The Boch Center (formerly known as Citi Performing Arts Center) is one of the nation’s leading nonprofit performing arts institutions and a guardian of the historic Wang and Shubert Theatres. As New England’s largest cultural venue, the Boch Center is home to theater, classical and popular music, dance, comedy, opera, Broadway musicals, family entertainment, and more. Located in Boston’s historic Theater District, the Boch Center also offers a diverse mix of educational and community outreach initiatives, including the City Spotlights Leadership Program and ArtWeek Boston; collaborates with artists and local nonprofit arts organizations; preserves historic venues; and acts as a champion for Greater Boston’s arts and cultural community.

The mission of Special Olympics Massachusetts is to provide year-round sports training and competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for all children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, prepare for entry into school and community programs, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in the sharing of gifts, skills and friendships with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.

Established in 1887, the Boston Athletic Association is a non-profit organization with a mission of managing athletic events and promoting a healthy lifestyle through sports, especially running. While its signature event remains the Boston Marathon, the Boston Athletic Association manages a comprehensive, year-round schedule of events including the B.A.A. Half Marathon and the Boston Mayor's Cup.

Conventures, Inc. is New England's largest special events agency focused on integrated event planning, public relations and marketing. Founded by industry pioneer Dusty Rhodes in 1977, Conventures has been the driving force behind some of the area's most memorable and effective special events and marketing campaigns for more than 40 years. Working closely with our clients to identify and define their objectives, Conventures develops successful integrated event marketing programs. Conventures has masterminded and produced successful events and event marketing programs for clients worldwide.

Celebrity Series of Boston was founded in 1938 by pianist and impresario Aaron Richmond. Over the course of its history, Celebrity Series has presented an array of the world’s greatest performing artists, including Sergei Rachmaninoff, Arturo Toscanini, Ignace Paderewski, Artur Rubenstein, Vladimir Horowitz, Glenn Gould, Fritz Kreisler, Jascha Heifetz, Isaac Stern, Andrés Segovia, Kirsten Flagstad, Marian Anderson, Luciano Pavarotti, Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky, Martha Graham, Ballet Russe De Monte Carlo, Mikhail Baryshnikov, mMstislav Rostropovich, Yo-Yo Ma, Leontyne Price, and the New York City Opera Company. The Celebrity Series has been bringing the very best performers–from orchestras and chamber ensembles, vocal and piano music, to dance companies, jazz, and more–to Boston’s major concert halls for 75 years. The Celebrity Series of Boston believes in the power of excellence and innovation in the performing arts to enrich life experiences, transform lives and build better communities. Through its education initiatives, the Celebrity Series seeks to build a community of Greater Boston where the performing arts are a valued, lifelong, shared experience–on stages, in schools, at home– everywhere. For more information on Celebrity Series of Boston, call (617) 482-2595 or visit us online at www.celebrityseries.org.

Founded in 1976, Boston Lyric Opera is New England’ s largest opera company. Led by Acting General & Artistic Director Bradley Vernatter, BLO is celebrated for its artistic excellence and diverse repertoire. BLO’ s programs are funded in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Founded in Boston in 1815, the Handel and Haydn Society (H+H) is considered the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the United States. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Harry Christophers, its renowned Period Instrument Orchestra and Chorus perform music of the Baroque and Classical eras using the instruments and techniques of the composer's time.

WaterFire Providence® is an independent, non-profit arts organization whose mission is to inspire Providence and its visitors by revitalizing the urban experience, fostering community engagement and creatively transforming the city by presenting WaterFire for all to enjoy. This award-winning sculpture by Barnaby Evans installed on the three rivers of downtown Providence, has been praised by Rhode Island residents and international visitors alike as a powerful work of art and a moving symbol of Providence’s renaissance. WaterFire’s over eighty sparkling bonfires, the fragrant scent of aromatic wood smoke, the flickering firelight on the arched bridges, the silhouettes of the firetenders passing by the flames, the torch-lit vessels traveling down the river, and the enchanting music from around the world engage all the senses and emotions of those who stroll the paths of Waterplace Park. WaterFire has captured the imagination of over ten million visitors, bringing life to downtown, and revitalizing Rhode Island’s capital city.

We are a Cirrus Aircraft Training Center and Limited Authorized Maintenance Center based in Plymouth and Bedford, MA and Laconia, NH. We Provide elite pilot services and turn-key aircraft management to discerning customers. This mission is why we are in business. It guides everything we do. It is supported by our core values of: Passion • Excellence • Integrity

Inspire Arts & Music (IAM) is a not-for-profit organization whose programs seek to develop and ‘inspire’ young adults via both scholastic and non-scholastic activities. The vehicle we use to do this is a portfolio of performing arts programs, and our mission is to help them develop and demonstrate the qualities needed to achieve excellence in both their program and their personal lives. IAM member programs are generally related to performing arts with a current focus on music, dance and marching arts. We have both competitive and non-competitive programs, and each program has its own performance venues and schedule. Inspire programs utilize trained music & movement educators as well as a youth/peer leaders to deliver both music and arts instruction, and to instill the qualities we seek to teach and instill in our young adults: -Integrity, confidence and motivation -Teamwork and communication -Commitment to excellence, and the work ethic required to reach it -Discipline and personal accountability -Resilience and the ability to work through and overcome adversity

Mission Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts complex that supports working artists to create, perform and exhibit new works, develops new audiences, and connects the arts to community. The Complex The BCA’s 190,000 square foot campus consists of: • Four theatres. These include the BCA Plaza Theatre with 142 seats; the BCA Plaza Black Box with up to 90 seats, as well as the new, state-of-the-art Stanford Calderwood Pavilion, which houses the Roberts Studio Theatre with up to 209 seats and the Wimberly Theatre with up to 370 seats. • Rehearsal and education space. Rehearsal Hall A and Deane Rehearsal Hall in the Calderwood Pavilion are the main rehearsal spaces for larger companies and are also used for performances, events, and meetings. • The Mills Gallery. The premier, independent non-profit gallery in Boston, showing the work of local and national, established and emerging artists • The Tremont Estates Building. The Artists Studio Building is the working home for over 50 artists. • The Cyclorama. Opened in 1865, the Cyclorama is on the National Register of Historic Places. Featuring a copper skylight dome atop a round brick-lined 23,000 square foot space, the Cyclorama can host up to 1,200 visitors. • The Boston Ballet Building. This Graham Gund-designed building has been home to the Boston Ballet for 16 years. • The Community Music Center of Boston (CMCB). Now in its 99th year, CMCB has positively impacted the lives of thousands of children and adults each year, many of them underserved, through lessons and classes on site, in the Boston Public Schools, through social service agencies and at community centers. • Beehive Jazz Café, is nestled in the BCA complex in space that was once occupied by a black-box theatre at street level and a basement. Now, a dining room on the upper level overlooks the lower level café and stage where live jazz is featured nightly.