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During the second repeal referendum on the Broward County Human Rights Ordinance (1999 to October, 2001), I was chair of Americans for Equality: Empower Broward (AFE), the political action committee that successfully defeated the repeal effort, preserving freedom from discrimination for gays and lesbians in housing, workplace and places of public accommodation in Broward County: without these protections Wilton Drive could never have evolved. In the 1990s, gay bars were being raided and few had windows that opened onto the street due to fear of violence, it was not uncommon for the entrance to be in the rear of the building. The following is a transcript of the speech I gave at a Pride event in 1999. I am proud to be here with you all tonight commemorating the Stonewall rebellion and remembering those we have lost to AIDS. Tonight is always particularly poignant for me as I lost my gay brother, Peter Bodiford, to AIDS in June of 1991. The prejudice he suffered both because he was a gay man and because he had AIDS and his

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courage during the brief two years between his diagnosis and his death pushed me out the closet forever and always, and galvanized me to fight for gay civil rights. We were teenagers during the Stonewall rebellion. Two weeks after I was kicked out of my mother’s house for being gay, Peter, then 14, told me he was gay too. When we came out in 1972, we could be arrested for wearing gender inappropriate clothing - that included button fly jeans for women - and gay bar raids were not uncommon. But, we went anyway, because that was the only place to meet other gays in a somewhat normal social environment. Today, after Ellen, after gay civil unions in Vermont, all that seems a lifetime ago. Young gay, lesbian, bi and transgendered people may still suffer harassment at school, but they do know there is a gay community. And the bars are just one of many, many options - most of us feel that we are relatively safe, and relatively free to lead a normal life. In fact, over the past several years we in Broward have had many victories. In 1995, we were successful in adding sexual orientation as a protected category in the County’s human rights ordinance, we have built a Gay and Lesbian Community Center, we have not one, but two, gay pride celebrations every year, and we have a Domestic Partnership Ordinance where we can register our committed relationships with the County! These are huge accomplishments for our community, and we deserve to be proud. However, there exist those who would send us back to the closet, back to the parks and tearooms, those who feel ferociously that our very existence threatens thier way of life. If you read your email like I do you can’t ignore the warning signs that we are in a crisis for the gay rights movement. In five of the six places where equal rights for gays were placed before the voters last year (1998), the anti-gay forces won. Referendums banning marriage equality for same-sex couples passed easily in California, Nebraska and Nevada. In Ferndale, Michigan, voters repealed a local ordinance barring discrimination against gays. And in Maine, a law protecting gays against discrimination in jobs, housing and credit, went down to defeat at the hands of a well-funded referendum campaign by the Christian right. Across the nation, the right-wing crusade to roll back gay civil rights gains and block further advances is gathering momentum. This year and next, there are at least thirteen antigay referendums in the works around the country. We’ve already lost the first one: Royal Oak, Michigan, outside Detroit -- now the gayest suburb in the state -- repealed

