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Arden, Delaware

Arden is one of America's most extraordinary utopian communities — a single-tax community founded in 1900 by sculptor Frank Stephens and architect Will Price as a model of cooperative arts living. The village's extraordinary history (Upton Sinclair and Scott Nearing lived here) and its commitment to arts and craft create a performing arts culture uniquely rooted in American progressive idealism, with theater, music, and craft fairs that have been community traditions for over 120 years.

Arden, DE 19810

Dover, Delaware

Dover Downs Hotel & Casino (now Bally's Dover) is Delaware's largest casino resort — a racetrack casino in Dover offering full hotel, gaming, dining, and live entertainment for Delaware's gaming market. The entertainment venue books regional and national acts for a market that includes Philadelphia-area gamblers looking for mid-Atlantic gaming alternatives to Atlantic City.

1131 N DuPont Hwy 19901

Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival is Delaware's most important cultural arts event — an annual November celebration presenting outstanding independent films from around the world at Delaware's most vibrant beach resort. The festival's extraordinary programming (it has become one of the most important small film festivals on the East Coast) and Rehoboth's remarkable arts community create a cultural event of genuine Delaware film culture significance.

35 Midway Shopping Center, Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971

Wilmington, Delaware

Delaware Art Museum presents performing arts events alongside one of the most remarkable art collections in the Mid-Atlantic — an institution housing the finest collection of Pre-Raphaelite art outside the UK (donated by Samuel Bancroft Jr., a Wilmington textile manufacturer) and the most important collection of works by Howard Pyle (father of American illustration). DAM's extraordinary art collection and its cultural programming create a performing arts venue of genuine American visual and performing arts heritage significance.

2301 Kentmere Pkwy, Wilmington, DE 19806

Wilmington, Delaware

Delaware Symphony Orchestra is the state's most important classical music institution — presenting outstanding orchestral concerts at the Grand Opera House. The DSO's remarkable DuPont family funding legacy and its consistent presentation of world-class orchestral programming create a symphony of genuine Delaware cultural and philanthropic heritage significance.

818 N Market St, Wilmington, DE 19801

Wilmington, Delaware

Delaware Theatre Company is the state's premier professional theater — a Wilmington institution consistently producing outstanding theatrical work that has established Delaware as a state with a theater culture far beyond its small size. DTC's extraordinary commitment to presenting professional theatrical excellence and its remarkable community engagement create a theater company of genuine Delaware performing arts significance.

200 Water St, Wilmington, DE 19801

Wilmington, Delaware

Opera Delaware is the state's most important opera company — presenting outstanding operatic performances that reflect the remarkable DuPont cultural philanthropy that has made Delaware one of the most arts-rich small states in America. Opera Delaware's consistent presentation of world-class vocal performances and its extraordinary community engagement create an opera company of genuine Delaware cultural significance.

N Market St, Wilmington, DE 19801

Winterthur, Delaware

Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library is one of America's most extraordinary cultural institutions — a DuPont family country estate containing the most important collection of American decorative arts in the world. Winterthur's extraordinary 1,000-acre English-style landscape garden (one of the finest in America) and its remarkable museum concerts and cultural programming create a performing arts environment of genuine American decorative arts and landscape heritage significance.

5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur, DE 19735