The mission of BroadArts Theatre is to create artistic events that celebrate the impact women and minorities make as we all work together to create a more equal, peaceful, compassionate and just society.
BroadArts is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization and donations are tax deductible.
We are supported in part by the City of Portland VisionPDX Project, the Kinsman Foundation, the McKenzie River Gathering Foundation, the Polk Family Trust, and your generous donations!
The mission of BroadArts Theatre is to create artistic events that celebrate the impact women and minorities make as we all work together to create a more equal, peaceful, compassionate and just society.
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Please forward our family’s thanks for our grandsons wonderful theatre experience during your camp. He really enjoyed himself and couldn’t wait for each day in class ...Your teachers and programs are superb. Thanks for enriching the lives of so many kids.
BroadArts Theatre’s camps encourage students to create, experience & explore the nature & practice of peace. Students work with professional theatre artists/educators using writing, acting, movement, improvisation, clowning, singing & illustration to create their own vision of what peace means. Each session culminates in a shared presentation with family & friends, enabling students to experience the joy and gratification of collaboration and performance.
BroadArts Theatre will be partnering with The SUN Program at Martin Luther King Jr. school this year for summer activities July 27 – August 7, 2009. The program will provide performing and visual arts skills to scholarship students from King school as well as children ages 7 to 14 from the Portland Metropolitan area. The camp will take place in two locations with a culminating performance at each.
BroadArts Theatre invites you to join our artists, musicians, actors and special guests for our 7th Annual Internation Women's Day Concert, Saturday March 7th at the Urban Grind Coffeehouse, 2214 NE Oregon St, 2 blocks north of Sandy Blvd. Admission is just $10 and includes a light dinner.
Featured at this year's show are the BroadBand- Mollie Hart, Jan Rosenthal, Dan Linn, Melinda E. Pittman, Aaron Linn, Stacy Davis and our newest singing sensation Erica Grossman. Featured actresses include Roslyn Farrington, Jo`an Sterr, Victoria Trabosh and other surprise guests. Our kickoff speaker is Adrienne Fritze of Working Artists Network. Saturday's performance will be streamed live on Second Life at Pannies Rosedrop & Media Circus, Podul [236, 181, 121], where BroadArts willl be joined by an international cast of dancing avatars portraying some of our s/heroes!
Click on a postcard image for a giant-size printable version.
How can the arts bring a diversity of voices into public and community dialogue? How can we make sure that when we ask the question “What’s your vision for the future?” we listen to all voices? How can we work together to turn our individual as well as common visions into reality?
Join representatives from p:ear, SCRAP, My Story, DEEP, VOZ, BroadArts Theatre, SpeakArtLoud, Veterans For Peace, local artists, and more at the "Arts as Vision" session of the monthly Springboard Social Innovations Forum. See visual arts, witness fabulous performances, and participate in discussions led by local experts, or just network informally. That’s all in keeping with the goal of Springboard Social Innovation Forum: unleashing the potential of “ordinary” citizens to address local challenges with lasting solutions.
Wednesday, January 14th
Doors open at 5:30 pm
6-9 pm
at the Urban Grind East
2214 NE Oregon St
Map
$5 Admission includes a light supper (vegetarian option). Scholarships are available, contact katherine@springboardinnovation.org
This November (Nov 9, 13, 15, 20 & 22), join BroadArts Theatre in shaping a more-perfect Portland with our series of Broad~Arts Visionary Salons, supported by a grant from the City of Portland Vision Into Action project and the Multnomah Co. Cultural Coalition of the Oregon Cultural Trust. These 5 salons, one in each quadrant of Portland, are free to attend, and will feature extraordinary women and organizations who are working to create the best possible Portland we can.
You might have attended our performances two summers ago, IF I WERE THE QUEEN OF THIS FOREST, where you were invited to tell the city what kind of future we value for Portland. You, along with 16,999 other Portland residents responded, and the city embraced your Vision into the City-Council-approved Portland 2030 plan: A Vision for the Future.
Now it's -your- turn to make that vision real and active! BroadArts Theatre is excited to dance down the aisle of our collective future with you, at our Broad~Arts Visionary Salons! You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll meet amazing women! And you might even win a door prize! Woohoo!
Please visit our upcoming events page for more, and please note two changes to the schedule from our printed postcards and posters- the LGBTQQIA focus is at the salon the 20th and not the 15th, and our first salon on the 9th runs from 5 to 7 pm and not 8 as was formerly indicated. Changing the schedules, one mistake at a time!
BroadArts Theatre is working to create a more perfect Portland and we'd love to have you join in!
We are currently putting together a series of visionary community salons with support from the Vision Into Action project of the City of Portland. The salons will include discussions, presentations and theatrics- with local leaders, artists and visionaries, all focused on creating the future we want for our city.
There are countless ways for you and your organization to get involved, here are just a few:
Please contact Shamira Shirley at broadartsoutreach@gmail.com
More about the Vision into Action project: http://www.visionpdx.org/
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Broadarts Theatre is a grateful recipient of one of Free Geek's Hardware Grants to non-profit organizations. Our office will soon be able to keep up with us! Hooray!
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Community for Peace Sing-Along Concert
Do you love to sing but you're not feeling that festive right now? Come join us and sing together for the possibility of peace, and to vibrate your hidden hopefulness.
BroadArts and St. Francis of Assisi Church, a peace and justice community, are hosting a free Community for Peace Sing-Along Concert on Thursday, Sept 11, 2008, in the sanctuary of the St. Francis of Assisi Church, corner of SE 12th Avenue and Pine Streets, 2 blocks north of Stark. The free all-ages sing-along concert begins at 7:00 PDT. Click the link above for more, including a map and a printable flyer!
Vancouver Peace & Justice Fair
BroadArts is appearing at the 5th annual Vancouver Peace & Justice Fair at Esther Short Park in downtown Vancouver on Saturday, September 13th. The fair runs from 9AM to 5PM and BroadArts' BroadBand will be performing from 1 to 1:30. Please come!
PS! We may also be appearing at the ReDirect Guides' Green Sprouts Festival, also Saturday Sept 13, from 3:15-4 pm.
BroadArts Theatre is thrilled and grateful to announce the receipt of five community supported grants, which will make our upcoming original comedy music theatre projects and productions possible. Click here to read more!
Be a Co-creator of BroadArts’ next comedy musical production! During the first phase of creating WONDERBROADER, (March- May 2008), BroadArts invites enthusiastic, creative, imaginative and curious volunteer researchers to poll our communities and uncover the stories of global s/heroes changing the world right now. Sound like fun? Go to the BroadArts Volunteer and Internship Page to sign up!
Who else should BroadArts know about for WONDERBROADER ?
Who are your women heroes changing the world right now? They don’t have to have won the Nobel Prize. If you know of women from any country who are making the world more equal, peaceful, compassionate, sustainable and just, please let BroadArts know! Tell us a bit about your personal s/hero.
