Performance Space 122’s Spring Gala 2015

The PS122 Spring Gala is our annual premiere event, attracting mega-watt participation and support. In the spirit of PS122, the event is always a festive affair, jam-packed with programming and experiences to remember. Our 2015 Gala will be focused on Performance Space 122’s homecoming to 150 First Avenue in the East Village and will mark the public phase of our capacity campaign Give Performance Space (GPS), co-chaired by Alan Cumming, Chet Kerr, and Stella Schnabel. The performances will reflect the past, present, and wider artist communities that benefit from and support the risk-taking work presented by Performance Space 122.

Host: Alan Cumming Honoree: Claire Danes (additional honorees tbd)

2015 Gala Committee as of November 2015: Co-chairs Alan Cumming, Chet Kerr and Stella Schnabel; Justin Vivian Bond, Winsome Brown and Claude Arpels, Andrew Cohen, Olga Garay-English and Kerry English, Suzanne Geiss, Eileen Guggenheim, Jesse Hernreich, Tommy Kriegsmann and Shanta Thake, Matthew Kwatinetz, Josephine Linden, Ivan Martinez, Tom Moore, Adam Whitney Nichols, Russell Piccione, Michael Rich, Eli Scheier and Kambiz Shekdar. Date and Location: Monday, April 20, 2015 at Capitale

Previous Gala Details Honorees: Holly Hughes, John Fleck, Tim Miller, Clara Miller, Amanda Palmer, Councilwoman Rosie Mendez, Gabrielle Hamilton, John Leguizamo, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Eric Bogosian, Kickstarter Founders: Charles Adler, Perry Chen and Yancy Strickler.

Performers and Part icipants: Antony and the Johnsons, Jonathan Ames, Charles Atlas, Blue Man Group, Justin Vivian Bond, Steve Buscemi, Claire Danes, Commissioner Tom Finkelpearl, Ira Glass, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bill T. Jones, Cyndi Lauper, Spike Lee, Isaac Mizrahi, Richard Move, Rosie O’Donnell, Philippe Petit, Rosie Perez, Parker Posey, Sam Rockwell, Michael Stipe, Elizabeth Streb, John Turturro, New York City Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer and Rufus Wainwright.

Notable Auction Items: A private food performance by artist Jennifer Rubell, International Contemporary Ensemble Private Performance, Prune dinner for eight with a cooking demo with Chef Gabrielle Hamilton, Reclining Nude: Jean-Michel Basquiat VIII by photographer Paige Powell, Absinthe Vegas Package including accommodations, air fare, and tickets to Absinthe Las Vegas and Vegas Nocturne.

Event Sponsors: Alacran, The Bowery Hotel, Brennevin, FAIR Vodka, illycaffe, Monsieur Touton, Perrier, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, Swarovski

Select 2014 Press Inclusions: NYTimes T Magazine, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine Approval Matrix, Guest of a Guest

Financials Money raised in 2013: 98k Money raised in 2014: 130k Projected goal for 2015: 240k

 

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 Lead  Architect  $50,000  • 20  tickets  to  the  Gala  • Step  and  Repeat  Logo  placement  • Recognition  in  the  new  building  as  part  of  the  Give  Performance  Space  Campaign  • Exclusive  invitation  to  the  donor  recognition  event  for  the  opening  of  our  Building  • Prominent  listing,  Logo/Link  on  website  event  page  and  2015-­‐2016  Season  Sponsor  Listing  • Featured  content  in  pre-­‐benefit  newsletter  and  follow-­‐up  email,  21,000+  recipients  • Inclusion  in  all  promotional  and  press  materials  as  released  • Customized  marketing  presence  and  additional  sampling  opportunities  at  the  event        • Inside  Cover/or  Center  Full  page  advertisement  and  sponsorship  listing  in  program    • A  table  portrait  taken  of  your  party  with  Gala  Host  Alan  Cumming  • 20  complimentary  tickets  to  the  2015-­‐2016  Season,  unlimited  discount  code  and  a  post-­‐  

   show  cocktail  reception  in  the  new  building  held  in  your  honor    Architects  &  Contractors  $25,000  • 12  tickets  to  the  Gala  • Step  and  Repeat  Logo  placement  • Recognition  as  part  of  the  Give  Performance  Space  Campaign  • Exclusive  invitation  to  the  donor  recognition  event  for  the  opening  of  our  Building  • Prominent  listing,  Logo/Link  on  website  event  page  and  2015-­‐2016  Season  Sponsor  Listing  • Link  and  logo  inclusion  in  benefit  section  of  weekly  e-­‐newsletter,  21,000+  recipients  • Inclusion  in  all  promotional  and  press  materials  as  released  • Marketing  presence  and  additional  sampling  opportunities  at  the  event    • Inside  Cover/or  Center  Full  page  advertisement  and  sponsorship  listing  in  program    • A  table  portrait  taken  of  your  party  with  Gala  Host  Alan  Cumming  • 12  complimentary  tickets  to  the  2015-­‐2016  Season  and  unlimited  discount  code      Roof  Deck  $15,000  • 10  tickets  to  the  Gala  • Step  and  Repeat  Logo  placement  • Prominent  listing,  Logo/Link  on  website  event  page    • Link  and  logo  inclusion  in  benefit  section  of  weekly  e-­‐newsletter,  21,000+  recipients  • Inclusion  in  all  promotional  and  press  materials  as  released  • Marketing  presence  and  additional  sampling  opportunities  at  the  event  • Full-­‐page  advertisement  and  sponsorship  listing  in  program    • 10  complimentary  tickets  to  the  2015-­‐2016  season    Bricks  &  Mortar  $10,000  • 10  tickets  to  the  Gala  • 5  complimentary  tickets  to  our  2015-­‐2016  Season  • Full-­‐page  advertisement  or  acknowledgment  in  the  PS122  Gala  program,  a    

