Center for the Arts donates rent relief
Center for the Arts
JACKSON, Wyo. (KIFI)-The Center for the Arts in Jackson has announced it will provide more than $225,000 in rent relief for organizations with facilities on the Center’s campus.
Funding for the program comes through a donation from the Lea Charitable Trust. It represents a 40% reduction on the already subsidized lease rates. It’s aimed at helping the organizations deal with the financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Center provides a home for more than 20 independent nonprofits. Most offer programs to enhance the cultural community of Jackson Hole. A group of founding visionaries starting planning the Center in the 1990’s. The Arts and Education Pavilion was opened in 2005 and the Center Theater opened in 2007.
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Each year the New York City Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and just about every other major and minor ballet company dance to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovskiâs 1892 symphonic imagining of E.T.A. Hoffmanâs fantastical fairy tale.
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