March 12, 2025 • 31 mins
Talked with Marjorie Waldo, CEO and President, Arts Garage in Delray Beach. They have a lot of awesome programs happening this year. Coming up is PLACES!, a Summer theatre camp for kids and teens from July 7th to August 1st (financial aid is available). Week 1 features Technical theatre and Playwriting, week 2 is Improvisation, week 3 will be Musical Theatre and week 4 is Acting. Students can pick the weeks that interest them. There's a discount for purchasing all 4 classes. They have a great Artist in Residence program. Currently showing in their art gallery is "Icons, Idols and Adoration". And they will have more programming coming with their Out of the Black Box theatre residency and family porgrams. For more information, to become a sponsor or volunteer, listeners can go to www.artsgarage.org
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
iHeart Communities Presents Palm Beach Treasure Coast Perspective, Which dead
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning, Welcome to Palm Beach Treasure Coast Perspective. I'm
your host Stev Nev. Thanks for spending your weekend with me.
All kinds of great things going on. If you haven't
signed up yet, there is still time to sign up
for the Mental Health America's Mind and Body Connection five
K and walk, and of course it's raising funds for
the Supportive Communities. It's going to be happening Saturday, March
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twenty second at Drer Park in West Palm Beach and
for more information you can reach out to you five six
y one three zero one forty nine ninety eight to
get details on the race. And of course don't forget
lots of things happening at the Gravis Center. Wrapping up
this weekend is the Book of Mormon, part of their
Cravis on Broadway series and they have also coming up
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Peter Bentz. He's like at the Guinness Book of World
Record for the most piano key strikes in one minute.
Detite check that out. That is March seventeenth at seven
thirty pm. March eighteenth is new Orleans Songbook a Jazz
at the Lincoln Center production. That's gonna be a f
eleven and two pm. Coming up March twenty there's Dixie's
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Tupperware Party the final season, so if you haven't checked
that out yet, definitely check it out. It's a lot
of fun for you and your friends. For more details
go to Cravis dot org and all the informations there
for you. And of course lots of good stuff happening outside.
So I love the folks at SLC Hikes. They have
some great hikes, kayaking, paddle things set up for this season.
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So coming up on Saturday, March twenty second, from eight
to nine thirty am is the Sea Grape Sunrise Walk
and that's an Ocean Bay beachside preserve so you can
find out what a sea grape is and all kinds
of fun things. It's a fun walk. Also on Saturday
at nine am till noon is the ten Mile Creek
Kayak Exploration, so if you like kayaking that day versus hiking,
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you can do that. And they also have mammals in
our midst hike at Sheridan Scrub Preserve a Monday, it's
be an Indian River Lagoon paddle at the DJ Wilcox Preserve.
Simply go to SLC Hikes dot org and all the
different hikes and paddles and fun stuff is listed there
for you. And in Palm Beach County you can go
to PBCERM dot com. So it'start Palm Beach County and
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environmental Resource management guys and Benji's got all the different
activities and programs to schedule there for you. I know
they have like astronomy nights, They've got paddles and hikes
as well, so lots of cool stuff happening. Speaking of cool,
head over to the Norton Museum, nice and air condition
if you want to be inside. They've got some great
exhibitions running so right now it is Surroundings Video Encounters
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of Nature and that's going on now through June twenty ninth.
They have Sorolla and the Sea that is going on
now through April thirteenth. Of course, all they have all
their wonderful like art after dark programs, so I just
love checking those out. Every Friday night. Gott the twenty first,
they've got screening of the film exhibiting Forgiveness with a
talk by the director afterward. March twenty eighth is music
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by Uncle Scotchy the Blues Band. So simply go to
Norton dot org and it's all listed there. And we
talked with Wendy a few weeks ago from the morri
Commy Museum of Gardens, so they are doing all kinds
of cool things in March as well. So they've got
the Lovely Tea Ceremonies happening, the Raking demonstrations happening. On
March twenty second, they're doing a family fun Spring Equinox
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Prints session, and that's from noon to three pm. And
of course it's free for members or it's free of
their paidmission to the museum, so Jeff and checking out,
no reservation required for that one. Simply go to Moricami
dot org and all the different classes are listed there
for you. There's so many fun things they are doing there.
And of course we talked to Redina from Pompeach Drama Works.
They're enjoying their twenty fifth season coming up on April eleventh.
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Of their next play is called Camping with Henry and
Tom Something. Go to pomp Beach Drama Works dot org
and all the different programs are listed on there for you,
and our friends are for the Cultural Council. Oh always
send me cool things that are happening to mentioned Dance
Theater Miami is going to be performing at the Duncan Theater.
Palm Beach Pride is happening Bryant Park March twenty ninth
and the thirtieth. We've got the Body Show happening at
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Arts Warehouse through April nineteenth. And you can go to
Pompeachculture dot com and find out the listing or ask
to be put on their email list and they'll just
email you all the cool things that are happening around town.
And of course also lots of fun things happening in
the parks. Reptiles and amphibians. The Sensational Snakes happening at
Green Kay Nature Center that is Saturday, March twenty second
at nine thirty am. And they're also doing a night
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hike at Daggerwing Nature Center on March twenty fifth at
seven pm, and that one's good for ages eight and
up and it's five dollars a person. Simply go to
Pbcparks dot com and you can find out all the
different parks and sign up for all the good stuff
speaking of outside parks, Mounts Botanical Garden has got all
kinds of wonderful things happening. So right now it is
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rivet the exhibit number two. So these life sized frogs
placed throughout the different gardens because they've got like the
perfume garden, the herb garden, like the actual regular plants garden,
and the cabbages are bigger than like your arms spread out.
They're just massive fun ways of people to learn how
to garden. They offer Okay, let's see soundbathing classes. Now,
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they've got tai chi in the garden. There's a watercolor painting,
the get fit in the garden. Simply go to Mounts
dot org and it's all listed right there for you.
And speaking of fun things to do, this is an
indoor one. I want to welcome my guest for today.
