We are very fortunate to live in a community with a fabulous public school
system. One of its more popular assets is the Forest Hills Fine Arts Center.
This venue hosts Broadway Shows, a Gallery for local artists, High School
Musicals, Grand Rapids Symphony, Grand Rapids Ballet Events, and other
local school shows.
We are new volunteers at the Fine Arts Center and have learned a
lot about its background and what keeps it running.
A list of over 300 volunteers are unpaid staff that help host all the shows.
Even though this wonderful building is part of the Forest Hills Public School
System, it is expected to operate at a profit. The only way to do this is
keep a small staff and have community volunteers man the events. This
keeps the cost of shows at a level where it is affordable and gives us a
wonderful building to host our local artistic events.
This is the Fine Arts Centers Fifth Season Subscription Series:
Clint Black Sept 21
Michael McDonald October 24
Three Dog Night November 7
Movin' Out December 7
Golden Dragon Acrobats February 3
Phoebe Snow March 1
We just went to our first volunteer event a few weeks ago, Forest Hills
Central High School's Bandtasia. Forest Hills Central's marching band puts
on this show for the local community to strut their stuff. We thoroughly
enjoyed their performance.
We made a short video of some highlights, if you would like to sneak
a peak at our excellent community arts resource- The Fine Arts Center:
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photo of Forest Hills Fine Arts Center by Bonnie Westbrook
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