The Festival Beat

The Festival of the Arts Boca has rescheduled its March 12 concert featuring Sergio Mendes due to illness. 

Festival of the Arts Boca is excited to announce the lineup for its 17th Season (March 3-12, 2023). This year, the Festival brings its nonprofit mission – delivering the best in the literary and performing arts to everyone in South Florida – to center stage, offering a season filled with youth and inspiration, with hope, heroism, and storytelling.

Festival Boca took First Place at the SUNsational Awards in the category of Hybrid Event, for its presentation of Nadine Sierra and Friends, broadcast via live-streaming on March 6, 2021.

We are excited to announce the winners of the Festival of the Arts Boca Music Competition. Congratulations to all the winners! We will be hosting a special pre-Festival Winners Concert on March 4 at 7 pm.

Festival of the Arts Boca will go forward in 2021, with virtual performances by Florida-based artists from iconic locations throughout Boca Raton from March 6 – 14, 2021.  Each program will stream once only on the Festival of the Arts Boca website. Access is free with advance registration.

Our 90-minute Virtual Gala was a huge success, raising over $25,000 for our music education programs. You can rewatch some or all of the program here.

We had planned several blog posts during the festival, but there were so many things going on that we didn't have time to stop and write about them!

Festival Boca's Next Wave held a happy hour mixer "in concert" with the Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce’s Pulse Group.

Festival of the Arts Boca designer Eileen Shine saw Constantine Kitsopoulus conduct the NJ Symphony in a performance of Star Wars: A New Hope, the show that will be coming to Boca on March 1, 2019. We asked her to tell us what it was like.

On September 1st, Festival of the Arts BOCA was selected as the benefiting not-for-profit organization for Comic Cure’s last show of its summer series featuring world renowned comedian D.J. Demers. Next Wave members showed up to support our fundraising effort. 

Festival of the Arts BOCA, in collaboration with the talented duo behind J&D Cakes, Joel and Daniela, produced a table that was out of this world at this year's Wine & All That Jazz event at the Boca Raton Resort.

In mid-July, we attended a reception held at the Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum centered around Addison Mizner, the world-renowned resort architect who placed Boca Raton on the map.