I have Marjorie Waldo, President and CEO of Arts Garage
in Delray Beach. Good morning, Good morning, thanks for having me,
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Thanks for coming back in. We talked a little while ago,
but I always like to have people come back in
and fill me in on the latest scoop. So I
hear you have something called places happening.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yes, that's our newest summer camp for young people. So
it is a summer theater camp that has four different
weeks and each week the kids will focus on a
different topic in theater, including technical theater and playwriting, improvisation,
musical theater, and acting. Each camp is a week long.
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Kids who apply, parents who apply for their children should
be eight to fifteen years old. So it is a limited,
limited class size, class size, yes, thank you very much,
limited class size. So you should get in on that quickly.
There are some scholarships available and I highly recommend it.
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Michelle Diaz is our director of Theater Arts and she
does amazing things at Arts Garage and this is her baby,
so one of many.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Well, and that's so cool, And I think it's great
that the weeks feature different aspects of theater because this
is a great way to figure out what your thing is.
Because I have friends who've gone their kids have gone
to theater camp and they found out they have absolutely
no interest in acting, but they loved putting the sets together.
Like I just totally called and them were like, ooh,
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I wanted to do that, but that wasn't the part
they were signed up for.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
That's right, that's right. In our camps. In the past,
set the stage has been sort of an all encompassing
three to four week experience where they did learn all
the pieces of writing, producing, directing, and acting in their
own play. But we decided to try a little different
approach this year, and I think it's it's already getting
some great feedback. So I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
All I'm excited too, Yeah, because I think you can
specialize them more and if you want to check it
all out, you can just take all.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
That's right and you get a discount if you do
all four weeks.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
So all good to know. So how do they sign up?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Do they go to your website or call you Wwwartsgarage
dot org. Everything that we do the registration is online.
You can always if you prefer, call the box office.
There are limited hours, so it's Tuesday through Saturday one
pm two five pm. You can call the box office
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at five six one four five zero six three five
seven if you'd like to talk to a human being
who can help you figure it out.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, sometimes that's a little bit easier, like my computer
freeze up and somebody and they're like, right, it's a
little slow today, let me walk you through that, right, absolutely,
so it makes me more comfortable. And how long has
actually Arts Garage been around, because I think it's been
there quite a well, has.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
A long time. So we opened in twenty eleven. Wow, yeah,
so this is twenty twenty five, so we're, you know,
coming up on fifteen years soon. And that's if I
did my math right, did I do it right, twenty
six it'll be fifteen years, it's close. So it's it's
been a long time. We've had some evolutions and we've
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gone through, which we talked about last time, a couple
of traumatic things, right where like.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Everybody with COVID absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yes, COVID was a big one. The turnaround in twenty
sixteen was big. So we've learned a lot and we've
we've built a big following in the community with our
stakeholders and donors and our patrons. So it's a cool thing.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Oh definitely. And I always think that, like every business
and every person in their life are going to be
exposed to these traumatic things and how you turn it
around or how you handle it is a great indicator
of the business and like what you offer the community. Yeah,
and I know you guys have a lot You've actually
had a very positive economic impact into the community we have.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
We took advantage of opportunities during the pandemic that allowed
us to continue programming throughout the pandemic and end the
pandemic with a reserve, which is wonderful. We did our
first annual report this year for twenty twenty four, which
is really exciting. We've been aggling other people's annual reports
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for some time, but never had the ability to fit
it into our marketing team's schedule, which is a huge schedule.
We do over three hundred events, classes, performances every year,
so it was tricky and complicated. So our twenty twenty
four economic impact to the city, to the state, and
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to the federal government totaled over four million dollars. With
our tiny little organization, which is honestly not that tiny anymore.
We have a social media following of over thirty seven
thousand people, and about twenty thousand people receive our e blasts.
We've we see, like I want to say, about twenty
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seven or twenty eight thousand tickets purchased every year, and
another six or seven thousand people are coming in to
look at the galleries that we have, which are free
to the public.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
So yeah, that's fantastic, that's a great impact. And of course,
now tell the listeners and I a little bit that
obviously you've got like the performance theater where people come
and do like karaoke night or poetry or watch a band.
But you also mentioned you have a gallery. Tell us
about the gallery, right.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
So the bread and butter of arts garage is amazing
performances on the main stage, which include theater. We have
a four show theater season every year. We do comedy
every First Friday with a professional touring comedian, and amazing
music in almost every genre that you can think of.
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But what the open mics do, First of all, they're
extremely affordable. They're ten dollars if you are coming to
watch and support a friend who's performing. Performers are free,
the gallery is free to be part of an exhibit.
We do six exhibits in the Marshall Family Foundation Gallery
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targeting emerging artists and by our definition that means artists
who have never had their own show. So the exhibits
are curated, so we are not taking every single artist
that applies to be in the show. But our art curator,
Naja Hardman, takes a look at all of the applicants
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and chooses a really nice mix of people for each exhibit.
Current exhibit in the Marshall Family Foundation is called icons,
Idols and Adoration and that's on display until April twenty eighth,
so we do two months at a time. We're part
of the Delry Beach's first Friday Art Walks, so that
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we're one of the stops you can make. And our
brilliant art curator has branded our Black Box Theater into
a second gallery called the Black Gallery at Arts Garage
and it is for the next step up of artists,
someone who has some legs in terms of exhibits and
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selling of their art. So the art pieces are generally
a little more expensive, but the art featured is remarkable.
