September 24, 2025 • 25 mins
Andrew Kato tells us about the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, its new addition of 8,500 square feet of state-of-the-art classrooms, it's upcoming shows of "Misery" based on the Stephen King novel, and "Million Dollar Quartet." Find more details online at JupiterTheatre.org
And we speak with Maddie Williams of the Saint Lucie Cultural Alliance. Maddie tells us about Art Walk on the 3rd Friday of every month, how the St Lucie Cultural Alliance is collaborating with other artistic entities in Fort PIerce, and more. The building is at 111 Orange Avenue in Fort PIerce and you will find more details at ArtStLucie.org
And we speak with Maddie Williams of the Saint Lucie Cultural Alliance. Maddie tells us about Art Walk on the 3rd Friday of every month, how the St Lucie Cultural Alliance is collaborating with other artistic entities in Fort PIerce, and more. The building is at 111 Orange Avenue in Fort PIerce and you will find more details at ArtStLucie.org
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to arts Plaster on the Air, a podcast, a
radio show and Alexis Skill presented by Ballet Vero Beach
and Riverside Theater Arts supporting the arts in Florida. I'm
wille Miller and each week I get to talk to
people in the arts about the arts on the Treasure
Coast and beyond. Arts Plaster on the Air is proud
(00:23):
to be supported by Ballet Vero Beach. Subscriptions for the
exciting new season are available online now and single seats
on sale November first. The Nutcracker on the Indian River
is earlier and in a new venue this year. Remember
to add December eleventh through the thirteenth at Riverside Theater
to your calendar and ask about the new VIP add
(00:45):
on experience. Plus, Nutcracker for All has some new options
to learn about everything at Ballet Vero Beach dot org.
And now on with the show. My guest today Andrew
Cate and Maddie Williams. Andrew, you are down in Jupiter
at the All Stupiter Theater.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Right over twenty years? Can you believe it will even
we've been friends that long? That long, Yes, twenty years.
We've been speaking together.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
You know what I was. I was asking myself this morning,
how long when was the first time we talked? And
twenty years? Wow?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Okay, yeah I was. I just started down here, and
we were fledgling a little theater, and we were scrappy,
and in some respects, as we grow the theater with
all our new programs, I still feel like we're a
scrappy little theater because keep adding things. So it's good.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Things might have changed in your life and in the
theater's life as well over twenty years.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Would you say, oh, indeed, I have a grandson now
of eight months, and yeah, I'm getting to that age.
In fact, it's my birthday today, so oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Wait did you wait? Did you just say it's your
birthday today?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I did?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, okay, here's my present to you. I will not
saying happy birthday. How's that? Yeay yay. People always appreciate
that gift more than anything I could give them.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
So you are happy. Did you say you have a grandson?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I do? Yeah, I know. It's strange. I move down
here at forty I'm sixty one now, and yeah, I
thinks are going great up here in I stay down
here in Jupiter, Florida at the Most Jupiters Theater. We've
got a lot planned for this season. New parts of
the building have just been brought on, including our new
(02:38):
Goldener Conservatory at the Rogue Green Education Center. It's eighty
five hundred square feet of new classrooms for students to
learn everything from ballet, jazz, acting. We have a green screen,
a podcast room, you know, multiple eight studios, two voice studios.
(02:59):
It's incredible.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
You know. I went online to the website, which by
the way, is Jupitertheater dot org and that's theater r
E and saw a an outline, saw a kind of
an I guess an architects rendering or the plan the
Flora plans anyway, and what a place that is.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
It's really incredible. It's like a country club for kids.
You know. We we certainly didn't have that growing up,
but it's really stunning and I think will be an
important addition to our community so that we can continue
to educate kids in the arts. You know, the funding
for arts have been cut back considerably and it falls
to the not for profits such as the Multi Jupiter
(03:43):
Theater to ensure that kids are getting that level of
enrichment and it is our pleasure to do that. So
the brand new school is opening. We're taking we're offering
tours now for people to walk through the facility. It
is jaw dropping. I mean, you cannot believe that there's
an asset for our children in this neighborhood. So people
(04:05):
are welcome to come to the theater and take a tour,
sign up for classes. You know we're doing. We're doing
so much in that area. We're also adding a new
gift shop, so two lines of business this season. You know,
everyone likes a good shop while they are, you know,
killing time before show. So it's small, but it'll be mighty.
