Welcome future Friends of CES!

Our Mission...The FSU Cultural Events Series is dedicated to bringing national and international performing artists and audiences together to experience and celebrate the arts through participation in live performance and educational outreach.

Become a Friend of CES
Help make great performances possible. Your friendship also supports informational performances for school-aged children, outreach programs for our communities, and affordable ticket pricing throughout the season.

In addition to the season-long benefits of being a Friend of CES, your contributions at a level of $250 and above reserves your seats to our annual "Just Between Friends" event.

Our Vision

We envision an environment for all members of our educational community and citizens of the Tri-State communities of Western Maryland, the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia and the South Central Pennsylvania where:

• Individuals can experience the transformative power of live performance;
• Art and ideas circulate vigorously and freely;
• Artists play a leading role in civic affairs and global dialogue;
• People of all cultures interact and affirm themselves through the arts; and
• Public and private sectors alike support the performing arts as a priority.

Our Values

We believe the performing arts are essential. Live performance is a universal form of human communication, a fundamental component of free expression. The interaction between artist and audience is basic to civic life, crucial to the economic well-being of communities, indispensable to the mind and spirit.

We believe the performing arts unite all people.  For the performing arts to flourish, we must have diversity and inclusiveness: in our membership, our presentations, and our audiences. By embracing all human experience-and bridging differences among individuals, communities, and cultures-we strengthen both art and society.

We believe the performing arts inspire leadership.  Each of our members can and should play an active role in the arts world and in its home community. By accepting the responsibility to lead, exercising their own creativity, our members advance both themselves and their partners: presenters, artists, producers, agents, managers, funders, and audiences.

(Our Vision and Mission adapted from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Spring 2002)