COME CELEBRATE OUR VIBRANT WORLD-CLASS CITY

Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 4:30 pm at the Ocean Institute.

The City of Dana Point State of the City, "Celebrate Dana Point" brings together Dana Point’s noteworthy businesses, real estate professionals and development partners, non-profits and community groups to celebrate Dana Point’s unique culture and progress. Join Dana Point’s Mayor and City Council for an evening of City updates, strong government leadership, and ways in which businesses can tap into economic investment and growth opportunities in the region.

This is an excellent opportunity to network with the region’s most influential stakeholders in both the public and private sectors
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Networking and check-in will begin at 4:30pm and the program will start promptly at 5:30pm. Heavy hors d’oeuvres will be provided and there will be a cash bar during networking. Entertainment by the Kalama Brothers.

FEATURING SPECIAL GUEST AND DANA POINT LOCAL
ANDREW MCMAHON

Veteran indie-pop singer-songwriter-pianist Andrew McMahon has launched multiple successful projects throughout his esteemed career in the form of Something Corporate, Jack's Mannequin, and Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness. Over the last two decades, Andrew McMahon has successfully experienced musical rebirth many times and has consistently arrived on the other side stronger than ever. McMahon has sold nearly 2.5 million albums across all of his musical projects, received an Emmy nomination for his work on the NBC show "Smash," and released his memoir Three Pianos in 2021, which is also available as an audiobook read by Andrew with special musical sections he exclusively scored for this.

McMahon was diagnosed with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL) at the age of 22. After making a full recovery following a stem cell transplant from his sister, Andrew founded the Dear Jack Foundation in 2006, a nonprofit which provides impactful programming that directly benefits adolescents and young adults diagnosed with cancer in order to improve quality of life and create positive health outcomes from treatment to survivorship for patients and their families.