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Redmoon Theater

Chicago, Illinois

Grants

2015 (1 year)
$50,000

Redmoon Theater produces live performances that combine contemporary art and traditional theatrical forms. Using masks, huge puppets, acrobatics, and whimsical mechanical devices, Redmoon creates theatrical spectacles that take place on stages and in public spaces such as streets, parks, and in architectural landmarks. Redmoon, in partnership with the City of Chicago, is presenting the second annual Great Chicago Fire Festival. The Festival will use various art forms to facilitate and document the resiliency and diversity of the city and its people. This year the Festival includes a series of free community arts programs and events around the city, arts residencies in seven Chicago Park Districts, and will culminate with a day-long, free public event on September 25th on Northerly Island. This grant funds activities related to the planning and execution of the Great Chicago Fire Festival.

2015 (3 years)
$52,500

Redmoon Theater produces live performances that combine contemporary art and traditional theatrical forms. Using masks, huge puppets, acrobatics, and whimsical mechanical devices, Redmoon creates theatrical spectacles that take place on stages and in public spaces such as streets, parks, and in architectural landmarks. Its performances are collaborative in nature and encourage non-traditional theater audiences to forge new relationships between fellow audience members, the work itself, and the location in which it takes place. This grant supports artistic, education, outreach, and operations activities.

2014 (1 year)
$50,000

Redmoon Theater produces live performances that combine contemporary art and traditional theatrical forms. In partnership with the City of Chicago, Redmoon Theater is presenting the inaugural Great Chicago Fire Festival. The Festival includes events in 15 neighborhoods, primarily on the south and west sides, as well as a culminating event (October 4th) centered on the Chicago River that will include acrobatics, live performances by arts groups, floating sculptures, wild mechanical objects, a fire finale and firework display. The Festival will be a signature event for the city and is envisioned to be conducted annually.

2009 (1 year)
$45,000

To support an international collaboration with the Public Arts Initiative in Donegal, Ireland.

2002 (1 year)
$100,000

To support the Bridge Campaign, a special initiative to build business and artistic capacity.

2001 (2 years)
$90,000

To support community-building programs in Logan Square (over two years).

2000 (1 year)
$75,000

To support community participation in the development and production of the Logan Square Halloween Spectacle.

1999 (1 year)
$45,000

To support a community celebration of Halloween in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago.

1998 (3 years)
$60,000

In support of general operations (over three years).

1997 (1 year)
$8,000

To support the production "Winter Pageant."

1996 (1 year)
$20,000

To support "The Medicine Show," a theater work created and presented in Chicago neighborhoods and parks.

1994 (3 years)
$150,000

In support of general operations of Redmoon and four other alternative theater companies (over three years).