an anti-discrimination ordinance for gays by a crushing margin of 2 to 1. These and other anti-gay campaigns were backed by the American Family Association (AFA), which boasts a $17 million annual budget. And here at home, the Christian right under the name Take Back Miami-Dade collected 51,000 signatures to place the 1998 gay rights ordinance on the ballot. Only SAVE DADE’s legal challenge to the validity of the signatures has staved off an election on the the repeal of MiamiDade’s protections. Now it’s up to the courts to decide whether the measure will be on the ballot this fall. Here in Fort Lauderdale, a group deceptively called “Equal Rights Not Special Rights” has been formed to repeal the Broward County Human rights ordinance that makes it illegal to discriminate against anyone based upon their sexual orientation. This group is highly sophisticated, well funded and highly motivated. Its very name, is deceptively designed to lull the public into believing it stands for equal rights. Nothing could be further from the truth! If this petition drive is successful, it will be perfectly legal to fire us, deny us housing and refuse us access to public accommodations, just because we are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered. The petitions are being circulated by paid petition gatherers and clearly and unequivocally aim at abolishing any civil rights for gays and lesbians here in Broward County. Yet, the group’s website, as well as its petition gatherers, masquerade as the savior of the Boy Scouts, out to help save them from “being discriminated against” for their policy against gays. This group should have more honestly dubbed itself “Cowards Hiding Behind the Boy Scouts.” The good news is, that I believe this effort here in Broward can be defeated. A recent survey of frequent Broward County voters showed that 85% believe discrimination based on sexual orientation is wrong. The survey also showed that the majority of Broward voters would not sign the petitions if they knew that the true intent of of the signature campaign was to legalize discrimination against gays. Americans for Equality: Empower Broward is the political action committee formed to fight to keep Broward free of discrimination, and to defeat this signature petition effort. Your help is needed in the fight to defeat those who seek to turn back the clock, to drive us back into the closet, and legalize discrimination based on sexual orientation. Americans for Equality has launched an education campaign called Decline to Sign to educate the public about the true intent of the signature petitions, and to encourage voters not to sign the petitions. If we are to be successful, we need you!

M.S.W., J.D.

We need you to volunteer time, and contribute money for campaign materials and advertising. Log onto our website at Americansforequality.org to find out how you can help. I cannot urge you strongly enough, don’t be complacent. Our right to be free from discrimination, to know we can come out at work, not be afraid to hold our lover’s hand in our own front yard, to live an honest and open life, a life like everyone else, is under attack. Let us rise to up as a community and send a message to the American Family Association, the Christian Right, the Coral Ridge Ministries and especially to the cowardly bigots at who are behind this petition referendum, GAY RIGHTS ARE EQuAL RIGHTS!

GAY RIGHTS ARE EQuAL RIGHTS! (Lead crowd in chant.) Thank you. (Subsequently, and ironically, just after our nation suffered the devastating attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001, Take Back Broward turned in over 60,000 signed petitions enough to force a vote on gay rights in Broward County. I marveled at the show put on by right wing bigots who showed up at the Miriam Oliphant’s office, then Supervisor of Elections, to oversee (with us) the validation process of the petitions. Weren’t we ALL Americans? How and why did they hate us so much? A seeming miracle occurred:

Miriam, a long-time gay ally, granted our request to individually examine each and every petition turned in (rather than a spot check), and our opposition was over 9,000 petitions short, due to falsification of petitions by petition canvassers! We had won, there was no election: Broward’s human rights ordinance protections for gays and lesbians was secure. At that time, and to the present day, AFE’s 1996 campaign and it’s 2001 campaign to halt a petition referendum on gay rights in the U.S., were the first and the only to succeed. Ominously, as recently as 2015, LGBT protections in the Houston Texas, ordinance were repealed by a petition referendum forcing the ordinance to a vote.)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS NOTE FROM THE CEO Mirror Introduction ● Page 14 PUBLISHER’S PAGE My Favorite Issue... ● Page 20 FEATURE A Plan for your Pet ● Page 26 TRANS TALK Feeling Safe as a Trans Person ● Page 30

LOCAL SAGE: Friendly Visitor Volunteers Needed ● Page 34 FEATURE Gay Vista Group Brings Miami Vibe to Fort Lauderdale ● Page 68 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT Get Your Heart On With Artist Yankiel Mompellar ● Page 70

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DANCE Page 40

REGIONAL THEATER Page 42

CLASSICAL AND JAZZ Page 44

COMEDY AND CONCERTS Page 48

BROADWAY Page 50

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Historic Exhibit Surveys Art After Stonewall ● Page 52 Pompano Beach Embraces The Arts ● Page 54

South Florida Native Turns Experiences into Compelling Stories on Stage and Life ● Page 62 Meet Craig Johnson: ArtServe’s New Executive Director ● Page 66

