With your help, Miracle receives multiple grant awards!

The holidays have brought with them such wonderful gifts that we just had to issue a special edition of the Miracle Insider to thank you for your help in securing this vital funding:

• $20,000 from The Collins Foundation to support the company’s 2011-2012 28th Season of five major stage productions, one of which (B’aktun 13) will tour Oregon and the U.S. accompanied by bilingual arts education programs for youth and educators. This funding also helps to produce a variety of smaller, community-based programs, including Posada Milagro (visit our Flickr site to see photos from this year’s celebration), designed to provide unique arts & culture experiences especially for underserved populations. The works slated for this season will provide a broad range of opportunities for deeper understanding of Latino culture, history and contemporary issues.

• $5,000 from The Bloomfield Family Foundation to support Teatro Milagro’s touring production B’aktun 13 as well as artist residencies in various communities in Oregon throughout the 2012 school year. In these residencies, Teatro Milagro’s bilingual artists share a curriculum that integrates elements self-esteem building and environmental awareness. While learning about good stewardship, the students develop an appreciation for the arts, a growing interest in science, and a sense of social responsibility, encouraging young people to think independently and take responsibility for their actions, and developing their skills as successful citizens and community leaders.

• $2,500 from KeyBank Foundation to sponsor Teatro Milagro’s “Journeys” artist residencies in Woodburn schools, which promote self-esteem through literacy-based projects for English language learners.  With these residencies and workshops, Teatro Milagro inspires students to become more accepting of diversity and to look for opportunities to engage in community efforts that embrace all people’s differences. “KeyBank has a giving focus of economic self-sufficiency, rooted in the belief that economically self-sufficient individuals are empowered to face the challenges they encounter as they aspire to achieve their dreams,” said Jane Ellison, Director of Community Relations for KeyBank.

We are thrilled with these demonstrations of support, and we are grateful for your help in making them possible. You see, it’s your tax-deductible donation to Miracle Theatre that expresses grassroots community support to foundations like these as well as government agencies such as National Endowment for the Arts, Oregon Arts Commission and Regional Arts & Culture Council. What we’ve said all along is true: We couldn’t do this without you.

If you’ve already made your annual donation to support the Miracle, thank you! If not, please consider making a donation today. You can contribute online or over the phone (503-236-7253) with a credit card, or you can mail a check to:

Miracle Theatre Group
425 SE Sixth Ave.
Portland, OR 97214

Thank you, and see you at Milagro!