(04:27):
It'll be a nice gift shop. And then of course
our our season and season subscriptions are going really great
under the title of Broadways Bright Lights. We've got five
wonderful shows that we produce, much like the Riverside Theater,
our our colleague in your area. We love Riverside so much,
they're great partners with us. But we're doing Misery based
(04:49):
on the Stephen King novel and film that help. The
entire house that she lives in revolves on a thirty
foot revolve, so you get to see all aspects of
the House of the House literally revolves on stage, and
then the very popular Million Dollar Quartet, which brings it's
(05:10):
a true story about Elvis Presley Costello. Oh gosh, I'm
trying to remember all their names, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis,
Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash who had a chance encounter to
come together and they did a recording session. Is very
popular and selling very well. And then we're one of
(05:31):
the first theaters in the South Florida area to get
the title Come from Away, which for those people who
don't know, is a very uplifting musical about the day
after nine to eleven when all about thirty eight planes
i think it was, were sent to Gander, Newfoundland because
(05:52):
they weren't able to come into the American airspace. And
when they landed there, the townspeople took care of them,
and it's about how selfless they were as a town
and how they brought this, you know, a little bit
of a ray of sunshine to a very tragic part
of our history. But it's not a downer. It's completely uplifting.
You see the brighter side of humanity, and who doesn't
(06:16):
need that these days?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
That's probably part of the nine to eleven story that
a lot of people will either have forgotten or never
knew that was. It doesn't seem possible, but it was
a long time.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Ago, I know, right, Yeah, I was in New York
through nine to eleven, and I think everyone remembers that day,
so clearly who was around that faithful day. And then
our fourth play is called good Night Oscar. It was
on Broadway last year and actually just closed in London.
It's about Oscar Levant and his his somewhat troubled life.
(06:55):
He was a concert pianist but also a comedian, but
he had a lot of mental health issues, so he'd
gone the Jack Parr Show and talk about those in
kind of a funny way. But the great thing about
this play is the the person who plays Oscar Levant
at the very end of the show plays the uh,
(07:18):
you know, terrific piano piece that he's known for, and
it's it's fourteen minutes long. It's really, you know, quite exciting.
So that ends the play, and then we end the
season with Man of La Mancha, the classic Everyone Loves
(07:38):
to Dream, the Impossible Dream, Rap City and Blues. That's
where that's the song yeah, and Delphine and that. But
I was saying in Oscar levant he plays all of
Rahapsody in Blue at the end. I just couldn't bring
it into my mind when we were speaking, but it
popped in after the fact. So in addition to that,
(07:59):
we do, you know, our twelve limited engagements, everything from
Fleetwood Mac to Jimmy Buffett, A Little Material, Girls, Hotel California,
Alba Mania. They're always popular, they always sell out, and
Linda Etter actually is she's coming for a benefit concert.
She's completely sold out, cannot get a ticket. But the
(08:21):
fun the other fun thing the new edition is in
our smaller space, the Island Theater coming up right this
at the beginning of October October third, fourth, and fifth,
and then the following week the ninth, tenth, and twelfth.
