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.

This grant will support a virtual or in-person Green Music Center performance by the band DDAT in November 2020. It will also support the artists leading an educational activity for students in the Santa Rosa City Schools district.

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.