Student Arts Enrichment Programs

At the Kravis Center, we firmly believe that by sowing the seeds of creativity in one child’s imagination, we are providing a solid foundation for their future cultural appreciation. A number of quality programs, coordinated through our Education and Community Outreach Department, help us plant those seeds.

For more information on any of our education and outreach programs, please call the Kravis Center Education and Community Outreach Department at 561-651-4251.

ADMISSION WAIVER PROGRAM
Assures that no student will be denied admission to a S*T*A*R Series performance due to economic need.
Sponsored by Jim and Irene Karp
                       The Rusty Staub Foundation

ARTSCAMP 2012
Take a group of talented imaginative kids who share a common interest in the performing arts and pit then in an environment where they can nurture their creativity and the result is ArtsCamp!
Sponsored by Jane M. Mitchell

ALAN LEBOW AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN SHAKESPEAREAN PERFORMANCE
Created in honor of the late Alan Lebow, the Award for Excellence in Shakespearean Performance is presented by Kids’ Dreams to students of Title One High Schools. Top student performances will be selected at a reception hosted by the Kravis Center on January 19, 2012. Winners will be chosen by a panel of judges prior to The Classical Theatre Project’s production of Twelfth Night in the Kravis Center’s Persson Hall. In addition to cash awards, the winners will be invited to perform their Shakespearean selections at the reception and receive tickets to see Twelfth Night.

ARTSCHOLARS
This program gives high school students who have a strong interest in the performing arts (along with an economic need) greater insight into their particular discipline by attending dinner discussions with special guest speakers and personally meeting distinguished artists who perform on the Kravis Center’s stages. Big Time Restaurant Group generously donates a full dining experience for the students, while the Myron and Natalie Stone Ticketing Fund provides students tickets to performances.

BEYOND THE STAGE
Beyond the Stage is designed to enhance the entire experience of visiting the Kravis Center. Including pre and post-performance discussions and musical presentations, Beyond the Stage activities complement the main attraction at select performances and are free to ticket holders. Discussions begin one hour and 15 minutes prior to the show. Pre-performance discussions are held in the Picower Foundation Arts Education center; postperformance discussions are held in the performance venue and musical presentations by local artists are held in the Dreyfoos Hall lobby and throughout the premises. Present your performance ticket for admission.
Sponsored by Nancy and Jay Parker

KRAVIS ON BROADWAY STUDENT WORKSHOPS
Cast members from Professional Broadway tours will lead a variety of hands-on, participatory workshops for high school and college students.

MASTER CLASSES
Visiting artists participating in Master Classes may choose to lecture, provide demonstrations, field a question-and-answer session, lead a rehearsal or any combination of methods aimed at humanizing the artist and the art form.

MUSIC AND ARTS PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
This program provides comprehensive arts education programs that address the physical, emotional, cognitive and social skills of the children with special needs through a music therapy platform.
Sponsored by Mrs. Mary Courim

MYRON AND NATALIE STONE
STUDENT TICKETING FUND
This program gives students of the arts the opportunity to attend an opera, ballet, symphony orchestra or other Kravis Center presentation free of charge.

PLEASANT CITY ARTS EDUCATION IMMERSION PROGRAM
Sponsored by JPMORGAN CHASE & CO.
The Pleasant City Arts Education Immersion Program provides comprehensive arts education for school-children, Kindergarten through grade 5, attending Pleasant City Community Elementary School, Northboro Elementary School or afterschool programs at the school site or community based afterschool sites. Activities include Kravis-on-the-Road professional performances at the school sites, live performance experiences at the Kravis Center supported with study guide materials, interactive performing arts workshops, professional development opportunites for classroom teachers and the opportunity for students to participate in the Artist Residency project which will engage a risk youth in the various disciplines of the performing and visual arts.

STUDENT AND EDUCATOR RUSH TICKET PROGRAM
By presenting their student IDs at the box office one hour prior to curtain time, students and educators receive 50% off any section ticket (excluding Premium Seating and Kravis On Broadway presentations) from orchestra to rear balcony, based on availability, for any Kravis Center self-initiated performance. 
Made possible in part by  Suzanne G. Reis Arts Education Fund

STUDENT ARTS ENRICHMENT TASK FORCE

We want to know what’s on young people’s minds and the members of this special task force have no problem speaking theirs. The group establishes a forum through which high school and college students can tell us what they would like to see offered as part of the Kravis Center’s Community Outreach Program. Task force members also act as their schools’ liaisons to promote a myriad of other educational programs at the Center, while accruing community service hours and gaining valuable knowledge about the inner workings of a professional performing arts center.

BROADWAY LEAGUE FAMILY FIRST NIGHTS® ON THE ROAD

The Kravis Center was awarded a two-year grant from The Broadway League to enable economically disadvantaged students from the afterschool program at Conniston Community Middle School along with their families to attend three Broadway touring performances last season and this season. Under the auspices of The Broadway League’s Family First Nights® program, a nationwide initiative specifically designed to encourage at-risk families to attend theatre on a regular basis, the participating families will take part in pre-performance discussions about each musical and a post-performance questionand- answer session with members of the cast.

ARTSCREW

ArtsCrew members serve as their schools’ liaisons to promote educational programs at the Center, while accruing community service hours and gaining valuable insight into the inner-workings of a professional performing arts center.

MUSIC AND ARTS PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

This program provides comprehensive arts education programs that address the physical, emotional, cognitive and social skills of children with special needs through a music therapy platform.

Sponsored by Mrs. Mary L. Courim

STAGE AWAKENINGS
Saturday, April 21 at 7 pm in the Helen K. Persson Hall

A lively evening of student-produced dance, music and theatre performances featuring the most talented young artists from our Palm Beach County high school and college community.

*Auditions for Stage Awakenings will be held on Saturday, March 31, 2012.

Tickets $10

SPOTLIGHT ON YOUNG MUSICIANS
Thursday, May 3 at 7 pm in Dreyfoos Hall

In partnership with The School District of Palm Beach County, the Palm Beach County Music Educators’ Association and the Youth Orchestra of Palm Beach County, Inc. Crossing the threshold from practice to performance is every performer’s dream. The Kravis Center’s annual Spotlight on Young Musicians turns that dream into reality for hundreds of talented local student musicians.

Tickets $10 in Advance and $12 Day of Performance

Sponsored by The Meshberg Family in loving memory of Julia Meshberg

Tickets go on sale Saturday, April 7, 2012.