Join us for the feature play "The Land", a two-person act about the relationship between humanity and mother nature. The evening includes a decadent dinner catered by Lyndie C. Events and a one-of-a-kind performance by the Blue Lapis Group, a site-specific aerial dance team.

Sponsors:
Cousins Properties, Inc. / Palisades West
Nikelle Meade
Radisson Hotels

Host Committee:
Don and Mary Ann Bosse
Braun & Associates
Clark, Thomas & Winters
John & Erika Langmore
Ellen Prediger
Gary Valdez, Focus Strategies Investment Banking

"The Land is a play about the relationship between humanity and Mother Nature. It is about finding and cherishing our favorite places, and most importantly, about leaving those places better than we found them. It is also about changing the way we do business with the land, and it conveys with both passion and humor a love of the natural world.

The Land is a two person play, and one of them is Mother Nature. By making her a human character, with a personality and a full range of thoughts and emotions, nature comes to life and becomes real for the audience. The other character represents humanity in the form of a middle aged man, complete with career goals and grandchildren.

About one hour in length, the play uses the power of drama to raise issues in a way that has far greater impact than a power point presentation or a panel discussion. Scenes in The Land deal with everything from favorite places to the power of nature, from burning the prairie to the legacy we will leave our children. Art has the ability to reach people on the deepest levels of their beings make them think, laugh, cry or move them to action. The Land is designed to do all those things.

To know a piece of land, a person has to walk it. Experience it. The same is true of the play The Land. It must be experienced. It must be breathed in like the smell of rain or a field of wildflowers. Only then can one truly know The Land."