Donate to Stolen
Chair today. Just 2 weeks left in this fundraising
drive!
This year, while many
arts organizations and businesses are contracting, The Stolen Chair
Theatre Company is pushing beyond our traditional boundaries and
expanding. A bold move to be certain, but it’s one that will allow us
to continue to improve and grow, even in this challenging fiscal
environment. As always, our success is contingent upon your support.
But before we ask you for a donation, which we recognize may be even
more precious than usual this year, we wanted take a moment to share
some of the plans we have developed to deepen our involvement with our
work and with our community:
~ Devising an
overhaul of the creative development of our one-of-a-kind,
genre-defying works, spending twice as long letting our original
creations cook-up in the studio. This August we begin development of
Quantum Poetics, a science experiment for the stage,
which will have its world-premiere in 2010.
~ Working to
remount our critically-lauded experiments of years' past like
Kinderspiel, The Man Who Laughs,
Stage Kiss, and Theatre Is Dead and So Are
You to reach wider audiences and develop a repertory for the
company.
~ Using all of the
web’s innovations to make our creative and administrative processes
transparent and accessible to audience members eager to go
“behind-the-scenes.” The steps Stolen Chair has taken to build
community in a digital world have earned us a place among nationally-
recognized non-profits as a finalist for the Jenzabar Social Media
Leadership Prize.
~ Developing an
ambitious outreach project, Commedia dell'Parque, in which a
trained apprentice company of low-income public school students will
perform commedia dell'arte in NYC parks alongside Stolen Chair's
ensemble.
~ Adapting the
business model of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) to the
theatre. In October, with the support of The Field's Economic
Revitalization for Performing Artists grant (funded in part by The
Rockefeller Foundation's Creative Innovation Fund), we will launch
a pilot version of our self-sustaining Community Supported Theatre
(CST). Contact CST@stolenchair.org if you'd
like to get involved!
As a vital part of our
community of supporters, we hope you'll consider supporting these
projects with a tax-deductible
donation. With an automatic recurring monthly donation, you can
maximize your donation’s impact on our work while minimizing its
effect on your wallet: just $10 a month – about one subway ride
per week – will provide $120 of support for Stolen Chair,
effectively paying for 10% of our annual rehearsal space
rental!
During these tough
economic times, we are ambitiously seizing the opportunity to keep
thought-provoking art on stage when it is needed the most. We hope
you can do your part to keep the work coming. Click here to find out how you
can support independent theatre and Stolen Chair’s innovative work.
Donate to Stolen
Chair
Thank you,
Jon, Kiran, and The
Chairs (Aviva, Cameron, David, Emily, & Liza)
P.S. Don't forget to
find out if your company matches employee charitable gifts!
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