Annual Powering the Arts Program supports local
arts and cultural institutions with more than $100,000 in grant
funding
Recognizing that increased access to the arts enhances the
vibrancy of local communities, ComEd and the League of Chicago
Theatres today announced grants of up to $10,000 each to 13
non-profit arts organizations throughout northern Illinois. From
local performing arts troupes to galleries and theatres, each
grantee has proposed at least one unique project to support the
expansion of arts and cultural offerings for underserved audiences
in the communities ComEd serves.
“As an energy company, all of us at ComEd recognize that access
to the arts has a tremendous ability to power our communities,”
said Melissa Washington, vice president of governmental and
external affairs at ComEd. “That’s why we are proud to partner with
the League to support local arts and cultural institutions in their
efforts to enrich the lives of residents who may otherwise have
limited exposure to the arts.”
This is the second year that ComEd and the League, an alliance
of more than 200 Chicago theatres, have partnered to support arts
and cultural institutions through the Powering the Arts Program.
This year, ComEd provided a total of more than $100,000 to
grantees, and the League served as the program administrator to
grant recipients.
As the City of Chicago and the League of Chicago Theatres
celebrate 2019 as the Year of Chicago Theatre, the Powering the
Arts Program correspondingly supports a diverse collection of
theatres in neighborhoods across Chicago. From Uptown to
Bridgeport, the grants provide funding to a number of other arts
organizations working to break down the barriers that traditionally
inhibit certain audiences from enjoying access to arts and cultural
resources.
“The League of Chicago Theatres and ComEd again partner for
Powering the Arts, which will enhance the art of theatre in the
Chicago area by making theatre more accessible to all. During this
Year of Chicago Theatre, this program supports exposure to the
arts, a vital element to the health of our communities, and makes
the arts available to underserved audiences,” said Deb Clapp,
executive director of the League of Chicago Theatres.
Non-profit organizations submitted their applications for
Powering the Arts grants this spring. An advisory committee
composed of members of the region's non-profit arts and culture
community then reviewed eligible applications.
Additional information on the ComEd Powering the Arts Program
can be found at:
https://leagueofchicagotheatres.org/comedpoweringthearts/.
The 13 ComEd Powering the Arts Program grant recipients for
2019 are:
Citadel Theatre (Lake Forest): The grant will partially
fund the Citadel Cares program, which makes live theatre and
theatre education more accessible to minorities, the military, and
low-income families.
Shattered Globe Theatre (Chicago – Lakeview): The grant
will support the Space Between Us program, which provides arts
programming to adults experiencing homelessness and those,
including veterans, dealing with mental illness.
Adventure Stage Chicago (Chicago – West Town): The grant
will continue Adventure Stage Chicago’s Spanish-language outreach
that allows the theatre to offer marketing materials in Spanish as
well as English.
Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre (Chicago – Loop): The grant
will offer tickets at a discounted rate to residents of the Hermosa
neighborhood for a concert performance of “American Catracho,” as
well as a free interactive preview and discussion with the artistic
director before the concert.
Esperanza Community Services (Chicago – West Town): The
grant will help to connect low-income artists with disabilities to
materials to create art and the space in which to exhibit. It will
also help connect families in underserved neighborhoods in Chicago
to contemporary and vital artistic works, as well as artists who
face barriers such as poverty and limited communication ability to
supporters and patrons.
Repertorio Latino Theater (Chicago – Bridgeport): The
grant will support the theater in distributing free performance
tickets to the current production of La Cantante Calva by Eugène
Ionesco to mostly native Spanish speakers of the Bridgeport
community and beyond.
Warehouse Project & Gallery (Summit): The grant will
support the traveling performance group Living Out Loud, comprised
primarily of youth of color from underserved and under-resourced
communities.
Chimera Ensemble (Chicago – Wicker Park): The grant will
support the company in making theatre accessible to those with
hearing and vision disabilities by providing open captioned and
American Sign Language (ASL) interpreted performances for each of
their productions.
CircEsteem Inc. (Chicago – Uptown): The grant will
support the Advanced Performance Troupe’s summer performance tour,
“CircEsteem around Chicago.”
Experimental Station (Chicago – Woodlawn): The grant will
help weave together a number of music-focused initiatives that are
part of the organization’s public events series to reach African
American youth and adults in Woodlawn and Chicago’s surrounding
South Side neighborhoods.
Faubourg Theatre (Hanover Park): The grant will help
provide summer programming that integrates the arts and literacy to
engage low-income students who typically would not have the
opportunity or ability enroll in a summer program.
Elmhurst Choral Union (Elmhurst): The grant will help
bring live music performances to seniors living in local retirement
communities who are otherwise unable to access music
productions.
Side Street Studio Arts (Elgin): The grant will help
double the organization’s scholarship offerings for students and
maintain its highly popular drop-in sessions and Community Moves
and Small Wonders programs, which provide visual and performing
arts for students and families.
ComEd is a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC),
a Fortune 100 energy company with approximately 10 million
electricity and natural gas customers – the largest number of
customers in the U.S. ComEd powers the lives of more than 4 million
customers across northern Illinois, or 70 percent of the state’s
population. For more information visit ComEd.com and connect with
the company on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
The League of Chicago Theatres is an alliance of theatres, which
leverages its collective strength to support, promote and advocate
for Chicago’s theatre industry. Through our work, we ensure that
theatre continues to thrive in our city. For a comprehensive list
of Chicago productions, visit the League of Chicago Theatres
website, ChicagoPlays.com. Half-price tickets to the current week’s
performances as well as future performances are available
at HotTix.org and at the two Hot Tix half-price ticket locations:
across from the Chicago Cultural Center at Expo72 (72 E. Randolph)
and Block Thirty Seven (108 N. State).
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