So currently we have Eric Perna who's an amazing American
Brazilian artists who's shown his work in many places in
South Florida.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Very cool. So of course if they go to the
Marshall Gallery they can purchase those paintings. And yes, there
are occasionally so for example, one of our artists, Patricia Schumann,
has a piece of that she did of her husband
that is not for sale. So there are occasionally pieces
that are not for sale, but they state very clearly
that clearly that they are not, and the bulk of
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the art in both galleries is for sale. But if
they needed her to paint a picture of their husband,
she'd be happy to do. I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I'm sure they can be commissioned. I'm sure they can.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
They take commissions. That's good.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Yes, Well, I think it's so cool.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Then you give people that opportunity, especially the first time out,
because I know, like Pombie Strama Works does that where
they collect plays and they review hundreds and hundreds of
plays and then they pick a couple play rights and
they actually do the full production of their play.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
It's a really cool thing.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
It's a really cool thing in the public can come
and see it, and it gives them that, like you said,
that initial experience, the leg up to get going.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I think venues like ours have a responsibility to use
their platform to let folks who are finding their joy
in the arts, whatever discipline, stand on their shoulders a
little bit, you know, give them some publicity and experience.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So it's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Sabas. You have the icons, Idols and Adoration running now
through April twenty eighth, yes, and then you mentioned you
have a family series. What's the family series?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
So the Family Series is a news series and it
is well for twenty four to twenty five. It is
fully funded by the Virginia and Harvey Kimmel Family Fund
of the Community Foundation, and our director of Special Projects,
Kelly Renz Bruneo brain bore this idea. She has a
young daughter and she said, we need to do more
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for families of younger children. So the Family Series is
intended to serve kids three through twelve and their families.
So obviously grand parents, parents can come with their grandchildren,
or parents can bring the older siblings of a child
who might age out of that. Its concept is to
introduce children to the arts through live, engaging programs in
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music and theater, dance.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Well, I think that's brilliant and I know like De
Norton does the same thing Army Art Center those Family Days.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
It's a great thing. We've got two more coming. We've
had two already this year, but we've got two more
in April. On the twelfth, we're doing Garden State, which
is a humorous and heartfelt tale of discovery and community.
It's going to be directed and produced at Arts Garage
with professional actors. And then in May on the third,
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we have The Monkey King, a kung Fu musical out
of New York, a kung fu musical hard to say
three times in a row, and it's sort of an
action adventure piece. Both of these shows will be Saturday matinees.
I don't remember the time. I want to say it's
two pm, one pm for The Monkey King and two
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pm for Garden State. We are just I'm excited about this.
We are offering a matinee on the Friday before these
two Saturdays to public school children for free, including paying
for the busing to get them there if they don't
have it. So the Kimels, Virginia and Harvey Kimmel are
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people who believe passionately in the arts and their power,
and fortunately in arts garage among many of the community
organizations that they support. So they have made this possible
and I think it is or has the potential to
be life changing for a lot of students in our
schools and families.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I agree because I'm like I grew up in a
very small town, there was no arts. They had another
friend who grew up in Ireland and every weekend her
in our whole family will go watch a theater play
because they were like outdoors up like three or maybe
two pounds or very inexpensive. Right, So like going to
like the Cravis, She's like, of course, let's go, right,
And I have other friends like, why would we do that?
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It never occurs, and them that's a fun thing too.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Well, if you've lived in the New York City area.
I didn't live in New York City, but I lived
about an hour outside of it in New Jersey, and
I'd travel into the city and I was not in
a position to pay for tickets at the time full price.
But Tickets was right there, allowing affordable wait in line
for a while tickets to Broadway shows. So it made
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the arts accessible. And that's what arts garage is passionate about.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Well, yeah, and that's where I think another big, maybe
like not monetized version of your economic impact is it's
the enrichment impact. It's like we talked before the show,
training your brain, the enriching of your brain, any kind
of engaging in or exposure to arts enriches your brain
and helps with your the plasticity in your brain and
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keeps you healthier longer.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
If you look at a Maria for the arts. You
can follow them on LinkedIn or any other social media,
or you can go to their website. They do surveys
and studies that are nationally participated in. That was a
terrible sentence, but and they show that the arts are
important on so many levels. People move to communities because
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the art and culture scene is so vibrant, or children
who participate in community arts and culture programs like the theater
camp or the family series are more likely to be
improving their math or reading scores in school. Or teenagers
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are more apt to be engaged in their civic world
as they become adults. So let alone the retired community.
So the retired community really benefits from the socialization piece.
Arts are magical because they don't align with political parties.
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The arts bring everybody together and you have for a
moment a common experience which builds a bridge between all
kinds of folks who have differences. So it's a magical thing.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Oh yeah, and that's I think. Also, like when you travel,
you can expose so much more and it's enriching. And
like I know, like when you go to the theater,
like a movie theater. I remember watching a movie years ago,
and it was the one where they were looking at
the sharks to cure like Alzheimer's or something. And at
once I think it's called Deep Blue or something like that,
and at one point the shark comes up through the
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floor on the screen. Every single person in the theater
screams and lifts their feet up off the floor. That's right,
community joined experiences, that's right. That's a fun thing to experience.
So like when they come to arts garage where they
in a family series of the theater camps or one
of the regular performances, absolutely they'll experience that as well.
Absolutely no sharks, mind.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You be no, no sharks, We don't have any sharks.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
But the fun experience, yes, absolutely, So of course another
cool thing you do, tell me a little bit about,
like you have like Artists in Residence, right, yes, Why
do those programs work? How do you sign up? How
does that work? So?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Artists in Residence is a new also born by the
Director of Special Projects and funded in this case by
the Cultural Council Arts and Education Grant. It's a two
year grant. So we finished all the activities for twenty
four to twenty five, but will obviously have another round
of activities for the following year.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
So what did you do this year?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
So we did three things. The program is attempting to
provide access to underserved populations, so it could be elderly
people on fixed incomes who have a hard time paying
for shows, or it could be schools students in high
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poverty schools that might not get to see a show otherwise.
So we pushed in a program to Pompey Park for
an after school learning where the artist went into the
to the Parks and Rec Department and did a storytelling
session for eight weeks. We did a pre show open
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rehearsal and talk back with Nicole Henry. We did the
same thing with a theater piece called Access Herbs and
Satchels that came out another one that came out of
New York Professional Production. So they there were three things
in the series and all of the people are invited.
So if you are interested in being considered for an invitation,
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So if you are an individual who may not be
part of a group like the Pompey Park Seniors or
Boytan Beach Seniors Club, or you have a child who
is in a high poverty school, you can write info
at Artsgarage dot org or call the box office and
ask for or your information to be sent to our
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director of Special Projects, who extends all the invitations. If
you were in an organization that serves people that might
benefit from this program, we encourage you to let us know,
let us know that you're interested.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Yeah, and I always encourage people to ask, reach out
and ask could You're all there to help everybody always,
And that's like you said, it's part of your purpose.
