of course we've all learned that truly shaken move a lot better than nick because drew won the mirror yes all right nick did not did not make it and he did not and then we have a show that for the young people is really fantastic a charlie brown christmas absolutely there's no lunch he's going to be sitting in his chair and being and you can have your picture to your child's picture taken that is when it happened and then one of my favorites that we've had a number of times in years sir college days it's so it's like a circus so late show with a holiday theme  and i'm only going to have a chance to see them we're trying to get together but fly back just as you are there about their next day assuming that you're staying in town yes yes i will stop i have an opportunity i'll tell you about next time but anyway and then the is so gorgeous that dancing makes my wife kick me the entire time because i can't dance anywhere near that well no you cannot no i don't have to rub it in new york and i but some news i mean we've announced some shows since we've last been together we've now it's creedence years ago in philadelphia we had five performances five sell outs write a law delphia my sister sat in the front row for every concert and i am one of his engagement at the boston garden fifteen thousand screaming women not at me  well you could only hope you'd have to fifty thousand women screaming at you but it's february sixteenth and i hope there while we're talking about it there are some tickets left there should be certainly tickets for the gala so important thing is if you want to see it is come to the box office or call and get your name on a waiting list because some tickets often turn up with you know there will be gala tickets i see available exactly or a little while so call the band ways the foundation will get you the number up on the screen and it's going to be an incredible night because with the gala you get a fabulous t a sellout he is close to it right now i can say that oh my god i can only wait everybody to say black and white they both he's talking about louis louis black and ron white outrageous comedians and then one of my favorites peterson terrorists coming ex of chicago yes and he used to be the lead singer of chicago and i was there at arizona and i missed the chicago concert i heard it was amazing couldn't get a seat for that one like i watched it from the steps over there but was told this is that voice of chicago so everybody come let's see a little of peter exactly have a one of our broadway shows it's right there gentlemen's guide to love and murder this is pretty rare for me you know i see pretty much every broadway show and i have seen this one i have not seen this it won the tony award a well then don't go away those two days you know i  that looks like a lot of you'll laugh like me you know i'm going to new york in january because that's when i go and book the shallows and this year i've gotten tickets to a couple of shows i'm going to see the last performance of miss i gone right you know and you said it was fabulous it was wonderful and then i'm seeing a new show that everybody in town is talking about it's called the band's visit it's so much about it from how to live field i just read a story about a week or so ago about it where no one heard anything about it and it just exploded on  and then i'm also going to go see a bronx tale the musical play and i think my assistant kyle is going to see hamilton so we try to take in the shows that we hope that we can bring to town they are all concert and i mean she sings all you know write all the songs pieces and cry baby in summer time and it's just fantastic january eighth eight o'clock and of course we do we keep every night kraken a new show  could because you know nat king cole you know of course things a lot of the famous christmas songs but he has i never saw a nat king cole of course i used to work a lot with his daughter natalie but he has that distinctive voice so this looks to be a any longer because i kicked are so many times oh my god so i was so bad i got to talk to dan about that as well that is january twelfth at eight pm and we're going to be back in just a minute with our wonderful education director kelly  maldonado the participation of residents and their local government is very important to the well being of any community volunteer advisory boards and committees are a great opportunity for local governments to engage their citizens in the process of crafting policies and tackling issues the city of serious so to has over twenty five advisory boards and committees with numerous opportunities for our citizens to volunteer their time and expertise from parks and recreation to public historic preservation board just to name a few many advisory boards require some experience in particular fields or professions and some only require residency in the city of sarasota for more information on the city of this advisory boards visit sara so that they'll dot gov and click on the government tab there you can find a list of all city advisory boards and vacancies and you can even download it now application  welcome back to at the van ways all i'm here with kelly maldonado the crackerjack director of education of the van ways or how you doing today i'm doing great mary you know kelly not only is our director of education but she takes it to new levels you have what a two and a half year old yes just about two and a half so you're you're employing all these principals with the ability for a lot of fun because it's a chance for me to get to exactly apply what i practice what i preach you know to and i get to see him develop and this is the year that i'm going to start taking him to shows so i'm super excited and after taking him to one of our family nights i am i'm taking him to a charlie brown christmas it was always one of my favorites but my mom's favorite she's coming with us so we're going as a family all we're going t family night is a chance for you to come and see a show as a family we offer by one adult get a child three take it to make it affordable for families to come and then after the show we have a special reception where includes a question and answer with the cast  there is snacks and cake an opportunity for you to get in the market had with the cast kelly comes and she leads the discussion with the cast and sometimes we have hundreds of children and they're all talking at once and you're so good with them and all your your ti get to see all those patrons in the air and get to figure out which side of the room hasn't had a chance to talk yet where we're going to get some amazing questions and they always want to know show secrets and it's always great to see how the cast kind of dodges around those questions and they don't tell them anything th like gets mad at a lot of magic but it is really great for them to want to think about how do you know that on this is an another one right wizard of oz yes the wizard of oz is coming up in march and if they really enjoy charlie brown christmas will probably put the movie on and hopefully take do we have any more  r we have masters of allusion as oh well that was one of my favorites when we had it a few years ago people take advantage of this you get a free ticket and a party and you get to come to the party too we never turn anybody away now but that's just one of the few things that kelly does we have an incredible it expanding education program you have a lot of school time