contribution  listing  in  Gala  invitation,  program  and  on  PS122  website    Insulation  $5,000  • 8  tickets  to  the  Gala  • 2  complimentary  tickets  to  our  2015-­‐2016  Season    • Half-­‐page  advertisement  or  acknowledgment  in  the  PS122  Gala  program,  a  contribution    

       listing  in  Gala  invitation,  program  and  on  PS122  website    Bedrock  $2,500    • 4  tickets  to  the  Gala  • Business  card  size  advertisement  or  acknowledgment  in  the  PS122  Gala  program  and    

a  contribution  listing  in  Gala  invitation,  program  and  on  PS122  website  

 Performance Space 122 provides incomparable experiences for audiences by presenting and commissioning artists whose work challenges boundaries of live performance. PS122 is dedicated to supporting the creative risks taken by artists from diverse genres, cultures and perspectives. We are an innovative local, national and international leader in contemporary performance. PS122’s HISTORY For over 30 years, Performance Space 122 has been a leading contemporary performance hub in New York City. PS122 provides support for audiences, artists and artistic practices, with an ambition to better engage in contemporary society and positively affect the cultural landscape of the East Village, New York City, the United States and the globe. Under the curatorial vision of Mark Russell (1985–2005) and Vallejo Gantner (2005–present), PS122 has presented over 25,000 artists from more than 20 different countries for hundreds of thousands of audience members since our beginning in 1980. Through PS122’s focus on audience experience, artistic support and the development of artistic practice, we have brought forward not only artists like John Leguizamo, Jonathan Ames, Eric Bogosian, the Blue Man Group and Annie Dorsen, who have gone on to make waves in commercial arenas like Broadway, cinema and television, but also artists who have triggered national debate about political and ethical issues. These include the original “NEA four,” Ethyl Eichelberger and more recently Young Jean Lee and Thomas Bradshaw, as well as artists who have radicalized aesthetic form, like Meredith Monk, Spalding Gray, Ron Athey, Richard Maxwell, Elevator Repair Service, Radiohole, Adrienne Truscott, Rabih Mroué (Lebanon), Philippe Quesne (France) and Maria Hassabi. Through the presentation of these artists and many more, PS122 has launched careers and art forms, and developed new art practices that have enriched the cultural petri dish that is New York City and subsequently the globe. PS122’S FUTURE Since our start as an East Village artist squat, PS122 has evolved from a scrappy underdog providing artists a space to experiment, to a globally renowned leader in our field. PS122 now presents and commissions emerging and mid-career artists at the forefront of contemporary performance here and around the world. With the generous support of the City of New York, PS122 is engaging in a transformative renovation of our home at 150 First Avenue, with a planned completion date of early 2016. Our renovated space will open up a world of programming opportunities that enable the artists of today and the future to thrive through enhanced technological capability, flexible configuration and vastly improved stage space. This moment provides PS122 with a unique opportunity to increase and evolve our organizational and artistic output of thought-provoking, provocative work across all live artistic disciplines. In concert with the City–led renovation, our increased organizational capacity will make our space a hub for bold new ideas surging through contemporary conversations. The PS122 community is invigorated by the prospect of 2016’s reopening in larger, state-of-the-art and column-free, flexible, ADA-compliant theaters. PS122’s theaters are the heart and soul of the East Village and the launching board for artists worldwide. We could not be more excited by the prospects of our new venues, which will ensure that PS122 will remain a leader in the contemporary performance field for decades to come.

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES & EVENTS: COIL Festival Jan. 2 - 18, 2015 PS122’s annual winter festival full of contemporary, global, local and always very live performance. For COIL’s 10th anniversary we will present 13 shows in 12 locations. The Evening Richard Maxwell March 12 – 28, 2015 The Evening distills an archetypal tale of a good man in moral decline. This modern yet loose adaptation of Dante’s Inferno and Milton’s Paradise Lost is commissioned through the 2014 Spalding Gray Award. Welcome to LYFE™ Glass Ghost (Eliot Krimsky) May 14, 2015 Presented at Lincoln Center’s Atrium, Eliot Krimsky’s Welcome to LYFE™ was developed in PS122’s RAMP residency program in spring 2014.