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KCMetropolis.org - YOUR Online Journal of the Performing Arts - is a nonprofit arts service organization designed to offer critical, quality dialogue about our community's performing arts through new online technologies and social medias. We are just completing our second full season of publishing articles on traditional and independent classical music, dance, theatre, indie films and jazz. KCM is a true grassroots organization with 20+ local volunteer writers on board - talented and expert voices coming from the musicologists, musicians, artists, actors, professional writers, etc within the community.
KCMetropolis.org is a FREE weekly publication that promotes and celebrates the performing arts in the Kansas City metro area. We debuted our first edition on October 2008 and now have more than 800 articles up on site. And publishing in 'virtual' space has allowed us to offer more, and more easily accessible coverage of performing arts events - both small and large - than has ever been offered in one place to the Kansas City public.
Last July, KCMetropolis.org launched a new performing arts calendar - KC Events - that allows arts organizations to add and manage their own events. It is much more than just a listing - click on the link and find an entire page of information on each performance, all with easy links to share, print, send to your mobile, etc. We are partnering with other performing arts organizations, online arts purveyors and tourism-based businesses to make KC Events easily accessible in many locations.
The past two years have been extremely difficult for the performing arts, and the next fiscal year (FY 2010/11) is shaping up to be harder still. State funding for the arts has been zeroed out in both Kansas and Missouri, foundations and corporations have cut back sharply their giving patterns and the average joe-on-the-street - the arts supporter - has much less money in his pockets.
This unsettled economy has also seen the decrease or demise of many traditional medias like newspapers and magazines... and as they explore new ways to keep their voices alive, new and innovative organizations like KCMetropolis.org are cropping up all over the country to assure that the arts continue to have a strong voice in our society.
It is imperative that publications like KCMetropolis.org and other nonprofit ONLINE arts service organizations continue to exist to provide this voice for the arts in the community.
In order to continue to offer quality performing arts information through critical dialogue to you, we depend on financial support from the readers we serve. We will never institute a subscription fee for our information like many other online informational journals are now exploring. It is our mission to keep the performing arts easily accessible for all in the community.
There are several ways you can support KCMetropolis:
Please make a tax-free donation directly to us. Click the DONATE button below now to make an online donation or mail a check to 814 E. 33rd Street, Kansas City, MO 64109.
Please become a sponsor of KCMetropolis and buy advertising on the website. We will help promote you out to a growing 18,000+ monthly readership. It is a win-win situation for all. For more information about sponsorship advertising, click here.
Your invaluable donations help support general operations, technology and accessible content so that our KCMetropolis.org may continue to promote and educate the community about this valuable cultural resource.
We would like to extend our utmost thanks to those of you that have donated and sponsored KCM over the past two years - we couldn't have done it without you.
Thank you for supporting KCMetropolis.org!
Our Mission:
KCMetropolis.org publishes online substantive, critical, unbiased review, preview and side-story articles on the traditional and independent performing arts to help promote, make accessible and educate the general public about Kansas City's rich, performing arts environment.
KCMetropolis.org incorporated in August 2008 and was designated a Federal 501c3 nonprofit in February 2009.
Donations are tax deductible and may be made in any quantity.
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KCMETROPOLIS.org
814 East 33rd Street
Kansas City, MO 64109
For more information about becoming a supporter of KCMetropolis.org, please contact Marcy Chiasson at Marcy@KCMetropolis.org
Please join our growing family of donors
Bank of America
Francis Family Foundation
Missouri Arts Council
Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
IodiTech
Anonymous individual donor
Arts Incubator of Kansas City
Jaymie Bonavia
Gregory Carroll and Doris Wright Carroll
Marcy Chiasson
Don and Patricia Dagenais
Bruce Dickerson
Kathy Dunn
JB Elfving
Jim and Mary Grant, GMG Designs
Nathan Granner and Laurie Arbore
Laurie J. Hamilton
David and Lorraine Hamilton
Chris Hands
George Harter
Sally Ingram
International Isotope
Virginia Long
Alan McDermott
Andy and Laura Muir
David Field Oliver
Kathryn Pruessner
Ann Reed
William Reisler
Carol Rothwell
John and Leona Schaefer
Julia Scherer
Cliff Schiappa
Dana Seeley
Peter Sunderman
Curt Thomas
Sarah M. Weitzel
Dave Wurth
theSTEADY
Financial assistance for this project
has been provided by the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.
We would like to thank our writers, volunteers and others who donate their valuable time and support to make KCMetropolis.org a reality.
A heartfelt thanks to Pam Taylor and Pete Dulin of PresentMagazine.com for hosting, advocating and supporting KCMetropolis.org for the first 6 months of our existence. Without their generosity, we would not have been able to exist and grow.
Thank you for supporting KCMetropolis.org!
KCMetropolis.org Board of Directors
OFFICERS
Nathan Granner, Chairman & Co-Founder
Opera Singer, Entrepreneur
Marcy Chiasson, President & Co-Founder
Editor-in-Chief of KCMetropolis.org
Andy Huckaba, Treasurer
Huckaba & Associates
President
Laura Muir, Secretary
Kansas City Repertory Theatre
Director of Communications
DIRECTORS
Greg Carroll
American Jazz Museum
CEO
Kathy Dunn
Fundraising Professional
David Field Oliver
Berkowitz Oliver Williams Shaw & Eisenbrandt, LLP
Partner and Chairman of the Management Committee
Richard Wetzel
J.E. Dunn Construction
AIA, LEED AP