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2011–12 ANNUAL REPORT LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Dear Friends,

What a year! As I think about the 2011-12 season, I am reminded of the many different ways the performing arts come into our lives to inspire, entertain and connect us with one another.

I find when I am asked to consider highlights, the list quickly becomes too long. I also regret those I can’t fit in. But I am willing to risk it so I can relive these magical moments in my mind.

Both India Jazz Suites and CiRCA thrilled, keeping me on the edge of my seat. I was awed by the sheer virtuosity of Matt Haimovitz, Imogen Cooper, and the Ailey dancers. I experienced such joy dancing and singing – along with so many of you! – during Creole Choir of Cuba, Dan Zanes & Friends, and Mamma Mia! I was captivated by the wonder displayed on our youngest audience members’ faces as they experienced the marvel of Michael Cooper.

It is also what happens offstage that lives on in my mind and heart. Witnessing the entire Reiche Community School walk en masse to Merrill Auditorium to attend one of our School-Time Performances and seeing Myrtle Street lined with school buses, knowing that inside the auditorium was abuzz with 1900 Maine students, is an awesome experience. Listening to students discuss civil rights and bullying during our Warriors Don’t Cry residency reminded me once again of why we do what we do. Knowing Maine students taught the Creole Choir a song that the Cuban musicians then added to their repertoire helped reinforce the connections we help make go in both directions, traveling back out into the world.

In the arts, we measure success in many ways. Did we realize our mission? Did the artists we bring inspire our audiences? Did someone experience the power of live art for the first time? Did we entertain? Did we connect Portland Ovations to our community? The answer to each of these is a resounding “Yes.” Did we also face challenges presented by the ongoing volatility of the economy? Yes, again. Fortunately, over the years we have diligently built up healthy Cash Reserves to safeguard our mission and maintain the excellence our audiences deserve.

I hope throughout the year you too were inspired, entertained and found new ways to connect with one another and the performing arts. We are grateful for your continued support; without you none of this would be possible.

All the best,

Aimée M. Petrin

ON THE COVER: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Briana Reed, photo by Paul Kolnik | Creole Choir of Cuba with audience members | Family Mask Making Workshop | Dan Zanes works with a King Middle School Student | Matt Haimovitz Flash Concert SEPTEMBER

29 Chris Botti 16th Annual 20 Epicurean Auction Benefit

Pre-Performance Members’ Reception

1 2011–12 Annual Report VISION, MISSION, CORE VALUES & STAFF

VISION “During the bustle of the 2011–12 To inspire a curious and imaginative community where the season, we took the time to experience of the performing arts is a vital part of every day life. articulate a vision statement for Portland Ovations. As everyone MISSION knows, ‘writing by committee’ As a not-for-profit, Portland Ovations contributes to the cultural, social and can be fraught with angst. But this was truly not the case. It economic well-being of our community by presenting an array of high quality was immediately clear the deep performing artists from around the world and creating diverse educational appreciation we all – the Board experiences that bring the enjoyment, energy and enrichment of the arts to all. and staff of Ovations – hold for our community and the hope we CORE VALUES have to further contribute to its Portland Ovations… health and vibrancy.” • believes that cultural enrichment should be accessible to all. - Aimée M. Petrin, • provides quality live performance and educational experiences. Executive Director • engages our community with integrity and compassion. • collaborates with other arts organizations, nonprofits, education systems and the business sector to promote cultural enrichment and lifelong learning. • celebrates the power and virtuosity of the performing arts. • sustains a staff and board who are thoughtful, committed, enthusiastic and fiscally responsible.

STAFF Aimée M. Petrin, Executive Director Gretchen Berg, Director of Ovations Offstage Mary C. Campbell, Director of Development Marlene Dye, Bookkeeper Charles A. Kibort, Director of Marketing & Audience Development Bethany A. Roberge, Cross Media Marketing Associate Nicole Sirois, Production Manager Laura A. Stauffer, Programming & Development Administrator Marieke Van Der Steenhoven, Ovations Offstage Administrator Faith York, Usher Coordinator

OCTOBER

Creole Choir 14 of Cuba

School-Time 7 Performance First Friday Pre-Performance Lecture: Event: “Cultural Connections: Asphalt Cuba & Maine” Orchestra Workshops: Wescustago Youth Chorale Lincoln Middle School Riverton Elementary www.portlandovations.org 2 LETTER FROM THE BOARD PRESIDENT

Hello Friends!

It ain’t easy, you know. Convincing a world-renowned string quartet to make music in the produce section of the local supermarket or persuading an award-winning theater ensemble to perform at a coffee house or infusing a community supper with music and dance. But that’s what Portland Ovations does. Making the arts a vital part of Portland’s daily life requires beauty, ingenuity, passion, friends, and sometimes even supermarkets.

Simply said: we couldn’t do it without you. Whether you are an audience member, corporate sponsor or underwriter, donor, community volunteer, staff member, partner institution, teacher, student or a lucky pedestrian who chances upon a flash performance – we need you. The performing arts are vital to a vibrant community, from nourishing our souls to feeding our local economy; the performing arts are an essential part of what makes Portland a small city worthy of envy.

The past year has been successful on many fronts – continuing acclaim for the artistic merits of our presentations, increasing Membership, growing audiences, more participation from teachers and students and the introduction of another performance venue. Our recent induction into the National Performance Network shows that national recognition of our efforts is also on the rise. Our financial performance has been steady, despite a difficult economy.

Because you are reading this, I know you value the arts and want to see them flourish in Portland. We are counting on you to help us continue to grow the performing arts as a vital part of Portland’s daily life. There are three things you can do: vocalize your support of the arts to friends and family, get tickets to a live performance today, and become a Member of Portland Ovations. We need you.

Thank you and see you soon; I’ll be in the audience with you.

J. Spencer Jones Jr.

OCTOBER, CONT.

