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 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
ISSUE’s future home is in need of $3.7 million in renovations to bring the space to code and make it operable as a 199-person capacity theater for new media and contemporary performance. Capital improvements 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 $2.3 million which enables us to move forward with a phase one of construction as soon as we raise architectural and engineering design fees. ISSUE is now working to raise $425,000 by December 2011 to complete the engineering and architectural designs for both phase one and two of construction.
If we are successful in raising these funds by December, we will be able to move forward swiftly with design, begin construction in 2012, and open in fall of 2013.
To help us reach this important goal, please make a donation online, or send your check payable to ISSUE Project Room, 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11215. For questions, please contact Executive Director Ed Patuto at ed@issueprojectroom.org or 718.330.0313 x5.
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