The Arts Impact Grant for Organizations (AIGO) funding will support the Green Music Center as it celebrates its 10^th anniversary in 2022, presenting a diverse array of the most compelling artists of our time who will engage audiences on and off our stages. Using our platform to work toward cultural equity, programming will contribute to the well being of our communities and will help build empathy in our multicultural world.

The Green Music Center (GMC) will use funds to present the 10th anniversary season of performing arts programming. Especially during these challenging times, the Green Music Center's performances are helping to promote healing and empathy for one another.

To support signature events of the Green Music Center’s 10th Anniversary season in 2022-2023. These signature events will be performances and educational activities by Angélique Kidjo, Aída Cuevas, and Clear Creek Creative (in conjunction with their site-specific theater piece Ezell). The performances will be complemented by lectures, workshops, and other off-stage educational activities aimed at connecting the communities we serve with the featured artists, with a special focus on engaging students from kindergarten through university.

The Green Music Center received an award for funding to support a theater piece, Ezell: Ballad of a Land Man. It is an environmental, cultural and spiritual parable derived from living in the foothills of Appalachia, one man among many seeking to make sense of the time, place and condition in which we live.  In the story, Ezell’s choices, traumas, ancestors and more intersect with themes of domination and resilience as he seeks to take advantage of an anticipated fracking boom and the opportunity to reconnect with the people and land of his raising.