We're giving people an opportunity to have a night on
the island. So they're local people or people who have
(08:44):
come up here there on a very high level. So
we're doing shows like Sisters, the Celebration of Motown and
Soul that's almost sold out. The Lubbin Brothers, if you
don't know them, they're three triplets. I think they're gonna
have twenty two instruments on night of Folk Pop with
brid Drasda. The Blues is back Jake Walden Band given
(09:06):
to fly the Pearl Jam experience. It's very eclectic. And
then I'm there to be President Riley Burke, who is
from New York and she also has such great instrumentation
in her shows. And the great news is they're only
thirty five dollars, so super intimate, only one hundred and
ninety eight seats in our island theater. Come and support
these emerging artists for that so and as you said,
(09:31):
everything can be viewed on Jupitertheater dot org.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Okay, well we have time, assuming people are listening to
this early enough. You have an open house through the
through October fourth at the Education Center.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Correct, we do, but yes, but people can come in
at any time and you know, we're happy to show
off our new digs and get people registered. So you know,
as long as it's within business hours, we've to hear
from you.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And if you're listening before the twenty seventh, the Demetrius
Client Dance Company, the artists and residents.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Will be there yet I already did. They happened last
week and they were terrific. So they are many of
our teachers in our conservatory, so we wanted to showcase
them as well.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Okay, stop talking, Andrew, because I want to say before
we leave. Carbonel Award finalists twenty four nominations.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Wow, I know the most in South Florida. We're so
honored with that. We're so grateful that we we've been
recognized by you know, our peers. So super excited.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Congratulations, OK we are. We are almost out of time,
so we want to let everybody know that the Mall
Stupider Theater is at one zero zero one East Indian
Town Road inter and online it's Jupitertheater dot org. So
much coming up. We didn't get to talk about daycamp,
(11:07):
but we'll do that another time, won't we We will.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Indeed, I'll be on your show anytime, Willie. I love
you so much.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I love you too, Andrew. Happy Oh no, I said
I wouldn't do that. Happy birthday. Thanks again for taking time.
Great to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Thank you, love bye bye bye.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
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Speaker 1 (14:05):
Com and we are back with Arts Blast on the air.
I'm Willie Miller and I'm talking to someone wearing a
Saint Lucie Cultural Alliance shirt. Oh, I bet it's Mattie Williams.
Thank you, Maddie. Are you new to the Cultural Alliance.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
I'm new to the position of executive director, but I've
been on the Board of directors for the past five years.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Oh, you probably know your way around, then I have
a little bit. Yeah, Yes, we have a lot to
talk about besides coming events. Let's talk about the history
of the arts and support of the arts in Saint
Lucy County, which has not always been great. It's been
a long time coming, but I think at least for
(14:57):
the last at least five years, maybe more, there has
been support and things have grown and it's become a
wonderful little nest of arts down there.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
Yes, Saint Lucie County has stepped up and supported us
over the last several years with a matching grant. So
as we appreciate all the support, but we still always
have the challenge of the match, right, So we have
(15:31):
a grant team that is doing all the research for
us to be able to continue on.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I don't know if everybody realizes or we have so
much available in the arts here, but it's you know,
it doesn't come easily. It's a struggle for everybody to
Indian River County, Brevard, Saint Lucie, Martin County, Palm Beach County.
There's always a struggle to get the money to put
(16:01):
on the entertainment that we are so fortunate to have.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Yeah, we have so much talent on the Treasure Coast
and it's a shame that we can't get the word
out there as well as we want to. We do
have a new marketing team that's doing a great job
for the Alliance and some of our artists, so our
messages are getting out there. Our art Walk event, which
(16:30):
is the third Friday of every month, is very well attended.
This past Friday night, we had our new art exhibition
opening in our gallery. The Cultural Alliance is fortunate to
have our own art gallery because the Alliance is a
membership driven organization. It's one of the key services that
(16:51):
we provide for our members and putting on a new
exhibition every couple of months in our gallery brings in
a lot of people, which is great because we fall
under the header of tourism and economic development for the
county and if we can continue to promote all the
(17:12):
arts will continue to get the support.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
So I know that there are at least some artists
down there who are just so enthusiastic and active and proact.
I'm thinking about Janet.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Janet Bird from the Second Street Gallery.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
She is out wonderful.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Yes, she's wonderful, and she actually kind of spearheads of
the art walk, so I believe she started all that
way back in the day. Talk about the history of
art Mundo right back in the eighties and nineties, which
was great. We were able to relocate from the County
(17:57):
Admin Building as we grew into the eleven Orange Building,
which is a fantastic location for us because it's right
downtown Fort Pierce. We have several in house in studio
artists there. We have Lisa Jill Allison. She's another one
of the artists that just is out there and going
(18:18):
and getting it and making the magic happen.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
As she would say.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
I don't know if you've had the pleasure of meeting Lisa,
but she does a lot of things that she thinks
outside the box. Just fashion shows in her studio, I
don't know, up shops, Yeah, from a lovely Blondie's Frills
and fashion right here from Vero Beach. She comes down
and does fashion shows and things like that, because I
(18:44):
mean textiles, clothing, all of that, that's all another art form.
