Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Welcomes 180 to Kick-Off of 15th Season of CULTURE & COCKTAILS

PALM BEACH, Fla. - Nov. 7, 2019 - PRLog -- (Palm Beach, FL – November 7, 2019) Dave Lawrence, President & CEO of the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County today announced that the 15^th season of the popular series CULTURE & COCKTAILS had a sold-out kick-off on November 4 with 180 friends and supporters attending the first of five fascinating conversations at The Colony Hotel Coral Ballroom in Palm Beach.

The topic of the first event was New Faces, Favorite Places:

A Conversation with Cultural Executives

+ Elliot Bostwick Davis, Director & CEO of the Norton Museum of Art. She joined the Norton in March after spending the past 18 years as chair of the Art of the Americas department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

+ Erin Manning, Executive Director of the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum. She came to the Whitehall mansion in 2016 from the Historical Society of Princeton in New Jersey, where she served nine years as executive director.

+ Dr. Philip Rylands, President & CEO of the Society of the Four Arts. He assumed this position in September after serving as a founding director and, most recently, as Director Emeritus of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy.

They were interviewed by Dave Lawrence, President & CEO of the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County, and each of the speakers shared the roads they took to their current positions in the Palm Beaches, and touted upcoming exhibitions.

Coming up next:

January 13

Hey, Madam Producer

A Conversation with Theatrical Impresarios

+ Marcie Gorman, Executive Producer & Artistic Director of MNM Theatre Company, which presents musicals at the Kravis Center's Rinker Playhouse, including upcoming productions of Man of La Mancha and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

+ Vicki Halmos, Founder/Producer of Entr'Acte Theatrix, which stages musicals at Old School Square's Crest Theatre, including the recent productions of The Addams Family and Monty Python's Spamalot.

+ Jan McArt, Producer & Director of Theatre Arts Program Development at Lynn University, where she oversees three popular theatrical series: Libby Dodson's Live at Lynn Theatre Series, Jan McArt's New Play Readings, and the Mabel Mercer Foundation's Cabaret at Lincoln Center Comes to Live at Lynn.

+ Marilynn Wick, Executive Managing Producer of The Wick Theater & Costume Museum, which this season will be presenting major  productions of The Music Man, Evita, A Chorus Line and more.


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Topics and speakers are subject to change depending upon the availability of scheduled participants.


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