Welcome to the Boca Raton Cultural Consortium
Since 1999, our mission has been to raise the public’s awareness of the quality, diversity, and impact of arts and cultural programs in the community. The fifteen not-for-profit member organizations provide a wide array of programming for all ages.
Our Member Organizations
+ Boca Ballet Theatre
Boca Ballet Theatre is a nationally recognized, youth focused non-profit dance organization, which presents exceptional performances incorporating the world’s most celebrated professional dancers, offers engaging community outreach and service programs, and operates a proven classical ballet academy.
+ Boca Raton Museum of Art
Founded by artists as a teaching academy in 1950, the Boca Raton Museum of Art has grown to encompass an Art School, Artists Guild, Store, and Museum with distinguished permanent collections of contemporary art, glass, non-western art, photography, and sculpture, as well as a diverse selection of special exhibitions. Learn more about their art classes, exhibitions, educational programs, private events, and more!
+ Boca Raton Historical Society & The Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum
The Boca Raton Historical Society & The Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to collecting, preserving and presenting the history of Boca Raton. The organization promotes historic preservation and education through its exhibitions, archival services, guided tours, and other unique programs. The Museum now serves as the community’s official Welcome Center providing information on Boca Raton past and present.
+ The Children’s Science Explorium
Located within Sugar Sand Park, The Children's Science Explorium is a free hands-on science center designed for children 5 – 12 years of age and their caregivers. The Explorium offers fascinating and interactive exhibits, programs and camps that bring the physical sciences to life.
In addition to an impressive permanent exhibit collection, the Explorium offers visitors a variety of traveling exhibits each year. From rockets to molecules, the museum engages and teaches children about the fantastic world of science!
+ FAU College of Arts and Letters
The Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters and its School of the Arts include many public performance and exhibition spaces. Performance spaces include the 2,500-seat Kaye Auditorium, the 500-seat University Theatre and two black box theaters. Annually, these venues present more than 30 concerts, six to eight different theater performances, three dance performances and numerous lectures. There are also two galleries on campus; the Schmidt Center Gallery and the Ritter Art Gallery. Each gallery presents four to six exhibitions during the academic year. Theaters in the Living Room Theaters complex are used for film study classes during the day, and are open at night and on weekends showing independent and foreign films, and serving lunch and dinner.
+ Festival of the Arts Boca
Established in 2007, Festival of the Arts Boca is South Florida’s premiere literary and performing arts festival. More than just programming; it is a unique way of bringing world class performers, authors and speakers to Boca Raton a casual and festive atmosphere. Tickets range in price so as to be accessible to everyone.
The Festival presents world class artists artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Lang Lang, Joshua Bell, Renee Fleming, Pat Metheny, and Arturo Sandoval. The Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, West Side Story, and Raiders of the Lost Ark have been performed with live orchestra. World-renowned speakers over the ten years have included Edward Albee, Sir Salman Rushdie, acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Doris Kearns Goodwin, Richard Ford, Thomas Friedman, and Fareed Zakaria.
The Festival celebrates the special quality of life in Boca Raton and Palm Beach County and the special qualities of Mizner Park, which has been selected by the American Planning Association as one of the ten best urban places in the United States. The Festival is special, because of the venue, the season, the quality and diversity of its cultural offerings and because of the opportunity for young and old to celebrate the traditions of the great arts and to be exposed to the incredible diversity of the performing and literary arts, at the highest levels.
+ Florida Intergenerational Orchestra of America
The Florida Intergenerational Orchestra of America's mission is to bring generations together with music and musical performance. Under the direction of Lorraine Marks-Field, this intergenerational orchestra presents classical concerts sure to delight audiences of every age!
+ Gumbo Limbo Nature Center
Last year, more than 200,000 people visited Gumbo Limbo Nature Center to enjoy a walk on our boardwalk, count the thousands of tropical fish in our aquariums, relax in our butterfly garden, check on the patients in our sea turtle rehabilitation facility, and shop the imaginative and environmentally friendly gifts in our nature-themed gift shop.
As a beacon for environmental education, research, and conservation, Gumbo Limbo’s 20 acres on the protected barrier island provide refuge to many varieties of plants and animals - some rare or endangered. It also represents a commitment to protect our natural resources by our staff, volunteers, and the organizations that comprise the Center.
