The County of Sonoma Arts Impact Grant for Organizations (AIGO) funding will support the Green Music Center in 2024 in our effort to present 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 wellbeing of our communities and will help build empathy in our multicultural world.

This grant will support a portion of the artist fees for the presentation of performances and artist-led educational activities for students at Sonoma State University and local K-12 schools during the Green Music Center's 2023-2024 season.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has funded the Green Music Center to commission Wicked Bodies (Sonoma) by Liz Lerman.  It is an evening-length, dance-theater piece that wonders about the persistence across time and culture of old crones, evil stepmothers, and the use of the body as a source of fear by institutions.  Lerman and her company will create this piece with SSU faculty and students, as well as members of the surrounding communities, and the premiere will take place at Green Music Center.

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.

This grant will support a September 24, 2022 performance by the band DDAT, in Weill Hall at the Green Music Center.  Funding will also support 5-days of educational activities led by DDAT for students at Sonoma State, Santa Rosa City Schools’ Indian Education Program, and other K-12 schools.

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.

This award is to support the Green Music Center's Family Day activities in spring 2023 and 2024. These activities, which are curated for TK-6th grade students and their families, will feature performances by Somos Amigos (Sonia De Los Santos and The Okee Dokee Brothers) in 2023 and Las Cafeteras in 2024. Each year's performance will be followed by a variety of interactive performing and visual arts activities for children, offered in English and Spanish, that will be led by local teaching artists and SSU graduate students in education.

This grant will support a virtual or in-person Green Music Center performance and lecture-demonstration by the string ensemble Invoke in October 2020.