Close to noon on a cold and damp March 24th 2015, Ballet Theatre of Maryland dancers danced outside on Lawyers' Mall, near the State Capitol to draw attention to National Arts Advocacy Day. The following "Ten Reasons to Support the Arts" from Americans for the Arts sums up why the arts and arts funding are essential to our nation, our state, and our communities.

Carmen is a dazzling beauty, whose fiery passion, free spirit and love of life captivates the hearts of nearly everyone she meets, especially the men.
Based on the true stories, the lives, the culture of three courageous Hispanic women who first brought civilization to Fort Pueblo in the Arkansas River Valley – now Pueblo, Colorado - in 1846 when the United States declared war on Mexico.