IMAGE GALLERY and Video: Zing Fling Celebrates Amazing Things Members

A new decade at Amazing Things Arts Center, brings a new logo and new vision, along with a new executive director Phil Knudsen - hired in 2012, after founder Michael Moran retired.

But despite some improvements, some traditions at the downtown Franmingham Arts Center remain, including its annual Zing Fling, membership mixer.

The Zing Fling was held Saturday night. Along with food and desserts upstairs in the art gallery, members and guests were treated to Jazz music, folk music, comedians, singer songwriter performances and some cabaret.

Amazing Things Arts Center was founded in 2004 by Moran.

The Center’s mission is to “brings together a diverse community of artists, arts supporters and arts appreciators of all ages, cultures and interests, through the transformational power of rich and varied art forms that provide a nurturing environment in which to meet, understand and accept each other.”

The Center grew quickly and in May 2007, Framingham Town Meeting members voted to lease the Historic downtown Hollis Street Firehouse to Amazing Things for 50 years at the cost of $1 per year.

Today, the Center produces more then 300 events annually, including adult and children’s programming.

There are more than 350 member families and almost 200 volunteers involved with the Center annually.

To learn more about a membership, click here.