Friday, April 16, 2010
Oh sad forsaken blog!
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Give the gift of Community Supported Theatre (or take it yourself!)
...or to give a unique gift to the theatre lover in your life
Stolen Chair's Community Supported Theatre (CST), the first membership group of its kind in the country, will continue accepting new members until Dec 31, 2009.
You can join the CST today or purchase it as a unique, experiential holiday gift for friends and family.
For less than the price of two Broadway tickets, the theatre (or science) lover in your life will receive eight months of arts and entertainment, including:
- Exclusive access to every stage of Quantum Poetics' development, from its creative retreat to its world premiere; they will see first-hand how a new play is born.
- Members-only panels, lectures, and discussions with some of the country's hottest scientific writers and thinkers, who will reveal the secrets of how their universe(s) and brain work.
- A chance to participate in our members-only science fair and to build that exploding volcano their parents forbade in 4th grade.
- Their name on the guest list at New York's most scientastic Valentine's Day party: "Atoms and Eves"
- An invitation to join the CST's online social network filled with exclusive Stolen Chair and Quantum Poetics content: a feedback forum, video, photos, podcasts, and more.
- Field trips to NYC's most exciting science-themed cultural offerings.
- A discounted year-long subscription to New Scientist magazine, a free copy of the play anthology, Playing with Canons, andcomplimentary wine & treats at all CST events.
Don't forget: there are SIX affordable (and tax-deductible) ways to give the gift of membership!
Individual, Group, Student/Artists, E-membership, Corporate Membership, Installment Payments
Monday, November 23, 2009
Cheating on Stolen Chair's blog
Thursday, November 12, 2009
A letter from me. To you.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Flux considers Community Supported Theatre
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Huge, massive, earth-shatteringly good Stolen Chair news
So...IT'S ALL HAPPENING, FOLKS! We're gonna create the country's first Community Supported Theatre (CST), a development playground/research lab/community of audience-investors who will trace our newest project, Quantum Poetics (A science experiment for the stage), from its first creative retreat to its first public work-in-progress presentation.
You can read about the grant and our plans here and listen to my presentation (at the WNYC Green Space!).
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Support indie theatre's fairy godparents!
Today I write to ask for about 10 minutes of your time to help nytheatre.com and The New York Theatre Experience, Inc., win a grant from Microsoft.
We have entered the "Show Your Impact" Contest, which is sponsored by TechSoup and Microsoft Corporation. The winners of this contest -- there will be three -- will each receive a $5,000 cash grant from Microsoft plus $25,000 in donated software. For a technology-based small nonprofit company like ours, this is a fantastic opportunity! And we believe we have a shot at winning.
To enter the contest, we had to write a "story" about the impact that Microsoft software, which we received via their donation program with TechSoup, has had on our organization and on the community of theatre-goers and theatre-makers we serve.
We now need to get our friends and supporters to go online to the "Show Your Impact" contest website and vote for our submission. So this is where you come in: please follow the link below, register, and vote for nytheatre.com:
http://www.showyourimpact.org/microsoft/gallery
The public voting process ends on Friday, June 5, and then the top vote getters in each category will move on to the finals, to be judged by Microsoft and TechSoup.
Anyone can vote. It will take you a few minutes: the contest rules require that you register (all they ask for is an email address) and also that you vote for a minimum of 3 projects (so you can't just vote for us--you have to pick a couple of other projects in order for your vote to be counted). It's kind of complicated and I'm sorry about that--but if you'll bear with the process and vote, we will be very appreciative!
Our submission is called nytheatre.com. Our submission date is 5/20/2009. Our category is "Optimize Mission Delivery." There can only be one winner per category, so you'll maximize our chance to win by not selecting any other entries in that category.
Please pass this information along to anyone you think would like to help us! Your support is enormously appreciated.
And please take a few moments to read our submission entry, which details some of the work we've done over the past several years to prepare nytheatre.com and our other websites for Web 2.0 and beyond. Your comments and thoughts are welcome!
But the bottom line, once again: please vote for our submission to help us win this grant from Microsoft. Click here:http://www.showyourimpact.org/
nytheatrecom
Read our story, register, and vote for us. Thank you!
Email me if you have questions. Learn more about TechSoup, the great nonprofit organization that has put together this contest, here.
Best,
Martin