Vision, Capital Plan, and Timeline

OUR VISION

In the past decade, Brooklyn has evolved into a global epicenter for culture. It is home to the highest concentration of artists, designers, writers and cultural workers in the United States. ISSUE will continue to play a leadership role in maintaining Brooklyn’s vital cultural landscape, providing a vibrant network of artists with a leading-edge facility and opportunities to create groundbreaking new work.

ISSUE Project Room at 110 Livingston will be an incubator for creating and testing new work. In particular, ISSUE will seek out and support those practices that will enable art forms and traditions to advance in new directions. We will also offer and expand programs that are vital to our culture.

Once renovated, the theater at 110 Livingston will be the only space in New York with the ability to display 360° visuals and multi-channel sound. The 1926 theater is one of the few authentic European-style jewel box theaters in the United States designed for chamber music. ISSUE will maintain these rare perfect acoustics while expanding its capability for 21st century performance.

Artists will receive expanded rehearsal space, access to the latest technologies, a high level of production support, and performance exposure to a broad public audience. Music ensembles will have opportunity to utilize the rare perfect acoustics for recordings. Members of the community and organizations will have access to the hall for events.

ISSUE will launch educational programs designed to explore how experimental arts practice can invigorate progressive education and provide students with essential 21st century skills. To design these programs, ISSUE is working in partnership with local schools.

Concept rendering by WORKac and ARUP.

CAPITAL PLAN

Capital improvements will cost $3.7 million and will include:

-Rehabilitative re-use of the historic theater for new media and contemporary performance
-Theatrical lighting and acoustic systems
-HVAC, electrical, plumbing, fire, safety & sprinkler systems
-Artist green room, rehearsal, and recording studio
-Box office and concessions area

TIMELINE

To date ISSUE has raised $2.7 million and is moving forward with a phase one of construction designed to bring the space to code as a 199-person theater.  We are now in the process of raising the remaining funds to complete the project.

2012   -100 Pre-construction concerts designed to enable artists to acoustically test the space and inform
the final designs
-Architectural drawings developed and finalized City approval of completed designs.

2013   CONSTRUCTION

2014   GRAND OPENING

CURRENT CAPITAL FUNDERS

ISSUE gratefully acknowledges generous support from the following private and public contributors:

To help us raise remaining funds, or to inquire about naming opportunities, please contact:
Ed Patuto, Executive Director
ed@issueprojectroom.org
718.330.0313 #8.

For More information about donations, please contact:
Matthew Walker, Development Coordinator
matthew@issueprojectroom.org
718-330-0313 #5

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