Palm Beach County Teachers Have Some Fun, Win Prizes at the Third Annual Educator Night Hosted By the Kravis Center
(West Palm Beach, FL) – The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts recently hosted nearly 100 Palm Beach County school teachers for the third annual Educator Night, a fun and relaxed evening highlighting the Kravis Center’s 2016-2017 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 2016-2017 season, ranging from Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny to Much Ado About Nothing. 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 were treated to exclusive ticket opportunities while socializing over wine and cheese and enjoying a performance by members of Soul Crooners, one of the 2016-2017 featured shows in the Rinker Playhouse. Students from The Broadway Artists Intensive, a Broadway training program held each summer at the Kravis Center, performed “At The Ballet” from A Chorus Line, and Lauren Nicole Chapman, a star in the Broadway and touring companies of Kinky Boots, sang a selection from the musical, which comes to the Kravis Center in April. Chapman later helped give away a pair of tickets to Kinky Boots while teachers enjoyed a video greeting from the Tony Award-winning Director and Choreographer of Kinky Boots, Jerry Mitchell. Teachers won prizes, including tickets to other Kravis On Broadway hit shows. The event was free of charge to all Palm Beach County educators and was hosted by WPEC (CBS 12) contributing reporter and host of Good Sports on WXEL South Florida PBS and The Education Network, Ric Blackwell.
Since it opened in 1992, 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 Click Clack Moo, 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 2016-2017 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.
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