City Lights Theater Company of San José
For General Operating Support
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Amount$75,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/12/2013
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
City Lights Theater Company creates provocative live productions that engage, inspire, and challenge audiences and artists alike through innovative concepts, intimate staging, and uncompromising storytelling. Its six main-stage plays, produced in its 100-seat venue in downtown San Jose, reach more than 10,000 audience members per year. The company also maintains a Youth and Education Program featuring study guides, discounted tickets, and a summer youth conservatory. Recognized for its edgy artistic aesthetic, fiscal soundness, and innovative audience engagement strategies, a new grant to City Lights would enable it to continue to expand its reach into the South Bay’s cultural ecosystem.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.cltc.org
Address
Post Office Box 720640, San Jose, CA, 95172, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
City Lights Theater Company creates and presents live plays and musicals for audiences in San Jose, California. Each year, it offers six plays at its 108-seat facility, complemented by podcasts, concerts, youth engagement programs, and other community-focused events, reaching more than 12,000 people. This grant to City Lights aligns with the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy, helping to ensure that communities in Santa Clara County have access to live productions that engage, inspire, and challenge them.
for an Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity (EID) capacity building project
City Lights Theater Company reaches over 12,000 people annually with a season of six plays and musicals, a festival of new plays, concerts, and a summer youth conservatory. This organizational effectiveness grant supports internal capacity building to deepen the organization’s awareness, knowledge, skill, policies and practices around equity, inclusion and diversity. Helping individual grantee organizations develop their internal competencies for equity-focused work will in turn support the nonprofit arts field in the Bay Area to coalesce around common language and best practices for equity in the arts.
for general operating support
City Lights Theater Company reaches more than 12,000 people each year with a season of six plays and musicals, a new plays festival, concerts, and a summer youth conservatory. With its 108-seat facility in downtown San Jose, City Lights Theater Company successfully attracts audiences, especially adults under the age of 45, through its creative direction and innovative audience engagement efforts.
