This is part of a series of monthly articles about people who support the University of Georgia Performing Arts Center.

Meet Teresa & Charlie Friedlander. He’s a UGA alum who practiced law for 43 years in the renewable energy field, and she was an IT professional. Musical omnivores, this season they’re sponsoring the Nov. 17 performance by acclaimed jazz trailblazer Terence Blanchard (featuring the E-Collective and Turtle Island Quartet), and the April 19 Danish String Quartet concert.

The real question is, why wouldn’t we give?

After living in DC for many decades, we moved in 2014 to Athens, where we assumed our access to world-class performing arts would unavoidably wane.

Happily, we were wrong. Because the Performing Arts Center’s outstanding array of offerings is second to none — Renaissance choral music, cutting-edge jazz, classical titans who normally only grace the world’s leading stages, stellar folk music ensembles from every corner of the globe, modern & traditional dance companies, and much, much more. The PAC is our hometown’s gorgeous and acoustically outstanding Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Village Vanguard, Ryman Auditorium and Wolf Trap all rolled into one.

But we know that bringing these performers to our town is very expensive — and ticket sales alone cannot cover those costs. So for us, supporting the PAC is a combined duty, privilege and joy . . . with many ancillary benefits, including fostering connections between town and campus, helping give both UGA and Athens public school students access to deeply enriching arts opportunities,
and providing a tangible way for donors to encourage the programming they most highly value.

In other words, being a donor is a total win.

Learn how you can support the University of Georgia Performing Arts Center here.