that accelerates brain development, increases academic success, and fosters significant lifelong benefits for the youth in our community.
Guitars Over Guns
Guitars Over Guns (GOGO) delivers high impact arts-based mentoring programs to empower youth in underserved neighborhoods. Since 2008, GOGO has increased the academic achievement and engagement for over 2,000 students.
All young people should have the opportunity to reach their full potential through the transformative nature of music and the arts and the power of mentorship.
GOGO provides mentoring to at-risk youth through music and arts education as an alternative to the negative and harmful influences that typically dominate their environments.
The GOGO program is designed to engage youth through culturally relevant artistic mediums, using a hands-on approach to learn music, dance, and visual arts. Professional artists are paired with small groups of students for the school-year, using this unique arts-learning process to build strong mentoring relationships. Through this connection, our mentors are able to help their students navigate the obstacles standing between them success.
Why we Contribute:
Steven and Sarah are friends of Chad, the founder, and want to support his amazing efforts.
Park City Egyptian Theater
The Egyptian Theatre provides the community with high-quality entertainment experiences, both on and off its stage, in an historic and authentic atmosphere that is friendly, socially-welcoming, and slightly irreverent.
We seek to impress all audiences while remaining fiscally responsible and as a viable source of live entertainment for future generations.
Why we Contribute:
The Tonkinson family have attended numerous plays and concerts at the Egyptian Theater and always enjoy the quality and diversity of performances. The effort and dedication to maintain a yearly schedule of top events show the love and dedication to bring to the Park City community best entertaning.
Tropic Bound Book Fair
Tropic Bound is a bi-annual artists’ book fair with international participation. Launched in February 2023, Tropic Bound includes an educational symposium that raises the discourse of artists’ books and fine art books in South Florida and the Americas with the input of historians, artists, and academics.
Tropic Bound’s mission is to promote and support the work of book artists while providing opportunities for dialogue and a platform for national and international artists and publishers to exhibit, sell and exchange artists’ books.
Tropic Bound aims to elevate the understanding and value of hand-made artists’ books as an important contemporary art form where art and words meet. Working with artists, galleries, universities, institutions and publishers from around the world, Tropic Bound seeks to create a regionally accessible platform for people involved in the creation of books as an art form.
Officially formed in 2020 by Cristina Favretto, Sarah Michelle Rupert and Ingrid Schindall, Tropic Bound is the first international biennial artists’ book fair set in Miami to undertake the unique opportunity and focus of this historic and underrepresented medium.
The inaugural edition of Tropic Bound launched February 16th-19th, 2023 in the Miami Design District with over 1600 visitors in 4 days, from more than 20 countries, to see 64 exhibitors from around the world!
What are artists’ books?
An artists’ book is a work of art that uses the form and/or function of a book as inspiration. It is an art object, intentionally created or conceived by an artist, that can manifest in different ways.
Orchestra Miami
Founded in 2006 by Artistic Director Elaine Rinaldi, Orchestra Miami exists to fill the unique cultural needs of our community. The Orchestra’s main goal is to provide low-cost, high-quality artistic experiences that build community and provide programming which would otherwise be unavailable in South Florida. Equally important goals are to provide quality symphonic concerts to those whose economic circumstances prevent them from purchasing a ticket, and to provide children and their families with opportunities to experience classical music, make it a part of their lives, and use it as a tool for learning and enjoyment.
Why we Contribute:
Orchestra Miami is relevant because they connect and serve Miami community. Their programing reaches all ages and audiences, their ticket prices are affordable to all. They provide an opportunity not only of entertainment but also to help us to appreciate and to become more sensitive and educated about classical music.
Orchestra Miami’s musicians are all South Florida residents and top-quality highly sought professionals. We invite you to join us in supporting this jewel in our community.
Artes Miami
ArtesMiami, Inc. has the mission of supporting and promoting Hispanic artists and cultural organizations, primarily in South Florida, in order to generate greater understanding and appreciation for their work among the diverse publics of this region. Thus, ArtesMiami also contributes to the development of South Florida as an artistic and cultural center.
Why we Contribute:
Margarita had the privilege of serving with Dr. Aida Levitan on the University of Miami Libraries Committee in support of the Dean of Libraries, Dr. Charles D. Eckman . Dr. Levitan’s tireless commitment to advancing Hispanic culture and uplifting Hispanic artists in South Florida has left a lasting impact. Her vision and dedication continue to enrich our community and celebrate the voices and creativity that make it so vibrant.
Park City Museum
The Park City Museum is a lively nonprofit organization dedicated to Preserving, Protecting and Promoting Park City's rich history and culturally significant sites. Our solid 40-year history as one of Utah's most popular and successful cultural anchors has resulted in numerous awards, accolades and regular inclusion in national and international travel guides as a Top Ten Park City attraction.
Why we Contribute:
The Park City Museum brings history to life, from its early days in the 1600s through the mining era and its remarkable transformation into a world-renowned ski resort that was the home of the 2002 Winter Olympics. Our family truly appreciates the way the museum preserves these stories, artifacts, and the spirit of Western living, giving us a deeper connection to the people and times that shaped this community.