Harford County’s Center for the Arts needs a permanent home, and what is likely to be the fundraiser of the year will help make it happen. Save the date now for Dancing for the Arts, Saturday, Nov. 22.
Local celebrities will strut their stuff in Harford County’s own version of Dancing with the Stars to be held at the Residents’ Club at Bulle Rock.
Signed on to compete are:
- Harford County Executive David Craig
- Harford Community College President Dr. Jim La Calle and his wife, Lynne La Calle, HCC’s Associate Vice President for Student Development
- Stephanie Bradshaw, who was recognized as Baltimore Magazine’s Best Dressed Smart Fashionista in 2008
- Director for the Harford County Library Audra Caplan
- Will Nori, Vice President of Operations for Clark Turner Signature Homes
- Harford County Council President Billy Boniface
- Claudia Holman, Business Development Officer at APG Federal Credit Union
- Attorney Eric McLauchlin, Gessner, Snee, Mahoney & Lutche, P.A.
- Mary Ann Lisanti, County Council member and Executive Director of the Lower Susquehanna Heritage Greenway
- Philanthropist Betty Ward
Contestants met for the first time June 21 and got their first ballroom dancing lessons from Tom Rzepnicki and Debbie Howley, owners and instructors at Dance with Friends. Rzepnicki and Howley are donating their time and talents to the cause by training the dancers, choreographing dances and providing costumes.
Lynette Barkley, principal of e2 (Elegant Events), is working with Center for the Arts Executive Director Sallee Kunkel Filkins to organize the fundraiser. The two hope to secure significant business sponsorships for the event as well as big-ticket items for the silent auction. Contact 410-838-2177 for more information.
The Center for the Arts operates from Tudor Hall, 17 Tudor Lane, in Bel Air, but hopes to secure a permanent home, a facility that includes classrooms, arts studios, dance studios, rehearsal spaces, performance spaces, and gallery exhibit spaces, as well as state-of-the-art technical and support spaces – for music, dance, theater, literary and visual arts pursuits.
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Regional dignitaries will learn to ballroom dance and then compete in Dancing for the Arts to raise funds for a permanent home for Harford County’s Center for the Arts. Shown from the left are: (floor) Dance with Friends owner/instructor Tom Rzepnicki; (front row) Betty Ward, Stephanie Bradshaw, Audra Caplan, Lynne LaCalle, Claudia Holman, Center for the Arts Executive Director Sallee Filkins and Dance with Friends owner/instructor Debbie Howley; (back row) Eric McLauchlin, Jim LaCalle, David Craig and Will Nori. Not pictured are Billy Boniface, Maryann Lisanti and Mary Chance.
Audra Caplan, left, looks on while Lynne LaCalle and Tom Rzepnicki demonstrate a dance technique. Also shown are volunteer dance instructors recruited by Dance with Friends.
David Craig, shown from back, learns to put a little rhythm in his step. In the mirror at right, Salle Filkins helps Eric MacLauchlin practice.
Lynette Barkley and Dr. Jim LaCalle watch as instructors Debbie Howley and Tom Rzepnicki demonstrate dance technique.
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