Palm Beach County Teachers Have Some Fun at the Second Annual Educator Night Hosted By the Kravis Center
(West Palm Beach, FL) – The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts recently hosted more than 100 Palm Beach County school teachers for the second annual Educator Night – A Look Beyond the S*T*A*Rs, a fun and relaxed evening highlighting the Kravis Center’s 2015-2016 Main Stage Season. The annual event gives teachers the chance to see how the arts can enhance their classroom efforts, while offering them exclusive ticket opportunities and treating them to live performances throughout the evening.
The Kravis Center will be offering the S*T*A*R (Students and Teachers Arts Resource) Series of presentations for young people during the 2015-2016 season, ranging from Click Clack Moo to Romeo and Juliet. Teachers of all grade levels are encouraged to find productions to help support their classroom curricula and to provide complementary programming.
Teachers attending Educator Night – A Look Beyond the S*T*A*Rs, were treated to exclusive ticket opportunities while socializing over wine and cheese and enjoying a performance by Sister Colleen from Late Nite Catechism, one of the 2015-2016 featured shows in the Rinker Playhouse. Students from The Broadway Artists Intensive, a Broadway training program held each summer at the Kravis Center, performed “Raise Your Voice” from Sister Act, and performers from the hip hop spectacular Blaze showed off their dance skills. Teachers won prizes, including tickets to Kravis On Broadway hit shows. The event was free of charge to all Palm Beach County educators and was hosted by former WFLX (FOX 29) and WPEC (CBS 12) anchor Alan Gerstel.
For more than 20 years, the Kravis Center has helped students of all ages fuel their imaginations and expand their lives through comprehensive arts education programs. Last season, nearly 60,000 children from Palm Beach, Broward, Martin, St. Lucie and Okeechobee counties attended performances, such as Jim Henson’s Dinosaur Train Live: Buddy’s Big Adventure, presented in Dreyfoos Hall, through the S*T*A*R Series. The Center’s Admission Waiver Program ensures that no child is denied access to a performance based on ability to pay.
To learn more about education opportunities, please call the Education and Community Outreach Department at 561-651-4251 or visit the Kravis Center’s official website, kravis.org, and click on Education and Community Outreach, where you also can view and print a 2015-2016 Kravis Center Education Brochure. To help support the Center’s education mission through membership or sponsorship opportunities, please call the Development Department at 561-651-4320.
Did You Know?
- More than two million students have come through the doors at the Kravis Center since the program started.
- Kravis Center, a non-profit organization, provides $100,000 in field trip bus transportation for students each year.
- 70 percent of students who attend productions at the Kravis Center receive Admission waivers.
- 60,000 students per year see an average of 30 productions
- More than 900 teachers in Palm Beach, Martin, Okeechobee and St. Lucie Counties participate in the Kravis Center’s Professional Development Workshop Series
- Last season, 6,000 students saw Kravis-On-The-Road Series performances.
- Last season, 3,000 Kravis Center patrons attended the various Writers’ Academy at the Kravis Center and ArtSmart classes and lectures.
- Last season, more than 7,000 students participated in 79 Student Arts Enrichment events, which include various Master Classes, Beyond the Stage performances and various training opportunities such as The De George Academy for Performing Arts, The Broadway Artists Intensive and ArtsCamp.