“The Timucua Story,” a book stuffed with photos and memories, celebrates where the Timucua Arts Foundation has been. So will Timucua 25, the organization’s Nov. 14 benefit gala. But the Orlando nonprofit’s leadership trio is focused on the future.

The organization published “The Timucua Story” to commemorate 25 years of hosting concerts, plays, spoken-word evenings and artistic wellness events alongside visual art displays: Its first event, a concert, took place Sept. 19, 2000. The location: The southwest Orlando living room of Benoit Glazer, then music director for Cirque du Soleil’s “La Nouba” show at Walt Disney World. He wanted to bring different kinds of top-tier music to Central Florida, and with his connections, he could.

In doing so, Glazer also created the most distinctive loc

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