Giving Tuesday – Community Spotlight
This Giving Tuesday, IndieSpace will be doing the giving at our annual The Big Give event.
We also want to spend the day showcasing the Giving Tuesday campaigns for indie theater companies. Below are several amazing companies, collectives, productions, and venues that you can support this Giving Tuesday. Please check out their work and, if you can, help them with a donation!
We thank all of these organizations for sharing their information with us and supporting this campaign, which aims to shine a spotlight on the various needs and incredible work happening in our community.
Theater Mitu
Join our campaign to raise $20,000 by the end of the year to sustain MITU580 as a gathering space for a curious community and innovative art makers.
Improvisational Repertory Theatre Ensemble LLC (IRTE)
We're thrilled to announce IRTE's Annual Fundraising Campaign for the 2023/2024 season, celebrating 12 years of innovative comedy theater productions. We've certainly faced our fair share of challenges over the years, including economic uncertainty and dwindling resources. Balancing artistic innovation with financial sustainability can be a delicate tightrope for independent theaters, but with your support, we're striving to meet our $7,500 fundraising goal and bring another exciting season to life.
Good Light Productions, LLC
GLP is celebrating 5 seasons of producing original plays by underrepresented creatives, and celebrating the people who have helped us to add good light to the world. Our Giving Tuesday Campaign will help fund the development of two new plays by Black women playwrights. These are two stories that have been in the dark far too long AND must be told!
Quick Silver Theater Company
QSTC commits to a body of work that reflects our mission to amplify the collective voice, individual potential, and visibility of people of color, women, and other marginalized groups within the American theatrical landscape.
QSTC shall continue to reach back and give back by commissioning new works from under-produced playwrights, by mentoring emerging theater-makers of color, and by making every effort to cast our shows to reflect its community.
Artists who have participated in our programming can always find a home and safe space.
KPC - Keeping People Connected
"OutCry" spotlights social injustices perpetrated in America against the Global Majority, with a massive focus on Black Lives Matter and creating mental health care resources through spoken word, music, and movement on film.
“OutCry” acts as the catalyst to end the criminalization of mental illness, especially in Black and Brown communities, and ensure that people with mental health crises have access to adequate care in their most vulnerable moments and are not met with police retaliation and force.
ZCO/Dance Project, The Kingdom Dance Company and KPC - "Keeping People Connected" join forces to take “OutCry” to the next level heading into 2024, creating awareness and a call for action to end police brutality across America.
What Will the Neighbors Say?
As we kick off our 8th season we are reaching out to you, our Neighborhood, to help us raise $5,000 by the end of the month to support all of the incredible work we have planned for the next ten months. Your fully tax deductible donation will ensure that we can continue to make thought provoking works of theater, offer free community programs and uplift social justice causes across sectors.
Alison Cook Beatty Dance
2023 was a great year! Help us make 2024 even stronger. The funds raised will help pay our artists, create new work, and share it with audiences near and far. Thank you for your consideration in making a tax deductible donation to Alison Cook Beatty Dance! On Giving Tuesday, November 28th, we have an anonymous donor who has pledged to match the first $500! Your donation will go twice as far; please give the gift of dance this giving season.
Thank you!
Notch Theatre Company
This year, Notch ran programs with communities all across the country, from Alaska to Appalachia to Arkansas, creating community-responsive performances that amplify local stories and support grassroots efforts on a national scale. We work at the intersection of art and social justice around some the most pressing issues of our time -- climate change, racial justice, immigration reform, the unionization movement, LGBTQIA+ rights and more.
THANKS to a matching gift from Amy Aquino & Drew McCoy and an anonymous donor, donations will be matched up to $20,000! So make your gift while the match lasts to double your impact!
And because Zeffy is a FREE platform, 100% of your tax-deductible donation will go to supporting our programs, artists, and communities.
The Neurodivergent New Play Series
The Neurodivergent New Play Series is a monthly new play reading series running since 2023 currently presented as part of spit&vigor's curated programming. We are a young theatre organization made for neurodivergent audiences, by neurodivergent artists. All donations made via Fractured Atlas are tax-deductible and will help us afford rehearsal space & continue to ensure stipends for our leading artists.
