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Stage Notes: 'Founders, Keepers' review; North Texas Giving Day includes local arts organizations

REVIEW: RSVP fast to Echo Theatre's 'Party'

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TACA expanding Pop-Up Grant program with Artist Bonus funds

TACA expanding Pop-Up Grant program with Artist Bonus funds Feb 1, 2021 | Kateri Cale, artistic director of Echo Theatre. Echo received a Pop-Up Grant from TACA last fall. The Arts Community Alliance has announced an expansion of its Pop-Up Grant program to include Artist Bonus funds, a new source of funding for individual artists, providing them financial support while the arts continue to feel the impact of the pandemic, while extending the program through 2021. The addition of the artist bonus funding is made possible by a $180,000 gift from the March Family Foundation. The Pop-Up Grant program debuted in August 2020 as part of the new TACA Resiliency Initiative, and TACA has distributed Pop-Up Grants since then as small, unrestricted disbursements to arts organizations demonstrating quality short-term programming, exceptional creativity and innovation. These monthly merit-based awards are designed to increase the awareness of artistic work happening in and around the community. Some recipients so far include Echo Theater, Dallas Summer Musicals,  TITAS/Dance Unbound and Bruce Wood Dance. A complete listing of Pop-Up grantees to-date can be found here.

Stage woke - Dallas Voice

Stage woke Echo Theatre reinvents its mission with “women+” Rich Lopez | Contributing Writer For more than 20 years, Echo Theatre has produced stage and theater with a focus on women playwrights and creatives. But as times, identities and conversations progressed, the theater company realized it needed to progress as well. Thus, as part of its new initiative, Echo Theatre was inspired to adjust its mission “to champion the diverse voices of women+.” With a new board of directors and mission and vision, Echo has a whole new outlook. “We wanted to take a look at ourselves and see if Echo was doing what it is we set out to do,” Artistic Director Kateri Cale said by phone. “Through a lot of self-examination and asking about our place in the arts community and what values are important to us, we knew our mission needed to be refreshed.”

'Did you come to be entertained?' asks 'The Cube,' that rare chance to see live theater amid a pandemic

As North Texas theater companies brace for more COVID complications, ‘The Cube’ dares to bring back live audiences Plus, learn how local theater groups are adjusting their 2021 seasons and where to attend live, outdoor performances this spring. A curtained-off square serves as projection screen and audience pod in "The Cube" at the Latino Cultural Center.(Ben Torres / Special Contributor) The title character in The Cube, a daring new piece of meta-theater inside the Latino Cultural Center, wonders why human beings need to examine their existence and long for connection to other people, unlike other members of the animal kingdom. “Did you come to be entertained? Were you expecting music and dance?” the disembodied voice asks. “I hope I have not disappointed.”