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My favorite issue is this one, the annual arts and entertainment publication. Nobody supports and populates the arts like the LGBT community. It is special. Once again, our magazine is blessed with a wealth of advertisers from local theaters, along with a host of features, which has absolutely nothing to do with what I am writing about. I always wanted to act, but I could not rehearse lines others wrote for me. I had to write my own script. So in 50 years, I think I have written 50,000 columns. Now, after 20 years, I am also back on the air doing talk radio, spontaneously doing a symphony every afternoon. And if you go to my warehouse, I still have the cassettes from 1989. The world may have changed, but people are still bitching about health care, war in the Mideast, and Medical Marijuana, though the latter has become a lot more legal. I always wanted to play the guitar, and be a folksinger, but I could not sing well or read or write music. So I stuck to the printed page. I always wanted to write music, but I could barely play ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’ on the piano Me, I could not even play the accordion, though my best friend growing up, who won’t talk to me anymore, did a great job of it. He is now a family doctor in Bakersfield, California, whose name, Joseph Lee Smith, shall not be mentioned. Anyway, the radio show should be part of the arts and entertainment issue. The ad appears on this page. It airs every day on 20 | THE

WNN Radio 1470 AM and 95.3 FM. You can hear it rebroadcast at night at 10 p.m., or enjoy it from your I phone or lap top on wwnnradio.com. This is a long way from me being a kid who used to listen to Met games on a little transistor radio late at night, or ticker tape rebroadcasts of the same by sports announcers like Mel Allen in the 1960’s. There is nothing wrong with being a sports announcer. A lot of times I think I should have become one. You cover sports and you celebrate man’s accomplishments instead of politics, where we always whine about the

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world’s failures— particularly those that get elected again and again. As a sports announcer, you bring joy home to fans. I always wanted to become the next Phil Ochs, a great folksinger making a diﬀerence with words and music. Then he went and killed himself, but fifty years later his songs and words live on. Not sure of the correlation, but you can be political and make a diﬀerence. Anyway, my radio show will be a conversation. Like the Seinfeld TV series, it won’t be much about anything particular. It will be about our lives, waiting for the light to turn green while the guy is texting in front of you. WE all are unique. That is what is universal about us. We all have more in common than we do apart. We wait in lines, bitch at how long they are, and then forget why we are there. You lose your keys just as you leave the house to go to the theater. That’s life. Maybe that is what I will call the show. You can’t always be fired up and angry. We can be as mad as hell and not want to take it anymore, but we suck it up and do. And carry on. So join in. Carry on with me every afternoon. We can talk about how bad the Dolphins are, why your insurance won’t cover the roof repair, or how bad the clams were at the last Italian restaurant you ate at. Or maybe we will just elect a new president together. Let’ s see. The show is art, it is entertaining, and it’s you and me together, even if like Dave Mason once sung, we just agree to disagree…

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M But according to Sue Martino, it’s a scenario to be considered sooner rather than later. Martino, the executive director of The Pet Project for Pets, said the wheels started turning for her after attending “Coﬀee and Conversation” events at The Pride Center at Equality Park. Those sessions are part of the center’s senior services activities, and often include topics about financial planning, wills and other end of life issues. Martino has spoken at Coﬀee and Conversation about the Pet Project, too. “On numerous occasions people have come up to me afterwards and said: ‘What happens to my pets if something happens to me; what program do you have?’” she said. Turn the page to continue reading.

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Guests in the backyard during a recent event. Photo courtesy of The Pet Project.

