{"id":17545,"date":"2025-10-23T17:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/17545\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T17:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:28:06","slug":"the-tallahassee-ballets-hopes-to-recoup-some-losses-with-a-benefit-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/17545\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tallahassee Ballets hopes to recoup some losses with a benefit gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tallahassee Ballet is among the arts groups that have endured <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wfsu.org\/wfsu-local-news\/2025-07-17\/tallahassee-arts-groups-are-scrambling-with-another-year-of-funding-cuts\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">two years of state funding cuts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Lauren Hernandez hopes the &#8220;2nd Annual Bevs Bites and Ballet Benefit Gala&#8221; on November 13 at The Moon will help fill the gap.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tallahasseeballet.org\/bbb\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">This fundraiser<\/a> will help support the loss of state funding that has occurred now 2 years in row,&#8221; Hernandez wrote in an email about the gala. &#8220;We have unfortunately lost around $115,000 in 2024 and now the same in 2025, which as you can imagine for an arts non-profit is a significant loss to our budget.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The ballet company has a season of performances, including The Nutcracker. In addition to various class offerings, it also has paid dancer positions.<\/p>\n<p>The gala will include entertainment, food from Hayward House Bistro, and a silent auction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tallahasseeballet.my.salesforce-sites.com\/donate\/?dfId=a0nUm00000NhV1lIAF&amp;\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> for ticket information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tallahassee Ballet is among the arts groups that have endured two years of state funding cuts. CEO&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-17545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}