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REACH TEACH PLAY
Ravinia Festival celebrated the grand opening of The Harrison building to support its music education programs.
Ravinia Festival celebrated the grand opening of The Harrison building to support its music education programs. Ravinia Festival unveiled The Harrison building within the Ravinia campus on June 10, opening the door for the expansion of its music education and outreach endeavors. Funded by its $12 million Building the Future of Reach Teach Play campaign, the new building was designed to achieve two goals:
Director of Reach Teach Play EducationPrograms, Christine Taylor Conda, Ravinia Festival President and CEO Jeff Haydon, Ravinia Life Trustee Jennifer W. Steans, Ravinia Chairman Chris Klein, and ChiefInformation Officer Gina Ehrlich cut the ribbon celebrating the grand opening of the festival’s new building.
• To provide the festival’s Reach Teach Play music education and engagement programs with the underpinning they need as they grow and inspire more children and families than ever before.
• To develop The Harrison, a building on the Ravinia campus that will become the nexus of Reach Teach Play by creating much-needed office space for staff through the renovation of an existing structure.
The campaign was successfully completed in early 2023, shortly after construction began on The Harrison in the fall of 2022.
Today, the building houses the Reach Teach Play offices as well as provides an updated workspace for the festival’s facilities and guest services efforts, and will serve as the beating heart of Ravinia, focused on bringing the joy of music that the festival feels in the park out to communities with fewer cultural options.
For more information about Ravinia Festival and its mission, visit ravinia.org.