So we're really blessed to have artists that and they
include us. You know, it's not like every man for them.
They're all part of the alliance. They all want to
see the alliance be successful. And you know, they speak
(19:07):
for us whenever we need them, and they volunteer whenever
we need them. So yeah, we're very very lucky down there.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, teamwork is what does it.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Yes, we have a young artist that he's been around
a while, but he's a Highwayman legacy artist is also
in studio with us at our gallery and his name's
Michael Love. And you can, I love watching him paint.
It's he's it's the coolest thing. And we have people
(19:37):
that come down just to watch him paint inside his studio,
Michael Love.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Michael Love. Is his name related to George.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
I don't think so. His uncle was Al Black. Oh, okay,
that's what makes him a legacy artist. You have to
be directly related I guess to an original Highwayman.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Okay, so, and he's in studio.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
We have an international artist that comes back during and
James Pierce, and we have some smaller groups. We have
a group that makes candles and does paper folding, and
we have done.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Kathy Kathy, Yes, Kathy Customer.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Yeah, she's wonderful. And again they're also helpful when we're
The galleries open Wednesday through Saturday. But if I have
to run out, today's a Wednesday, so they will cover
the gallery and greet the guests and really pitch in.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
So it's where where is that building for those not
familiar with downtown for it Peers.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
So it's one eleven Orange Avenue, so it is just
before the water by the Fort Pierce Library.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
There. It's not the bank building, is it. It is?
Speaker 6 (20:48):
It's the old sun Trust. So funny you say that
because the the bank, you know, has probably four different levels.
It's like a four story building if you count the vault,
which is the lower level. I don't like to use
the word basement. We're on the lower level and that's
where the art gallery is, but the exhibition space is
(21:10):
actually the bank vault, so it's like a separate room
all by itself, and that's where we host the exhibition,
so that art changes constantly, whereas the member gallery, which
is what you see when you first walk into the space,
is a little bit more eclectic, Whereas the exhibition space
(21:33):
typically has a theme and we change it out every
two months, so there's always something new to see.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
And anybody can walk in at any time.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Well, Wednesday through Saturday, please eleven to five, so we're
there a little early and a little later on occasion.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
But yeah, can we talk a little bit about some shows.
You have the Cultural Alliance Cabaret.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Series, so it's actually a concert series.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Okay, So we have.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
A music series, which was again at grant from the
Levitt Foundation. It was for ten concerts and the guidelines
are pretty stringent and because all of the bands have
to be original artists, so you can't have a Beatles
cover band, ah got it. It all has to be
(22:26):
original music. And you have to host the concerts in
underutilized spaces in anywhere the general public can come. So
we've held it at Lincoln Park, we've held it on
(22:46):
like Friday Fest, downtown Marina Square, and this year we're
holding it at a space called two to eleven North
Second Street. It's an empty lot right in downtown.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Is that the Great American Songbook?
Speaker 6 (23:02):
No, that it would be. This particular band coming up
is kind of electronic music, and they're also doing some fire.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I'm going to suggest people go to the website and
get more inform. Yeah, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
But they do do like fire twirling and things like
that as a collective. That so it's a bunch of
different artists. It's not a single band, okay.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
On the website is art St Lucy dot org. Yes, Okay,
we're running out of time. We have just about a
couple of seconds to talk about the community engagement matter.
