A permanent home for Dixon Place
Having presented over five hundred artists a year for 23 years, outgrown three different spaces & survived NYC's real estate market, the need for a permanent home is unquestionable.Dixon Place has purchased an awe inspiring property located on the
ground floor of 161 Chrystie Street on the Lower Eastside of Manhattan
and has completed construction on a state-of the-art laboratory space
for theater, music, dance, puppetry, literature and performance art,
the first of its kind in NYC. Improving our facilities and securing
a permanent home will deepen our involvement with and strengthen our
commitment to the artists we support, the community we serve and NYC
as a cultural center.
photo by Evan Sung
Our new, custom-built, totally accessible facility has been designed to ensure self-sufficiency and fiscal responsibility. DP at 161 Chrystie includes a fully-equipped, laboratory theater, a community space with a lounge and smaller second stage, and a rehearsal studio, all of which will allow our programming and services to double over the course of the first three years in operation. The community space and second stage represent new earned income and expanded opportunities for our constituents - housing our Cultural Education and Community Outreach Program during the day and operating as a public meeting place and additional performing space in the evenings. And just as DP has played a key role in the emergence and development of literary and performing artists for 23 years, our new and unprecedented mainstage laboratory will bring credibility and professionalism to the critical and much-deserving early stages of new creation in NYC.
DP's new home strengthens our established role as an artistic laboratory, which has grown exponentially in two decades, proving essential to the development of performing and literary artists. Our track record speaks for itself: literally thousands of artists, many of whom have gone on to critical and commercial successes, began their careers with us. An investment in Dixon Place is an investment in a comprehensive and inclusive cultural landscape in NYC.
To date, we've raised $5.2 million of our $5.7 million capital goal. These funds have been committed by our Board of Directors, Campaign Committee, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the Mayor's Office, New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Council Member Alan Gerson and the Council's Manhattan Delegation, NYS Assembly Member Deborah Glick, The Katherine Dalglish Foundation, the Booth Ferris Foundation, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, the Cohen Foundation, The Peg Santvoord Foundation, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and generous individual patrons.
During the final stage of construction, your support is critical. Because
the government subsidy we've been awarded (over $2 million) comes to
us as reimbursed funds, mostly AFTER construction is complete, the challenge
we are facing is construction cash flow. So the success of ongoing construction
progress is dependent on private support.
There are fabulous opportunities to make donations to DP's permanent
home. There are many exciting naming opportunities:
performance spaces, rehearsal space, dressing rooms, restrooms, chairs,
couches may be named for an individual, organization or corporation.
We really need your support!
We hope you'll join us for an exciting season at 161 Chrystie Street.
We are working hard to put the finishing touches on our new space. We'd
love to share our excitement with you by taking you on a tour of the
facility. For more information about our new space and the capital campaign,
call 212-219-0736.
If you are interested in these naming opportunities you can follow the link to make your gift online.
All contributions are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
All donations will help us reach our goal. You may make
a donation online, or if you would like to make a donation by check,
please send it to
Dixon Place
161 Chrystie Street
New York, NY 10002
include "Capital Campaign" in the memo.
