KCMETROPOLIS.org
Kansas City's Online Journal of the Performing Arts

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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 here to make a donation now 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!
KCM Staff and Board of Directors