With support from the California Arts Council, Chico Performances/Chico State Enterprises will engage Storyteller, Poet, and Musician David Gonzalez in a two-year residency project, Pasalo – Pass It On. In multiple week-long residencies in two County elementary schools Mr. Gonzalez will engage students on collaborative poetry writing, storytelling, and performance.
Chico State Enterprises serves the university by providing fiscal management of externally funded projects orientated toward research, education, arts, and public service, including North State Public Radio, Chico Performances, Gateway Science Museum, and the Turner Print Museum. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporate organization, Chico State Enterprises is distinct from CSU, Chico and receives no state appropriations for its operations.
Chico Performances serves Chico and the greater Butte County region by presenting an annual touring artist season of on average forty events across many genres including classical music, jazz, blues, pop, country, and world music, modern and classical dance, theatrical entertainments and cirque, and a spoken word and lecture series. Chico Performances also presents Field Trip series performances for primary and secondary school children that is the only series of its kind in the surrounding 5 rural counties.