Great Park Board Adopts Outdoor Performing Arts and Cultural Event Series

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Thu Apr 17, 2008 6:08pm EDT 

'Festival of Flight' to Launch Summer Activities

IRVINE, Calif., April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The Orange County Great Park
Corporation Board today approved the themes and programs for the Great Park
Summer 2008, an outdoor performing arts and cultural event series that will
kick-off the opening of the 27.5-acre Great Park Preview Park.  The first
community event, "Festival of Flight," debuts the summer programs beginning
July 12, 2008.  The event will mark the Great Park's third anniversary with
special exhibits, activities and performances.  A series of programs will take
place between July and October and will include night flights on the Great
Park Balloon, musical and dance performances, a homecoming for El Toro Oral
History Interviewees and special events for children and teens.
    "We are looking forward to activating the Preview Park and to being able
to offer Orange County residents a new kind of park experience," said Larry
Agran, Chair of the Orange County Great Park Corporation.  "The Great Park
will become a community destination this summer for people who want to come
together and participate in recreational and cultural programs in a unique
outdoor environment."
    The Preview Park will be the first full-use public facility within the
Great Park and will be developed over the next 18 to 24 months.  It will
feature a wide variety of visitor experiences including aviation exhibits,
enhanced landscape, performance spaces, and arts and education programs.
    The Board also recommended that the Irvine City Council authorize the
Great Park Corporation to enter into an agreement with the Irvine Barclay
Theatre to secure talent and provide production assistance for the Great Park
Summer 2008.
    Great Park Summer 2008 events will include:


    July 12:  Festival of Flight      Exhibits, activities, performances,
    (Preview Park)                    food & beverage

    August - September:               Hangar Cafe: Food and beverage
    (Hangar 244)                      (Friday-Saturday Evenings)

    August - September:               Night Flights
    (Timeline Stage and Dance Floor)  Dance:  (Friday Evenings)
                                      Performing Arts: (Saturday Evenings)

    August - October:                 Photography Exhibition
    (Hangar 244)

    October:                          A Park for Everyone

    October 2:  Homecoming:           Oral History Participants' Reunion
    (Hangar 244)

    October 11:                       Teen-focused program

    October 28:                       Big Orange Pumpkin Pumpkin/Decorating
    (Picnic Lawn and Hangar 244)      and Haunted Hangar


    The Orange County Great Park, which is almost twice the size of New York
City's Central Park, will be a major metropolitan park and the focal point of
the redevelopment of the 4,700-acre former Marine Corps Air Station at El
Toro.  The Great Park will include extensive natural areas and open space in
addition to recreational and cultural uses.
    For more information, please go to http://www.ocgp.org.
SOURCE  Orange County Great Park Corporation Board

Maryann Maloney, +1-949-375-0856, for Orange County Great Park Corporation
Board
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