Donate to Stolen Chair
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). Please see the attached interview and 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. Please see the attached card to find out how you can support independent theatre and Stolen Chair’s innovative work.
Thank you,
Jon, Kiran, and The Chairs (Aviva, Cameron, David, Emily, & Liza)
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The Stolen Chair Theatre Company
64 East 94th St, #6G
New York, NY 10128
The Stolen Chair Theatre Company, Inc., is a New York State not-for-profit corporation, and a tax-exempt corporation authorized to accept tax-exempt contributions under Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code.
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