Help Strike Anywhere Reach $20K by 2025!

A MESSAGE FROM ARTISTIC DIRECTOR LEESE WALKER

45,000. That’s how much we’ve lost in funding this year due to cuts in education grants—no small loss to a small nonprofit like ours.

Hi. Most of you know me, but for any new folks, I’m Leese Walker, Artistic Director of Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble. When I founded Strike Anywhere in 1997, I envisioned a theatre company that inspired joy, community, and positive social change. And with the support of folks like you, that’s exactly what we’ve done; bringing together communities nationwide through our POP UP residencies and site-specific theatrical productions, helping newly arrived immigrant students through our Windows and Mirrors program, and educating the public on the growing the climate crisis through performance pieces like Pliable Futures.

As we all know, the world is changing rapidly. Let’s make sure it’s the kind of change we need. Please help us reach our goal of $20K by 2025. Give today and help make this world a better home for us all.

ABOUT STRIKE ANYWHERE

Established in 1997, the Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble is a permanent collective of jazz musicians, modern dancers, and actors. Performers collaborate through an ensemble-based process to create politically-charged, original works. Strike Anywhere’s mission is to inspire empathy, creativity, and social awareness through provocative performance and innovative education. Its work is guided by the words of Bertolt Brecht, "Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it." SA performances always feature live music, physical theater and modern dance. The company applies structures and concepts from American jazz to their interdisciplinary improvisations to create performances that are engaging and alive. Strike Anywhere is the preeminent theatre company in the United States practicing Soundpainting, a universal sign-language developed by composer Walter Thompson for live composition with improvisers.