Finger Lakes Community Arts Grants

The decentralization grant submission period for the 2021 grant cycle is happening NOW! There are three types of grant programs for 2021 and applicants are eligible for up to $5000 between the three programs listed below: Community Arts Grants, awards range from $500-$5000 Arts Education Grants, awards range from $500-$5000... Individual Artist Grants, $2500 award The grant submission deadline is Saturday, May 15th at midnight! For more info please check the grants page at https://auburnpublictheater.org/grants/ and for any questions please email Janie Micglire, DEC Coordinator at [email protected]

New opportunity for young filmmakers!

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Every cup of coffee, every breakfast sandwich, every veggie wrap, every cup of soup, every everything you purchase at Cafe 108 helps pull Auburn Public Theater ...along through these uncertain times. Thank you for being the tugboat in this photo. cafe108.org (315)252-2233 Open Tuesday through Saturday from 9:00-2:00. Delivery available to your home, office or car. #cafe108 #amenuwithamission #yeswecan See more

Tomorrow will be the 15th anniversary of Auburn Public Theater’s residency at 8 Exchange Street. Writing a post about it was not our original plan for celebrati...ng such a milestone. Our original plan involved, of course, doing something together (in person) with anyone and everyone who felt like being there. There would have been live music, of course, and food, too. And there may have even been an original poem from Lance. But, most of all, there would have been the most important thing imaginable - some version of us, our Beloved Community, hanging out together exchanging pleasantries, getting our photo taken by Chris Molloy and enjoying the simple pleasure of being in one another’s company in the very heart of our beloved downtown. One thing has definitively not changed in the slightest for me, though. I am still every bit as grateful for the past fifteen years, for the opportunity to take almost five hundred young people (so far!) to NYC to see a show on Broadway, for all the music concerts and plays and shows and readings and classes, for fifteen years of gathering with all of you that has brought so much more life to my life than I ever could have anticipated it would. Knowing and having solid proof of all the connections that now exist as a result of the existence of Auburn Public Theater is its own glorious reward. Here’s to fifteen years of community building with all of you and to the hope and promise of (at least) fifteen more years to come... See more

Thank you (in advance) for thinking of APT on #GivingTuesday this year. When we have built back better, when we have returned to a new COVID-19 free normal, wh...en the doors to Main Stage, the Cinema and Studio Spaces and Stage Right have been joyfully flung back open and our annual trip to see a play on Broadway is back on the books, I think Fred Rogers’ message is going to be even clearer to us then than it is now. #loveisattherootofallthings See more