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The Mission of Elmhurst Art Museum is to provide the people of Elmhurst and surrounding communities with a center for exploring the visual arts of our time.  The Museum strives to produce a welcoming atmosphere, where art can be viewed, studied, created, and appreciated.  The architecturally significant facility enriches the lives of visitors by broadening their knowledge of art and design, increasing the understanding of the visual arts, and sparking the development of individual creative talent.

The Music Company Orchestra, incorporated in 1974, is a 60-piece volunteer community orchestra. Its members come from all walks of life and many different backgrounds. Conducted by Dr. Gerald Lanoue, the orchestra plays a wide range of classical and pops repertoire. The MCO is dedicated to bringing the excitement of live orchestral music to audiences of all ages and economic backgrounds, and enthusiastically plays venues throughout the greater Capital Region, ranging from traditional concert halls to public parks, community events, schools, retirement centers, and churches. The MCO performs most concerts free to the public, and also offers scholarships to musically-inclined students at three regional high schools. The MCO is a not-for-profit organization.

Windy City Performing Arts sings to inspire change, celebrate diversity, and honor the dignity of the LGBTQ+ community.

The mission of the Dixon Gallery and Gardens is to preserve, display, and interpret art and horticulture. The vision is to embrace a unique learning environment where the visual arts and horticulture are explored and celebrated with equal vigor.

To sing so that LGBTQ+ people can live their truth through quality music experiences that inspire audiences, open minds, change hearts, and affirm our common humanity.

Our mission is to foster empowered, flourishing youth through sustained community, wellness, and the power of the performing arts. At ICDT! we believe that every child deserves a place where they know they are seen, loved, challenged, and supported. We use the arts as a level playing field. Through respect, kindness, hard work, and collaboration our students produce something they can be proud of. In the process they are learning that every person, opinion, perspective, and belief is valuable. Our goal at I Can Do That! is not to make the next Broadway star, but to help these kids see how kind and powerful they can be and for our students to know that it is their choice who they are in the world and that it is up to theto go after what sets their heart on fire.

Cultivating a resilient and inclusive Pacific Northwest community.

To make the works of Shakespeare and Shakespeare-inspired works accessible to a diverse audience through a free, professional, outdoor festival, and additional free and paid performances and educational programs.

W.O.\r\nSmith/Nashville Community Music School makes affordable, quality music\r\ninstruction available to children from low-income families.We transform lives through music!

Founded in 1993, Music Forward Foundation is an independent nonprofit organization transforms young lives, inspires careers, and champions a more inclusive music industry. Music Forward bridges our communities to the music industry, empowers ambition, and creates momentum to redefine what is possible for the youth and industry we serve.

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Old Songs, Inc. is a unique not-for-profit organization dedicated to serving the community by presenting traditional music and dance year-round through festivals, concerts, contra dances, classes, and other educational programs. Old Songs consists of volunteers and staff working together to create events that expose new audiences to traditional music and dance. We provide professional opportunity for artists by presenting new talent and known talent, local talent and international talent. Through fostering traditional music and dance in today's lives, this participatory artistic and cultural expression is kept alive for future generations.