The Historic Sheridan Opera House

The owner of a small interior design and home-flipping business in Houston, Texas, Kimberly Hranicky enjoys recreational trips to ski, bike, and hike in Telluride, Colorado. Kimberly Hranicky is also a supporter of Telluride’s Sheridan Arts Foundation.

Presenting live events and sponsoring arts education programs for roughly three decades, the Sheridan Arts Foundation operates out of the historic Sheridan Opera House. Located on North Oak Street in the heart of downtown Telluride, the Sheridan Opera House dates back to 1913, when New Sheridan Hotel manager J.A. Segerberg constructed it to serve as both a cultural center and vaudeville theater.

The theater operated for several decades as the Segerberg Opera House before the policies of the Prohibition Era forced it to close. It sat unused until 1960, when it opened once again and assumed the name Sheridan Opera House.

When commercial development threatened the theater in the early 1990s, Sandra and Keith Carradine established the Sheridan Arts Foundation to save it from demolition. To date, the foundation has devoted more than $2.2 million to restore the building to its original glory. With the help of organizations such as the Colorado State Historic Fund and the town of Telluride, the Sheridan Arts Foundation completed its renovations in 2019.

Feed a Child in Zambia Through Family Legacy

Kimberly Hranicky is an interior designer and ex-sales director residing in Texas. She is an accomplished sales executive and has ample sales expertise having worked for Infogrames Inc. She is the owner of Kim Hranicky Interiors and a recipient of several awards, including Hastings Retailer Software Promotion of the Year and Hastings Retailer Software Trading Partner of the Year in 1998. Besides her accomplishments in the fields of design and marketing, Ms. Hranicky is also a philanthropist. She is sponsoring two children from Zambia through a program called Family Legacy Academy Child Sponsorship Program.

Family Legacy is an organization that works to help the less-privileged children in Zambia. Their goal is to provide care for these children in all possible ways. Their care packages include academic help, spiritual and physical care, and emotional support. Academic help can be provided by funding their tuition, whereas spiritual care includes bible studies and its application in their daily lives. These classes are given to these children free of cost through public sponsorship. They have counselors and therapists to help children with traumas and disorders, as their living conditions might have inflicted a lot upon them. This comes under emotional support. Lastly, physical care means providing for their food and medical needs.

This system allows people to look after all these needs of the children. The sponsorship program encourages people to take out a little time and capital for children who have not been able to pursue their true potential due to limited resources.

The Sheridan Arts Foundation and Its Young People’s Theater

Since 2018, Kimberly Hranicky has served clients through Kim Hranicky Interiors, LLC, an interior design and home renovation company based in Houston. Outside of her professional pursuits, Kimberly Hranicky enjoys outdoor activities and attending concerts, plays, and other arts events. She also works to give back by supporting organizations such as the Sheridan Arts Foundation.

For nearly three decades, the Sheridan Arts Foundation (SAF) has been promoting and supporting a thriving arts community in Telluride, Colorado. In addition to undertaking ongoing restoration and preservation efforts on the Sheridan Opera House, the group brings in quality arts and cultural programming for Telluride residents and provides community education through programs such as the SAF Young People’s Theater.

Each year, over 250 youth aged 2 to 18 take part in the SAF Young People’s Theater, which first launched in 1999. Under the guidance of Artistic Director Leah Heidenreich, the program builds teamwork, self-confidence, and communication skills through live theater and arts education.

Ms. Heidenreich and her team observe a child-centered approach to learning, ensuring that activities are noncompetitive and focused on creative and cognitive growth. SAF Young People’s Theater participants take part in a variety of classes throughout the year. The program also presents three full-length musicals that give participants the opportunity to perform in front of a live audience.

To make the program more accessible to Telluride youth, SAF subsidizes all tuition prices and provides scholarships to those in need. Since the program’s launch, the foundation has awarded over $144,000 to Young People’s Theater participants. The scholarships and theater activities are supported in large part by individual and organizational donors.

For more information, including how to support the Young People’s Theater and other SAF programs, visit www.sheridanoperahouse.com/sheridan-arts-foundation.

Women for Orphans Worldwide Provides Backpacks

Cambodia : Jan15, 2019 Cambodian children in the slums at Poipet Cambodia.

Kimberly Hranicky holds an MBA in international business from the American Graduate School of International Management, and a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Southern Methodist University. In addition to operating her own Houston-based interior design firm, Kimberly Hranicky supports charitable organizations such as the Women for Orphans Worldwide.

Women for Orphans Worldwide (WOW) is an auxiliary branch of Orphan Outreach, which for more than two decades has worked closely with local organizations to provide education, food, and medical care for more than 7,000 children worldwide. In addition to operating a sponsorship program to provide financial support for these orphans, Orphan Outreach provides school supplies and backpacks that enable them to pursue education.

Orphan Outreach’s Mission Backpack collects donations of $24, which pay for a backpack full of school supplies such as pens, pencils, notebooks, and more, to be distributed through local agencies. Receiving an education is the single most important factor in lifting orphans and other vulnerable populations out of poverty, and beginning the school year with appropriate supplies provides a powerful boost to their confidence.

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