{"id":3528,"date":"2014-04-29T19:02:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T19:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theadclub.org\/rosoff2014\/?p=3528"},"modified":"2015-05-01T17:20:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T17:20:44","slug":"citi-performing-arts-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2014\/citi-performing-arts-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Citi Performing Arts Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Non-Profit Initiative Award\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Winner<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h1>Citi Performing Arts Center<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/piKnvXlIcSY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Citi Performing Arts Center is one of the nation&#8217;s foremost nonprofit performing arts institutions, generating an average economic impact of $70M annually. With a strategic commitment to broad-based access and community outreach, Citi Center serves the full breadth of Boston&#8217;s diverse population with culturally relevant, multidisciplinary performing arts and arts education programming.<\/p>\n<p>As New England\u2019s largest nonprofit performing arts center, Citi Center serves the community as a cultural integrator, honoring all aspects of the performing arts including opera, dance, Broadway, classical and popular music, comedy, and family-friendly programs. It also serves as the community\u2019s steward of Boston\u2019s three iconic theatres\u2014the Wang, Shubert, and Emerson Colonial\u2014which have anchored the historic Theatre District for over 85 years.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, Citi Center began shifting its programming from one that was heavily focused on Ballet and Broadway to a deliberately more diverse and culturally relevant mix that integrates both popular entertainment and classical art forms. This shift re-defined Citi Center&#8217;s role and core competency as both a community-focused performing arts center and an open-access introduction for people of all ages, backgrounds, and interests to experience arts and culture, expanding audience growth and diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Citi Center also serves the full breadth of Boston\u2019s diverse population with free arts education programming that is accessible to youth\/families of all socio\u2010economic backgrounds, including in\u2010school artist residencies; vacation week programs; citywide interactive community readings; the Teen Council, an afterschool community leadership opportunity; and the City Spotlights Summer Leadership Program, an innovative summer job for at\u2010risk Boston teens. Citi Center\u2019s ticket access and community nights work with a 200+ community partner network to offer economically disadvantaged families who cannot afford them, tickets to award\u2010winning, professional arts entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>While Citi Center\u2019s entire education program is designed to target Boston\u2019s diverse populations, the City Spotlights Leadership program is worth highlighting. Approaching its fourth year, the City Spotlights Leadership Program uniquely empowers Boston\u2019s diverse youth to expand upon their existing strengths, to take an active role in their personal and professional development, and to become engaged leaders amongst their peers, in the workplace, and in their communities.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure success, the City Spotlights Leadership Program uses an evaluation system that has been vetted by professional experts to gather program impact data using pre- and post-program assessments to identify artistic, social, personal, and workplace skill development. In addition to Citi Center staff, an Evaluation Task Force\u2014an evaluation subcommittee of the Education Committee\u2014is in place to ensure all programs are aligned with Citi Center\u2019s strategic map, the program\u2019s stated goals, and curriculum standards. Last summer\u2019s program (2013) reached 16,490 audience members through 111 street performances, 773 youth participants through teen leader-led workshops at twelve community center, camp, and library sites, 22 neighborhoods through street performances and community workshops and 200+ audience members attended the Final Showcase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-Profit Initiative Award\u00a0Winner Citi Performing Arts Center &nbsp; Citi Performing Arts Center is one of the nation&#8217;s foremost nonprofit performing arts institutions, generating an average economic impact of $70M annually. With a strategic commitment to broad-based access and community outreach, Citi Center serves the full breadth of Boston&#8217;s diverse population with culturally relevant, multidisciplinary performing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finalists"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/04\/rosoff-finalist-_0009_Layer-Comp-10.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/04\/rosoff-finalist-_0009_Layer-Comp-10.png","author_info":{"display_name":"The Ad Club","author_link":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2014\/author\/theadclub\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.theadclub.org\/rosoff2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}