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Concert Pianist & Artist-in-Residence Kevin Kwan Loucks and Cellist Denis Brott to Perform Recital Saturday

Foundation for Great Park Makes Classical Music Accessible to All Park Visitors

IRVINE – The Foundation for the Great Park is helping to advance the growing arts and culture program at the Great Park, by underwriting the residency of Kevin Kwan Loucks, making classical piano music accessible to all Park visitors. This Saturday, come hear concert pianist and Artist-in-Residence Kevin Kwan Loucks as he performs classical selections [...]

Great Park Announces $21.5 Million Construction Project

IRVINE – The Orange County Great Park Corporation has announced the next phase of Park construction with a presentation on the $21.5 million 2012 Western Sector Park Development Plan Capital Improvement Project. This latest round of development will feature soccer fields, a community garden, and a new visitors center pavilion — representing the Park’s first [...]

GREAT PARK TO CREATE WELLNESS GALLERY AT FARMERS MARKET

USDA Awards Grant to Fund New Health & Wellness Program

IRVINE – The Orange County Great Park Board of Directors has accepted a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture to create a Wellness Gallery at the Great Park Farmers Market. The Wellness Gallery will feature an education area for visitors to learn about healthy living practices through a series of talks, hands-on cooking [...]

Dance and Photography at the Great Park Saturday

Enjoy Dance at The Landscape of Movement Arts Happening and See the Final Exhibition by Artist-in-Residence Amy Caterina on January 21

IRVINE – The Great Park’s growing complement of diverse arts programming continues this weekend with dance and photography. The weekend will mark the continuation of a popular “arts happening” series and the final exhibition of the first artist-in-residence to work in the months-old Great Park Artists Studios. The third in a series of monthly Palm [...]

Foundation for the Great Park Underwrites Artist-in-Residence

Sponsorship benefits classical pianist Kevin Kwan Loucks

IRVINE –The Foundation for the Great Park demonstrated their commitment to the Great Park’s Artist-in-Residence program this week by donating $7,500 to underwrite artist-in-residence Kevin Kwan Loucks. The announcement was made at the December 15 Great Park Board of Directors meeting. The Great Park Artist-in-Residence program was launched earlier this year in the new Great [...]

United Way Helps Ring In New Year’s Eve at the Orange County Great Park

Orange County United Way “Midway” carnival games at the Great Night event will benefit charities

IRVINE –Celebrate New Year’s Eve with your entire family at Great Night! at the Great Park where you can also support local non-profits at the United Way “Midway”. More than a dozen agencies will host carnival-style games and raffle prizes to benefit Orange County’s neediest families. Great Night is our first ever Great Park Family [...]

Concert Pianist & Artist-in-Residence Kevin Kwan Loucks To Perform Recital at Great Park

IRVINE – Hear concert pianist and Artist-in-Residence Kevin Kwan Loucks as he performs classical selections at one of Orange County’s most beautiful new arts venues — the Orange County Great Park Palm Court Arts Complex — beginning December 17. A recital will be held on Saturday, December 17, at 2 pm and repeated at 4 [...]

Great Park Welcomes New Artist-in-Residence Deborah Aschheim

Artist-in-Residence Deborah Aschheim Hosts Public Scan-a-Thon December 4

IRVINE – Bring your photos from the ‘60s and ‘70s and the stories behind them for the Great Park’s newest Artist-in-Residence Deborah Aschheim to weave into her latest project. Aschheim’s art is based on invisible networks of perception and thought, making your photos and stories an important basis for creativity. She recently explored the subject [...]

MAKE NEW YEAR’S EVE A GREAT NIGHT!

Orange County Great Park’s Inaugural Family New Year’s Eve Celebration

IRVINE – Come make New Year’s Eve a Great Night for the whole family at the first ever Great Park Family New Year’s Eve celebration. Enjoy the final hours of 2011 with an evening filled with live music and dance, food and fun for all ages in a safe, alcohol-free environment on Saturday, December 31 [...]

Support Irvine’s Adopted Marines!

Bring a new, unwrapped gift for Marine families to the Great Park Visitors Center or Farmers Market through December 4

IRVINE – The Great Park is teaming up with the City of Irvine and the Irvine 2/11 Marine Adoption Committee to help make the season brighter for the families of Irvine’s adopted Marine Battalion. Bring new, unwrapped gifts to the Great Park Visitors Center during regular Park hours or to the Sunday Farmers Market and [...]