One of the main tenants is absolutely Art available to everyone.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I try really hard. I was a single mom for
the majority of the time I raised my children and
had to make choices about what my kids could or
could not do. And I want to make sure that
Art's Garage never has to tell anybody no. I want
every parent who thinks their kid might enjoy something we
do to be able to bring their kid, or every
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senior that is looking for something we serve vets with
this program to your veterans. So we want everybody to
feel like they can get a piece of that experience.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Oh absolutely. And of course one of the ways you
can make that happen and is buy like these wonderful
grants and donations like the Kimmels. If someone has the
interest and wants to put their money toward these kind
of projects, how do they reach out to you to
say I would like to be like a corporate sponsor
or a personal sponsor.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Well, you'll eventually get my phone number or email address,
but I would suggest that you either call the box
office five six one four or five oh six three
five seven and let them know what you're interested in.
You could also write info at Artsgarage dot org. That
information is given to me within forty eight hours and
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I contact you to discuss it. We have upcoming projects
that may or may not be sponsored. For example, I
can give you a sneak peek at something I'm very
excited about called Out of the Black Box. So we're
going to be doing a theater residency program with a
theater company called Recio, and it'll be the first recipient
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of the theater residency and it is spawned answered by
an individual who is interested in supporting this effort. So
this is a professional company out of New York City
that does not have their own space, which is the
purpose of the concept behind the theater residency program, and
will provide them an opportunity to build a new piece
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and put it on the stage for people to come
look at. So it's a great opportunity. And there are
a gazillion others I could name that we would love
sponsorship help with.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
So pick your top three of the other ones you
need help with.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
So I would love somebody to come in and offer
to sponsor a jazz series. I'm going to give you
an example. Jazz is one of the things we're known for.
But our budget, we have about a two million dollar budget,
So that means that if you're doing three shows in
a weekend and paying for the staff and paying for
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the professional services, that there's not a lot of money
to try new things or to push the financial envelope
to the edge of the table. So we were able
to do two big names in jazz recently. One was
Piqito de Rivera and that was part of our Category
B funding through the Cultural Council for Tourism. And more
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recently we did a show with John Pitzarelli, who's also
extremely well known. That was an individual sponsorship by a
board member, Dick Lowenthal and his partner Natalie ve Voda,
and they wrote a check covering the fees of the
performer which were more than double maybe triple what we
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would generally be able to afford. So that's a great
area is to tell me you love the blues, or
tell me you love emerging jazz performers or traditional jazz,
and you'd like to get a sort of well known,
famous person in this intimate, cool space that is arts garage.
Another one is a theater sponsorship. I would love to
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have an organization who was willing to help us add
some money to our budget for theater so we could
pull some bigger, more well known pieces down from New
York or LA or other places where we can poach
them right and put them on a routing tour in
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South Florida. And the third pocket, I would say would
be our emerging artist in the main gallery, the Marshall
Family Foundation Gallery. We would like to extend that artist
in residence concept and do speaking engagements with some of
the artists that we feature in that gallery, either the
Black Box Gallery or the Marshall Family Foundation Gallery. It's
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a great way to promote the visual arts in a
different way than most of the people around us are doing.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Well. Yeah, I like when I watch movies, I always
see like the gallery openings. The artist is there and
there's the snacks, the drinks and the people chatting. So
if you had somebody sponsoring that or even a company
willing to donate the catering services for an event like that, right, absolutely,
that'd be cool. Absolutely. And then also, I know you love, love,
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love love volunteers.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
We do. We have about one hundred active volunteers, maybe
a little bit more than that, who do about ten
thousand hours a year of work for us. They come
in and usher, which isn't simply ushering. I don't know
how it's done at larger organizations, but our volunteers come
in and truly work for the house manager. They helped
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set up the space, they help monitor the space during
the show, after they've helped people find their seeds, and
they help clean up.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
After the show.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
So we could not do it without our volunteers. That
we really couldn't. So we couldn't be more grateful.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
So how do people become a volunteer?
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Same thing? It's on the website, so I believe there
is a I believe it is on the support tab
and if you hover over the supportab at Artsgarage dot org,
you'll see join or become a become a volunteer, I.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Believe, okay. And then if people want to find out
more information, can they follow you on social media any.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Of the social media applications. Yes, we're on Facebook, We're
on Instagram, LinkedIn X, We're definitely on YouTube. That's a
great place to check out some of what we do.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Well, very cool. I love it. And of course one
of the things that you volunteer, you're there for the show.
So what fun shows are coming up?
Speaker 3 (28:30):
There's a few coming in late March, April and early May.
There's Ladies of Simone, which is a tribute to Nina Simone,
the Queen of Soul. We have Kellen Erskine coming on
April fourth. He's part of our Art of our Art
of Laughter series, which is professional touring comedians on the
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first Friday of each month. If you get a ticket
for that, you'll also be there for the first Friday
art Walk, which is a cool thing to see the
art in both gallery. There's the Bone Shakers on April
twenty seventh, and that is a powerful sort of rock
blues funk band that'll probably raise the roof. And then
there's a band that I have a special affinity for
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called the Smoogies. They're South Florida born and raised jazz artists.
They are doing a live jazz experience on May third.
You will talk to any jazz aficionado and they will
tell you jazz needs to stay alive. We need jazz
to be performed and seen by young people. This is
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your chance. The Smoogies are amazingly talented. They do improvisation
like nothing I've ever seen, and I promise you won't
be disappointed.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Oh very cool. And again, how do we get the tickets?
You said?
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Everything on the website, which again is Artsgarage dot org.
And you can call the box office for human assistance.
If you call not box office hours, definitely leave a
message because they will call you back within forty eight hours.
Our box office phone number if you'd like to talk
to a human being is five six one four or
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five oh six three five seven.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Oh perfect.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Well.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Thank you for coming in and sharing with us and
doing such an amazing thing in the community. Definitely needed
and very much appreciated.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Very very grateful for the opportunity to brag. That's what
we're here for. I'm grateful.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
If you need more information, reach out to me Palm
Beach Perspective at iHeartMedia dot com and I'm happy to
ford it on the details and don't forget. You can
always download the shows a podcast on our iHeartRadio app.
