2019-04-15T05:57:50-07:00 2018-06-30 262176601 Easy Office dba Jitasa 1750 W Front Street Suite 200 Boise ID 83702 990EZ 2017-07-01 800901924 CIVIC ENSEMBLE INC CIVI 6072410195 127 Cleveland Ave Ithaca NY 14850 Godfrey L Simmons Jr Co-Artistic Director 8778295500 2019-04-15 1 Mary Soper P01402577 2082874777 2019-04-15 70.99.208.2 2017 2019-02-21 02:37:17Z X www.civicensemble.org X X 89439 X 74021 15396 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 89439 2000 0 30963 36510 5415 1945 29302 106135 -16696 22492 0 5796 22492 5796 0 0 0 0 22492 5796 0 0 22492 5796 Civic Ensemble creates theatre that explores and explodes the social, political and cultural issues of our time. We bring audiences of different races, classes and experiences together in a public forum on the American experiment. The ReEntry Theatre Program brings together people who have been incarcerated at some point in their lives to write plays and present them to the community. Participants in this program gain invaluable hard skills like writing, computer literacy, and theatre skills, as well as soft skills like communication, patience, and teamwork. The purpose of this program is twofold: to provide a structure for personal growth for people reentering the community after incarceration, and to connect those re-entering with the larger community through the performances of their plays. Conducted weekly sessions during this time period during which over 100 participants helped create an original play. 10 participants then participated as cast members in a two-month rehearsal and play development process. 4 performances of the play were conducted attended by approximately 500 people. 0 21630 Civic Acts: New Plays Toward The Beloved Community is Civic Ensemble's new annual play festival in Ithaca featuring new political plays by nationally and internationally renowned playwrights whose work centers women and people of color. These plays deal with the challenges our communities face in moving society toward what Dr. Martin Luther King called The Beloved Community. The Beloved Community is a vision where all people share in the wealth of the earth. Civic Acts is one of the few new play festivals in the U.S. devoted to socially-engaged theatre. During the time period requested, rehearsals were conducted for the first of two of the plays presented, Fast Blood, by Judy Tate. The plays were performed in July and August of 2018 with 12 performances of Fast Blood and 10 performances of Bee Trapped Inside the Window. 835 Audience members combined, saw the plays performed that summer. 0 20754 Civic Ensemble and Cornell University's Department of Performing and Media Arts continue their partnership with a collaboration centering the topic of climate change. While a course is taught on campus, Civic Ensemble will work with students and community members to conduct story circles and interviews off-campus with community members, students, scientists, government officials, farmers, and artists. Civic Ensemble is establishing connections with individuals and community and government groups to set up story circles and interviews during the month of October. These stories and interviews will help create the course's culminating project, a play in the format of a Living Newspaper. 20 student and community participants helped to build the original play. 5 performances were presented on the Cornell campus and around the community. 400 audience members attended the performances. 0 15189 Other programs. 0 23879 81452 Norman Johnson Jr President 5 0 0 0 Heather Duke Secretary 5 0 0 0 Victor Younger Treasurer 5 0 0 0 Chiori Miagawa Board Member 2 0 0 0 Fabina Benites Colon Board Member 2 0 0 0 Vernice Miller Board Member 2 0 0 0 Sarah K Chalmers Board Member/Founder/Co-Artistic Director 30 6970 0 0 Godfrey L Simmons Jr Board Member/Founder/Co-Artistic Director 30 240 0 0 Anne Rhodes Board Member 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NY Jitasa 1750 W Front St Suite 200 Boise ID 83702 2082874777 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 0 20 52380 28223 74022 154645 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 52380 28223 74022 154645 31313 123332 0 0 5 7 22 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 154679 70920 0.79734 0.8366 X Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Description;Amount^Office and Other Miscellaneous Expenses;12315|Other Program Specific Expenses;7061|Travel and Meeting Expenses;4867|Insurance;3800|Computer Software and Hardware;1259^Total;29302^