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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">NEWS RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">CONTACT:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Kathleen Caffrey, 216.521.2540 x22 or
<a href="mailto:kcaffrey@beckcenter.org">kcaffrey@beckcenter.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> April 27, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Beck Center Community Celebration of the Arts<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Free Arts Activities, Entertainment & More at Beck Open House</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Lakewood, OH—
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Beck Center for the Arts welcomes the public to their fourth annual
<i>Community Celebration of the Arts</i> <b>11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, May 6, 2012</b>. This annual arts celebration is Beck Center’s way of expressing their appreciation to the community for its continued support. This<span style="color:red">
</span>free event, open to families of all ages, will be held on the Beck Center campus at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood. Free onsite parking is available.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Entertainment throughout the event will be provided by students and faculty from the Beck Center’s arts education programs. Attendees
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">can also enjoy an afternoon of hands-on art activities, musical and theatrical experiences including:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Theater and backstage tours at 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“Try on an Instrument” by playing various band and orchestral instruments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Pottery demonstrations in the main lobby<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Art sale featuring the works of local artisans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Create a new public art sculpture<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Experience the art of dance with Beck’s talented students in the dance studio
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dress up in theater costumes and take your picture on stage in the Studio Theater<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Learn drumming and music making with the early childhood music staff<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Show off your sidewalk-chalk skills in Beck’s front courtyard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Create “spinner art” and a clay pinch pot<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">At 12:15 p.m. students from Beck Center’s adult improv class will join members of the “Something Dada” improv troupe to perform family-friendly</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
comedy sketches in the Studio Theater. Visitors may then enjoy a </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">programming spotlight at 1 p.m.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">in the Mackey Main<span style="color:red">
</span>Stage theater with highlights of the upcoming 2012/2013 Professional Theater season and featuring a special performance by Suzuki violinists.
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The afternoon will also include giveaways, prize drawings, and complimentary refreshments.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Additionally, guests can view two art exhibits now on display at the Beck Center:
</span><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">FOCUS 2012 Photography Exhibition</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> presented by the Beck Center for the Arts in collaboration with the Solon
Center for the Arts, and </span><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Unchallenged Workmanship: the Artists out of Cowan Pottery</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">presented by the Cleveland Artists Foundation.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Following the open house, guests are invited to attend the 3 p.m. matinee performance of Roald Dahl’s
<i>Willy Wonka</i>, presented by Beck Youth Theater. <span style="color:black">Tickets are $12 for adult/senior and $10 for children/student (18 and under). T</span>his performance is expected to sell out quickly. For more information or to purchase tickets
for <i>Willy Wonka,</i> visit <a href="http://www.beckcenter.org/">beckcenter.org</a> or call Customer Services at 216.521.2540 x10.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">One of the region’s largest arts organizations, Beck Center for the Arts is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization that offers professional
theater productions, arts education programming in dance, music, theater, visual arts, early childhood, and creative arts therapies for special needs students, and gallery exhibits featuring local and regional artists.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Fran Storch<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Beck Center for the Arts<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Publications Manager<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">17801 Detroit Avenue<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lakewood, OH 44107<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(216) 521-2540 x20<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.beckcenter.org/"><span style="color:blue">beckcenter.org</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Coming soon…<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Beck Youth Theater presents Roald Dahl’s <b><span style="color:#0000CC">WILLY WONKA</span></b>, May 4-13 on the Mackey Main Stage.
<span style="color:#C00000"><a href="http://sa1.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/EventSearch?presenter=BECKCENTER"><span style="color:blue">BUY TICKETS!</span></a></span><span style="color:#C00000"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#C00000">BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON</span></b><b><span style="color:#1F497D">
</span></b>starring Dan Folino as Andrew Jackson in the Studio Theater, May 25 – July 1.<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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