Owings Mills’ Gordon Center for Performing Arts will unveil its updated grand lobby on Thursday, Mar. 30, at 7:30 p.m. at the fifth annual J Live event. The gathering will be an evening of art, entertainment and community.
Located on the campus of the Rosenbloom Owings Mills Jewish Community Cennter at 3506 Gwynnbrook Ave., the 550-seat Gordon Center opened — with funding from the Peggy & Yale Gordon Trust — primarily as a classical music venue with a focus on Jewish-themed programming. Today, the center offers a multi-disciplinary performance season of live music, dance, family programs and film, and is home of the JCC’s William and Irene Weinberg Family Baltimore Jewish Film Festival.
The center is considered one of Baltimore County’s premier performing arts venues. It is the centerpiece of the JCC’s Center for Arts & Culture that includes Gordon Outdoors, an outdoor event/performance space, youth arts and virtual cultural programming for adults.
The newly reimagined lobby will feature a more open and contemporary floor plan and layout with a larger concession area; a built-in, 11-foot, free-standing video wall; new carpeting and LED lighting; and an updated display space in the Joseph & Rebecca Meyerhoff Gallery.
All guests at the Mar. 30 event can enjoy a delectable menu of desserts, plus complimentary beer and wine. There is also a pre-show cocktail and dinner for VIP level donors.
The gallery will feature an exhibition of works by award-winning local artist Stacy Lund Levy, whose works can be viewed at LundArtStudios.com. Lund Levy will conduct a hands-on community art project to lend a personal touch to a permanent installation in the lobby.
The program will salute individuals and organizations who contributed to the development of the Gordon Center. Following the program will be a presentation of “Motown Forever,” featuring hits performed by such legends as Theo Peoples of The Four Tops, Glenn Leonard of The Temptations, and Traci Robinson of The Marvelettes, backed by an all-star live band.
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