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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!

Changing the world, one joke at a time!

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.


Welcome!
Thanks for visiting the virtual world of BroadArts Theatre. Get out your social calendar and join us as we Change the World, One Joke at a Time!


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BroadArts Visionary Salons

Broad~Arts Visionary Salons

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!

Vision into Action

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Community Organizers Wanted!

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:

  • -partnerships
  • -tabling
  • -assistance in organizing
  • -set up/take down at a salon event
  • and more! (see our Volunteers page!)

Please contact Shamira Shirley at broadartsoutreach@gmail.com

More about the Vision into Action project: http://www.visionpdx.org/

 

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Thank you, Free Geek!

  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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September Performances!

  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.

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Fundraising News

BroadArts Theatre Announces Community Support for innovative and original theatre-music-arts productions

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!

 

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Who are Your s/heroes changing the world right now?!

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.

 

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Volunteer and Internship Opportunities

BROADARTS THEATRE, Portland’s progressive, original touring theatre company, announces the creation of WONDERBROADER™ ©, our newest comedy-musical-theatre production about global women changing the world, while you read this announcement! WONDERBROADER is the sequel to our award-winning hit, WONDERBROADS, the show about 20th century American women: the “Babes and Broads who Broke the Rules!” Starting right now, BroadArts Theatre artists, interns, designers, researchers, volunteers, musicians, actors and dancers are preparing for our new production. Read more to find out how you can be a part of it!

 

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