Premier Beneficiaries
Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate New York
The Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate New York (BTTUNY) is a mentoring company based in Albany, NY, that provides a welcoming space for both professional and emerging BIPOC artists to grow and thrive. Since 2010, the company has fostered cross-cultural understanding and helped to create more diversity on stage in the Capital Region by highlighting, producing and promoting performances by marginalized artists. BTTUNY believes in the value of diverse and meaningful representation, the disruption of systemic racism through art, and providing safe spaces for BIPOC artists to hone their crafts. The company values all identities, and it is committed to continuing to evolve throughout the rest of its existence, helping to make the world of theatre a more just, equitable, and inclusive space for all.
Albany Center Gallery
Albany Center Gallery (ACG) is a non-profit art gallery and space that hosts exhibitions, youth art workshops, public art programs, art festivals, and creative collaborations. ACG promotes and exhibits art produced by the region’s emerging and established artists and engages, enriches, and inspires the community to appreciate the importance of art. The organization’s exhibitions and programs are free and open to the public.
Palace Performing Arts Center
The Palace Theatre has been Albany’s iconic downtown landmark for the past nine decades, bringing world class arts & entertainment to the Capital Region. The Palace Performing Arts Center, Inc (PPAC) who own and operate the historic venue, work to enhance the area’s cultural and economic development through core programming that includes performing arts entertainment and community engagement initiatives including free summer movies, an annual block party, a safe community trick-or-treat event, free & affordable family events and more.
Capital Repertory Theatre
Capital Repertory Theatre is a professional theatre whose mission is to create meaningful theatre with an authentic connection to the community they serve. They offer extraordinary experiences to young people of the region that support NY State’s education goals and standards and help young people to increase critical thinking, self-esteem, courage and personal skills for lifelong success. Capital Rep works to be a strategic player in the important dialogue about the significant role of the arts in our schools, community, region and nation.
Spotlight Beneficiaries
Eba Arts
eba-arts.org
eba’s Mission is to cultivate an understanding of the performing arts; through creation, performance, education and touring. Equally, we endeavor to cultivate the innate creative potential within each of us and help integrate these creative capacities with daily life.
The eba Legacy Project will archive 50 years of all things eba – an important part of Albany. We want people to leave the eba archives feeling that they understand why art is integral to their personal life as well as life in their community, as well as in education; that art is a motivation force for change, intrinsically woven into the rest of life and that eba is a vibrant and vital part of life in our community.
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Musicians of Ma’alwyck
musiciansofmaalwyck.org
Founded in 2000 by violinist Ann-Marie Barker Schwartz, Musicians of Ma’alwyck is a chamber music ensemble with a mission to bring history to life through provocative musical performances in the Capital Region of NYS and beyond. Over their 25-year history, the ensemble has brought hundreds of classical music events to life in unique venues, provided opportunities for numerous up-and-coming and masterful musicians, and have been an important piece of the Capital Region arts scene. The ensemble performs five concert programs per season in addition to specially curated events at unique venues, especially including museums and historic sites. Musicians of Ma’alwyck are in residence at the Schuyler Mansion (since 2000) and SUNY-Schenectady (since 2005). Core musicians are Ann-Marie Barker Schwartz, artistic director and violinist; Norman Thibodeau, flute; Sten Isachsen, guitar; and André Laurent O’Neil, cello. Their two CDs—Music in the Schuyler Mansion (2017) and Hyde Hall and the Silver Goddess (2021), were both recorded in situ at historic sites. They have been nominated five times for a Capital Region Music Award and are often featured on WMHT and WAMC radio stations.
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The Egg
Theegg.org
The Egg is a performing arts center located in Albany, NY’s Empire State Plaza. An unmistakable feature of the capital city’s skyline, the 45-year-old venue houses two theatres encased in a domed, egg-like concrete structure. The Egg presents music, art, theatre, comedy, dance and family entertainment year-round. The Egg” itself is owned by the State of New York and managed by the not-for-profit Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Performing Arts Center Corporation. This entity was established to present quality performances, accessible to all citizens of New York State, highlighting the unique and extraordinary artists from New York State, across the country and around the globe. Through partnerships and collaborations, the Corporation presents performances, spotlights emerging artists, fosters relationships with resident companies, and enhances activities in cultural and arts education.