Palm Beach County Teachers Gather Information on Performing Arts Opportunities for Students, Win Prizes at the Fourth Annual Educator Night Hosted By the Kravis Center
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(West Palm Beach, FL) – The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts recently hosted 120 Palm Beach County school teachers for the fourth annual Educator Night, a fun and relaxed evening highlighting the Kravis Center’s 2017-2018 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 2017-2018 season, ranging from Dragons Love Tacos and Junie B. Jones to Hamlet. 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 MNM Productions’ Mike Westrich as Seymour and Mallory Newbrough as Audrey from Little Shop of Horrors, to be featured in the Kravis Center’s Rinker Playhouse Dec. 1-17. 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 Jill Switzer, co-host of “The Morning Lounge with Jill and Rich” on Legends 100.3 FM, who also performed a song from Cabaret, accompanied by husband Rich Switzer on piano.
For over 25 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 The Lightning Thief, 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 2017-2018 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.