New York Neo-Futurists
For nearly 20 years, the New York Neo-Futurists have delivered fresh, relevant, and vibrant work to audiences in NYC and beyond. We are a dynamic ensemble of multidisciplinary artists who fuse elements of poetry, game, and performance art to create ever-changing theatre and other artistic experiments to respond to the world around us. With tickets sales not fully covering costs, we are raising funds to bolster our ability to pay artistic and production teams.
Et Alia Theater
Et Alia Theater is raising funds for their next production: "Until Dark" by Italian playwright Federica Borlenghi. The play reflects on consent and the intricacies of sisterhood, while testing its ties and boundaries. Be part of our mission and help us enlarge the community of international women artists in NYC - there are already women from 4 different countries involved in this production and we want more!
Frigid New York
In 2024, FRIGID is working to strengthen our resources for indie theater artists and we can’t do this without your support! Each year, FRIGID presents award-winning festivals, dozens of monthly programs, and artist residencies for hundreds of artists and the next generation of theater leaders. In order to continue to bring powerful performances to our stage and directly serve artists, we need your support to reach our $35,000 campaign goal.
The Clementine Players
The Clementine Players is a collective of creatives making bold, inclusive work that aims to remind us of what unites us. In the next year, we hope to continue our mission of giving our widely talented company the chance to practice their craft by highlighting diverse perspectives, practicing gender and type-blind casting, and allowing the development of new work on the stage, in film, and audio format. Your Giving Tuesday donation will help us give fair pay to our artists, afford quality spaces and material for our productions, and allow us to make our art more accessible to a wider scope of audiences.
Staten Island Shakespearean Theatre
There are FOUR ways you can give to Staten Island Shakespearean Theatre this #GIVINGTUESDAY.
1) Donate to our campaign on Facebook and help us reach our goal!
2) Become a member and get benefits all throughout the year.
3) Make a direct donation on our website.
4) Grab some "THERE WILL BE DRAMA" swag! All proceeds go directly to us!
Dance Visions NY
Please join me in supporting this not-for-profit and my life's work- an artistic endeavor which began in 1990, and continues now, transforming with the passing of years, and with the times. Help us explore humanity through art, as we all journey through each passing moment, year, decade. With this campaign we are raising funds toward the premiere and subsequent presentations of "From a Distant Past," we are excited to be sharing this ever relevant, poetry dance work that transforms with us.
Theatre of the Oppressed NYC
Theatre of the Oppressed NYC (TONYC) partners with community members to devise and perform plays based on their lived experiences confronting economic inequality, racism, and other social, health, and human rights injustices. This year, TONYC is honored to be among twenty finalists for the Brooklyn Org's 2024 Spark Prize, which awards $100,000 annually to five nonprofits advancing racial justice and addressing critical challenges in communities throughout NYC. Finalists receive up to $5,000 in matching funds through the Brooklyn Gives on Giving Tuesday campaign — meaning donors can DOUBLE the impact of their gift to TONYC right now!
Stroller Scene
Our mission is to develop and advocate for new plays. We do that by producing staged readings and hosting workshop retreats to support playwrights in their process. Your donation would go a long way in providing space resources and payment for our incredible artists.
Theatre Advocacy Project
At Theatre Advocacy Project, we are dedicated to creating safe and equitable working conditions for all theatre professionals. Our Giving Tuesday campaign focuses on providing essential HR & Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion tools to empower both artists and organizations.
Braata Productions
Every year, Braata Productions focuses its fundraising efforts on showcasing and preserving Caribbean culture through educational residencies in schools & senior centers, community workshops, cultural events, folk performances, and theatrical productions.
This year we are embarking on our biggest goal yet! We are aiming to raise $250,000 for our stellar 2024 production season.
Our campaign objective is to showcase Caribbean Culture Off-Broadway, celebrating the rich tapestry of our heritage through compelling productions from our Braata Folk Singers and the Braata Theatre Workshop.
Something From Abroad
Fundraising for our Immigrant indie theater company.
We are so proud to present productions in English, Spanish, and Spanglish that provide the immigrant Hispanic population in NY theater that reflects their culture and language.
Your donation today, whether $1 or $100 supports independent Latin American theater and a diverse company to produce a 2024 season.
