Eloise and Chuck Cohen The Alliance For the Arts will honor two local couples at the gala celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza on Sat., Nov. 21.

Eloise and Chuck Cohen will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement for the Arts Award. Elizabeth and Dr. Richard Grossman will receive the Children’s Access to the Arts Award.

Eloise Cohen has been a member of the Conejo Valley community since 1963. She is a graduate of California Lutheran University. She studied both piano and organ at CLU and is also a photographer. She volunteered for the first community concert series in Thousand Oaks.

Eloise Cohen is a member of the Alliance for the Arts board of directors and immediate past chair of the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza Board of Governors. She is a member of the Alliance’s Founders Circle and has worked with the American Association of University Women and KCLU FM to bring the first jazz concerts to the Civic Arts Plaza. She also works with the Museum of Ventura County and is an alumni volunteer and assistant director of the Harold Stoner Clark Lectures at CLU.

Elizabeth and Dr. Richard Grossman A UCLA graduate, Chuck Cohen has practiced law in Thousand Oaks since 1961. He has served in many community organizations, including the Thousand Oaks City Council and one term as mayor. He has also served as president of the Ventura County Bar Association, chair of Conejo Future Foundation and Casa Pacifica, founding director of the New West Symphony, and chair emeritus of the Alliance for the Arts. He has chaired major gifts for the Thousand Oaks Performing Arts Center Foundation.

Elizabeth and Richard Grossman are the founding benefactors of the Kids and the Arts Program. Since the program began in 2001, more than 20,000 underprivileged children have been treated to live arts performances at the Civic Arts Plaza.

Elizabeth Grossman is devoted to instilling arts education in the school curriculum in Ventura and Los Angeles counties. She is board president of The Grossman Charitable Foundation, past chair of the Circle of Care Foundation and is a founding trustee of the California International Theater Festival.

Richard Grossman, M.D., is the founding director of the Grossman Burn Center at Sherman Oaks Hospital, specializing in the comprehensive treatment of burns. Since 1969, Grossman has worked to improve treatment and healing for burn victims.

The awards will be presented at a dinner preceding a pops concert starring Bernadette Peters accompanied by the New West Symphony.

Pops concert tickets are $75, $85 and $125. To order concert tickets, call the box office at (805) 449-2787.

The VIP dinner package includes cocktails, awards presentation, dinner and the pops concert for $300. For VIP tickets, call Fran Kharaghani of Alliance for the Arts at (805) 449-2590.

For more information, go www.allianceforthearts.org.