Hope everybody has a wonderful weekend. I'm devn and this
has been my perspective. Remember life is good, so be
your healthiest you and let's get out there and live it.
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Until next week in Jelly I.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning, Welcome to Palm Beach Treasure Coast Perspective. I'm
your host Stev Nev. Thanks for spending your weekend with me.
All kinds of great things going on. If you haven't
signed up yet, there is still time to sign up
for the Mental Health America's Mind and Body Connection five
K and walk, and of course it's raising funds for
the Supportive Communities. It's going to be happening Saturday, March
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twenty second at Drer Park in West Palm Beach and
for more information you can reach out to you five six
y one three zero one forty nine ninety eight to
get details on the race. And of course don't forget
lots of things happening at the Gravis Center. Wrapping up
this weekend is the Book of Mormon, part of their
Cravis on Broadway series and they have also coming up
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Peter Bentz. He's like at the Guinness Book of World
Record for the most piano key strikes in one minute.
Detite check that out. That is March seventeenth at seven
thirty pm. March eighteenth is new Orleans Songbook a Jazz
at the Lincoln Center production. That's gonna be a f
eleven and two pm. Coming up March twenty there's Dixie's
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Tupperware Party the final season, so if you haven't checked
that out yet, definitely check it out. It's a lot
of fun for you and your friends. For more details
go to Cravis dot org and all the informations there
for you. And of course lots of good stuff happening outside.
So I love the folks at SLC Hikes. They have
some great hikes, kayaking, paddle things set up for this season.
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So coming up on Saturday, March twenty second, from eight
to nine thirty am is the Sea Grape Sunrise Walk
and that's an Ocean Bay beachside preserve so you can
find out what a sea grape is and all kinds
of fun things. It's a fun walk. Also on Saturday
at nine am till noon is the ten Mile Creek
Kayak Exploration, so if you like kayaking that day versus hiking,
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you can do that. And they also have mammals in
our midst hike at Sheridan Scrub Preserve a Monday, it's
be an Indian River Lagoon paddle at the DJ Wilcox Preserve.
Simply go to SLC Hikes dot org and all the
different hikes and paddles and fun stuff is listed there
for you. And in Palm Beach County you can go
to PBCERM dot com. So it'start Palm Beach County and
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environmental Resource management guys and Benji's got all the different
activities and programs to schedule there for you. I know
they have like astronomy nights, They've got paddles and hikes
as well, so lots of cool stuff happening. Speaking of cool,
head over to the Norton Museum, nice and air condition
if you want to be inside. They've got some great
exhibitions running so right now it is Surroundings Video Encounters
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of Nature and that's going on now through June twenty ninth.
They have Sorolla and the Sea that is going on
now through April thirteenth. Of course, all they have all
their wonderful like art after dark programs, so I just
love checking those out. Every Friday night. Gott the twenty first,
they've got screening of the film exhibiting Forgiveness with a
talk by the director afterward. March twenty eighth is music
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by Uncle Scotchy the Blues Band. So simply go to
Norton dot org and it's all listed there. And we
talked with Wendy a few weeks ago from the morri
Commy Museum of Gardens, so they are doing all kinds
of cool things in March as well. So they've got
the Lovely Tea Ceremonies happening, the Raking demonstrations happening. On
March twenty second, they're doing a family fun Spring Equinox
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Prints session, and that's from noon to three pm. And
of course it's free for members or it's free of
their paidmission to the museum, so Jeff and checking out,
no reservation required for that one. Simply go to Moricami
dot org and all the different classes are listed there
for you. There's so many fun things they are doing there.
And of course we talked to Redina from Pompeach Drama Works.
They're enjoying their twenty fifth season coming up on April eleventh.
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Of their next play is called Camping with Henry and
Tom Something. Go to pomp Beach Drama Works dot org
and all the different programs are listed on there for you,
and our friends are for the Cultural Council. Oh always
send me cool things that are happening to mentioned Dance
Theater Miami is going to be performing at the Duncan Theater.
Palm Beach Pride is happening Bryant Park March twenty ninth
and the thirtieth. We've got the Body Show happening at
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Arts Warehouse through April nineteenth. And you can go to
Pompeachculture dot com and find out the listing or ask
to be put on their email list and they'll just
email you all the cool things that are happening around town.
And of course also lots of fun things happening in
the parks. Reptiles and amphibians. The Sensational Snakes happening at
Green Kay Nature Center that is Saturday, March twenty second
at nine thirty am. And they're also doing a night
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hike at Daggerwing Nature Center on March twenty fifth at
seven pm, and that one's good for ages eight and
up and it's five dollars a person. Simply go to
Pbcparks dot com and you can find out all the
different parks and sign up for all the good stuff
speaking of outside parks, Mounts Botanical Garden has got all
kinds of wonderful things happening. So right now it is
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rivet the exhibit number two. So these life sized frogs
placed throughout the different gardens because they've got like the
perfume garden, the herb garden, like the actual regular plants garden,
and the cabbages are bigger than like your arms spread out.
They're just massive fun ways of people to learn how
to garden. They offer Okay, let's see soundbathing classes. Now,
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they've got tai chi in the garden. There's a watercolor painting,
the get fit in the garden. Simply go to Mounts
dot org and it's all listed right there for you.
And speaking of fun things to do, this is an
indoor one. I want to welcome my guest for today.
I have Marjorie Waldo, President and CEO of Arts Garage
in Delray Beach. Good morning, Good morning, thanks for having me,
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Thanks for coming back in. We talked a little while ago,
but I always like to have people come back in
and fill me in on the latest scoop. So I
hear you have something called places happening.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yes, that's our newest summer camp for young people. So
it is a summer theater camp that has four different
weeks and each week the kids will focus on a
different topic in theater, including technical theater and playwriting, improvisation,
musical theater, and acting. Each camp is a week long.