WOW Cafe Theater (Experimental Theater Project)
This #GivingTuesday, we invite you to donate to WOW Cafe Theater (aka Experimental Theater Project, Inc.), a non-profit performance space collective of women and/or trans and/or non-binary artists in New York City and beyond.
For over 40 years, WOW has been a unique artistic sanctuary, where artists from historically marginalized backgrounds, often lacking access to major funding resources, can develop and showcase our original theatrical and experimental creations. Your donations support WOW's ongoing work as platform to amplify underrepresented voices, foster diversity and inclusivity in the arts, host critical dialogue and playful exchange, and transform lives and communities.
City Gate Productions
City Gate Productions is a 501c3 non-profit, independent theatre company with the mission to create exceptional live theatre across Queens, telling stories that challenge the mind, inspire the heart and reflect the beautiful diversity of our borough.
If you believe that Queens can and should have a vibrant theatre scene, please support our work with a tax-deductible donation.
Our 2024 Season will bring new takes on classics “Twelve Angry Men” and “Frankenstein” along with several new, original works by Queens-based playwrights and visual artists.
Random Access Theatre
We are raising money to open a new indie theatre venue, both to showcase our own work, and also to help support other indie artists!
BREAD Arts Collective
ROAR! is a rock musical based on the true story of the most dangerous, most expensive home movie in Hollywood history -- the 1981 movie Roar, starring Tippi Hedren and 100 lions, tigers and other untrained big cats.
Help BREAD Arts Collective present this workshop production January 11-13, 2024 as part of the Exponential Festival in Williamsburg, BK. 100% of your donations go towards artist fees, transportation, materials and equipment costs.
Brace yourself: it's going to be wild!
The Other Side of Silence
It's the TOSOS 50 for 50 Campaign! The Other Side of Silence (TOSOS) is celebrating our 50th anniversary. Won't you join us in celebrating five decades of putting LQBTQIA+ stories center stage by making a contribution of $50.00 or by becoming a monthly sustainer at the $50.00/month level?
Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre
Expand the Canon is...
* Affirming
* Transformative
* Inspiring
These are just some of the words that Expand the Canon audience members recently when asked how to describe the program.
Your gift of any size makes a difference- so that we all may see classic plays written by women performed on stages and taught and universities around the world. Be a part of a community of advocates who are eager to see what's next.
The Fire This Time Festival
The Fire This Time Festival has amplified more than 100 early career and under-represented Black playwrights for a decade through our core programming which includes an annual fully produced ten-minute play program, play readings and our New Works Lab.
Many of our playwrights have gone on to have their work presented regionally, in commercial theater and on digital platforms.
As we celebrate 15 seasons in January 2023, we ask you to please support our mission of being a platform and pipeline for Black playwrights and women theater makers!
The Brick
Without the support and dedication of our diverse and enthusiastic community we would not exist.
By making a tax-deductible donation to The Brick Theater, you help us continue to fulfill our mission of making The Brick Williamsburg’s primary incubator of innovative theater arts, as well as providing rehearsal. classroom, gallery, and office space at Brick Aux.
Will you donate to The Brick today and help secure our future
Turkish American Repertory Theater and Entertainment -TARTE-
Turkish American Repertory Theater have been working on Turkish classics and original plays and musicals by our diverse writers group for the past 13 years. The main focus of the company is to collaborate with writers, actors and directors of different backgrounds to exhibit new works in order to establish cultural exchange.
A major goal this coming year is to bring our productions to a diverse audience base that includes plays not only for adults and children but also, for example, crafted for the hearing impaired and for autistic children.
With your tax deductible donation this #GIVINGTUESDAY we can be one step closer to our goal.
Arachne Theater
As Arachne Theater begins our fourth year of operation, we’re looking to meet a three goals: maintain storage for our stock of sustainable costumes, expand our summer season, and increase artist pay. We have several avenues of donations that support these causes. Patreon and PayPal donations will support operating and season costs, while our Artist Pay Fundraiser through Meta is committing 100% of money raised directly to artists.
CLASSIX
CLASSIX was created to explode the classical canon through an exploration of Black performance history and dramatic works by Black writers. We define these classic works as plays by authors of African descent from around the world that speak profoundly to the times in which they were written and resonate deeply with our own. CLASSIX engages artists, historians, students, professors, producers and audiences to launch these plays into the public imagination and spark productions worldwide.
