Right now, every dollar you give is DOUBLED

A VERY generous group of Beatniks has offered to match every dollar up to $10,000. If our calculations are correct, this means that your $100 becomes $200; your $500 becomes $1,000.

Please help us raise $20,000 to keep making theatre for changing times. All donations over $20 will be tax receipted, and but every gift of any size helps carry this work forward!

15 YEARS AGO:

TOTB was founded in 2011 by a group of recent graduates who saw the clear potential for drama to start conversations and spark change. Making a Scene meant making DIY sets out of milk crates, driving through the night in a borrowed vehicle, sleeping on church floors, subsisting on PB&Js, and handing out fliers on street corners - hoping someone would see our show. Like most theatre companies, we started out scrappy - inspired by our communities of origin and the issues we saw them facing, and grateful for early support from family and friends.

TODAY:

The world has changed enormously since our first tour, but our commitment to starting conversations has not. Making a scene now means teaching theatre inside a Federal Prison, running our own theatre festival, mentoring emerging theatre-makers, delivering workshops for shelters, public libraries, and not-for-profits. We still call Danforth Mennonite Church our home, still stay with billets, still drive mini-vans across the country, and - of course - we’re still making community-centered social justice theatre designed to get people talking.

WHAT ABOUT THE NEXT 15 YEARS?

Since our first tour, we’ve brought live theatre to over 35,000 people across Canada, the United States, and the Netherlands. Fifteen years in, there’s still plenty of work to do. The world has changed enormously since our first tour, but our commitment to starting conversations has not. Your support helps us pay artists, reach new communities, and open conversations that might otherwise never happen.

Right now, every dollar you give is DOUBLED

A VERY generous group of Beatniks has offered to match every dollar up to $10,000. If our calculations are correct, this means that your $100 becomes $200; your $500 becomes $1,000. Please help us raise $20,000 to keep making theatre for changing times. All donations over $20 will be tax receipted, and but every gift of any size helps carry this work forward!

Please consider donating below to help make our next 15 years as impactful as our first.

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Reach us at:

Theatre of the Beat

2174 Danforth Ave, Toronto, ON. M4C 1K3

CHARITY NUMBER: #81926 7931 RR0001 

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