The Pet Project – which provides pet food and other services for economically challenged clients – didn’t have such a program, so Martino started to develop one. One of her previous volunteers who is now on the board, Rex Vacca, helped to establish the Pet Legacy Program. Vacca had worked for the Neptune Society, which helps people plan for cremation services. Martino also made inroads with representatives of Our Fund in Wilton Manors, and after a year of research and conferring with two veterinarians, the Pet Project started to offer the Pet Legacy Program to its clients. Participants are expected to set aside $10,000, whether through a will, life insurance, real estate, or stocks or gifts from a retirement plan. The commitment can be managed through Our Fund or the Pet Project. The Pet Project option also offers a life insurance package. Martino said 10 individuals have signed up in a little more than a year. “What a lot of pet owners don’t think about are the potential costs that can arise with their pets, whether it’s cancer or diabetes treatment,” Martino said. “It’s important because people have to be responsible for their animals if something happens to them.” She said that while family and friends often pledge to take care of a pet if something happens, it doesn’t always work out. “They’ll say that, but it’s a burden; maybe because they have other animals already and then your animal comes in and disrupts everything or maybe the animals don’t get along. It’s a lot expect or ask from someone,” she said. As part of the program, the staff at the Pet Project takes a detailed profile of the pet so that when the time comes it can find a home that is most closely associated with the pet’s lifestyle. Site visits are done and all the needs and services are provided for the pet, Martino said. FURRY MISSION Martino, 64, has been at the Pet Project since 2007. She was named one of SFGN’s “Out 50” this year, dubbed “The Pet Rescuer.” Before landing in South Florida as a real estate agent, she operated one of the first lesbian bar-clubs in New York City. She is married to Maggie Martino, the hotel manager at Aqua Hotel at North Beach Village in Fort Lauderdale. In case you were wondering, the couple has three cats and two dogs. The Pet Project operates out of a building at 2200 NW 9th Ave. in Wilton Manors. It runs a thrift shop and a warehouse – where clients come on the first Saturday of the month to get pet food and supplies, as well as referrals for reduced cost veterinary services. The nonprofit was founded in 2002 to assist pet owners living with HIV. “[Those living with HIV] were saying: ‘Our social workers, our people are telling us we can’t afford to keep our pets, what do we do?’” Martino said. “Some people had no family, everybody turned away. All people had was their animal.” The Pet Project places pets in foster care if someone is in the hospital and in permanent homes when someone dies. It’s not a shelter, but Martino has developed relationships with the Humane Society of Broward County and Broward County’s Animal Care and Adoption Center to provide vaccines and other services (like spay/neuter, heartworm tests, flea and tick medication) for those who qualify. “We give [clients] food, we help with vet care, we are a unique organization. We keep pets in their homes with their families. We give the people what they need,” Martino said. 28 | THE

As HIV diagnoses have transitioned out of being a death sentence, particularly since the late 2000s, the Pet Project expanded to help people with any disability or illness who are financially strapped. Today it serves more than 1,500 clients and pets between Broward and Miami-Dade counties. About 95 percent of clients are part of the LGBT community. Prequalified clients pick up a two to three month supply of pet food and supplies. For those in Miami-Dade, a box truck is used to distribute the food. Clients qualify by providing a Social Security or disability award letter. Martino said she will also help people who are temporarily out of work. “My passion has always been for animals and people who are seniors,” she said. “My mom had [multiple sclerosis]. I know what disability is, so I have a soft spot for those things.” FURRY OPPORTUNITIES Martino said that while the thrift store provides some funding, at best it is about one-third of the budget. Another third comes from writing grants to foundations and corporations and the final third comes from involved with events, like the “Bowl-a-Thon” and “Pushups for Pets” (Nov. 23). Martino said the Pet Project is always in need of pet food, donations and volunteers. There is a large backyard at the facility where she needs volunteers to help with pet parties on the weekends. “We want to let the community know we have this space. You want to do your dog’s birthday party: here you go, we’ll give you a couple little swimming pools, we have doggie toys, we have a BBQ grill, you know, knock yourself out, rent the backyard,” she said. “It’ll help us with pet food and it’s a great thing for the community. The community can come anytime actually.”

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s it even possible to feel safe as a trans person? The only way for a trans person to feel safe is for nobody to know they’re trans. Notice that I say “feel safe,” and not “be safe.” There’s no such thing as actually being safe today, although there are times when we can feel like we’re safe.