Jake Sanders do you know him? I do know Jake.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Jake's no longer with the Alliance, Okay, yeah, but yeah,
Jake is a good guy.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Okay, he helped us out in the past. All Right,
we have we have run out of time, and I'm
going to say once again art St Lucy dot Org
for information on the Alliance gallery and everything having to
do with art in Fort St. In Port St. Fort
Saint Lucy, Fortier, St.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Lucy County.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Okay, Mattie Williams, thanks so much for coming in. Appreciate it,
Bye bye, and thanks again to Andrew Cato, and thank
you as always for joining us again this week for
arts Plaster on the Air podcast radio show Alexis Skill,
all presented by Riverside Theater and Ballet Vero Beach, covering
the arts online and in Arts Blast. Join us again
(24:43):
next week for another edition of arts Blast on the Air.
I'm Willie Miller. Thanks for listening.
Welcome to arts Plaster on the Air, a podcast, a
radio show and Alexis Skill presented by Ballet Vero Beach
and Riverside Theater Arts supporting the arts in Florida. I'm
wille Miller and each week I get to talk to
people in the arts about the arts on the Treasure
Coast and beyond. Arts Plaster on the Air is proud
(00:23):
to be supported by Ballet Vero Beach. Subscriptions for the
exciting new season are available online now and single seats
on sale November first. The Nutcracker on the Indian River
is earlier and in a new venue this year. Remember
to add December eleventh through the thirteenth at Riverside Theater
to your calendar and ask about the new VIP add
(00:45):
on experience. Plus, Nutcracker for All has some new options
to learn about everything at Ballet Vero Beach dot org.
And now on with the show. My guest today Andrew
Cate and Maddie Williams. Andrew, you are down in Jupiter
at the All Stupiter Theater.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Right over twenty years? Can you believe it will even
we've been friends that long? That long, Yes, twenty years.
We've been speaking together.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
You know what I was. I was asking myself this morning,
how long when was the first time we talked? And
twenty years? Wow?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Okay, yeah I was. I just started down here, and
we were fledgling a little theater, and we were scrappy,
and in some respects, as we grow the theater with
all our new programs, I still feel like we're a
scrappy little theater because keep adding things. So it's good.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Things might have changed in your life and in the
theater's life as well over twenty years.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Would you say, oh, indeed, I have a grandson now
of eight months, and yeah, I'm getting to that age.
In fact, it's my birthday today, so oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Wait did you wait? Did you just say it's your
birthday today?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I did?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, okay, here's my present to you. I will not
saying happy birthday. How's that? Yeay yay. People always appreciate
that gift more than anything I could give them.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
So you are happy. Did you say you have a grandson?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I do? Yeah, I know. It's strange. I move down
here at forty I'm sixty one now, and yeah, I
thinks are going great up here in I stay down
here in Jupiter, Florida at the Most Jupiters Theater. We've
got a lot planned for this season. New parts of
the building have just been brought on, including our new
(02:38):
Goldener Conservatory at the Rogue Green Education Center. It's eighty
five hundred square feet of new classrooms for students to
learn everything from ballet, jazz, acting. We have a green screen,
a podcast room, you know, multiple eight studios, two voice studios.
(02:59):
It's incredible.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
You know. I went online to the website, which by
the way, is Jupitertheater dot org and that's theater r
E and saw a an outline, saw a kind of
an I guess an architects rendering or the plan the
Flora plans anyway, and what a place that is.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
It's really incredible. It's like a country club for kids.
You know. We we certainly didn't have that growing up,
but it's really stunning and I think will be an
important addition to our community so that we can continue
to educate kids in the arts. You know, the funding
for arts have been cut back considerably and it falls
to the not for profits such as the Multi Jupiter
(03:43):
Theater to ensure that kids are getting that level of
enrichment and it is our pleasure to do that. So
the brand new school is opening. We're taking we're offering
tours now for people to walk through the facility. It
is jaw dropping. I mean, you cannot believe that there's
an asset for our children in this neighborhood. So people
(04:05):
are welcome to come to the theater and take a tour,
sign up for classes. You know we're doing. We're doing
so much in that area. We're also adding a new
gift shop, so two lines of business this season. You know,
everyone likes a good shop while they are, you know,
killing time before show. So it's small, but it'll be mighty.
