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Nov 5-8: Quantum Poetics creative retreat

November 22: CST Kickoff

Dec 13 : Kinderspiel studio showing

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Stolen Chair's Community Supported Theatre kicks off November 22nd at the The Peter Jay Sharp Theater off-Broadway! And it's already the talk of the town:

"Stolen Chair's CST is ground breaking.  It directly integrates the company's love of long-term learning with their devotion to real community building.  I can't wait to see it all unfold."
-Jennifer Wright Cook
Executive Director, The Field

"Love. Love it. Theatre as community building. Isn’t that supposed to be the point?"
-Simon Ogden
Editor, Next Stage Magazine

"I think [Stancato's] central question is a rather important one...It will be fascinating to watch Stolen Chair, and the other recipients of the ERPA funding, explore these new alignments."
-Andrew Taylor
"The Artful Manager"

...and the CST will be profiled in the next issue of The Chronicle of Philanthropy, "The newspaper of the non-profit world"

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Community Supported Theatre (CST) is an innovative new way of connecting theatremakers and theatregoers. The idea comes from the world of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), where a small community of members literally provides seed money for a local farm in exchange for their share of a season's worth of harvested produce. In Stolen Chair's CST, a community of members will invest "seed" money in the company's ensemble-driven theatrical process and then reap their share of a season’s worth of creative "harvests."

Listen to or watch the CST model presentation by Jon Stancato for ERPA's Public Display of Invention at WNYC's Jerome L. Green Performance Space, Sept. 21, 2009.

Listen to Martin Denton of NYtheatre.com discuss with Jon Stancato and Aviva Meyer of Stolen Chair and Jennifer Wright Cook, executive director of The Field, about this exciting new opportunity for sustainability.

Still have questions? Please contact us at cst@stolenchair.org

Community Supported Theatre isn't for everyone, but if one of these sounds like you, maybe it is for you:

Artistic Admirers: When you go to the theatre, you're the one who always stays for the backstage tour and the Q&A with the cast and creative team, the one who watches all the special features on a DVD. The CST offers one-of-a-kind access to a community of artists, insights into their process, and the opportunity to give feedback that will actually shape an original work of art.

Grassroots Giants: You already belong to a CSA and a community garden, and support your political causes with potlucks. The CST provides a way to stay engaged with an intentional community while winter frost covers your veggies and politicians are in the off-season.

Lifelong Learners: Always reading and researching, you go to gallery talks and enroll in continuing ed classes so you can surround yourself with high-level discourse and dialogue. The CST offers a space for armchair scholarship and intelligent debate about a new topic each season.

Social (Network) Butterflies: You belong to Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn, and Twitter, and have an online social life as rich as your offline one. You'll get exclusive membership in the CST's social network, where you can connect (online and in real life!) with interesting people doing interesting things.

Become a charter member of Stolen Chair's CST:
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In its pilot season (Nov - July), our CST members will enter the world of Stolen Chair's genre- and gravity-defying Quantum Poetics: A Science Experiment for the Stage. With your membership you'll get:

• Exclusive access to every stage of Quantum Poetics' development, from its creative retreat to its world premiere; you'll see first-hand how a new play is born.
• Members-only panels, lectures, and discussions with some of the country's hottest scientific writers and thinkers, who will reveal the secrets of how your universe(s) and your brain work.
• A chance to participate in our members-only science fair and to build that exploding volcano your parents forbade in 4th grade.
• Your name on the guest list at New York's most scientastic Valentine's Day party: "Atoms and Eves"
• An invititation to join the CST's online social network filled with exclusive Stolen Chair and Quantum Poetics content: a feedback forum, video, photos, podcasts, and more.
• Field trips to NYC's most exciting science-themed cultural offerings.*
• A free copy of Playing with Canons: Explosive New Works from Great Literature by America's Indie Playwrights. 18 plays by some of indie theatre's most exciting playwrights, including Stolen Chair's Kiran Rikhye.
• A discounted year-long subscription to New Scientist magazine and complimentary wine & treats at all CST events. 

The dates of CST meet-up events are subject to change, but are currently programmed for the evenings of Nov 22, Dec 13, Jan 24, Feb 14, March 14, April 18, May 16, June 12, June 20, and July 11. All locations are TBD.

Still have questions? Please contact us at cst@stolenchair.org