Granting wishes for local artists with Arts Orange County
Bonnie Hall, executive director of Arts Orange County, announced
the organization’s 2002-03 grant recipients. This will be the fifth
year Arts Orange County has assisted deserving local groups, to date
providing nearly $400,000 in support.
The funding for the current round of grants is coming from
aviation giant Boeing Co. With its generosity, Arts Orange County
will be able to provide grants for 11 small and mid-sized arts
organizations.
Hall commented, “The funds are designed to help these
organizations take a leap forward administratively, artistically or
in developing their audience.”
Twenty-thousand dollars in funding will be divided among the
recipients, which include the All-American Boys Chorus; Anaheim
Museum; Broadway on Tour; California Choreographers Dance Festival;
Friends of Santa Ana Parks, Recreation and Community Services;
Huntington Beach Art Center; Muckenthaler Cultural Center; Orange
County Center for Contemporary Art; Placentia Founders Society; Rude
Guerrilla Productions; and South Coast Dance Arts Alliance.
A FRENCH OPEN
One of the most handsome couples on the California Riviera,
restaurateur David Wilhelm and his exquisite wife, Paula, a marketing
executive with Newport Beach’s Strada Properties, invited the crowd
to an open house at their bistro and champagne bar known as French 75
in Laguna Beach. The celebration, which unfolded on Bastille Day, was
the Wilhelms’ way of offering their thanks to the Newport-Mesa crowd
for four years of patronage.
At the open house, Gray Goose martinis flowed and French and
domestic wines were poured to complement the delectable hors
d’oeuvres that were passed by the white-gloved staff. The crowd
mingled from the intimate bistro onto the stone terrace, toasting
summer on the Orange Coast, renewing friendships and saluting Wilhelm
for his creativity and his standards of excellence.
A REEL SCREEN
Summer is really hot at the Newport Dunes Waterfront Resort. The
resort is screening movies right on the sand throughout the month of
August. The Newport-Mesa public is invited to bring their beach
chairs, along with the entire family of course, to enjoy the summer
evening and view some G-rated film entertainment projected on a giant
9-by-12-foot screen placed right on the sand.
The Movies on the Beach schedule will continue Friday with a
screening of “Snow Dogs.” On Saturday night, “Who Framed Roger
Rabbit” will take the Back Bay by storm. Then every Friday and
Saturday night throughout the month of August films will be shown on
the beach, with no admission charge other than parking.
General Manager Andrew Theodorou reports that guests are welcome
to take advantage of campfires on the beach for roasting marshmallows
and making s’mores.
SHAKESPEARE, ANYONE?
If Roger Rabbit doesn’t tickle your fancy, the Newport Beach Arts
and Cultural Services Foundation will present Shakespeare by the Sea
at Grant Howald Park on Aug. 11 in Corona del Mar. Shakespeare’s
“Much Ado About Nothing” will premiere at 6 p.m.
What a marvelous way to introduce your children to a classic
performance. The evening is free to the public. For more information
on the event, call (949) 717-3870.
A 20TH ANNIVERSARY
John and Cherie Morris will open their hilltop ocean-view estate
Sunday in observance of the 20th anniversary of the Alzheimer’s Assn.
of Orange County. The wine and hors d’oeuvres reception is set to
begin at 4 p.m.
Organizers will introduce Heidi Shurtleff, the new president and
chief executive of the Alzheimer’s Assn. of Orange County.
Linda Sheck, an advocate for those with Alzheimer’s disease,
shares: “We are truly in a race against time. Orange County is facing
a serious epidemic. By the middle of this century, some 140,000 of
today’s Orange County’s baby boomers will have Alzheimer’s disease.
For most of them, the process that will destroy their memories, their
lives and their savings has already begun. We can only avoid this
crisis if we begin to act now.”
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