School-Time Performance 18 “Sylvester & the Magic Pebble” 20 21

Workshop at Riverton Elementary 29

Handel & Haydn Society

Broadway National Tour: “Monty Python’s Spamalot” Pre-Performance Lecture: “Historic Instruments in Contemporary Culture” 3 2011–12 Annual Report 2011–12 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

J. Spencer Jones Jr., President Kendall Harnett Mary K. Noyes Thomas R. Newman, Treasurer Elizabeth T. High Eileen Phelan Jane C. Wellehan, Secretary Erin A. Hurley Stephen Poulos Patricia Berg Felicia K. Knight Sigmund Schutz Janet M. Bowne Gary Koocher Kimberly J. Twitchell

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Michael Boyson v Peter Milliken June Vail a t i Charles W. Dibner o Marcia Minter Sarah A. Verville n s ’ n E o Francis A. Ferland i James T. Morgan April Ylvisaker x t e p c u e t c i e v r e P D I i V re a ct y or njo & B s e ADVISORY BOARD oard Member

Judith W. Adam Deborah L. Gallant Deborah D. Murray Michael Bachem Robert H. Gardner Nicholas S. Nadzo David Bennell Phyllis Givertz Robert A. Nielsen, Jr. Kim Block Philip H. Gleason Jean K. Nishiyama Arthur J. Borduras Susan T. Goldberg Jane A. Parker Garrett D. Bowne Linda Gouws John M. R. Paterson “Nationally renowned Bruce Brown Judith Halpert Richard W. Petersen violin soloist, Jennifer Koh, expressed the Bruce A. Buxton Heidi N. Hansen Peter W. Quesada musical lines and Richard D. H. Casselman Tracy Hawkins Patricia Roderick intricate rhythms Maria Chambers Daniel P. Hunter Monroe B. Scharff of Bartók and Bach Catherine H. Cloudman Robert Ludwig Margaret M. Shiels with such expressive Madeline G. Corson Caleb Mason John D. Tewhey motions, sensitivity George W. Crockett Jeff McKinnon Lee D. Urban and artistry that the Linda Cronkhite-Johnson Elizabeth A. McLellan Richard Vail students were totally Laura C. Foye Michael J. McSally Anne Valentine captivated!” Mary Mitchell Friedman Jay Menario Margaret A. Wilkis –Julianne Eberl Orchestra Director, Portland Public Schools

NOVEMBER

3 VIP Reception at Grace Good vs. Evil: 4 Neil Berg’s Anthony Bourdain & Eric Ripert “101 Years of Broadway”

Pre-Performance Lecture: “Young Maine Musical Stars”

www.portlandovations.org 4 SPONSORS & FOUNDATION SUPPORT

Bangor Savings Bank IDEXX Portland Daily Sun Bath Savings Trust Company Jane’s Trust Portland Magazine Margaret E. Burnham Charitable Trust Libra Foundation Portland Phoenix Center for Cultural Exchange Foundation L.L. Bean David Puelle Design CIEE Macy’s Foundation Raymond James Coffee By Design Maine Arts Commission TD Bank The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Maine Community Foundation Tenney Powers Evans Financial Group Edward H. Daveis Benevolent Fund Maine Today Media UBS Financial Services Dead River Company J. S. McCarthy The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation Diversified Communications Morgan Stanley Travelers Foundation Elmina B. Sewall Foundation MPBN U.S. Trust The Forecaster National Distributors WGME Greenhut Galleries National Endowment for the Arts Whole Foods Market Gorham Savings Bank New England Coffee Company WMPG Headlight Audio Visual, Inc. New England Foundation for the Arts Wright Express Holiday Inn By the Bay Norway Savings Bank Roy A. Hunt Foundation OceanView at Falmouth

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

317 Main St. Community Music Center Merriconeag Waldorf School Portland Public Schools American Irish Repertory Ensemble NAACP-Portland Portland School of Ballet Bates College Oak Street Studios Rain for Sahel and Sahara Bull Moose Music Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance SPACE Gallery City of Portland Portland Housing Authority University of Southern Maine A Company of Girls Portland Mentoring Alliance Wescustago Youth Chorale Maine College of Art Portland Museum of Art Maine Historical Society Portland Public Library

NOVEMBER, CONT.

18 “Shuffle.Play.Listen.” 16 India Jazz Suites

Pre-Performance Lecture: Masterclass with “Back and Forth” Matt Haimovitz at Portland Museum of Art at 317 Main Street Music Center Masterclass with Cultural Sharing Workshop Christopher O’Riley at Portland High School at Merrill Auditorium

Matt Haimovitz Pre-Performance Lecture: Teacher Workshop Flash Concert “The Art of Collaboration: with O2 staff at Portland Museum of Art at SPACE Gallery Communication + Clairvoyance” 5 2011–12 Annual Report 2011–12 SEASON

CHRIS BOTTI MICHAEL COOPER: “MASKED In Celebration of St. Patrick September 29, 2011 • 7:30 pm MARVELS & WONDERTALES” DANÚ Merrill Auditorium, Portland November 19, 2011 • 11 am March 15, 2012 • 7:30 pm South Portland Auditorium, South Portland H.S. Merrill Auditorium, Portland CREOLE CHOIR OF CUBA October 14, 2011 • 8 pm Broadway National Tour: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Merrill Auditorium, Portland “MAMMA MIA!” “SOUTH PACIFIC” January 12, 2012 • 8 pm March 17, 2012 • 2 pm & 8 pm Broadway National Tour: January 13, 2012 • 8 pm March 18, 2012 • 2 pm “MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT” January 14, 2012 • 2 pm & 8 pm Merrill Auditorium, Portland October 20, 2011 • 8 pm Merrill Auditorium, Portland October 21, 2011 • 8 pm TREY MCINTYRE PROJECT Merrill Auditorium, Portland “WARRIORS DON’T CRY” March 22, 2012 • 7:30 pm January 18, 2012 • 7:30 pm Merrill Auditorium, Portland HANDEL & HAYDN SOCIETY Hannaford Hall, USM Campus, Portland October 29, 2011 • 3 pm BOMBINO Hannaford Hall, USM Campus, Portland CIRCA April 4, 2012 • 7:30 pm February 2, 2012 • 7:30 pm Hannaford Hall, USM Campus, Portland GOOD VS. EVIL: Westbrook Performing Arts Center ANTHONY BOURDAIN & ERIC RIPERT ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN November 3, 2011 • 7:30 pm DAN ZANES & FRIENDS DANCE THEATER Merrill Auditorium, Portland February 4, 2012 • 1 pm April 24, 2012 • 7:30 pm Hannaford Hall, USM Campus, Portland Merrill Auditorium, Portland Neil Berg’s “101 YEARS OF BROADWAY” VÄSEN IMOGEN COOPER, PIANO November 4, 2011 • 8 pm with Special Guests Darol Anger & Friends April 25, 2012 • 7:30 pm Merrill Auditorium, Portland February 16, 2012 • 7:30 pm Merrill Auditorium, Portland Hannaford Hall, USM Campus, Portland INDIA JAZZ SUITES JENNIFER KOH, VIOLIN November 16, 2011 • 7:30 pm VANCOUVER CHAMBER CHOIR May 3, 2012 • 7:30 pm Hannaford Hall, USM Campus, Portland March 4, 2012 • 3 pm Hannaford Hall, USM Campus, Portland Merrill Auditorium, Portland Matt Haimovitz & Christopher O’Riley “SHUFFLE.PLAY.LISTEN.” GOLDEN DRAGON ACROBATS November 18, 2011 • 8 pm March 9, 2012 • 7 pm Merrill Auditorium, Portland Merrill Auditorium, Portland

“What an exciting season! I’ve been waiting many years for Mamma Mia! to make it to Portland. Add to that South Pacific, Anthony Bourdain & Eric Ripert, and Neil Berg’s 101 Years of Broadway - so many shows to go see. Thank you, Portland Ovations!”

