For Kids
Bright Comet Theatre will stage their first production, Lord of the Flies. Featuring an entirely femme presenting cast, and involving a multitude of diverse and queer artists.
LGBTQ+
Grantee
Stage
Performing arts of all kinds! Plays, musicals, staged readings, opera, and more. Local theater houses include the Spokane Civic Theater, Stage Left Theatre, Spokane Children’s Theatre, and many others. The First Interstate Center for the Arts hosts Spokane’s Best of Broadway series, which brings touring productions of acclaimed Broadway shows like Hamilton. Find out more below!
Stage
Grantee
Spokane Playwrights Laboratory
SAGA is providing project funding for intensive, month long professional script development workshops for Spokane playwrights.
Stage
Grantee
Spokane Shakespeare Society
The second half of the company’s season two will include the show Romeo & Juliet in July, with eight performances,
followed by Goodnight Desdemona, (Good Morning Juliet) in September with eight performances.
Film
Artist
Alize Latoya Smith
My name is Alize Smith, born & raised in Brooklyn, NY, an Air Force Veteran, and a Military Spouse. Currently pursuing my Bachelors in TV Film & Media with a minor in Screen Writing at EWU. I’m a dancer, actress, content creator, writer, model & youtuber.
Stage
Event: June 16
Much Ado About Nothing, By William Shakespeare
Spokane Ensemble Theatre is back at the MAC! We welcome you into a community of revelry under the summer solstice at Lake Messina – a guarded secret of the locals, nestled betwixt the trees and trails of the Inland Northwest.
Dance
Grantee
Mary Zhang
SAGA will support Zhang as she establishes a permanent space to choreograph Chinese dances and train dancers to continue offering performances.
Music
Grantee
Spokane Symphony
SAGA joins the effort to complete the Spokane Symphony’s fundraising to cover the cost of repairing the Fox stage floor.
Stage
Grantee
Spokane Ensemble Theatre
Spokane Ensemble Theatre will perform a contemporary, high-energy reimagining of William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” in June 2022.
Arts Therapy
Grantee
My Turn Theater
My Turn Theater will provide support and performance opportunities for actors with special needs, with the goal of producing a major musical production each year.