(04:27):
It'll be a nice gift shop. And then of course
our our season and season subscriptions are going really great
under the title of Broadways Bright Lights. We've got five
wonderful shows that we produce, much like the Riverside Theater,
our our colleague in your area. We love Riverside so much,
they're great partners with us. But we're doing Misery based
(04:49):
on the Stephen King novel and film that help. The
entire house that she lives in revolves on a thirty
foot revolve, so you get to see all aspects of
the House of the House literally revolves on stage, and
then the very popular Million Dollar Quartet, which brings it's
(05:10):
a true story about Elvis Presley Costello. Oh gosh, I'm
trying to remember all their names, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis,
Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash who had a chance encounter to
come together and they did a recording session. Is very
popular and selling very well. And then we're one of
(05:31):
the first theaters in the South Florida area to get
the title Come from Away, which for those people who
don't know, is a very uplifting musical about the day
after nine to eleven when all about thirty eight planes
i think it was, were sent to Gander, Newfoundland because
(05:52):
they weren't able to come into the American airspace. And
when they landed there, the townspeople took care of them,
and it's about how selfless they were as a town
and how they brought this, you know, a little bit
of a ray of sunshine to a very tragic part
of our history. But it's not a downer. It's completely uplifting.
You see the brighter side of humanity, and who doesn't
(06:16):
need that these days?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
That's probably part of the nine to eleven story that
a lot of people will either have forgotten or never
knew that was. It doesn't seem possible, but it was
a long time.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Ago, I know, right, Yeah, I was in New York
through nine to eleven, and I think everyone remembers that day,
so clearly who was around that faithful day. And then
our fourth play is called good Night Oscar. It was
on Broadway last year and actually just closed in London.
It's about Oscar Levant and his his somewhat troubled life.
(06:55):
He was a concert pianist but also a comedian, but
he had a lot of mental health issues, so he'd
gone the Jack Parr Show and talk about those in
kind of a funny way. But the great thing about
this play is the the person who plays Oscar Levant
at the very end of the show plays the uh,
(07:18):
you know, terrific piano piece that he's known for, and
it's it's fourteen minutes long. It's really, you know, quite exciting.
So that ends the play, and then we end the
season with Man of La Mancha, the classic Everyone Loves
(07:38):
to Dream, the Impossible Dream, Rap City and Blues. That's
where that's the song yeah, and Delphine and that. But
I was saying in Oscar levant he plays all of
Rahapsody in Blue at the end. I just couldn't bring
it into my mind when we were speaking, but it
popped in after the fact. So in addition to that,
(07:59):
we do, you know, our twelve limited engagements, everything from
Fleetwood Mac to Jimmy Buffett, A Little Material, Girls, Hotel California,
Alba Mania. They're always popular, they always sell out, and
Linda Etter actually is she's coming for a benefit concert.
She's completely sold out, cannot get a ticket. But the
(08:21):
fun the other fun thing the new edition is in
our smaller space, the Island Theater coming up right this
at the beginning of October October third, fourth, and fifth,
and then the following week the ninth, tenth, and twelfth.
We're giving people an opportunity to have a night on
the island. So they're local people or people who have
(08:44):
come up here there on a very high level. So
we're doing shows like Sisters, the Celebration of Motown and
Soul that's almost sold out. The Lubbin Brothers, if you
don't know them, they're three triplets. I think they're gonna
have twenty two instruments on night of Folk Pop with
brid Drasda. The Blues is back Jake Walden Band given
(09:06):
to fly the Pearl Jam experience. It's very eclectic. And
then I'm there to be President Riley Burke, who is
from New York and she also has such great instrumentation
in her shows. And the great news is they're only
thirty five dollars, so super intimate, only one hundred and
ninety eight seats in our island theater. Come and support
these emerging artists for that so and as you said,
(09:31):
everything can be viewed on Jupitertheater dot org.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Okay, well we have time, assuming people are listening to
this early enough. You have an open house through the
through October fourth at the Education Center.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Correct, we do, but yes, but people can come in
at any time and you know, we're happy to show
off our new digs and get people registered. So you know,
as long as it's within business hours, we've to hear
from you.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And if you're listening before the twenty seventh, the Demetrius
Client Dance Company, the artists and residents.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Will be there yet I already did. They happened last
week and they were terrific. So they are many of
our teachers in our conservatory, so we wanted to showcase
them as well.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Okay, stop talking, Andrew, because I want to say before
we leave. Carbonel Award finalists twenty four nominations.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Wow, I know the most in South Florida. We're so
honored with that. We're so grateful that we we've been
recognized by you know, our peers. So super excited.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Congratulations, OK we are. We are almost out of time,
so we want to let everybody know that the Mall
Stupider Theater is at one zero zero one East Indian
Town Road inter and online it's Jupitertheater dot org. So
much coming up. We didn't get to talk about daycamp,
(11:07):
but we'll do that another time, won't we We will.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Indeed, I'll be on your show anytime, Willie. I love
you so much.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I love you too, Andrew. Happy Oh no, I said
I wouldn't do that. Happy birthday. Thanks again for taking time.
