The Imaginists
For General Operating Support
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Amount$45,000
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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
Knights of Indulgence Theatre (dba Imaginists Theatre) explores the intersection of arts, activism and community by re-thinking how theater engages its community, diverse in background, ethnicity, age, and socio-economic status. The company reaches more than 6,000 audience members through its regular season productions in its storefront performance space in downtown Santa Rosa, as well as through site-specific, bilingual, youth, classic, and original works, including the annual free bicycle touring show, El Arte es Medicina/Art Is Medicine. Renewed support would enable the Imaginists to continue to deepen its focus on education through after-school programming, school residencies, and theater arts training for college level and adults.
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 Imaginists is an experimental theater company in Sonoma County that produces work that investigates the intersection of art and community. It reaches 5,400 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. Support of the Imaginists aligns with the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
for development of a fundraising plan
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 ten years, five 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 throughout Sonoma County. This grant, a follow-on from strategic planning Organizational Effectiveness support from the Hewlett Foundation in 2012, will support a fundraising plan and a training plan for board and staff implementation of the plan, a crucial next step in building organizational sustainability.
for strategic planning
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 ten years, five 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 throughout Sonoma County. This grant will support a facilitated organizational assessment and strategic planning process to help set the course for a sustainable future at a critical point in the Imaginists’ history.
