Tampa, FL-- The Children’s Board Heart Gallery of Tampa Bay is a state-of-the-art interactive exhibit and website featuring portraits of children in foster care who are available for adoption.

Children in the Heart Gallery are three times more likely to find “forever families” than those not served by this program. The Heart Gallery has demonstrated unprecedented success in finding adoptive homes and is changing lives every day by giving a voice to America's forgotten children.

Be Mine, A Heart Gallery Benefit:

The Patel Conservatory Youth Orchestra (PCYO) will present its winter concert on Monday, Dec. 10, at 7 p.m. in the TECO Theater at the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts.

PCYO is comprised of the Intermezzo Orchestra and the more advanced Composers’ Orchestra. Under the batons of Principal Conductor Stephen P. Brown and Associate Conductor Catherine Michelsen, the young musicians, ages seven to 19, will present great music from the classics to modern to original work composed just for them.

Tampa, FL-- Bands from the Patel Conservatory’s Rock School program will perform in the Rock School Blowout in the Jaeb Theater at the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, Dec. 1, at 1 p.m.

Patel Conservatory Rock School students, age seven through adult, will perform songs they’ve learned during this 12-week session. Before classes began in September, students auditioned, were grouped into bands and have since been taught by Rock School instructors Paul Stoddart and Dean Tidey.