The Imaginists
For Capital Planning And Purchase
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Amount$235,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/21/2017
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Term24 Months
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Type of SupportCapital Funds
Strategies
Overview
Better known as the Imaginists, Knights of Indulgence Theatre United States is an experimental community-based ensemble that produces work that investigates the intersection of art, activism, and community. It reaches 6,000 people each year through a series of performances and educational programs that are often site-specific, bilingual, and reflect the organization’s commitment to including a wide range of voices in its artistic processes. This grant will help support the Imaginists to undertake a capital campaign and purchase the building that has served as the organization’s home for the past nine years.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.theimaginists.org
Address
461 Sebastopol Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA, 95401-8502, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
The Knights of Indulgence Theatre (The Imaginists Theatre Collective) (Santa Rosa, CA) – GOS; $30,000/3; 8% of organizational budget
The Imaginists Theatre Collective (ITC) creates original theatre experiences for and with a growing audience comprised of a population diverse in background, ethnicity, age and socio-economic status. For the past eight years, three in a storefront performance space in downtown Santa Rosa, ITC has produced nine productions per year, reaching 3,000 audience members through site-specific, community-based, bilingual, youth, classic and original works that consistently push at the limits and possibilities of theatre, including the annual free bicycle touring show El Arte es Medicina/ Art is Medicine. Hewlett support will enable ITC to focus its efforts in three distinct areas: human resources (paying staff and artists, training artists), financial stability (board, staff and organizational development), and visibility (expanding the audience base).
