Chris Silva will speak on My Life in the Performing Arts. Chris has been associated with some of the finest theaters in the nation and the most outstanding actors, playwrights, producers and directors. From 1994 until his retirement last year, he ran New York State's oldest continuously operating theater, the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie, as well as the Ulster Performing Arts Center. During his tenure twenty-two million dollars in capital improvements were made to the two theaters, and artists as diverse as Itzhak Perlman, Al Pacion, Patti LaBelle and Bob Dylan performed in them.