Great to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Thank you, love bye bye bye.
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Speaker 1 (14:05):
Com and we are back with Arts Blast on the air.
I'm Willie Miller and I'm talking to someone wearing a
Saint Lucie Cultural Alliance shirt. Oh, I bet it's Mattie Williams.
Thank you, Maddie. Are you new to the Cultural Alliance.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
I'm new to the position of executive director, but I've
been on the Board of directors for the past five years.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Oh, you probably know your way around, then I have
a little bit. Yeah, Yes, we have a lot to
talk about besides coming events. Let's talk about the history
of the arts and support of the arts in Saint
Lucy County, which has not always been great. It's been
a long time coming, but I think at least for
(14:57):
the last at least five years, maybe more, there has
been support and things have grown and it's become a
wonderful little nest of arts down there.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
Yes, Saint Lucie County has stepped up and supported us
over the last several years with a matching grant. So
as we appreciate all the support, but we still always
have the challenge of the match, right, So we have
(15:31):
a grant team that is doing all the research for
us to be able to continue on.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I don't know if everybody realizes or we have so
much available in the arts here, but it's you know,
it doesn't come easily. It's a struggle for everybody to
Indian River County, Brevard, Saint Lucie, Martin County, Palm Beach County.
There's always a struggle to get the money to put
(16:01):
on the entertainment that we are so fortunate to have.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Yeah, we have so much talent on the Treasure Coast
and it's a shame that we can't get the word
out there as well as we want to. We do
have a new marketing team that's doing a great job
for the Alliance and some of our artists, so our
messages are getting out there. Our art Walk event, which
(16:30):
is the third Friday of every month, is very well attended.
This past Friday night, we had our new art exhibition
opening in our gallery. The Cultural Alliance is fortunate to
have our own art gallery because the Alliance is a
membership driven organization. It's one of the key services that
(16:51):
we provide for our members and putting on a new
exhibition every couple of months in our gallery brings in
a lot of people, which is great because we fall
under the header of tourism and economic development for the
county and if we can continue to promote all the
(17:12):
arts will continue to get the support.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
So I know that there are at least some artists
down there who are just so enthusiastic and active and proact.
I'm thinking about Janet.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Janet Bird from the Second Street Gallery.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
She is out wonderful.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Yes, she's wonderful, and she actually kind of spearheads of
the art walk, so I believe she started all that
way back in the day. Talk about the history of
art Mundo right back in the eighties and nineties, which
was great. We were able to relocate from the County
(17:57):
Admin Building as we grew into the eleven Orange Building,
which is a fantastic location for us because it's right
downtown Fort Pierce. We have several in house in studio
artists there. We have Lisa Jill Allison. She's another one
of the artists that just is out there and going
(18:18):
and getting it and making the magic happen.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
As she would say.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
I don't know if you've had the pleasure of meeting Lisa,
but she does a lot of things that she thinks
outside the box. Just fashion shows in her studio, I
don't know, up shops, Yeah, from a lovely Blondie's Frills
and fashion right here from Vero Beach. She comes down
and does fashion shows and things like that, because I
(18:44):
mean textiles, clothing, all of that, that's all another art form.
So we're really blessed to have artists that and they
include us. You know, it's not like every man for them.