Founded in 1984, Gumbo Limbo Nature Center is a unique cooperative project of the City of Boca Raton, the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District, Florida Atlantic University, and Gumbo Limbo Coastal Stewards.
+ The HARID Conservatory
The HARID Conservatory is an internationally recognized professional-training school for gifted young dancers. Students from across the United States and from other countries are selected for enrollment through a stringent audition process. Artistic talent is the primary admission criterion.
HARID’s alumni have been employed by more than eighty professional dance companies across the United States and in Canada, Europe, South America, and Asia. Many have distinguished themselves as soloist and principal dancers in leading companies.
HARID presents two series of dance performances each year. The Winter Performances in December include a selection of classical, character, and modern dances, highlighted by HARID’s holiday tradition: Divertissement from Act II of The Nutcracker. The Spring Performances in May feature the school’s graduating class in a collection of engaging classical and contemporary ballets.
+ Lynn University
Lynn University presents hundreds of performances which include the world-class faculty and students of the Conservatory of Music in individual, chamber and orchestral settings; Jan McArt continues to provide top-rate theatre entertainment through Libby Dodson’s Live at Lynn Theatre programs, American Songbook performances featuring Marshall Turkin and Jan McArt’s New Play Readings series. A bachelor of fine arts degree in drama and musical theatre adds to the impressive performances through three musicals each year and the Dialogues Speaker series hosted by Dr. Robert Watson showcases political figures who promote civility in politics and public life.
+ Mizner Park Amphitheater
Located in Downtown Boca, Mizner Park Amphitheater is a popular outdoor amphitheater, and concert green that has entertained more than one million people since its inaugural year.
The amphitheater serves as a social, cultural, and educational center for Boca Raton residents and visitors, and audiences from throughout South Florida. Each year the amphitheater hosts a variety of community events, city events, and commercial concerts. Recent programming includes the Summer in the City series, Festival of the Arts BOCA, TED Talks, Boca Raton Seafood & Music Festival, Holiday Concerts, the Boca Raton Museum of Art Festival, Palm Beach Veg Fest and many more.
+ The SYMPHONIA
The SYMPHONIA, South Florida’s World-Class Chamber Orchestra, is dedicated to keeping classical music flourishing in South Florida. Founded in July 2004, The SYMPHONIA is called a “gem of an orchestra” by music critics because of the high caliber of its musicians, guest artists and programming. The SYMPHONIA performs a repertoire blending classic with contemporary works, offering compositions from diverse composers. As part of its mission of "engaging and inspiring traditional and new audiences," the orchestra presents “Meet the Orchestra,” a program that allows children to interact with musicians at dress rehearsals and features an instrument “petting zoo.”
+ The Wick Theatre and Costume Museum
The Wick Theatre produces Broadway quality musicals starring award-winning casts!
+ Willow Theatre
Willow Theatre is nestled inside the popular Sugar Sand Park in the heart of Boca Raton and is a unique theatre experience in South Florida. This inviting 155-seat theatre gives each audience member a close-up view of outstanding, professional entertainment, in a setting almost as personal as your own home.
Programming at the theatre includes main stage, family shows, and a summer children’s series – an ideal venue for all ages and interests.
+ Youth Orchestra of Palm Beach County
The mission of the Youth Orchestra of Palm Beach County is to provide young musicians with exceptional music education and performance experiences while developing an appreciation of classical music within the community.
Established in 1993 through a project of the Junior League of Boca Raton to provide youth orchestra opportunities in Palm Beach County, YOPBC premiered on May 7, 1994, at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach.
Our Board of Directors, Parent Association and Artistic Staff are committed to providing professional training at minimal cost to the young musicians. Our board members and parents volunteer hundreds of hours to making the organization operate effectively.
Many of our early members are now professional musicians performing as members of the world’s most prestigious orchestras, chamber ensembles, jazz ensembles and bands. Other graduates are now lawyers, engineers, business leaders and teachers. Recent graduates are currently enrolled in some of the finest colleges, universities, schools of music and music conservatories in the nation.
“Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs”
— Thomas Wolfe
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
—Pablo Picasso
“Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create and die protecting it.”
— Lady Gaga
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
— Thomas Merton