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Tuesdays with Morrie: A fundraiser to benefit the Charlie Murphy Healing Fund

  • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts 565 Camano Ave Langley, WA 98260 (map)

The pre-show reception for $100 ticket holders will be hosted in Zech Hall at 2:00 p.m.
The performance on the Michael Nutt Mainstage is at 3:00 p.m.

Please join us for a special staged-reading of Tuesdays with Morrie, starring Eric Mulholland and Andrew Grenier.  All proceeds will go to the Charlie Murphy Healing Fund to help him in his battle against ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig ’s disease).

Based on the international bestselling novel, Tuesdays with Morrie is the autobiographical story of the author, an accomplished journalist driven solely by his career, and Morrie Schwartz, his former college professor. Sixteen years after graduation, Mitch happens to catch Morrie's appearance on a television news program and learns that his old professor is battling Lou Gehrig's disease. Mitch is reunited with Morrie, and what starts as a simple visit turns into a weekly pilgrimage, and a last class in the meaning of life.

Charlie Murphy, a long-time resident of Whidbey Island, is a creative force around the globe. He co-founded with Peggy Taylor “Power of Hope: Youth Empowerment through the Arts.”  Its regional camps and workshops have spurred youth development in the U.S. and Canada for the past 20 years.  He and Peggy Taylor also co-founded PYE Global (Partners for Youth Empowerment) providing programs around the world that serve tens of thousands of youth and that teach people to work with youth in more creative ways. He is also an accomplished singer/songwriter, facilitator, and someone with a deep passion for life.

For more details on how to support the fund, please visit: www.youcaring.com/charlie-murphy-361893

$25 | $100 (includes pre-show event glass of wine and mingle)
all profits go to Charlie Murphy healing fund
 

PURCHASING TICKETS

Click Here for Online Purchases
Via Phone: Please Call the Box Office at
800.638.7631 or 360.221.8268
In Person: Visit the Box Office at
565 Camano Ave, Langley, WA 98260

**Online Tickets Purchases are available until 12-Noon the day of the show.**

BOX OFFICE HOURS:
Wednesday through Saturday
1pm - 6pm
and 2 hours before every show

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Or questions regarding your ticket order please call or visit the WICA Box Office

 

Earlier Event: January 16
Best of the Seattle International Comedy Competition & Brew HaHa!
Later Event: January 22
10 European Art Masterpieces That Everyone Should See Before They Die - with Gary Faigin

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.