YOUR GIFT to OUR COMMUNITY
YOUR SUPPORT MADE ALL THIS POSSIBLE
In the 2017-18 Season, the artists we brought to Meany Center gave 37 ticketed performances on our stage—and more than double that number of free workshops, master classes, matinees and demonstrations in classrooms, arts venues and public spaces both on campus and in the community. Without you, our generous donors who support our vision, our mission and our efforts to bring the arts and arts education to as broad a swath of the community as we can reach, none of this would be possible. In the spirit of one picture being worth a thousand words, we’d like to share just some of the free outreach events your gifts made possible this year.
MASTER CLASSES UW students benefit when Meany Center brings world-famous artists to our stage because many of them also teach master classes, free of charge, to the students and the performing arts units that host them—but not free of cost to us. Meany Center covers the additional fees to the artists, with help from you.
Joseph Lin of the Julliard String Quartet conducts a master class for strings students enrolled in the UW School of Music. (Photo: Randy Kerr)
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Every year, three lucky piano students get the chance to play for world class pianists such as Juho Pohjonen, Imogen Cooper, Simon Trpceski and Nareh Arghamanyan before a live audience of 30+ spellbound donors on the stage of Meany Hall.
Juho Pohjonen makes his point in a master class for UW piano students
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Imogen Cooper watches every move he makes. (Photo: Arthur Grossman)
K-12 ARTS EDUCATION MATINEES Every year we bring thousands of students from across the region to attend free matinee performances by our visiting artists. For many of these children, a trip to Meany Hall is their first experience of live performance. This year we presented six matinees, reaching upwards of 6,000 K-12 students!
A full house of eager K-12 students awaits our first matinee of the year featuring flamenco Company Noche Flamenca
K-12 ARTS EDUCATION | M E A NY CE NT E R for th e P E R FO R MIN G AR T S
The company loved dancing for our K-12 audience as much as the kids loved watching.
K-12 ARTS EDUCATION | M E A NY CE NT E R for th e P E R FO R MIN G AR T S
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago spells it out for their enthusiastic young audience.
K-12 ARTS EDUCATION RESIDENCIES We serve hundreds more students in their classrooms, bringing artists into schools for residencies that can last anywhere from a day to a week. Depending on the length of the residency, it costs us between several hundred and several thousand dollars beyond the fee we pay artists to perform on our series.
From marimbas to snare drums to canned tomatoes—anything can be a percussion instrument!
K-12 ARTS EDUCATION | M E A NY CE NT E R for th e P E R FO R MIN G AR T S
Third Coast Percussion takes their act on the Road for in-school residencies…
K-12 ARTS EDUCATION | M E A NY CE NT E R for th e P E R FO R MIN G AR T S
At Thornton Creek Elementary School…
And Sandpoint…
And Lowell!
K-12 ARTS EDUCATION | M E A NY CE NT E R for th e P E R FO R MIN G AR T S
Martha Redbone leads a parade of excited fourth-graders at Lowell
Danish String Quartet visits the Roosevelt High School Orchestra.
COMMUNITY PERFORMANCES As often as we can, we try to take artists out from under the proscenium arch and into the community to give free performances, lectures and demonstrations. Venues where free events happen have included the Seattle Art Museum, the Olympic Sculpture Garden, the Seattle Asian Art Museum, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, the UW Intellectual House, Henry Art Gallery, UW undergraduate library, dorms, dining halls—and the exterior walls of Meany Hall, to name just a few.
BANDALOOP vertical dance company led off our World Dance Series with Harboring—the first part of which was absolutely free and open to the public—literally, since it was performed on the outside wall of Meany!
COMMUNITY PERFORMAN CE S | ME A NY CE NT E R for th e P ER F O R M IN G AR T S
Danish String Quartet played a free community concert to a packed house at Solstice Café on the Ave.
COMMUNITY PERFORMAN CE S | ME A NY CE NT E R for th e P ER F O R M IN G AR T S
The DSQ also hosted a “sight-reading” party for string players on and off campus at Parnassus Café (located in the basement of the Art Building on campus). About 30 musicians—some as young as Middle School—came out to play!
COMMUNITY PERFORMAN CE S | ME A NY CE NT E R for th e P ER F O R M IN G AR T S
He made a big impression on the standing-roomonly crowd. MacArthur Award-winning choreographer Bill T. Jones gives a free lecture in Kane Hall as part of the Danz Lecture Series. His topic: Creating art during this era of fractious political conversations and the potential heroism found in hope and belief in the future.
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UW Students and community dancers perform as part of choreographer and Creative Research Fellow Margarita Bali’s 20-minute dance film—starring staircases all over Seattle!
MANY, MANY THANKS to all of our individual supporters for your generosity this past year. And thank you to the government, foundation and corporate funders listed here.
$100,000 AND ABOVE The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
$25,000 AND ABOVE The Boeing Company / Classical KING FM 98.1* / National Endowment for the Arts / Nesholm Family Foundation Scan Design Foundation
$10,000 - $24,999 4Culture / ArtsFund / Microsoft / Seattle Office of Arts & Culture / U.S. Bank
UP TO $9,999 Banner Bank / East West Bank / KEXP 90.3 FM* / KUOW 94.9 FM* Ladies Musical Club / Peg and Rick Young Foundation Western States Arts Federation
BUSINESS CIRCLE SPONSORS Agua Verde Cafe Catering / Classical Wines from Spain / College Inn Pub / Hotel Deca* / Fran's Chocolates* / Macrina Bakery* Madres Kitchen* / Pagliacci* / North City Bistro* / Theo Chocolate* University Inn* / Watertown Hotel*
CAMPUS + COMMUNITY PARTNERS Arts Impact / ArtsUW / Burke Museum / Cornish College of the Arts / Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization / Henry Art Gallery / Ladies Musical Club / Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute / Live Music Project / Nordic Heritage Museum / Seattle Art Museum / Seattle Music Partners Seattle Public Schools / Second Inversion / Scan Design / UW Alumni Association / UW American Indian Studies / UW Canadian Studies / UW Dance Department / UW Intellectual House / UW First year programs / UW Graduate School / UW Libraries / UW Residential Life Program / UW School of Drama / UW School of Music / Velocity Dance Center
* Denotes full or partial gift in kind.