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Kids who apply, parents who apply for their children should
be eight to fifteen years old. So it is a limited,
limited class size, class size, yes, thank you very much,
limited class size. So you should get in on that quickly.
There are some scholarships available and I highly recommend it.
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Michelle Diaz is our director of Theater Arts and she
does amazing things at Arts Garage and this is her baby,
so one of many.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Well, and that's so cool, And I think it's great
that the weeks feature different aspects of theater because this
is a great way to figure out what your thing is.
Because I have friends who've gone their kids have gone
to theater camp and they found out they have absolutely
no interest in acting, but they loved putting the sets together.
Like I just totally called and them were like, ooh,
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I wanted to do that, but that wasn't the part
they were signed up for.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
That's right, that's right. In our camps. In the past,
set the stage has been sort of an all encompassing
three to four week experience where they did learn all
the pieces of writing, producing, directing, and acting in their
own play. But we decided to try a little different
approach this year, and I think it's it's already getting
some great feedback. So I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
All I'm excited too, Yeah, because I think you can
specialize them more and if you want to check it
all out, you can just take all.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
That's right and you get a discount if you do
all four weeks.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
So all good to know. So how do they sign up?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Do they go to your website or call you Wwwartsgarage
dot org. Everything that we do the registration is online.
You can always if you prefer, call the box office.
There are limited hours, so it's Tuesday through Saturday one
pm two five pm. You can call the box office
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at five six one four five zero six three five
seven if you'd like to talk to a human being
who can help you figure it out.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, sometimes that's a little bit easier, like my computer
freeze up and somebody and they're like, right, it's a
little slow today, let me walk you through that, right, absolutely,
so it makes me more comfortable. And how long has
actually Arts Garage been around, because I think it's been
there quite a well, has.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
A long time. So we opened in twenty eleven. Wow, yeah,
so this is twenty twenty five, so we're, you know,
coming up on fifteen years soon. And that's if I
did my math right, did I do it right, twenty
six it'll be fifteen years, it's close. So it's it's
been a long time. We've had some evolutions and we've
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gone through, which we talked about last time, a couple
of traumatic things, right where like.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Everybody with COVID absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yes, COVID was a big one. The turnaround in twenty
sixteen was big. So we've learned a lot and we've
we've built a big following in the community with our
stakeholders and donors and our patrons. So it's a cool thing.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Oh definitely. And I always think that, like every business
and every person in their life are going to be
exposed to these traumatic things and how you turn it
around or how you handle it is a great indicator
of the business and like what you offer the community. Yeah,
and I know you guys have a lot You've actually
had a very positive economic impact into the community we have.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
We took advantage of opportunities during the pandemic that allowed
us to continue programming throughout the pandemic and end the
pandemic with a reserve, which is wonderful. We did our
first annual report this year for twenty twenty four, which
is really exciting. We've been aggling other people's annual reports
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for some time, but never had the ability to fit
it into our marketing team's schedule, which is a huge schedule.
We do over three hundred events, classes, performances every year,
so it was tricky and complicated. So our twenty twenty
four economic impact to the city, to the state, and
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to the federal government totaled over four million dollars. With
our tiny little organization, which is honestly not that tiny anymore.
We have a social media following of over thirty seven
thousand people, and about twenty thousand people receive our e blasts.
We've we see, like I want to say, about twenty
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seven or twenty eight thousand tickets purchased every year, and
another six or seven thousand people are coming in to
look at the galleries that we have, which are free
to the public.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
So yeah, that's fantastic, that's a great impact. And of course,
now tell the listeners and I a little bit that
obviously you've got like the performance theater where people come
and do like karaoke night or poetry or watch a band.
But you also mentioned you have a gallery. Tell us
about the gallery, right.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
So the bread and butter of arts garage is amazing
performances on the main stage, which include theater. We have
a four show theater season every year. We do comedy
every First Friday with a professional touring comedian, and amazing
music in almost every genre that you can think of.
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But what the open mics do, First of all, they're
extremely affordable. They're ten dollars if you are coming to
watch and support a friend who's performing. Performers are free,
the gallery is free to be part of an exhibit.
We do six exhibits in the Marshall Family Foundation Gallery
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targeting emerging artists and by our definition that means artists
who have never had their own show. So the exhibits
are curated, so we are not taking every single artist
that applies to be in the show. But our art curator,
Naja Hardman, takes a look at all of the applicants
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and chooses a really nice mix of people for each exhibit.
Current exhibit in the Marshall Family Foundation is called icons,
Idols and Adoration and that's on display until April twenty eighth,
so we do two months at a time. We're part
of the Delry Beach's first Friday Art Walks, so that
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we're one of the stops you can make. And our
brilliant art curator has branded our Black Box Theater into
a second gallery called the Black Gallery at Arts Garage
and it is for the next step up of artists,
someone who has some legs in terms of exhibits and
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selling of their art. So the art pieces are generally
a little more expensive, but the art featured is remarkable.
So currently we have Eric Perna who's an amazing American
Brazilian artists who's shown his work in many places in
South Florida.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Very cool. So of course if they go to the
Marshall Gallery they can purchase those paintings. And yes, there
are occasionally so for example, one of our artists, Patricia Schumann,
has a piece of that she did of her husband
that is not for sale. So there are occasionally pieces
that are not for sale, but they state very clearly
that clearly that they are not, and the bulk of
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the art in both galleries is for sale. But if
they needed her to paint a picture of their husband,
she'd be happy to do. I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I'm sure they can be commissioned. I'm sure they can.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
They take commissions. That's good.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Yes, Well, I think it's so cool.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Then you give people that opportunity, especially the first time out,
because I know, like Pombie Strama Works does that where
they collect plays and they review hundreds and hundreds of
plays and then they pick a couple play rights and
they actually do the full production of their play.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
It's a really cool thing.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
It's a really cool thing in the public can come
and see it, and it gives them that, like you said,
that initial experience, the leg up to get going.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I think venues like ours have a responsibility to use
their platform to let folks who are finding their joy
in the arts, whatever discipline, stand on their shoulders a
little bit, you know, give them some publicity and experience.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So it's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Sabas. You have the icons, Idols and Adoration running now
through April twenty eighth, yes, and then you mentioned you
have a family series. What's the family series?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
So the Family Series is a news series and it
is well for twenty four to twenty five. It is
fully funded by the Virginia and Harvey Kimmel Family Fund
of the Community Foundation, and our director of Special Projects,
Kelly Renz Bruneo brain bore this idea. She has a
young daughter and she said, we need to do more
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for families of younger children. So the Family Series is
intended to serve kids three through twelve and their families.
