Over 50 Local Arts Groups Join Together For Benefit Performance at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
Local artists announce a benefit performance Beautiful Together, an artistic journey toward hope at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, June 28, in the Walt Disney Theater at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts with all proceeds going to OneOrlando Fund. Tickets are $15, $25 and $45 and go on sale at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, June 22, 2016, and may be purchased online at drphillipscenter.org, by calling (844) 513-2014 or by visiting the Dr. Phillips Center Box Office at 445 S. Magnolia Avenue, Orlando, FL 32801 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, or 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday. Additional donations will be accepted at the event.
The impact of the shooting at Plaza Live followed by Sunday’s tragedy deeply affected the arts community. The Monday morning after the tragic weekend in Orlando, local artists met to share their grief and then to plan a way that they could use their expression to support the community, the first responders, the victims and their families. Led by Joshua Vickery of Central Florida Community Arts, Cole NeSmith of Creative City Project, Mitzi Maxwell of Mad Cow Theater, Robert Hill of Orlando Ballet and Eric Jacobsen of Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, over 50 arts groups are coming together to create a memorial event with a wide range of artistic styles.
“The LGBT community, the Latin community and our arts community have been shaken by these horrific events,” said Vickery, executive director of CFCArts. “As artists, we want use our art to provide space for the community to express the range of emotions that lead to healing and hope.”
The evening will include a mass choir, orchestra, dance and theater pieces all performed by local arts groups. This artistic collaboration will likely be the first among many by local artists who were deeply impacted by the loss of their friends and colleagues.
During this 75-minute event, area groups will create a mass choir and orchestra including:
Bach Festival Society of Winter Park
Central Florida Sounds of Freedom
Central Florida Vocal Arts
Central Florida Community Arts
Encore! Cast Performing Arts
Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra
Garden Choir
Negro Spiritual Scholarship Foundation
New Score Chamber Orchestra
Orlando Gay Chorus
Opera Orlando
Orange Blossom Chorus
Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra
Orange County Public Schools
Osceola County Public Schools
Performing Arts of Maitland
Theatre South Orlando
Space Coast Symphony
UCF Choir
A wide variety of Orlando arts groups have supported or participated in different ways including backstage, with creative development, pre-show performances and visual displays. These groups include:
AfroLatin Dance Project
Asian Cultural Association
Center for Contemporary Dance
CFSOF Band
Coby Project
Cornell Fine Arts Museum
Crealde School of Art
Creative City Project
Dawn Branch Works
Downtown Arts District
Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
Dr. Phillips High School Dance Department
Emotions Dance
Enzian
Explore Dance Theater
Florida Theatrical Association
Garden Theatre
G.O.A.T.
Holocaust Museum
The Imagination House
Mad Cow Theatre
Maitland Art & History Museums
Michael Wanzie Productions
Orange County Arts & Culture
Orange County Regional History Center
Orlando Ballet
Orlando Repertory Theatre
Orlando Shakespeare Theater
Orlando Science Center
Osceola Arts
Phantasmagoria
Playwrights’ Round Table
Still – Moving Dance
Theatre South Orlando
Timucua Arts Foundation
United Arts
Valencia College Theater Department
Voctave
Yow Dance
And the list continues to grow…
