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Davis Shakespeare Ensemble serves as a vital artistic resource for the people of Davis and the greater Sacramento region, as we produce Shakespeare’s works, modern classics, new works inspired by the classics, and educational programs. We believe in modernizing and adapting classical texts in order to illuminate the inherent universality of drama’s greatest stories. By engaging with classics from the modern perspective, we serve as a conduit through which these great texts can reach a diverse spectrum of audience members. Through the flagship of our educational program, Camp Shakespeare, we aim to inspire a new audience to explore Shakespeare’s plays. Through text work, acting training, and artistic development, we celebrate the distinctive honor to offer the youth of the community an avenue to embrace the magic of storytelling. To tell great stories is a privilege, and we hold this as our highest artistic value and what we unceasingly seek to bring to northern California’s regional theater.

Mission. The mission of Neighborhood Music School is to create community, spark potential and share joy through the arts.Core Belief. We believe in the power of the arts to transform lives and strengthen communities. Core Values: Diversity: Our school is a vibrant hub for all ages, genders, races, nationalities, and economic backgrounds. Through shared learning and self-expression, we overcome fear of our differences.Relationships: We respond to the individual needs of our students and families, treating them with warmth and care.Teaching Excellence: Our talented and passionate teaching artists inspire students of all levels of ability to discover their unique potential.Responsiveness: Rooted in the classical tradition, we respond to the present-day interests of our community to encourage participation.Lifelong Learning: We provide opportunities for continual growth and development, both in our organization and in those we teach.Welcoming Space: We offer an open and collaborative environment, where individuals feel comfortable and supported.Community Presence: We actively go into the community to share the joy of the arts

Best Medicine Rep is a nonprofit professional theater company that specialize in new comedies. It is dedicated to the artistic, education, and cultural development of Gaithersburg and Montgomery Village. Why are we here? To entertain. To bring joy. To foster community and learning through shared laughter. To lighten our shared burden of existence for a short while. Why comedy? Broadly defined and properly presented, comedy encompasses all of human experience. It can make us laugh and make us cry. It can bring joy and it can bring anger. It makes us think and makes us forget. It exalts and ridicules. It can divert, and it can focus. Comedy levels life’s playing field. Why theater? Story is that which gives comedy context. It is what allows empathy and purpose. Performed stories (theater) provide for the communal experience, the shared joy of laughter that we seek to achieve. Theater brings a community together, eliciting pride and engagement, a sense of ownership and cooperation. We believe that the comic theater is the cure for what ails us.

Frequent Flyers® mission is to create and promote the magic of aerial dance through performance and education. Our vision is to help people to see the world from a new perspective through experiencing the upside-down realm of aerial dance. We believe this expanded consciousness helps people to maximize their creative potential. Frequent Flyers® Aerial Dance is a non-profit founded in 1988. Our Organization has a robust education program encompassing over 30 community classes a week, summer camp and intensives, a nine month Professional Training program, a student company with over 40 members, and outreach programming for at-risk youth. We have taught over 20,000 students the joy of dancing in the air. The Professional Performing Company has won many awards and accolades, including the recently resounding success at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Over 190,000 audience members have experienced the beauty and strength of our performances. Frequent Flyers® also created the first international Aerial Dance Festival, now in its 19th year.

Mission - "Uniting the World through the Power of Music & Dance." The Shruti Foundation is a Non-Profit Organization based in Tampa, Florida, whose mission is to preserve and promote the rich and cultural heritage of Indian Classical music, as well as to showcase Indian music interactively with other music from around the world through public concerts, workshops, and educational outreach programs. Vision - The Shruti Foundation aims to foster awareness, understanding and appreciation of Indian Music as well as World Music, showcasing prominent Indian and World Music artists performing Indian Classical or World Fusion Music. We aspire to provide a grand opportunity for quality global musicians from abroad to come, perform and share their music with our community. As a promoter of the performing arts from around the globe, The Shruti Foundation also seeks to showcase Indian and other cultural Dances in some of our events and hopes to initiate, strengthen and grow connections with other performing arts organizations. We recognize the power of music and its strong influence on society, especially our youth. We also believe music can have a profound effect on daily life. With this understanding, we aim to utilize our efforts in this field as an additional force of good in the world by striving to unite diverse cultures through traditional music's rich and colorful heritage worldwide with our integrative concerts, workshops, outreach programs and other special events.

The DJ DEMP Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Tallahassee, Florida. We transform the lives of at-risk youth through education and advocacy. We help at-risk youth identify bullying and prevent bullying through positive problem-solving. We believe in diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our mission is to provide a creative learning environment for youth with a particular emphasis on problem solving and youth development to prevent bullying. Our anti-bullying program focuses on eradicating bullying, ridiculing, teasing, and harassment in school. Bullying has a serious and lasting negative effect on the mental health and overall well-being of youth. We work to combat the negative outcomes of bullying, including depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and poor social performance. Our program centers on aiding students in identifying what bullying is and helping parents train their children on how to recognize bullying and stand up to bullies. We focus on social-emotional learning. We use music to address social issues. Music is an effective tool for supporting students in learning. It gives students a unique opportunity to express themselves creatively and build confidence. Music also improves cognitive and non-cognitive skills and helps develop language skills in children. We provide access to problem-solving workshops that help at-risk kids improve self-esteem and encourage creative expression. Music Inspires

EnActe Arts is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which produces contemporary theatrical projects that explore multicultural issues with particular reference to the South Asian Diaspora and provides education programs to foster performing Arts talent in the community. Our mission is three-fold: To bring quality South Asian themed stories to universal audiences. To offer a talent development platform where theatre professionals work with aspiring amateurs to foster the growth of local performing talents. We place a particular emphasis on producing new works by upcoming playwrights. To offer theatre education programs in acting, stage design and management and script-writing. EnActe believes in collaboration with other performing arts organizations, corporations, and universities to foster arts in the community. EnActe has produced shows in various cities including Houston, San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Exeter and Seattle. Many of these productions have led us to partnerships with distinguished universities and arts organizations such as Emerson Arts College, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, Asian Art Museum (SF), Philips Exeter Academy, The Menil Collection (Houston), Seattle Asian Art Museum. In order to bring unique stories to a wide audience, we seek your support as a corporate sponsor. Your partnership with EnActe will help nurture and showcase new voices from under represented communities and support this age-old form of theater art.