My wife recently traveled to Chicago for orientation for her new job. She doesn’t like when I say things like, “Be safe” before she leaves the house because she feels like it jinxes her. But I was really nervous for her to be in Chicago without me. Not because I would be much help, but because she’s a trans woman of color. Trans women of color, specifically black trans women, make up by far the highest percentage of trans people murdered in the U.S. each year. Recently, my wife wanted to go to a thrift store to donate some clothes and do some shopping. I wasn’t too keen on going since shopping just really isn’t my thing, and she seems to be doing it all the time. As I write this, I’m at our home in PA and she’s in NYC where she just finished a work meeting and is now at a thrift store with her new coworker. Anyway, I wasn’t going to go with her to the thrift store last week but then she said, “I’m not wearing makeup and I’m in leggings and a t-shirt. I don’t feel safe going out without you. When I’m alone, I’m a trans woman alone. When I’m with you, I’m safer.” What she meant was that my presence not only made her feel safer, it also legitimized her identity as a woman. Since we live in a heteronormative and cis-normative society, by being seen together, she’s more likely to be seen as a cisgender and heterosexual woman than she is without me. In a country that’s been rocked by a rise in hate crimes, the least I can do is go to a thrift store with my wife. Earlier I stated that it’s only possible for a trans person to feel safe if nobody knows they’re trans. This is partly true, but also an incredibly sad thing to realize. Just being trans in the world is enough to justify feeling unsafe. For many trans people, it’s not always possible to not be seen as trans. Not everybody wants to pass as male or female, but in order to feel safe and not get side-eyed and stared at everywhere they go, 30 | THE

passing is a marker of safety. Even if a trans person appears binary and/or cisgender, that doesn’t mean they’re not alert for potential dangers. Maybe they won’t go swimming in public, or take their shirt off at the beach, or wear their breasts or their packer through airport security, or they’ll avoid public restrooms; trans people will go to extreme lengths to not be known or seen as trans. Different sources report different numbers, but the general consensus is that 16 trans people have been murdered so far this year in the U.S. 15 of them are trans women of color. Many of the victims are also misgendered and/or misnamed in their death, like in the case of Jordan Cofer. Jordan Cofer is the brother of the mass shooter in Dayton, Ohio. News reports originally listed him as the shooter’s sister but then friends stepped forward and said that Jordan identified as male and used he/him/his pronouns, but was only out to a handful of close friends. If we can’t honor these people in life, we can at least honor them in their death by using the right name and pronouns. I’m grateful these friends stepped forward so that Jordan’s truth could be known. It’s likely we all feel unsafe in the U.S. right now. We can be advocates by checking in on our friends, asking for common sense gun laws, and accompanying a trans friend on a public errand.

