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Dear Friend,
I hope you have been enjoying these gorgeous days of sunshine and blue skies. They have certainly put a “spring” in my step!
As the vaccine rollout becomes more widespread, bringing with it a bit more peace of mind and the gradual reopening of businesses that have been shut down for more than 12 months, we at Portland Center Stage are excited to be rolling out our plans for reopening in the fall. You’ll hear more exciting details from us in the weeks ahead!
In the meantime, please continue to visit us online to enjoy the rich and innovative PCS Remix season, including original works, delightful play readings, and engaging education and community outreach programs. You can view many of our recent programs on our Watch Now page.
Our wonderful community of donors has supported us in so many ways over the past year! Thank you for your financial contributions, for your encouraging emails, notes and comments on social media, and for joining us online to watch PCS Remix.
Our Soaring Together campaign is off to a great start — thank you to those of you who have contributed! We will be focused on this campaign through June 30, the end of our fiscal year, and we’ll keep you updated on our progress. With your support, we will close this fiscal year with sound finances, so we are well positioned to kickoff a new season and reopen The Armory!
Staying connected is deeply meaningful to me, and I am only a short email or phone call away. Please reach out if you’d like to learn more about the work happening at PCS.
With warm regards,
Soaring Together: Insights from Marissa Wolf
The PCS Remix season has offered a space for cultivating new project ideas that will serve the company for years to come. We’ve commissioned major national playwrights, collaborated with some of Portland’s most exciting musicians, activists, and theater makers, and responded to the full-throated appeal from our field to dismantle harmful racist systems to create a space where all people’s full humanity is loved and cherished on and off stage.
The past year was a time of planting new seeds of abundance and possibility at PCS, and it is these bright green stalks of new growth that we take with us into the season ahead. As we hire back many laid off staff, contract artists for our beautiful in-person season, and look forward to welcoming audiences back into The Armory, I think of Tony Kushner’s appeal for abundance and joy at the end of Angels in America: “More Life.”
I see this company — whose green stalks are interconnected to our community in entirely new ways — as a place of rich possibility, even as we navigate through our continued, critical need for financial health and sustainability.
Soaring Together. That’s what we’re doing. Each of your contributions lift PCS, and together we will come back with beauty and strength.
If you are interested in taking the next step in giving long-lasting support to PCS as an annual fund donor, explore our Individual Giving options online or contact Jack Ridenour-Starnes, Development Manager, at jackr@pcs.org.
Thank You!
PCS donors are vital to our success, and we are grateful to each and every one of you. Please join us in welcoming our newest donors!
Our Community Values
Theater often brings productive discomfort to the surface. Portland Center Stage is committed to grappling with that discomfort, on and off the stage, and we invite members of our community to participate in that growth process with us. Our goal is to co-create safety for our community by identifying and interrupting instances of racism and all forms of oppression, when we witness them, through specific actions rooted in the principles of inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA). Learn more.