–Christopher Winters, Audience Member

JANUARY

Michael Cooper: “Masked 19 Marvels & Wondertales” 12 13 14

Broadway National Tour: “Mamma Mia!”

Mask–Making Family Workshop at Portland Public Library

www.portlandovations.org 6 ARTS INTEGRATION: THE RIVERTON STORY

In 2011 Portland Ovations initiated a special partnership with Portland’s Riverton Elementary School. Kicking it off, Principal Jeanne Malia joined Director of Ovations Offstage, Gretchen Berg, at the Kennedy Center’s Partners in Education annual meeting in Washington, D.C. to formulate plans and join the national conversation. As Berg notes, “We jumped right into planning lively and practical performing arts experiences in support of literacy learning at Riverton, a school where nearly half the students’ families speak a language other than English at home.”

As recipients of Title I funding—monies dedicated to improving the academic achievement of disadvantaged students—Riverton committed a portion of its funds to an integrated “Portland Ovations arts program in connection with Portland Ovations’ School-Time Performance series. has been an extremely effective community Each classroom attended two performances, preceded by in-school workshops (led by partner. They helped to both visiting artists and Ovations Offstage staff) to connect live performance to classroom reinforce learning through learning and literacy. Teachers received study guides filled with information about the the arts. The Riverton staff performance, cultural context, and connections to Common Core State Standards. With worked collaboratively the focus on literacy, each student wrote post-performance responses relating their with Ovations staff to experiences in the classroom with their experiences as audience members. pre-teach vocabulary, character traits and key With six unique School-Time Performances and over 400 students grades K through 5, themes of performances. workshops were crafted to embrace the diversity of each classroom and introduce This coordination assisted each performance. For example, during the Creole Choir of Cuba workshops, students students in becoming moved around the room while listening to recordings of the choir then participated in a more engaged in their conversation that connected their lives to the choir’s by discussing language, place, and learning and transfer family. this learning into their Through performances ranging from the vibrant Creole Choir of Cuba to “Sylvester and classroom assignments. the Magic Pebble,” a puppet and mask adaptation of William Steig’s Caldecott-winning Student writing samples book, to “Paige in Full,” a one-woman hip-hop autobiography – students became familiar reflect an increase in descriptive vocabulary, with performing arts venues in Portland, grew confident in sharing their experiences, and character analysis and integrated the performing arts into their classroom learning. personal connections with Year one culminated with Malia and Berg offering a workshop to Portland Public School the performances that educators in using performing arts to enrich literacy in the classroom, sharing their students attended.” knowledge and experience across the district. While the initial goal to improve literacy was –Jeanne Malia, Principal, accomplished —the outcomes were much richer and more impactful than ever imagined. Riverton Elementary

JANUARY, CONT.

18 “Warriors Don’t Cry”

Performance Excerpts: Ovations’ Board Meeting School-Time Performance NAACP Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast

Workshops: Pre-Performance Lecture: A Company of Girls “Struggles for Civil Rights: Local Stories” Mahoney Middle School

7 2011–12 Annual Report OVATIONS OFFSTAGE

PRE-PERFORMANCE LECTURES* CiRCA India Jazz Suites Circus Arts Workshop Cultural-Sharing Workshop Creole Choir of Cuba “Masked Marvels & Wondertales” Merriconeag Waldorf School, Freeport Portland High School, Portland “Cultural Connections: Maine & Cuba” Mask Making Family Workshop David Carey “Warriors Don’t Cry” Portland Public Library MASTERCLASSES Workshop with Almeria Campbell & Handel & Haydn Society “Warriors Don’t Cry” “Shuffle.Play.Listen.” Brian Richardson “Historic Instruments in Performance Excerpt, Piano Masterclass Mahoney Middle School, Portland Contemporary Culture” NAACP Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast with Christopher O’Riley A Company of Girls, Portland Ian Watson, David Miller, and Toby Rzepka Dan Zanes & Friends Merrill Auditorium, Portland CiRCA Neil Berg’s “101 Years of Broadway” Community Supper Trey McIntyre Project Post-Performance Skype Discussion “Young Maine Musical Stars” King Middle School, Portland Modern Dance Masterclass with Artistic Director Yaron Lifschitz Ed Reichert and Musical Theater students PATHS, Portland MECA, Portland Väsen “Shuffle.Play.Listen.” Film Screening: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Dan Zanes & Friends “The Art of Collaboration: “Old Maine’s Swedish Farms” Modern Dance Masterclass Workshops with Dan Zanes Communication + Clairvoyance” Maine Historical Society, Portland Portland School of Ballet, Portland King Middle School, Portland Larura Kargul and Ronald Lantz Väsen Imogen Cooper Golden Dragon Acrobats “Warriors Don’t Cry” In-Store Appearance Piano Masterclass with Imogen Cooper Workshop with O2 Staff “Struggles for Civil Rights: Local Stories” Bull Moose Music, Portland USM School of Music, Gorham Riverton Elementary School, Portland Julia Adams & King Middle School Students Väsen “The Ugly Duckling” Väsen Open Sound Check SCHOOL-TIME PERFORMANCES Workshop with O2 Staff “New Perspectives on New-Folk Music” Hannaford Hall, USM Portland Creole Choir of Cuba Riverton Elementary School, Portland June Vail Trey McIntyre Project October 14, 2011 “Paige in Full” Vancouver Chamber Choir Workplace Dance Event Merrill Auditorium, Portland Teacher Workshop with Paige “Considering Choral Arts” CIEE, Portland “Sylvester & The Magic Pebble” Hernandez Bob Russell October 18, 2011 King Middle School, Portland Trey McIntyre Project Danü Merrill Auditorium, Portland Creative Conversations: Art and the City “Paige in Full” “Performing Irish Literature and Theater” ICA at MECA, Portland “Warriors Don’t Cry” Workshop with Paige Hernandez Susan and Tony Reilly January 18, 2012 Lyman Moore Middle School, Portland Trey McIntyre Project “South Pacific” Hannaford Hall, USM Portland “Paige in Full” Member Event: Behind-the-Scenes “Issues of Race in Musical Theater” Golden Dragon Acrobats Workshop with O2 Staff with John Michael Schert Gretchen Berg March 9, 2012 Riverton Elementary School, Portland Merrill Auditorium, Portland Bombino Merrill Auditorium, Portland Jennifer Koh Bombino “Cultural Context: “The Ugly Duckling” & Lecture/Demonstration Film Screening: “Agadez, the Music Nomadic Life in the Sahara” “The Tortoise and the Hare” Riverton Elementary School, Portland and the Rebellion” Bess Palmisciano March 26, 2012 Lincoln Middle School, Portland SPACE Gallery, Portland Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Merrill Auditorium, Portland Bombino “Life as an Ailey Dancer” “Paige in Full” COMMUNITY EVENTS In-Store Appearance Vernard Gillmore April 12, 2012 SPACE Block Party: “Chair Dance” Bull Moose Music, Portland Imogen Cooper Hannaford Hall, USM Portland Congress Street, Portland “Smoke and Mirrors: MEET-THE-ARTIST/Q&As IN-SCHOOL WORKSHOPS First Friday Event: Asphalt Orchestra Making the Piano Sing” Congress Street, Portland Chris Botti Laura Kargul Creole Choir of Cuba Anthony Bourdain/Eric Ripert Workshop with O2 Staff India Jazz Suites Jennifer Koh “Back and Forth” Trey McIntyre Project “Bach & Beyond” Riverton Elementary School, Portland Pandit Chitresh Das, Jason Samuels “Warriors Don’t Cry” Rob Lehmann Creole Choir of Cuba Smith, and Alicia Anstead Workshop with Creole Choir of Cuba Portland Museum of Art Michael Cooper PUBLIC WORKSHOPS Lincoln Middle School, Portland “Shuffle.Play.Listen.” Wescustago Youth Chorale, Freeport “Shuffle.Play.Listen.” Matt Haimovitz Flash Concert * All Pre-Performance Lectures and Meet-the- Artists/Q&A events occured at the coinciding Cello Workshop with Matt Haimovitz “Sylvester & the Magic Pebble” SPACE Gallery, Portland 317 Main St. Community Music Center, Workshop with O2 Staff performance venue (Hannaford Hall or Merrill Auditorium). Yarmouth Riverton Elementary School, Portland

