#RethinkRespond

It’s been a difficult year of challenges and reckonings.

We’ve responded by making investigations into the very nature of performance and collaboration, and by re-thinking our operating model and our programming as we find ways to – not just survive- but evolve, and thrive.

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  • We hired two new employees; longtime Imaginists’ collaborators Zahira Diaz (Communications and Education Outreach) and Amanda Artru (Development Associate). Their new positions will build our core team, providing the Imaginists necessary organizational support so that we can create more opportunities for more people to make and experience art.

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  • We’re developing an emerging artist residency program, specifically for young people who reside in Sonoma County. The program will provide time, space, honorariums, and mentoring to emerging artists across discipline, centering equity and inclusion for all underserved populations.

  • We’re developing an artist residency program for working artists; instigating collaborations and interdisciplinary new work, with artists locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. We’ll pilot this program in 2021.

  • We’re starting a teacher training program, partnerships with local elementary schools for bilingual theater residencies, and year round paid internships for high school juniors and seniors. In the coming year we’ll be developing a new work for young audiences with composer, musician, and educator Jose Soto. Our education programming will also expand to include more interdisciplinary opportunities, including a writing/film cohort.

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