April 25
COCAcabana
Join us for COCAcabana 2025: Into the Depths—Tickets on sale now!
COCAcabana, COCA’s annual fundraiser, is a dynamic and creative spring event that draws more than 500 business and community leaders for cocktails and dinner, silent and live auctions, artistic performances, special celebrity guests, and imaginative themes that are uniquely COCA.
Started in 1988, COCAcabana sustains COCA’s work throughout the community, which provides arts programming in schools without access to arts education and offers scholarships for students to participate in COCA programs. Accounting for nearly 20 percent of COCA’s annual contributed revenue, COCAcabana is crucial to continuing this vital work.
COCAcabana Tickets Are Now On Sale!
Journey into the wondrous depths of creativity, connection, and artistic expression that COCA celebrates and nurtures. Join us at COCAcabana on April 25!
COCAcabana Auction is Open for Browsing & Bidding
Bid on Premium Silent & Silent Auction items and preview Live Auction exclusives!
Luxury Purse Raffle
Enter for a chance to win one of three previously loved luxury purses–and support COCA!
After purchasing raffle tickets, you get to choose which purses you’d like your tickets to go toward. A winner will be drawn for each purse at COCAcabana on Friday, April 25.
Purse 1: CHANEL CC Logo PST Chain Shoulder Bag Caviar Skin Leather in Pink
Purse 2: Gucci GG Matelassé Small Bag in Black
Purse 3: Yves Saint Laurent Medium Sunset Crocodile-Embossed Leather Shoulder Bag in Blanc Vintage
1 raffle ticket for $25 or 5 tickets for $100
COCAcabana 2025 Event Leadership
COCAcabana Alumni Chair, Erin Moore
Erin Moore is a versatile artist, working across genres and mediums. A graduate of Ailey/Fordham, she began her career as a concert dancer at Philadanco, performing modern and contemporary ballet repertory in the U.S. and abroad, followed by a transition to theatre and tv/film. Credits include HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, Netflix’s A Very Murray Christmas, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. She was in the original Broadway casts of the revival of Follies, Tony award–winning After Midnight, and Shuffle Along, choreographed by Savion Glover. Erin was in the company of Rigoletto at The Metropolitan Opera and a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony. She can be seen in the finale of Fosse/Verdon on FX, Tick, Tick… Boom! on Netflix, and on Great Performances, 50 years of Broadway on PBS.
Erin’s love for COCA is longstanding. Not only did her training at COCA give her a strong foundation in jazz and tap but the sense of community that was cultivated there is something that she has continued to model, even today. Building and nurturing community has buoyed Erin and is a large contributing factor to her career longevity of over 20 years in NYC.
COCAcabana Sponsorships and Donations
View Sponsorship Opportunities & Benefits
Contact Virginia Howell, Senior Director of Advancement, at vhowell@cocastl.org, or Kyra Pearson, Manager of Events, at kpearson@cocastl.org to find out how you can support COCAcabana.
COCAcabana 2025 Sponsors
Special Thanks: Dippidy Donuts, Drybar, Hacienda Mexican Restaurant, Lathrop GPM LLP, Lodging Hospitality Management, Pure Entertainment
Photos from COCAcabana 2024: Kaleidoscope
Thank you for your support of COCAcabana 2024: Kaleidoscope. The event helped raise more than $1 million to ensure access to arts programming for our creative community.