New York Classical Theatre’s mission is to reinvigorate and create audiences for the theatre by presenting free productions of popular classics and forgotten masterpieces that pop up in non-traditional public spaces throughout the five boroughs. We are the only all-free professional theatre in New York City. Our free productions currently pop up outdoors in Central Park, The Battery, Battery Park City Parks, Prospect Park and Brooklyn Bridge Park and indoors in Brookfield Place and One Liberty Plaza. New York Classical’s hallmark is Panoramic Theatre, a style created by Founding Artistic Director, Stephen Burdman, to build a unique relationship between the actor, audience and venue. Scripts are adapted to fully embrace each performance space and through the influence of 19th century staging and single camera cinema techniques, the audience is placed at the center of the action of the play, giving them access to a deeply immersive theatrical experience. Our outdoor productions in expansive public locations push Panoramic Theatre further. At each performance, the audience follows the actors from place to place as the plot unfolds from scene to scene, following the journey of the characters. Using different areas to stage specific scenes opens up endless creative possibilities for performers and our audience. By utilizing large physical environments as our playing arenas, audiences literally inhabit the world of the play and become active participants in the drama unfolding around them. By offering our Off-Broadway performances for free, we ensure that all people, regardless of their economic, ethnic or educational background have access to the highest quality professional theatre. Our open rehearsals in public venues also allow our audience to observe the evolution of a production while demystifying the language and poetry of classical theatre. We firmly believe that the themes of the classics remain relevant to the lives of all New Yorkers today. Through the lens of classical theatre, we come to better understand human nature and our role in contemporary life. As a result, our free performances build new and future audiences for live theatre by attracting many underserved and non-traditional spectators.

The mission of Jazz at Lincoln Center is to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for Jazz through performance, education and advocacy. We believe Jazz is a metaphor for Democracy. Because jazz is improvisational, it celebrates personal freedom and encourages individual expression. Because jazz is swinging, it dedicates that freedom to finding and maintaining common ground with others. Because jazz is rooted in the blues, it inspires us to face adversity with persistent optimism.From our first downbeat as a summer concert series at Lincoln Center in 1987, to the fully orchestrated achievement of opening the world's first venue designed specifically for jazz in 2004, we have celebrated this music and these landmarks with an ever-growing audience of jazz fans from around the world.Representing the totality of jazz music, Jazz at Lincoln Center's mission is carried out through four elements—educational, curatorial, archival, and ceremonial—capturing, in unparalleled scope, the full spectrum of the jazz experience.In the mid-1980s, Lincoln Center, Inc. was looking to expand its programming efforts to attract new and younger audiences, and to fill its halls during the summer months when resident companies were performing elsewhere. Long-time jazz enthusiasts on the Lincoln Center campus and on the Lincoln Center Board recognized the need for America's music to be represented, and lobbied to include jazz in the organization's offerings. After four summers of successful Classical Jazz concerts, Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) became an official department of Lincoln Center in 1991. During its first year, JALC produced concerts throughout New York City, including Brooklyn and Harlem. By the second year, JALC had its own radio series on National Public Radio, and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (now known as the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra) began touring, and recording and selling CDs. By its fourth year, the program reached international audiences with performances in Hong Kong and, the following year, in France, Austria, Italy, Turkey, Norway, Spain, England, Germany and Finland. In July 1996, JALC was inducted as the first new constituent of Lincoln Center since The School of American Ballet joined in 1987, laying the groundwork for the building of a performance facility designed specifically for the sound, function and feeling of jazz.“The whole space is dedicated to the feeling of swing, which is a feeling of extreme coordination," explained Jazz at Lincoln Center's Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis of his vision for the new home of jazz, or the “House of Swing." “Everything is integrated: the relationship between one space and another, the relationship between the audience and the musicians, is one fluid motion, because that's how our music is." Under Marsalis's direction, JALC sought out world-renowned architect Rafael Viñoly and a team of acoustic engineers to create Frederick P. Rose Hall, the world's first performance, education and broadcast facility devoted to jazz, in New York City. As the centerpiece of a $131 million capital campaign drive, the 100,000-square-foot facility opened in fall 2004 and features three concert and performance spaces (Rose Theater, The Appel Room and Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola) engineered for the warmth and clarity of the sound of jazz.

Local Theater Company is a nonprofit theater company specializing in original works of exceptional quality. They engage audiences through innovative performances that spark camaraderie, learning, and contemplation, and provide a resourceful environment for theater artists to take creative risks and develop their work. They believe theater is a local experience. When you elect to join an audience, you create a new community where, for that brief span of time, everyone is a local.

Armstrong Community Music School believes in music education for all.

The Atlanta Music Project believes the pursuit of musical excellence leads to the development of confidence, creativity and ambition, thus sparking positive social change in the individuals and the communities we serve.