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The photograph is of Douglas, a gay man in his late 60s, who Gross developed a friendship with in his early 20s. Over the years, the two grew closer and after Douglas’ partner of 50 years died; Gross stepped-in to serve as primary caregiver. That’s when Gross was introduced to SAGE’s Friendly Visitor program. “Douglas, like so many LGBT older adults, was pretty isolated,” Gross recalled. A volunteer from SAGE’s Friendly Visitor program arrived weekly to spend time with Douglas. They talked, watched movies and played cards, Gross said. “I saw first-hand what joy that brought to Douglas and also what joy that brought to me as a caregiver that I knew this volunteer was there once a week, someone I knew and trusted and that he was in good hands,” Gross said. Douglas has since passed, but his photograph reminds Gross of a purpose fulfilled. “It’s sort of a love letter to him knowing what this program can do for a client,” Gross said. SAGE (Services & Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elders) asserts to be the world’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBT older adults. It has five centers operating in the boroughs of New York. Founded in 1979, SAGE’s Friendly Visitor Program was specifically created to support older LGBT Americans. The program matches older LGBT adults with volunteers to alleviate isolation, help with errands, meals, medications, provide technical assistance and establish a link to other elders in the community. “It’s one of the best programs SAGE has and is still going strong,” said Jerry Chasen, SAGE’s director of legacy planning. “It’s a program that has been proven very successful.” In New York, many of the volunteers are younger and responding to a sense of gratitude. “Very often they come to us because they are part of the LGBT community and very interested in paying back these generations before them that have paved the way,” Gross said. “They realize they have freedoms because of these generations and there’s a real activist feeling of ‘I want to support the generations that have come before.’” The U.S. Census Bureau has never measured America’s LGBT population, however SAGE notes there have been reports of upwards of three million LGBT adults over the age of 50. Many LGBT elders have no children or immediate family, Gross said. “These Friendly Visitor volunteers are one of the only means of social support,” said Gross. “It’s really important for this community.” Gross, 47, has worked at SAGE for five years and served in a similar capacity prior at the Gay Men’s Health Crisis. He oversees all of SAGE’s Friendly Visitor programs. In Broward County, the program is coordinated with the South Florida Institute on Aging. Volunteers must pass a background check, commit to one year of service, complete trainings and monthly reports, attend meetings and maintain contact with staﬀ supervisor. For more information, contact Patti Lynn at plynn@ thesofia.org or via telephone at 954-484-7117, ext. 123. WATCH A VIDEO ON THE FRIENDLY VISITOR PROGRAM HERE: YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V= RY3LYM2SH0E

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HIP HOP NUTCRACKER DEC. 8, BROWARD CENTER Directed and choreographed by Jennifer Weber, The Hip Hop Nutcracker is a contemporary dance spectacle set to Tchaikovsky’s timeless music. The production is performed by a supercharged cast of a dozen all-star dancers, a DJ, a violinist, and MC Kurtis Blow, one of hip hop’s founding fathers. BrowardCenter.org

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Keith Haring’s “Safe Sex” (1985) is one of 200 works included in a landmark exhibition opening this weekend at the Frost Art Museum FIU. Credit: Columbus Museum of Art.

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The Stonewall Riots are considered a historic flashpoint for the LGBT movement, and the first two decades of art-making that immediately followed the uprising have never been explored before in this way. This exhibition was first presented in New York at the Leslie-Lohman Museum and New York University’s Grey Art Gallery and will travel to the Columbus Museum of Art early next year. According to the show’s curator, Jonathan Weinberg, “Art after Stonewall” is the first national museum show to survey the impact of the LGBT civil rights movement during the pivotal two decades after the riots, as the first Pride parades and festivals were organized. The diverse works are arranged in several themes, including “Coming Out,” “Sexual Outlaws,” “The Uses of the Erotic,” “Gender and Body,” “Things are Queer,” “AIDS and Activism” and “We’re Here.” “’Art after Stonewall’ is all about using art for empowerment and community, making visible queer identities in a myriad of fabulous forms,” said Weinberg. “When the police raided the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969, that night’s events changed the course of American history. ‘Art after Stonewall’ brings to light the evolution of the modern LGBT movement and its undeniable impact on the art world,” said Dr. Jordana Pomeroy, director of the Frost Art Museum FIU. The exhibition includes works by well-known artists, including Andy Warhol, Diane Arbus, Martin Wong, David Hockney, Marlon Riggs, Greer Lankton and Robert Mapplethorpe. Many others are still relatively unknown or only now coming to light. “The exhibition acknowledges the guts and grit of these artists, gay and straight, to make declarative and public visual statements about gender and sexuality in a predominantly homophobic world,” Pomeroy explained. Two of the artists had Miami connections: Martin Kreloﬀ designed the poster for the first White Party AIDS fundraiser in Miami, an inspiration for communities nationwide to raise much-needed funds for people suﬀering from the epidemic. Felix Gonzalez-Torres also confronted the AIDS crisis, with a haunting billboard that was displayed for six months in 1989 above the site of the Stonewall Riots.