FEBRUARY

2 CiRCA

Circus Arts Workshop at Merriconeag Waldorf School

Post-Performance Skype Discussion with students of MECA

www.portlandovations.org 8 22,161 Attendees

28 301 From 9 Mainstage Performing Artists Countries Performances

7 39 4 Staff Members Maine Vendors Venues Utilized

$1,087,000 Spent Locally to Realize our Productions

$626,048 Additionally Generated Revenue towards Maine’s Creative Economy* PORTLAND OVATIONS BY THE NUMBERS BY OVATIONS PORTLAND *Americans for the Arts: Arts & Economic Prosperity IV Report – Arts attendees spend an average of $28.25 per person per event.

32,893 Made possible through People served by Portland Ovations 10,732 People served by Ovations Offstage

9 125 28 Masterclasses Ovations Free Lectures & Workshops Offstage Activities

34 6 Schools 55 Attended by School-Time Performing Artists Performances 99 Homeschoolers

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37 2 In-School Professional Development Workshops Teacher Workshops

542 17 15 Members Sponsors Foundations EPICUREAN AUCTION BENEFIT

The Epicurean Auction Benefit is UNDERWRITERS PARTICIPATING RESTAURANTS Portland Ovations’ only fundraising Acadia Insurance Azure Café event with proceeds benefiting Atlantic Capital Trust/Casco Bay Management Bibo’s Madd Apple Café Baker Newman Noyes Black Point Inn Ovations Offstage, programming Cardente Real Estate Coffee By Design that integrates the performing CBRE The Boulos Co. David’s Restaurant arts into our everyday community, Chubb & Son Dean’sSweets CIEE Foreside Tavern school and family life. Epicurean is The Concord Group Grace an evening of exquisite food and Cross Insurance Havana South wine provided by some of Maine’s Dawson Smith Purvis & Bassett, P.A. Kamasouptra East Brown Cow Management, Inc. The Corner Room finest restaurants and silent and live Hanover Insurance The Front Room auctions that include unique and J.B. Brown & Sons The Good Table J.S. McCarthy The Grill Room exciting items from local retailers, Jensen Baird Gardner & Henry The Salt Exchange restaurants and artists. At our 2011–12 Kemper Insurance Company Epicurean Auction Benefit we raised Leblanc & Young Main Street America Group of Insurance $32,496, thanks to the restaurants, Young per Maine Employers’ Mutual Insurance Co. form er underwriters, donors and attendees; MiddleOak s en Monks O’Neil Development, LLC. te rt without their participation and a Patrons Insurance in

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A z u re C af é pre pares food Dean Bingham and Kristin Thalheimer Bingham of Dean’sSweets FEBRUARY, CONT.

4 Dan Zanes & Friends

Full Day Residency & Community Supper at King Middle School

11 2011–12 Annual Report MEMBERSHIP

Each season we offer a wealth of school and community-based arts programs that accompany our performances and engage people of all ages and backgrounds in the thrill of the performing arts. Ticket revenue does not pay for these programs; instead, we rely on support from Portland Ovations Members and other donors who believe the performing arts contribute not only to the quality of life in Maine today, but also to the development of the generations who comprise the Maine of tomorrow.

Members receive the best seats at the best prices while supporting the vital work of Portland Ovations in its activities offstage, in classrooms and gathering places across Maine. In exchange for a tax deductible contribution, Members enjoy a range of benefits but most importantly, Members get the satisfaction of knowing they help make the arts accessible to a wider audience.

Ovations is pleased to introduce its newest level of Membership: Innovators. Making multi-year gifts in the amount of $5,000 or more, Innovators make a vital investment in the vibrancy of our community through their support of the arts. Innovators receive all of the benefits of Standing O Members with the addition of personally tailored opportunities.

ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS AND BENEFITS

Friend • $40–$99 Advocate • $100–$499 Partner• $500–$999 Standing O Circle • $1,000+ “Being a Member of Portland Advanced ticketing opportunities for all performances Ovations has Discount on full-price tickets allowed us to Inclusion in the Members-only emails celebrate the best parts of Acknowledgment in Portland Presents, the season’s performance program Maine: The vibrant Invitation to season preview party community of Ticket exchange privileges Portland; world class performers Invitations to receptions, meet-the-artist opportunities and other Members-only performances and Ovations Offstage-related special events like Chris Botti; an outstanding A pair of complimentary tickets to a performance from a selection of presentations venue like Merrill (2) tickets to the Epicurean Auction Benefit Auditorium – all Personalized concierge ticket services to guarantee priority ticketing and seating accessible within minutes of our Complimentary beverage for (2) at all Merrill Auditorium performances home.” An additional (4) complimentary tickets (for a total of 6) to one of a selection of performances –Kevin D. Desmond, Courtesy meeting with artists when possible Ovations’ Member

Please Note: Membership does not entitle Members to voting or decision-making authority within the organization.

