MANSFIELD - The Grace Alice Campbell Foundation will hold an evening of family and fun to benefit children with congenital heart defects and help purchase defibrillators for Mansfield youth soccer and youth baseball leagues.

"Hearts at Play" will be held at Mass Premier Courts, 97 Green St., on Route 106 in Foxboro, on Friday, March 21, from 3 to 8 p.m.

Open to the community, the event will feature open basketball courts, an obstacle course and organized games and sports classes for children, face painting, Miss Massachusetts, the balloon artist Mr. Twister, clowns, Wally the Red Sox Green Monster, cookie decorating, a DJ, Red Dragon karate demo, "Tunes for Tots," and a host of other fun activities and prizes.

Megan Lea, a young Mansfield girl who was born with a set of rare congenital heart defects, inspired the original 2006 event. It has since been discovered that her eldest brother, AJ, shares the same heart defect.

"Hearts at Play" is being organized by friends and family in honor of this special brother and sister and their "heart buddies," including Grace Campbell. Tickets will be $30 per family or $8 per person, available at the door or at the Mansfield Stop & Shop.

Proceeds will be donated to Children's Hospital Boston for research and support of children with congenital heart defects, as well as to purchase defibrillators for the Mansfield Youth Soccer and Little League Association.

All donations will be made in memory of Colin Brown.

Mansfield residents Brenda and Christopher Campbell founded the Grace Alice Campbell Foundation in 2004. Their daughter Grace Alice was born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome and has had three open-heart surgeries at Children's Hospital Boston. The 501(c)(3) charity foundation seeks to raise awareness of congenital heart defects, help treat children and their families affected, and fund related research.

Children's Hospital Boston today is the nation's leading pediatric medical center, the largest provider of health care to Massachusetts children, and the primary pediatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. For more information, visit www.childrenshospital.org.

Mass Premier Courts, New England's largest indoor basketball facility, offers a variety of basketball and sports programs for children of all ages. Mass Premier Courts has donated their space for this event.

For more information about the event, call Ellie Lea at 508-337-3536 or visit www.heartsatplay.org.