As its second year of existence nears, The LIT Fund (an offshoot of the League of Independent Theater) is getting ready to enter into its first-ever funding process -- radically transparent, of course.
We just wish the pot was juuuuust a bit bigger... So we're having a party! come on down and BUMP THE FUND! As always, every nickel counts! But here's hoping this gets just a little more out of you.
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We are asking for a $15 donation to the Fund at the door.
The Duplex GENEROUSLY donated use of their cabaret space for this event.
ANNOUNCEMENT!! Yetta Kurland will be our special guest at the fundraiser. Yetta is a civil rights attorney, educator, radio host, small business owner and community activist and is running for City Council this year.
*What's the LIT Fund, you ask?
Every day in New York City, hundreds of companies and thousands of artists make innovative and deeply original work in independent (downtown or Off-Off Broadway) theaters. This diverse community is the research and development wing of the American theater, a breeding ground of artistic and managerial innovation with influence far beyond its means or visibility.
We celebrate independent theater in New York City — a living cultural treasure — with the LIT Fund, a mechanism for its self-sustainability.
MISSION. The LIT FUND protects, sustains and strengthens independent theater presented in the five boroughs of New York City. In addition to granting vital financial resources to theater companies and individual artists, we stimulate the growth of independent theater by seeding projects that support and develop the community as a whole.
FUNDING PHILOSOPHY. The LIT Fund represents a coalition of companies, venues and artists who contribute 5 cents of every ticket they sell to a pool of money that supports independent theater. We call this the “Nickel Campaign,” and it’s the LIT Fund’s core notion. The Fund will also solicit contributions from patrons of the arts.
The Fund is apportioned according to three areas of need identified by our community: unrestricted project funding, an emergency/urgency/
IN US WE TRUST. We believe that theater in New York City is a circle, not a ladder. Through the Nickel Campaign, we commit to keeping that circle strong and unbroken; by working together to become a force that sustains itself, we lift our community as a whole and enhance and highlight its impact on the cultural landscape of our city.
Plus we throw a great party! Come on down (or up, whichever, after all, we don't know where it is yet...) and BUMP THE FUND!
Price to come -- but it'll be cheap!
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