16 Väsen

Pre-Performance Lecture: “New Perspectives on New-Folk Music”

Open Sound Check

Film Screening: “Old Maine’s Swedish Farms” Maine Historical Society

In-Store Appearance at Bull Moose

www.portlandovations.org 12 MEMBERS & DONORS

INNOVATOR Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Florman Mr. Andrew Christie Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Johan Gouws Mr. Robert H. Gardner Ms. Rae Clark-McGrath Ms. Nancy L. Greenblatt Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Kendall Harnett Mr. Richard Buhr and Ms. Joli Greene Mr. Michael Boyson and Mr. and Mrs. Horace Hildreth Ms. Cathy N. Coffman Mr. and Mrs. John Greenlee Ms. Nancy Grant Mr. Harry W. Konkel Mr. Steven Cohn Ms. April Guagenti Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Newman Mr. Jeffrey McKinnon Mr. Thomas Courtney Mrs. Patricia Hagge Ms. Susannah M. Swihart and Ms. Cornelia Robinson Mr. Russell Cox Ms. Heidi Hansen Mr. Karl Turner Mr. and Mrs. Richard Roderick Mr. and Mrs. George Crockett Ms. Coral A. Harris and Mr. Alan Goff Ms. Jane C. Wellehan Ms. Hilary A. Rapkin and Mr. David Dancause and Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Haynes Mr. William Stiles Ms. Rebecca Bryant Ms. Karen Herold and Mr. Mark Isaacson STANDING O CIRCLE Mrs. H. Patricia Shapazian Ms. Pauline Daniels Mr. Willard Hertz Mr. and Mrs. Eric Suehrstedt Mr. and Mrs. Jack DeBeradinis Ms. Jill H. Holley Anonymous Ms. Sarah A. Verville Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dibner Ms. Jennifer Hubbell Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Amory Ms. Carol Dilley Mr. Daniel P. Hunter and Ms. Patricia Berg Mr. and Mrs. Alec Dinapoli Ms. Mary Anne Moisan Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Bowne ADVOCATE Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dionne Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Israel Ms. Madeleine G. Corson Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Doak Mr. and Mrs. Mark Jarrell Mr. and Mrs. Francis Ferland Mr. and Mrs. Frank Alexander Mr. and Mrs. Steven Dobieski Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Jerome F. Goldberg Mr. Eric D. Altholz and Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. H. Dodge Mr. David Karraker and Ms. Margaret Griswold Ms. Mary McQuillen Ms. Cynthia Eames Ms. Colleen Khoury Dr. and Mrs. Timothy Hawkins Mr. and Mrs. John Andrews Mr. Richard Edwards Dr. and Mrs. Saul Katz Mr. and Mrs. Michael High Mr. Steve Arnold Ms. Karen Emerson Ms. Mary J. Keffer Mr. and Mrs. J. Spencer Jones Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Aronson Mr. and Mrs. James Espy Mr. and Mrs. Darryl Keil Ms. Felicia Knight and Dr. Ann Babbitt Mr. Wes Fairfield Mr. David Keith and Mr. Towle Tompkins Mr. Michael Bachem and Ms. K.E. Smith Mr. and Mrs. John Fay Mr. Stephen Simpson Mr. and Mrs. James Konkel Mr. Larry J. Balboni Ms. Suzanne Finn Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kibort Mr. Gary Koocher Mr. and Mrs. Ronald M. Bancroft Drs. Carrie and Philip Frederick Mr. and Mrs. David Kirstein Mr. Peter Milliken Mr. and Mrs. Brew Barstow Ms. Lisa Friedlander Mr. David J. Kumaki and Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Minter Dr. Christine Bennett Mr. and Mrs. Edward Friedman Ms. R. Elizabeth Baird Mr. James T. Morgan Mr. Roger K. Berle Mr. Robert L. Macomber and Mr. and Mrs. Michael LaCombe Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Nielsen, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Berman Ms. Cynthia Frye-Macomber Mr. and Mrs. David Laconi Ms. Jean Nishiyama Mrs. Kathryn Biberstein Mr. Theodore L. Fucillo Mrs. Lois Lamdin Mr. and Mrs. Steve Passerman Mr. Paul F. Boekhorst Mr. Arthur Gager Ms. Miriam Laster Ms. Aimée M. Petrin and Mr. Edward M. Bonney Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Garland Mrs. Candace T. Lee Mr. Zachary Ward Ms. Lori Boyle Ms. Lori Garon and Dr. and Mrs. Richard Lemieux Ms. Eileen Phelan and Ms. Zenya Brackett Mr. Tim K. Cloudman Ms. Wendy O. LePage Mr. Richard Wallace Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth A. Brill Ms. Brenda Garrand Mrs. Ophelia Lepore Mr. Stephen D. Poulos Mr. Bruce Brown Mr. and Mrs. Eric George Mr. Andy Lilienthal and Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Schutz Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Brown Mr. and Mrs. Roger Gilmore Ms. Laura Blaisdell Ms. Barbara Simon Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Bruce Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Givertz Ms. Sonia Long Mr. Alan Spear and Mr. Frederick Hauck and Mr. Philip Gleason and Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Ludwig Ms. Mary Allen Lindemann Ms. Susan Bruce Ms. Mary Schendel Mrs. Patricia MacDonald Mr. Kenneth Spirer and Dr. Joan Leitzer Mr. and Mrs. Robert Buckwalter Mr. Stephen Gleit Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Manning Mr. S. Donald Sussman Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Bussone Ms. Merrie Goguen Mrs. Katie Martin Ms. Cecilia Caldwell and Dr. and Mrs. Walter Goldfarb Mr. and Mrs. Robert McAfee PARTNER Mr. Philip Scavotto Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Goldfarb Miss Kristin McCabe Drs. James and Susan Carter Mr. and Mrs. Robert Adam Mr. Ralph C. Good and Ms. Dorothy McCann Dr. Katrina Chamberlin Mr. Daniel DiMillo Ms. Catherine H. Cloudman Mr. R.J. McComish Ms. Janis Childs and Ms. Martha Riehle Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Emmons Dr. and Mrs. Noel Goodman Ms. Elizabeth McLellan Mr. John Chiodo Mr. and Mrs. Steven Goodman Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miles