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The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU. Photo via The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Facebook.

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Among the visionaries leading the way is Jody Leshinsky, former assistant director of Broward County’s Cultural Division. Leshinsky retired from the county just two and a half years ago, but that retirement was short lived. “My whole retirement was two weeks,” she recounted in a telephone interview. First, Leshinsky joined the Pompano Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), charged with jumpstarting early efforts at the city’s new venues, Bailey Contemporary Arts (BaCA) in the city’s historic downtown, and the Pompano Beach Cultural Center, which was under construction. “It was a priority for the city—when they do their annual goals—that they include the cultural arts. Several years ago, the city wrote a master plan to redevelop two areas, the Northwest CRA and Beach CRA, and the arts were a key piece. When you have the arts, people will come and that can change the neighborhood,” she pointed out. Last year, Leshinsky transitioned to the city administration as cultural venues programming manager. She oversees all the programs at the cultural center and BaCA, as well as the Blanche Ely House Museum and Historic Ali Cultural Arts Center, former residences turned gallery, classroom and office spaces. In keeping with the city’s commitment to diversity, each of the venues hosts signature events, ranging from jazz concerts, salsa dancing lessons, poetry jams, a comedy series and storytelling workshops, in addition to the usual art and dance classes, theater performances and concerts. Leshinsky and her team are also focusing on bringing regional and national artists to the venues, including Miami City Ballet, South Florida Chamber Ensemble, Murder Mystery Dinner Theater and Opera Fusion. One of the most popular events is Old Town on Tap, a street festival held on the first Friday of each month showcasing local artists and, of course, artisanal beer. Depending on the month, the event may draw up to 5,000 residents and visitors. “We really try to make sure we have something for everyone at each of our venues,” she explained. “The fun stuff is sitting in a meeting and brainstorming ideas.” Leshinsky, also an accomplished professional photographer, is thriving in her role: “I get out of bed really early and get here at 7 a.m., then I’m answering 5,000 emails, giving tours, proofreading—I do a lot of proofreading— but that’s what I do…the end product drives me because I believe in it. I’m so proud to be working in Pompano and proud of a city and commissioners that believe in the arts,” she concluded. 54 | THE

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Four wonderful options to enhance your Broward Center entertainment experience

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T H E H I T B R O A D W AY M U S I C A L

JAN 8 - 19, 2020

APR 7 - 19, 2020

Enhance your Au-Rene Theater experience in the stylish Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center Intermezzo Lounge which includes complimentary beer, wine, and light appetizers one hour before the show and dessert during intermission. Tickets are purchased separate from show tickets. BrowardCenter.org/Intermezzo

Marti’s New River Bistro offers theatergoers modern American cuisine with indoor and outdoor seating and spectacular views. Also serving Sunday brunch. Reservations available at BrowardCenter.org/Martis, OpenTable.com or by calling 954.660.6333.

Enjoy a buffet of delectable delights prior to all evening Bank of America Broadway in Fort Lauderdale shows from October through May. Opens 2 1/2 hours before each show. Limited Seating. $32.50 in advance, $36.50 at the door. Advance purchase recommended. Visit BrowardCenter.org/dining.

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NOV 19 - DEC 1, 2019

Enjoy your Au-Rene Theater experience in the exclusive JetBlue® Flight Deck on the Club Level which includes complimentary premium beverages at the open bar, plentiful hors d’oeuvres, desserts, and valet parking as well as a dedicated seating section with extra-roomy theater seats. Tickets at BrowardCenter.org/ClubLevel.

MAR 3 - 15, 2020

MAY 5 - 17, 2020

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For more dining information including our Preferred Restaurant Dining Partners, visit BrowardCenter.org/Dining

Holiday Events to Celebrate the Magic of the Season BROWARD

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Au-Rene Theater

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