performances this year last year thirty thousand kids came and it's it's one of my joys to look out the window and all these little tiny people walking up and then when you get inside and they dimmed the lights they're like just so thrilled to be here it's true they respond to the theater i would love every audience member to respond that with just true at everything that little boy i remember hearing him say he had never even seen the water before we get a lot of students that this is their very first opportunity it's one of the questions i ask when i walk on stage to introduce and for our younger kids a lot of times it's their first opportunity here and it is sometimes it's their first trip to the bay so we they get to come to the water and see this iconic space and then get come into the theater and see some amazing school time for for now i know you love all the shows because like like you you book the education i book the other ones we provide free bussing for these students and tickets of only been they've been seven dollars the whole ten years i've been here and then you never turn anybody away if they know exactly our goal is to get every student here or there they whether they pay for it so we work hard to raise money right grant to make that possible transportations a big part of it so we're so thankful that any public school can request that but we also have a lot of title one student students that go to title one schools that have a dollar ticket might be challenging for the family so we have you know a car show versus lunch or exactly so we work hard if we hear from a teacher look this is a show we really want to go to but this isn't in the budget for our school for these families especially we work hard to make sure that that's possible and we've also started an initiative to try and get great love a great level of students to come our first great experience where this year we will and you will should know something about kelly kelly is passionate about education and  you know we'll have a staff meeting and sometimes like you know we're all talking about the big night time shows and she's like education and you are such a passionate advocate for education and i think you do an amazing job here that in waveland have been a super super person we have so many things through that early learning academy and family literacy night so we wanted opportunities for especially our part of our campaign for grade level reading our students third grade and under to have a chance to dive in deep with these programs so our early learning academy reaches three parts we build these learning modules that are lessons that tie in the arts to these language arts skills we teach teachers how to do it so we have professional development but then we send a teaching artist into the classroom either before the show or after the show to get the students thinking more about it and we've been especially i did about our family literacy night portion of it that's our two generation approach where we started incorporating families into our program so on any given evening where we have one of the families that the students i came to our shows will come to their school have a dinner have a workshop that's adapted to the parents how can we use the arts at home when we're reading with their children and then we've been able to give them a book so they can practice feeling that we all here at the bin ways will know a lot about this because you had dragons love tacos and so some nights you know you try to figure out how much food you need and sometimes that was enough so i would see your staff running out to get more fo they had so many tacos left over the whole family tacos for like three days we had half a bottle or a lot of and just a six we were excited about the families were excited to sit down and have that meal together before they had that i mean that's so important because that's a chance to really really bond  now we're almost running out of time but the bronco is family first great experience what's that so i talked a little bit about how we want students to come to our performance we're also trying to make the arts something that any student has the opportunity to see and something that they value from an early part of their life so this year we were able to make possible if any public school in sarasota or manatee county if their first grade class wanted to come to see dragons love tacos we had funding for them for them to comes that was a no cost field trip for them we had nearly every school from sarasota and we had over half of the ones from manatee county and i only hope that grows and i were going to have kelly back on another day we didn't have a chance to talk about our oaks park program with our with our really special needs kid s and that's wonderful but the entire community and the education society owes you and every other arts education leader in sarasota a real good real thank you because i can't say it enough  passionate so just remember when you donate to the van was a foundation you're donating to make a child's life better that way for being with us today when you mary everyone likes a well groomed landscape and whether you do it yourself or hire a landscape crew remember to keep your lawn and garden debris from ending up in our bay and water city ordinance prohibits blowing long cuttings and leaves into streets which ends up in storm drains and then straight into our bay there they decompose and turn into nitrogen which could lead to algae blooms and red tide in order to protect our bays remember to blow all lawn cuttings back into your yard where it will eventually decompose into useful nutrients or cool old school and sweep it up and dispose of it properly long cuttings aren't the only danger to  trash and other contaminants can reach the storm drains which also in danger's the bays ecosystem so go on enjoy your beautiful yard but don't blow it when it comes to our  make sure you're watering your yard on the proper day in the city of sarasota residents with the odd house number those ending with one three five seven four nine are allowed to irrigate on thursday residents with an even outnumber zero two four six or eight can water on tuesdays for more information call the city of sarasota as public works department at nine five five to three to five or visit sarasota gov dot com sold doesn't make you feel good to hear about kids and kelly's love not just of education but of children i mean i watch her with all those kids and all the different sessions and she's so warm and dear you just adore her they do she's really terrific she nice husband but we have one of my favorite groups coming and i'm going to miss them too because i'm still in new york new york fifth dimension and i will be there grew up with all that music up up and away spell the answer i love yeah i mean bill i used to sing carousel on broadway and she's going to sing that we're just song which i hope she will say here when he walks restorer right you know and we have a little just tiny taste of only you great pretenders under the boardwalk this magic moment and of course as i was reading the promotional ball being that i get from your first crack team you know i noticed i could see every one of those  of the broadway conference last year so people you've gotta get out here if you're a game of thrones fan like me you are right i have lived you know i've watched it and i was to europe to between the time you know it doesn't snow here in