The LIT Fund to Host 1st Annual NICKELYMPICS, Today
On Saturday, June 14th from 3pm to midnight, The LIT Fund will host the first annual Nickelympics at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center (197 Suffolk Street between Rivington and Delancey) with carnival games and kid friendly activities, live music, and an outside beer garden. In addition to being a fundraiser for the LIT Fund's next grant cycle, the event will also serve as the official launch party for the Sh.I.T. List, a new web-based database that independent theater companies in and around NYC can use to sell, rent, lend or swap basic set pieces, furniture, props and costumes.
Admission to The LIT Fund's Nickelympics is $10 general admission; $15 after 8pm; and free for kids.
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. For more information, visit www.litfund.org.At the core of the LIT Fund is the simple idea of theater people helping theater people, from Off-Off to Broadway. Money for the LIT Fund comes from organizations, companies, venues and individuals donating five cents ($0.05) per ticket sold to their performances. Additional donations will be solicited from patrons of the arts. The Fund is conceived as an additional source of funding for the independent theater territory and not a "re-granting" mechanism.
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