So obviously grand parents, parents can come with their grandchildren,
or parents can bring the older siblings of a child
who might age out of that. Its concept is to
introduce children to the arts through live, engaging programs in
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music and theater, dance.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Well, I think that's brilliant and I know like De
Norton does the same thing Army Art Center those Family Days.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
It's a great thing. We've got two more coming. We've
had two already this year, but we've got two more
in April. On the twelfth, we're doing Garden State, which
is a humorous and heartfelt tale of discovery and community.
It's going to be directed and produced at Arts Garage
with professional actors. And then in May on the third,
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we have The Monkey King, a kung Fu musical out
of New York, a kung fu musical hard to say
three times in a row, and it's sort of an
action adventure piece. Both of these shows will be Saturday matinees.
I don't remember the time. I want to say it's
two pm, one pm for The Monkey King and two
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pm for Garden State. We are just I'm excited about this.
We are offering a matinee on the Friday before these
two Saturdays to public school children for free, including paying
for the busing to get them there if they don't
have it. So the Kimels, Virginia and Harvey Kimmel are
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people who believe passionately in the arts and their power,
and fortunately in arts garage among many of the community
organizations that they support. So they have made this possible
and I think it is or has the potential to
be life changing for a lot of students in our
schools and families.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I agree because I'm like I grew up in a
very small town, there was no arts. They had another
friend who grew up in Ireland and every weekend her
in our whole family will go watch a theater play
because they were like outdoors up like three or maybe
two pounds or very inexpensive. Right, So like going to
like the Cravis, She's like, of course, let's go, right,
And I have other friends like, why would we do that?
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It never occurs, and them that's a fun thing too.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Well, if you've lived in the New York City area.
I didn't live in New York City, but I lived
about an hour outside of it in New Jersey, and
I'd travel into the city and I was not in
a position to pay for tickets at the time full price.
But Tickets was right there, allowing affordable wait in line
for a while tickets to Broadway shows. So it made
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the arts accessible. And that's what arts garage is passionate about.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Well, yeah, and that's where I think another big, maybe
like not monetized version of your economic impact is it's
the enrichment impact. It's like we talked before the show,
training your brain, the enriching of your brain, any kind
of engaging in or exposure to arts enriches your brain
and helps with your the plasticity in your brain and
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keeps you healthier longer.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
If you look at a Maria for the arts. You
can follow them on LinkedIn or any other social media,
or you can go to their website. They do surveys
and studies that are nationally participated in. That was a
terrible sentence, but and they show that the arts are
important on so many levels. People move to communities because
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the art and culture scene is so vibrant, or children
who participate in community arts and culture programs like the theater
camp or the family series are more likely to be
improving their math or reading scores in school. Or teenagers
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are more apt to be engaged in their civic world
as they become adults. So let alone the retired community.
So the retired community really benefits from the socialization piece.
Arts are magical because they don't align with political parties.
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The arts bring everybody together and you have for a
moment a common experience which builds a bridge between all
kinds of folks who have differences. So it's a magical thing.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Oh yeah, and that's I think. Also, like when you travel,
you can expose so much more and it's enriching. And
like I know, like when you go to the theater,
like a movie theater. I remember watching a movie years ago,
and it was the one where they were looking at
the sharks to cure like Alzheimer's or something. And at
once I think it's called Deep Blue or something like that,
and at one point the shark comes up through the
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floor on the screen. Every single person in the theater
screams and lifts their feet up off the floor. That's right,
community joined experiences, that's right. That's a fun thing to experience.
So like when they come to arts garage where they
in a family series of the theater camps or one
of the regular performances, absolutely they'll experience that as well.
Absolutely no sharks, mind.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You be no, no sharks, We don't have any sharks.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
But the fun experience, yes, absolutely, So of course another
cool thing you do, tell me a little bit about,
like you have like Artists in Residence, right, yes, Why
do those programs work? How do you sign up? How
does that work? So?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Artists in Residence is a new also born by the
Director of Special Projects and funded in this case by
the Cultural Council Arts and Education Grant. It's a two
year grant. So we finished all the activities for twenty
four to twenty five, but will obviously have another round
of activities for the following year.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
So what did you do this year?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
So we did three things. The program is attempting to
provide access to underserved populations, so it could be elderly
people on fixed incomes who have a hard time paying
for shows, or it could be schools students in high
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poverty schools that might not get to see a show otherwise.
So we pushed in a program to Pompey Park for
an after school learning where the artist went into the
to the Parks and Rec Department and did a storytelling
session for eight weeks. We did a pre show open
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rehearsal and talk back with Nicole Henry. We did the
same thing with a theater piece called Access Herbs and
Satchels that came out another one that came out of
New York Professional Production. So they there were three things
in the series and all of the people are invited.
So if you are interested in being considered for an invitation,
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So if you are an individual who may not be
part of a group like the Pompey Park Seniors or
Boytan Beach Seniors Club, or you have a child who
is in a high poverty school, you can write info
at Artsgarage dot org or call the box office and
ask for or your information to be sent to our
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director of Special Projects, who extends all the invitations. If
you were in an organization that serves people that might
benefit from this program, we encourage you to let us know,
let us know that you're interested.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Yeah, and I always encourage people to ask, reach out
and ask could You're all there to help everybody always,
And that's like you said, it's part of your purpose.
