Grantee Database

TABARD THEATRE COMPANY

Grant Year

2023-24

Grant Program

Impact Projects

Award Amount

$21,250.00

Project Description

With support from the California Arts Council, Tabard Theatre Company will present our inaugural Black History Month Festival in February 2024. The program will feature a wide variety of renowned local Black musical acts including diverse generations and spanning jazz, blues, soul, R&B, reggae, zydeco, and spoken word. Black History Month Festival will be presented for the community at affordable admission prices, with youth under 18 admitted free of charge, and include a free video livestream. This project will serve to center and uplift underrepresented Black artists and communities in the South Bay, in celebration of Black History Month.

Organization Summary

Tabard’s core programming is our Main Stage Season of six plays and musicals, our youth education program, our Top of the Stairs play series and Tabard Events, including our lineup of concerts from diverse genres of music, poetry slam events, and cabaret karaoke. Tabard Education runs after-school theatre programs at Empire Gardens, Lyndale and Vinci Park Elementary Schools, at clubhouses with The Boys & Girls Clubs in east and north San Jose and at McKinley School in partnership with Catholic Charities. These programs are offered free of charge to students. We run three summer theatre camps for children ages 6 to 16 and produce a “Mentor Play” where young performers learn from experienced actors. Our Top of the Stairs series presents plays with more adult themes than our main-stage fare and Tabard Events brings in guest productions such as the national tour of STAND!, Will Durst, Nerd Nite and “Divas”, a benefit concert for breast cancer awareness. We also regularly rent our theatre to local performing arts groups and businesses.

Organization

The Tabard Theatre Company

Address

29 N. San Pedro Street

Suite 200

SAN JOSE

95110

County

Santa Clara

Region

Bay Area – Other

Phone

(916) 599-2540

Congressional District

California's 19th congressional district

State Assembly District

District 27

State Senate District

District 15

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