Let's Fight!
Are you ready? We want you in our corner to support our Fall season, themed: Uppercuts to Budget Cuts!
From housing to schools, from transit to arts, the quality of life and creativity of New Yorkers has been throttled by infuriating misallocations of funding. Communities fight back by building the connections and sharing the resources to sustain each other. And yet, we know the ongoing struggle can wear people down, so folks feel isolated and stuck.
At TONYC, our toolbox is connection and this fall we want to plug you into the action! Sign up for a facilitation training, so that you can activate people’s creativity in your community work. You can be a spect-actor at our Forum Theatre shows, rehearsing for action in dialogue with Troupe actors and community organizers. And through our volunteer opportunities, you can apply your skills and spend time in community. Each connection builds the potential to sustain and encourage each other, however we style our fight.
Which brings me to one special night: TONYC’s Fight-Raiser on October 24th. It’s our benefit event, and the first in-person one in four years! Our goal for this year is $100k. This is more than we’ve ever called on from our communities, but we - like many many other organizations - have seen reduced support across grant funding. We call on our supporters to contribute via buying tickets or becoming an event sponsor.
Can't join us on the 24th? You can fuel us by donating here!
We are calling the night a Fight-Raiser because we want the event to have an impact beyond our budget. Every TONYC event is a rehearsal for action. There will be organizers and activist artists in the room at the People’s Forum, sharing their campaigns and actions. In solidarity with everyone who is under-funded, we’ll have an interactive performance about budget cuts, to discuss and share our creative strategies as we navigate under-resourcing. And to make sure that someone breaks a sweat, there will be an actual sparring demonstration!
We’ve got a full team of collaborators for the night, who we hope will become yours too:
Theatre Workers for a Ceasefire
Broadway Cooks
NYCLU - Equal Rights Amendment Ballot Proposal
Radical Evolution
Trans Boxing
Yei Tochtin
Ring of Keys
… and more to be announced!
Let’s get ready. Buy your ticket before October 5th and you’ll be entered into a raffle for a special gift! Donate here to keep the fight going!
