Sands Point Preserve and Play Troupe Support Portfest 2016

Don't you just love the feeling of the sun on your skin, the sound music and laughter and the smell of delicious food in the air? Then you don’t want to miss HEARTS (Helping Enrich the Arts) Fifth annual community, music, arts and cultural festival. Portfest 2016 will take place on Saturday, May 14th from 11:00 am – 5:00 pm, rain or shine on the Schreiber High School Campus at 101 Campus Drive in Port Washington, Long Island.

Bring your blanket, chairs and spend the day enjoying live entertainment which will take place on two outdoor stages. Enjoy exhibits from Port Washington’s leading Community Organizations; enjoy live music, art exhibits, local musicians, dance performances, interactive hands on crafts, and watch performing groups from across the school district! New to Portfest will be the Acoustic Student Art tent featuring acoustic performers and a display of student artwork. The Portfest Art Tent will feature local artist’s work and which will be available for purchase and don’t forget the popular Silent Auction tent. Available items/experiences will include Broadway show tickets, Yankees tickets, Mets tickets, a Tiffany necklace, a $250 gift certificate to Barneys and much more!

Community organizations are an important part of Portfest and The Sands Point Preserve has committed to be a Bronze sponsor for Portfest 2016. The Sands Point Preserve on the original Guggenheim Estate embodies the grandeur and elegance that define the Gold Coast period of the early 20th century, when prominent American families built great mansions on large estates as summer retreats along the Long Island Sound. Sands Point was the famed “East Egg” of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”. Sands Point Preserve’s Hempstead House is where HEARTS had their fabulous Red Party Gala last year.

Today, the magnificent 216-acre park, including its historic mansions and the Phil Dejana Learning Center, is owned by Nassau County, NY, and is maintained and operated by the Sands Point Preserve Conservancy, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, formerly the Friends of the Sands Point Preserve. The Conservancy provides year-round educational and cultural programs, seasonal celebrations, mansion tours, fitness activities as well as private/corporate event services and film/TV location facilities. The Sands Point Preserve has generously also contributed a Family Membership to the Silent Auction. Be sure to stop by The Sands Point Preserve exhibit to get more information about this lovely organization.

Another Community organization that will be both exhibiting and supporting Portfest 2016 is Port Washington Play Troupe. Founded in 1927 as a non-profit community theater company, Play Troupe offers programing that includes inter-generational theater for children, musicals, straight plays/classics, live-broadcast radio dramas, and even a behind-the-scenes theater discussion series.​ Play Troupe's ongoing programming has enjoyed the generous support of the Peter & Jeri Dejana Family Foundation.

This summer, Port Washington Play Troupe will present Once Upon a Mattress, July 22-24 and July 29-31 at the Landmark on Main Street. Play Troupe has generously donated 8 tickets to Once Upon a Mattress to the Silent Auction. Stop by their exhibit at Portfest to get more information and find out how to get involved.

Many other community organizations will have exhibits set up at Portfest 2016 with a variety of hands on activities and information.

Organizations include:

The Art Guild – http://theartguild.org/

Child's World Nursery School - http://childsworldns.org/

Community Chest http://www.portchest.org/

The Ed Foundation – http://www.pwef.org/

Landmark on Main Street – http://www.landmarkonmainstreet.org/

Plant a Row https://www.facebook.com/groups/170413079833698/

Port Summer Show – http://www.portsummershow.org/

Port Washington Crisis Relief Team – http://www.pwcrisisrelief.org/

Port Washington Play Troupe - http://www.portwashingtonplaytroupe.com/

Port Washington Police Department - http://www.portwashingtonpolice.com/

Port Washington Public Library – http://www.pwpl.org/

Residents For a More Beautiful Port Washington– http://pwresidents.org/

Sands Point Preserve - http://sandspointpreserveconservancy.org/

For a schedule of events, log onto www.pwportfest.org. To connect with HEARTS, log onto www.heartspw.org or www.facebook.com/heartspw or email info@heartspw.org. If you log onto HEARTS website, you will see a link to Crowdrise, which will enable you to make a donation or set up a fundraising tool that you can share via email or social media.

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