A Community Engaged

Spoleto ETC Happenings in 2022

Connecting Festival artists and the broader community, Spoleto ETC (Engaging the Community) offers meaningful dialogues, participatory workshops, and professional development opportunities that serve local, national, and international constituents. In the 2022 season, more than 700 artists—40 percent of them from outside the United States—take to Spoleto stages for more than 115 performances across 8 venues. Off stage, Spoleto endeavors to make an even bigger impact. In one season, the Festival has engaged the following:

3free, virtual book discussions hosted in partnership with the Charleston County Public Library

15 historians, experts, and academics in 5 free, virtual panel discussions

3,600 eighth graders across Charleston County received Omar workbooks illustrated by Jonathan Green.

New editions of the Omar workbook are sponsored by Wells Fargo and Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art’s Building Bridges Program.

Illustration by Jonathan Green

More than 150 aspiring professional artists from the Charleston Jazz Academy and the Charleston Symphony Youth Orchestra attended Festival artist-led workshops.

27: years that Emmy-winning CBS News correspondent Martha Teichner has hosted the free Conversations With series, leading illuminating discussions with Festival artists

Martha Teichner and Alisa Weilerstein; Spoleto Festival USA (2021); photo by William Struhs

Across 3 weeks, 40 College of Charleston students are invited to attend Spoleto Festival USA performances and weekly lectures with guest artists.

225: students and educators seated in the audience to see a dress rehearsal of Omar, the world premiere opera by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels

Bank of America Chamber Music artists visited Charleston-area elementary schools, offering musician-led workshops and performances to 200 students.

Through the Festival’s Open Stage Door program, deserving Charleston nonprofit organizations and their constituents received more than

800

James Austin Smith, Geoff Nuttall, and Christopher Costanza at Sander’s Clyde Elementary School (2018)

complimentary tickets to attend Spoleto Festival USA performances.

Open Stage Door is sponsored by JPMorgan Chase & Co.

155Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra and Chorus fellows, young professional musicians who gain invaluable opportunities to work with world-renowned composers and conductors

53 apprentices from 28 colleges and universities across the United States, who receive hands-on training in arts administration and stage production

Spoleto ETC is made possible by an anonymous donor; Carol H. Fishman, in memory of Leo Fishman; Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation; Danielle Rose Paikin Foundation; Leslie Aucoin and Vernon Drew; and The Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust. For more information on how to help expand programs like these, please visit spoletousa.org/support.