MARCH

4 Vancouver Chamber Choir 9 Golden Dragon Acrobats

Pre-Performance Lecture: “Considering Choral Arts”

School-Time In-School Performance Workshop with O2 staff at Riverton Elementary

13 2011–12 Annual Report MEMBERS & DONORS

Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Miller Ms. Nan Sawyer Ms. Louise Thomas Mr. Michael Aube Ms. Judith W. Miskell Ms. Erica Schair-Cardona and Mr. Nathaniel Thompson Ms. Carla Barron Mrs. Elisabeth R. Murray Mr. Ivan Cardona Mr. and Mrs. Gordon M. Thomson Mr. John Barton Mr. and Mrs. John Najarian Mr. and Mrs. Scott Schiff-Slater Ms. Joan P. Tilney Ms. Susan Beaudette Mr. Chris Neagle Mr. and Mrs. John Schwartzman Mr. and Mrs. Richard Trafton Mr. and Mrs. Kent Berdeen Ms. Becky K. Neidetcher Ms. Maxine Sclar and Ms. June Vail Ms. Gretchen Berg and Ms. Suzanne B. Nichols Mr. Robert Yamartino Mr. and Mrs. Richard Van Bergen Ms. Gwyneth Jones Mr. and Mrs. Gary Nielsen Ms. Joanne Sharpe Mr. and Mrs. John Voyer Ms. Dolores L. Bergeron Mr. and Mrs. Henry Owens Ms. Carrie Shaw Ms. Ann S. Waldron Mr. and Mrs. John Bielecki Mr. and Mrs. John V. C. Parker Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sierer Mr. and Mrs. William Weickert Ms. Christine Bougie Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Parker Mrs. Joan P. Simonds Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Werner Ms. Phyllis Boyle Mrs. Judie Pearl Ms. Ann C. Slocum Mr. and Mrs. James Wilkes Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bradford Mr. Brett M. Pierce and Mr. Lendall L. Smith and Ms. Carolyn Wood Ms. Florence Braff Ms. Kerry Michaels Ms. Nancy Herter Dr. and Mrs. Ross Wyman Dr. Bruce R. Bragdon Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Polko Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Snow Ms. April Ylvisaker Dr. Bets Brown Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Porter Ms. Tracy Sommers Ms. Martha Zimicki and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Bryant Mr. David Puelle Mr. Donald Starr Mr. John McCarthy Mr. David Buccello Ms. Anna Ranta Ms. Jane Stauffer Ms. Michelle Buczacz Mr. and Mrs. Norman Rapkin Ms. Sharon Staz Mr. Gary Burks Dr. and Mrs. Frank Read Ms. Sandra Stone FRIEND Ms. Janet Burson Ms. Lois Reckitt Mr. Paul Sullivan Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Allen Cairns Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Richardson Ms. Kristin Sweeney Ms. Susan Alberi Ms. Mary Campbell and Mrs. Jacqueline Robinov Ms. Zareen Taj Mirza Ms. Karin Anderson and Mr. William Barry Mr. Alan Robitaille Mr. and Mrs. Richard Taylor Mr. Stephen T. Fisk Ms. Linda Cannon Mr. Richard Rossi Mr. Jonathan Telsey and Dr. Mary Telsey Ms. Betsy Atkins Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Carp Ms. Kris Sahonchik Mr. and Mrs. John D. Tewhey Mr. James Atleson Ms. Nicole Cherbuliez Ms. Margaret R. Atwood

CREOLE CHOIR OF CUBA As part of their rare and limited North American tour, the Creole Choir of Cuba brought songs of roots, resistance, love and freedom to Portland in October 2011. More than 850 students from over 20 schools danced in their seats – and some actually got onstage – for a rousing School-Time Performance followed by an uplifting evening performance with dancing in the aisles. The celebration of culture and sharing of music continued offstage with Choir-led workshops with Portland Public School students – Lincoln Middle and Portland High – and the Wescustago Youth Chorale. In each workshop students learned some Creole repertoire, but also taught the Choir music from their songbooks. The connections continued in the pre-performance lecture given by University of Southern Maine Professor of History, David Carey who explored the historical liaisons between Maine and Cuba.

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Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Pre-Performance Lecture: 18 “South Pacific” “Performing Irish Literature and Theater”

Pre-Performance Lecture: “Issues of Race in Musical Theater”

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Ms. Joanne Chessey Ms. Kim Ginevan Ms. Geri Clarke Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Goldfarb “SHUFFLE.PLAY.LISTEN.” Mrs. Sueann Comeau Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Golub Ms. Nazare Conway Mr. and Mrs. John Gormley In November cellist Matt Mr. Peter B. Cook Mr. Edward Goulet Ms. Kerry Courtice Mr. Robert P. Gowen Haimovitz and pianist Ms. Patricia Critchfield Mr. John Griffin Mr. and Mrs. Sid Cronsberg Ms. Sarah Griffin Christopher O’Riley’s Ms. Sally J. Daggett Mr. Charles A. Gruber residency was full Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dalphin Ms. Ruthanne Haley Ms. Ruth Darcy Ms. Cheryl Hall of rich experiences Ms. Allison Darden Ms. Susan Hartnett Mr. and Mrs. Charles Davis Ms. Nancy Hasenfus in the community. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Davis Ms. Kendra Haskell Immediately upon Ms. Betsey W. Deleuse Ms. Michelle Haynes Ms. Mary Dellostritto Mr. and Mrs. Robert Heiser their arrival in Mrs. Barbara Deshane Ms. Mary J. Herman and Mr. Angus King Mr. and Mrs. William Dexter Mr. Michael L. Hetzel Portland, Haimovitz Mr. and Mrs. Hart Dibner Ms. Barbara D. Hill and O’Riley visited Ms. Elizabeth Dimond Ms. Evangeline E. Hollander Mr. and Mrs. Grant Dinmore Ms. Susan G. Howe MPBN’s studios to Mr. and Mrs. John Dodge Dr. Kristine Hoyt and Mr. Brian Delaney Ms. Linda S. Dunham Mr. and Mrs. Ira Hymoff discuss their collaborative Ms. Betsy H. Dunphy Dr. Kristin K. Jhamb project Shuffle. Play. Listen. with Ms. Kimlee Dustin Mr. Theodore Kanellakis Mr. and Mrs. Jon Dustin Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Kauffman Suzanne Nance, host of Morning Classical Music. Mr. Richard Edwards Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kelley Ms. Elizabeth E. Ehrenfeld Ms. Elizabeth Kenney Haimovitz then entranced a full-house, all-ages Ms. Susan Ekholm Mr. Donald J. King audience with a “flash concert” at SPACE Gallery. Ms. Martha Elbaum and Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Krasker Mr. Bill B. Williamson Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Kruithoff O’Riley worked with three Maine piano students in Ms. Cheryl Eling Ms. Vickie Labbe Ms. Patricia M. Ender Mr. Ronald Lambert an on-stage masterclass at Merrill Auditorium while Mr. John Engel Ms. Denise LaRue and Haimovitz workshopped with strings students at 317 Mr. and Mrs. James Espy Mr. Robert Furman Mrs. Suzanne Ewing Ms. Margaret Lavender Main Street Community Music Center in Yarmouth. Ms. Lorraine Faherty Ms. Joan Sarles Lee Mr. and Mrs. John Farquhar Ms. Denise Linet and Mr. Gary Torow The Shuffle. Play. Listen. program was enriched with the Ms. Laura Faure Ms. Carole G. Long pre-performance lecture, “The Art of Collaboration: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Field Ms. Debra Lovsin Mr. and Mrs. Francis Foley Mr. Stephen MacDougall Communication and Clairvoyance” presented by Mr. Hal Fowler Mr. Wayne Manchester Ms. Dorry A. French Ms. Vicki Mann local violinist Ronald Lantz and pianist Laura Kargul. Mr. Neil M. Frigand Mr. Glenn Mariani The dynamic, innovative, collaborative performance Mrs. Linda M. Frinsko Mr. Fred G. Martin and Ms. Susan Eldred Ms. Francesca G. Galluccio-Steele Ms. Linda S. Martin of Haimovitz and O’Riley was extended beyond their Ms. Jennifer Gardiner Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Mason Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Gifford Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Masters stay—the performance was later broadcast on MPBN’s Ms. Diane Gilman Mr. and Mrs. Todd Mattson MaineStage radio program in July 2012. Ms. Lee Gilman Mr. and Mrs. John McClean

