ONTHEBOARDS.TV TELETHON: *YOU TURN IT ON*
At the OntheBoards.tv Telethon YOU TURN IT ON!
“A one-year individual subscription to OntheBoards.tv brings a wealth of high-definition — and high-quality — dance and performance.” - New York Times, 2020
The need for affordable and accessible art at our fingertips became even more important in 2020 when COVID-19 hit, and we all had to stay inside.
On the Boards met the onset of the initial panic of the pandemic with a gift. From March through June, we offered OntheBoards.tv FREE of charge to all visitors --scholars and housebound art lovers from over 25 countries around the globe! We Zoomed community screenings of performance from our friends’ living rooms. We added to the platform, we shared discount codes for subscriptions, and gave recommendations to our friends, we streamed videos during our own workdays because we needed ART. And new OntheBoards.tv users grew by over two thousand percent!
We want to do it again! We want to make OntheBoards.tv free for the month of April- every April! That’s right we want to make every April going forward ART FOR ALL APRIL. We want all the people who watched OntheBoards.tv for the very first time in 2020 to be able to share the service with their friends and their friends’ friends, and their friend's friends' friends. We want the world to know that contemporary performance is just a login away.
OntheBoards.tv is your personal portal to high-quality contemporary performance - anywhere, anytime. Students in Kansas learn from artists in Japan, France, Argentina, Seattle, and New York. Curators in Berlin watch works from Walla Walla, Detroit, or Mexico City. Artists in Tehran are inspired by artists in Columbus. Humans all over the world enjoy this inexpensive way to engage with the wonderful complexities of contemporary performance and expand their thinking about the future of art.
THE LINE UP
WAYS TO GIVE
- Text It! - Just text “GIVEOTB” to 443-21
- Call It! – Operators are standing by. Call 206-217-9886 and press 2 to be connected to the operator
- Internet It! – Make a donation on our Telethon website, as you watch it streaming on March 17th and 18th. Or head straight to our donation form by clicking here!
WANT TO READ MORE ABOUT ONTHEBOARDS.TV
Check out these amazing shout outs from The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, New York Magazine, The Seattle Times, The Stranger, Crosscut, and KUOW.
OUR 2021 TELETHON SPONSORS
Interested in sponsoring this, or other, events? Email yashar@ontheboards.org
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