They're all part of the alliance. They all want to
see the alliance be successful. And you know, they speak
(19:07):
for us whenever we need them, and they volunteer whenever
we need them. So yeah, we're very very lucky down there.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, teamwork is what does it.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Yes, we have a young artist that he's been around
a while, but he's a Highwayman legacy artist is also
in studio with us at our gallery and his name's
Michael Love. And you can, I love watching him paint.
It's he's it's the coolest thing. And we have people
(19:37):
that come down just to watch him paint inside his studio,
Michael Love.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Michael Love. Is his name related to George.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
I don't think so. His uncle was Al Black. Oh, okay,
that's what makes him a legacy artist. You have to
be directly related I guess to an original Highwayman.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Okay, so, and he's in studio.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
We have an international artist that comes back during and
James Pierce, and we have some smaller groups. We have
a group that makes candles and does paper folding, and
we have done.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Kathy Kathy, Yes, Kathy Customer.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Yeah, she's wonderful. And again they're also helpful when we're
The galleries open Wednesday through Saturday. But if I have
to run out, today's a Wednesday, so they will cover
the gallery and greet the guests and really pitch in.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
So it's where where is that building for those not
familiar with downtown for it Peers.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
So it's one eleven Orange Avenue, so it is just
before the water by the Fort Pierce Library.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
There. It's not the bank building, is it. It is?
Speaker 6 (20:48):
It's the old sun Trust. So funny you say that
because the the bank, you know, has probably four different levels.
It's like a four story building if you count the vault,
which is the lower level. I don't like to use
the word basement. We're on the lower level and that's
where the art gallery is, but the exhibition space is
(21:10):
actually the bank vault, so it's like a separate room
all by itself, and that's where we host the exhibition,
so that art changes constantly, whereas the member gallery, which
is what you see when you first walk into the space,
is a little bit more eclectic, Whereas the exhibition space
(21:33):
typically has a theme and we change it out every
two months, so there's always something new to see.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
And anybody can walk in at any time.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Well, Wednesday through Saturday, please eleven to five, so we're
there a little early and a little later on occasion.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
But yeah, can we talk a little bit about some shows.
You have the Cultural Alliance Cabaret.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Series, so it's actually a concert series.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Okay, So we have.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
A music series, which was again at grant from the
Levitt Foundation. It was for ten concerts and the guidelines
are pretty stringent and because all of the bands have
to be original artists, so you can't have a Beatles
cover band, ah got it. It all has to be
(22:26):
original music. And you have to host the concerts in
underutilized spaces in anywhere the general public can come. So
we've held it at Lincoln Park, we've held it on
(22:46):
like Friday Fest, downtown Marina Square, and this year we're
holding it at a space called two to eleven North
Second Street. It's an empty lot right in downtown.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Is that the Great American Songbook?
Speaker 6 (23:02):
No, that it would be. This particular band coming up
is kind of electronic music, and they're also doing some fire.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I'm going to suggest people go to the website and
get more inform. Yeah, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
But they do do like fire twirling and things like
that as a collective. That so it's a bunch of
different artists. It's not a single band, okay.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
On the website is art St Lucy dot org. Yes, Okay,
we're running out of time. We have just about a
couple of seconds to talk about the community engagement matter.
Jake Sanders do you know him? I do know Jake.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Jake's no longer with the Alliance, Okay, yeah, but yeah,
Jake is a good guy.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Okay, he helped us out in the past. All Right,
we have we have run out of time, and I'm
going to say once again art St Lucy dot Org
for information on the Alliance gallery and everything having to
do with art in Fort St. In Port St. Fort
Saint Lucy, Fortier, St.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Lucy County.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Okay, Mattie Williams, thanks so much for coming in. Appreciate it,
Bye bye, and thanks again to Andrew Cato, and thank
you as always for joining us again this week for
arts Plaster on the Air podcast radio show Alexis Skill,
all presented by Riverside Theater and Ballet Vero Beach, covering
the arts online and in Arts Blast. Join us again
(24:43):
next week for another edition of arts Blast on the Air.
I'm Willie Miller. Thanks for listening.
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