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22 Trey McIntyre Project Modern Dance Masterclass at PATHS

Creative Conversations: Art and the City at ICA at MECA 26 School-Time Performance: Workplace Dance Event “The Ugly Duckling” and at CIEE “The Tortoise and the Hare”

Behind-the-Scenes In-School Workshop with Members Event O2 staff 15 2011–12 Annual Report at Riverton Elementary MEMBERS & DONORS

Ms. Cynthia A. McCormack Ms. Roberta Price-Herzig Ms. Lana Vanderweide Mr. and Mrs. James Espy Ms. Muriel McDonald Ms. Anita Prince Mr. Jim Varmecky Ms. Maxine A. Farber Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mckinney Ms. Marianne Quinn Mr. Brian Vaughan Mrs. Linda M. Frinsko Ms. Jillian McLaughlin Mr. Kevin J. Regan Ms. Joan Vickery Dr. and Mrs. Noel Goodman Ms. Mary A. McLean Mr. and Mrs. J. Theodore Repa Mr. Briton Vitalius and Mr. and Mrs. Johann Gouws Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Miller Mr. and Mrs. John I. Riddle Ms. Yasmin Craig Vitalius Ms. Barbara D. Hill Ms. Marna Miller Ms. Bethany A. Roberge Mr. and Mrs. Richard V. Wagner Ms. Felicia Knight and Mr. and Mrs. Roger Milliken Mrs. Therese Rodrigue Ms. Jennifer Wahlig Mr. Towle Tompkins Mr. John P. Mills Mr. and Mrs. Harvey L. Rohde Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Walters Ms. Cecile Laplante Ms. Alice Moisen Mr. John Romano Dr. Carol Ward and Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Manning Ms. Peggy A. Morin Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Rose Dr. Charles De Sieyes Ms. Mary A. McLean Dr. Doreen L. Morrow and Mr. Joseph L. Rosenfield Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Wasielewski Ms. Marianne P. Miller Mr. George Spatoulas Ms. Beth B. Rovnak Ms. Terry Watson Mr. and Mrs. Peter Mundy Mr. Merle W. Morse Jr. Ms. Elizabeth Ruff Ms. Jane Weagle Mrs. Jean S. Nishiyama Mr. Steve Mortimer and Mr. Clark Rundell Ms. Susan Wegner and Mr. John Fischer Mr. Darrell Pardy and Ms. Alice Ruvane Ms. Sarah Russell Ms. Natalie West Ms. Carolyn Hughes Ms. Elinor Multer Ms. Trace Salter Ms. Marcia Whited Ms. Rachel Phipps Dr. and Mrs. Donald Murray Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Sanborn Ms. Kira Wigoda and Mr. Daniel Sobel Mr. and Mrs. Norman Rapkin Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Murray Mr. and Mrs. Michael Saxl Ms. Janet Willis Mr. and Mrs. J. Theodore Repa Ms. Jacquie I. Nastro Mr. and Mrs. Scott Schafer Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Wirtes Ms. Elizabeth Ruff Mr. and Mrs. Steve S. Neal Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schmitt Ms. Chris Wolfe Mr. and Mrs. Scott Schafer Mr. Daniel Novak Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Schwartz Ms. Edie L. Woodward Ms. Maxine Sclar and Mr. Michael Nurick Mr. Jeff Schwartz Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. Wygant Mr. Robert Yamartino Mr. John David Ober Ms. Aurelia Scott Mr. and Dr. B. Lee Zacharias Dr. and Mrs. Alan Schneit Ms. Melissa Ocampo Ms. Jeanne F. Shay Dr. Ralph M. Zieff Ms. Deborah Sewall Mr. and Mrs. David Offer Ms. Ailsa C. Shepherd Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sierer Mr. and Mrs. Carl Packer Ms. Elizabeth Sinclair Ms. Mary Ann Siklosi Ms. Nicole O. Paine Mr. David W. Smith DONATIONS Ms. Cyrene Slegona Ms. Elizabeth Patten and Ms. Jane L. Snerson Mr. Richard Babb Dr. Roger C. Temple Mr. Michael Boucher Mr. Henri St. Pierre Ms. Marie Barbieri Ms. Louise Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. Pedlikin Ms. Laura Stauffer and Ms. Elsbeth Bellemere Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Walkling Mr. Russell Peppe Mr. Brandon Pease Dr. Christine Bennett Ms. Terry Watson Mr. James Perrin Ms. Emilee Taplin and Mr. Peter Lacy Ms. Cecilia Caldwell and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Webber Mr. and Mrs. James Pickett Ms. Elayne Tempel Mr. Philip Scavotto Ms. Jane C. Wellehan Mr. Craig Piper Mr. and Mrs. James Thibodeau Ms. Phyllis C. Coggeshall Ms. Kitty N. Wheeler Ms. Marcy Plavin Dr. Philip P. Thompson, Jr. Miss Maureen K. Conlon-Peirce Ms. Linda Williams Mr. Malcolm Poole Ms. Sarah J. Thompson Ms. Suzanne Crowell Ms. Carole A. Pope Mr. Paul Turcotte Mr. and Mrs. Jack DeBeradinis Contributions made between Ms. Victoria Powers Ms. Dolores L. Valigra Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dionne July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012 TAKING IT TO THE STREETS In collaboration with a host of Portland arts organizations, SPACE Gallery transformed a portion of the Arts District along Congress Street into a block party for artistic exploration and enjoyment. Ovations Offstage enlisted the help of local performers for “The Chair Piece,” a dance of chance and improvisation.

