Please join other longtime supporters, current and former board members, arts leaders, volunteers, and donors for a special anniversary event celebrating the legacy of the arts in this community, the vision for the future, and of course, you.
**Click here for suggested parking.
Throughout the night, enjoy performances by:
- AMPED
- Cirque Louis
- Kentucky Shakespeare
- Louisville Ballet
- Louisville Story Program
- Louisville Visual Art
- Louisville Youth Choir
- Louisville Youth Orchestra
- Musicians from The Louisville Orchestra
- Squallis Puppeteers
- StageOne Family Theatre
- West Louisville Performing Arts Academy
Special guest appearances include:
- Tonya Abeln, Churchill Downs Director of Corporate Communications
- Teddy Abrams, Louisville Orchestra Music Director
- Kirby Adams, Courier-Journal Reporter
- Jecorey “1200” Arthur, 2016 Awards in the Arts Emerging Leader Artist, Hip-hop Artist, Musician, Music Teacher
- Christina Lee Brown
- Laura Lee Brown, 21c Co-Founder
- Allan Cowen, Allan Cowen Consulting President and former Fund for the Arts President & CEO
- JP Davis, Fund for the Arts Senior Vice President
- Viki Diaz
- Charlie Farnsley, Fund for the Arts Campaign Co-Chair and Financial Advisor & CCO, Bahe Farnsley Advisors
- Mindy Farnsley, Fund for the Arts Campaign Co-Chair, Preferred Benefits Vice President
- Emcee Angie Fenton, Voice-Tribune & Extol Magazine Editor-in-Chief and WHAS 11 Correspondent
- Mayor Greg Fischer
- Idris Goodwin, StageOne Family Theatre Producing Artistic Director
- Councilman David James, Louisville Metro Council President/District 6
- Hafsa Jama, Louisville Story Program student
- Cynthia Knapek, Leadership Louisville President
- Karen Lawrence
- Todd Lowe, 2019 Fund for the Arts Campaign Co-Chair & Board Chair, Parthenon LLC President
- Kent Oyler, Greater Louisville Inc. President & CEO
- Don Parkinson, Secretary of the Tourism, Arts, and Heritage Cabinet
- Chef Damaris Phillips, Host of Food Network’s “Southern At Heart with Damaris Phillips”
- Victoria Russell, Chief of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Papa John’s International
- Representative Attica Scott, District 41
- Councilwoman Barbara Sexton Smith, District 4 Councilwoman, former Fund for the Arts President & CEO
- Darcy Thompson, Louisville Story Program Director
- Paul Thompson, LG&E and KU President & CEO
- Vince Tyra, University of Louisville Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics/Director of Athletics
- Jean West, WFPL Afternoon Host
- Karen Williams, Louisville Tourism President & CEO
- Walter Woods, Humana Foundation CEO
- Laura Zachariah, Awards in the Arts Chair