One of the main tenants is absolutely Art available to everyone.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I try really hard. I was a single mom for
the majority of the time I raised my children and
had to make choices about what my kids could or
could not do. And I want to make sure that
Art's Garage never has to tell anybody no. I want
every parent who thinks their kid might enjoy something we
do to be able to bring their kid, or every
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senior that is looking for something we serve vets with
this program to your veterans. So we want everybody to
feel like they can get a piece of that experience.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Oh absolutely. And of course one of the ways you
can make that happen and is buy like these wonderful
grants and donations like the Kimmels. If someone has the
interest and wants to put their money toward these kind
of projects, how do they reach out to you to
say I would like to be like a corporate sponsor
or a personal sponsor.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Well, you'll eventually get my phone number or email address,
but I would suggest that you either call the box
office five six one four or five oh six three
five seven and let them know what you're interested in.
You could also write info at Artsgarage dot org. That
information is given to me within forty eight hours and
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I contact you to discuss it. We have upcoming projects
that may or may not be sponsored. For example, I
can give you a sneak peek at something I'm very
excited about called Out of the Black Box. So we're
going to be doing a theater residency program with a
theater company called Recio, and it'll be the first recipient
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of the theater residency and it is spawned answered by
an individual who is interested in supporting this effort. So
this is a professional company out of New York City
that does not have their own space, which is the
purpose of the concept behind the theater residency program, and
will provide them an opportunity to build a new piece
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and put it on the stage for people to come
look at. So it's a great opportunity. And there are
a gazillion others I could name that we would love
sponsorship help with.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
So pick your top three of the other ones you
need help with.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
So I would love somebody to come in and offer
to sponsor a jazz series. I'm going to give you
an example. Jazz is one of the things we're known for.
But our budget, we have about a two million dollar budget,
So that means that if you're doing three shows in
a weekend and paying for the staff and paying for
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the professional services, that there's not a lot of money
to try new things or to push the financial envelope
to the edge of the table. So we were able
to do two big names in jazz recently. One was
Piqito de Rivera and that was part of our Category
B funding through the Cultural Council for Tourism. And more
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recently we did a show with John Pitzarelli, who's also
extremely well known. That was an individual sponsorship by a
board member, Dick Lowenthal and his partner Natalie ve Voda,
and they wrote a check covering the fees of the
performer which were more than double maybe triple what we
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would generally be able to afford. So that's a great
area is to tell me you love the blues, or
tell me you love emerging jazz performers or traditional jazz,
and you'd like to get a sort of well known,
famous person in this intimate, cool space that is arts garage.
Another one is a theater sponsorship. I would love to
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have an organization who was willing to help us add
some money to our budget for theater so we could
pull some bigger, more well known pieces down from New
York or LA or other places where we can poach
them right and put them on a routing tour in
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South Florida. And the third pocket, I would say would
be our emerging artist in the main gallery, the Marshall
Family Foundation Gallery. We would like to extend that artist
in residence concept and do speaking engagements with some of
the artists that we feature in that gallery, either the
Black Box Gallery or the Marshall Family Foundation Gallery. It's
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a great way to promote the visual arts in a
different way than most of the people around us are doing.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Well. Yeah, I like when I watch movies, I always
see like the gallery openings. The artist is there and
there's the snacks, the drinks and the people chatting. So
if you had somebody sponsoring that or even a company
willing to donate the catering services for an event like that, right, absolutely,
that'd be cool. Absolutely. And then also, I know you love, love,
(27:15):
love love volunteers.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
We do. We have about one hundred active volunteers, maybe
a little bit more than that, who do about ten
thousand hours a year of work for us. They come
in and usher, which isn't simply ushering. I don't know
how it's done at larger organizations, but our volunteers come
in and truly work for the house manager. They helped
(27:37):
set up the space, they help monitor the space during
the show, after they've helped people find their seeds, and
they help clean up.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
After the show.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
So we could not do it without our volunteers. That
we really couldn't. So we couldn't be more grateful.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
So how do people become a volunteer?
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Same thing? It's on the website, so I believe there
is a I believe it is on the support tab
and if you hover over the supportab at Artsgarage dot org,
you'll see join or become a become a volunteer, I.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Believe, okay. And then if people want to find out
more information, can they follow you on social media any.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Of the social media applications. Yes, we're on Facebook, We're
on Instagram, LinkedIn X, We're definitely on YouTube. That's a
great place to check out some of what we do.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Well, very cool. I love it. And of course one
of the things that you volunteer, you're there for the show.
So what fun shows are coming up?
Speaker 3 (28:30):
There's a few coming in late March, April and early May.
There's Ladies of Simone, which is a tribute to Nina Simone,
the Queen of Soul. We have Kellen Erskine coming on
April fourth. He's part of our Art of our Art
of Laughter series, which is professional touring comedians on the
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first Friday of each month. If you get a ticket
for that, you'll also be there for the first Friday
art Walk, which is a cool thing to see the
art in both gallery. There's the Bone Shakers on April
twenty seventh, and that is a powerful sort of rock
blues funk band that'll probably raise the roof. And then
there's a band that I have a special affinity for
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called the Smoogies. They're South Florida born and raised jazz artists.
They are doing a live jazz experience on May third.
You will talk to any jazz aficionado and they will
tell you jazz needs to stay alive. We need jazz
to be performed and seen by young people. This is
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your chance. The Smoogies are amazingly talented. They do improvisation
like nothing I've ever seen, and I promise you won't
be disappointed.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Oh very cool. And again, how do we get the tickets?
You said?
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Everything on the website, which again is Artsgarage dot org.
And you can call the box office for human assistance.
If you call not box office hours, definitely leave a
message because they will call you back within forty eight hours.
Our box office phone number if you'd like to talk
to a human being is five six one four or
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five oh six three five seven.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Oh perfect.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Well.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Thank you for coming in and sharing with us and
doing such an amazing thing in the community. Definitely needed
and very much appreciated.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Very very grateful for the opportunity to brag. That's what
we're here for. I'm grateful.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
If you need more information, reach out to me Palm
Beach Perspective at iHeartMedia dot com and I'm happy to
ford it on the details and don't forget. You can
always download the shows a podcast on our iHeartRadio app.
Hope everybody has a wonderful weekend. I'm devn and this
has been my perspective. Remember life is good, so be
your healthiest you and let's get out there and live it.
(30:48):
Until next week in Jelly I.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
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