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Bombino Film Screening: 4 Alvin Ailey American “Agadez, the Music and the 12 School-Time Performance: 24 Rebellion” at SPACE Gallery “Paige in Full” Dance Theater

Pre-Performance Lecture: “Cultural Context: Nomadic Life in the Sahara” Teacher Workshop Pre-Performance at King Middle School Lecture: In-Store Appearance “Life as an Ailey at Bull Moose Dancer”

Workshops Lyman Moore Middle School Modern Dance Riverton Elementary Masterclass at Portland School of Ballet www.portlandovations.org 16 FINANCIALS

Revenues 2011–12 REVENUES

Support and Contributions1 572,698 Earned Revenue Earned Revenues 1,076,471 65% Support/Contributions Total Support and Earned Revenues 1,649,169 35%

Expenses Programs and Services 1,569,878 Fundraising and Administration 164,488 EXPENSES Total Expenses 1,734,366 9%

Assets 91% Current Assets 447,464 Programs and Services

Property and Equipment 6,121 Fundraising and Administration Investments and Other Assets 1,171,623

Total Assets 1,625,208 Program expenses include artist fees and accommodations, venue rentals, marketing, local labor and production, etc., which help fuel the Maine creative economy. Liabilities Current Liabilities 390,136 Total Liabilities 390,136

Net Assets Unrestricted Net Assets 950,833 Temporarily Restricted Net Assets2 20,081 “Thank you for the tasty, friendly, informative, creative, and yes, intimate evening with the Permanently Restricted Net Assets3 264,158 Trey McIntyre dancers. Magical evening!!! I Total Net Assets 1,235,072 learned sooooo much. These folks are not ‘dancers’ – they are transformers who use their Total Liabilities and Net Assets 1,625,208 bodies to transport [us] into another worthy place. Transformative, awesome.” 1. Support and contributions includes endowment distributions of $21,416 from Portland Ovations and $10,000 from CCEF fund. –Sherry Masters 2. Represents value of CCEF fund greater than corpus. Audience Member 3. Represents the corpus of the CCEF fund.

Audited financial statements are available upon request.

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Imogen Cooper, Piano 25 Jennifer Koh, Violin Pre-Performance Lecture: 7 “Bach & Beyond”

Pre-Performance Lecture: “Smoke and Mirrors: In-School Making the Piano Sing” Lecture/Demonstration At Riverton Elementary School

Piano Masterclass At USM School of Music

17 2011–12 Annual Report ACCESSIBLE, ENGAGING AND EVOLVING…

In our 81st year as a cultural leader in our vibrant creative community, Portland Ovations continues to evolve. Pushing the envelope with our programming by bringing and commissioning innovative new performing art works to Portland, engaging audiences of different generations and backgrounds and making sure that the performing arts are accessible to all.

We are proud to be a key part of Portland’s arts community– a community that has become a culturally diverse, highly energized creative hive of activity. Every year we strive to achieve greater impact with the next generation of audiences; introducing them to different art forms and inspiring them through our School-Time Performance Series, Ovations Offstage INDIA JAZZ SUITES in-school workshops and masterclasses with visiting artists. At its heart, India Jazz Suites is a dynamic As a dedicated not-for-profit performing arts presenter, Portland conversation between two cultures across Ovations continues to offer you, our audiences and supporters, generations: American tap dancer Jason Samuels many different ways to enhance your arts experience. Whether Smith and masterful Kathak dancer Pandit through Pre-Performance Lectures, spontaneous “Arts Chitresh Das come together on one stage and Happenings,” lively community discussions or artist Q&A’s, it improvise in their respective styles to live jazz and is our goal to provide you with the best experience, the best classical Indian music. Electrifying Hannaford Hall understanding of the art and the best live art each season. with this profound cultural mash-up, Smith and It is the continuing and ever growing curiosity of our audiences Das continued their cultural sharing offstage—in that invigorates us to bring inspiring, high quality artists and art a lecture/demonstration at Portland High School, forms to you, encourages us to better engage you and to evolve students discussed collaboration and cultural as an organization in the ways we serve you, our community. diversity; at the Portland Museum of Art the greater Portland community came together for Thank you for your curiosity, energy and passion for the arts. It a lively and revealing discussion with the artists drives us. moderated by Alicia Anstead, editor-in-chief of the national magazine Inside Arts.

Bombino in-store appearance at Bull Moose

18 “WARRIORS DON’T CRY” In January 2012, actor Almeria Campbell brought Dr. Melba Patillo Beals’ searing memoir Warriors Don’t Cry to life in a charged one-woman show. Warrior’s courageous story of “The Little Rock Nine” and the integration of Central High School in 1957 was excerpted at the NAACP-Portland’s 31st Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Breakfast and the monthly meeting of Portland Ovation’s Board of Directors. Campbell and teaching artist Brian Richardson held civil rights workshops with students at Mahoney Middle School in South Portland and young female actors of A Company of Girls in Portland. The Warriors Don’t Cry School-Time Performance was sold-out with students traveling from Berwick, Pemaquid and everywhere in between. The pre-performance lecture was presented by five King Middle School students, their teachers, and Julia Adams of the Portland String Quartet. The group discussed the expeditionary learning project “Small Acts of Courage: Memories of the Civil Rights Movement” – an oral history project that records the untold stories of Maine Civil Rights heroes. Both school-time and evening performances concluded with Q & A sessions with Campbell and Richardson – during which audience members shared their own struggles with racism and integration, connecting the story of Little Rock, Arkansas to Portland, Maine.

“I want to thank you for today’s performance of Warriors Don’t Cry. It was such a moving experience for our students on so many levels. The intensity of the story and the history it represents was a powerful reminder of the darkness our country struggled against not that long ago. The students

y were speaking about how hard it is to accept and h p a r understand that this was the reality in the United g o t o States. Additionally, the intensity of the performance h P by the actress was incredibly moving. She was such an k in F r u artistic inspiration.” h rt A y b –David Barham, Merriconeag Waldorf School to ho N t, p AACP Breakfas

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