Performance Space 122’s Spring Gala 2015

The PS122 Spring Gala is our annual premiere event, attracting mega-watt participation and support. In the spirit of PS122, the event is always a festive affair, jam-packed with programming and experiences to remember. Our 2015 Gala will be focused on Performance Space 122’s homecoming to 150 First Avenue in the East Village and will mark the public phase of our capacity campaign Give Performance Space (GPS), co-chaired by , Chet Kerr, and Stella Schnabel. The performances will reflect the past, present, and wider artist communities that benefit from and support the risk-taking work presented by Performance Space 122.

Host: Alan Cumming

Honoree: Claire Danes (additional honorees tbd)

2015 Gala Committee as of November 2015: Co-chairs Alan Cumming, Chet Kerr and Stella Schnabel;

Justin Vivian Bond, Winsome Brown and Claude Arpels, Andrew Cohen, Olga Garay-English and Kerry English, Suzanne Geiss, Eileen Guggenheim, Jesse Hernreich, Tommy Kriegsmann and Shanta Thake, Matthew Kwatinetz, Josephine Linden, Ivan Martinez, Tom Moore, Adam Whitney Nichols, Russell Piccione, Michael Rich, Eli Scheier and Kambiz Shekdar.

Date and Location: Monday, April 20, 2015 at Capitale

Previous Gala Details Honorees: Holly Hughes, John Fleck, Tim Miller, Clara Miller, Amanda Palmer, Councilwoman Rosie Mendez, Gabrielle Hamilton, John Leguizamo, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Eric Bogosian, Kickstarter Founders: Charles Adler, Perry Chen and Yancy Strickler.

Performers and Participants: , Jonathan Ames, Charles Atlas, Blue Man Group, Justin Vivian Bond, Steve Buscemi, Claire Danes, Commissioner Tom Finkelpearl, Ira Glass, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bill T. Jones, Cyndi Lauper, Spike Lee, Isaac Mizrahi, Richard Move, Rosie O’Donnell, Philippe Petit, Rosie Perez, Parker Posey, Sam Rockwell, Michael Stipe, Elizabeth Streb, John Turturro, New York City Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer and .

Notable Auction Items: A private food performance by artist Jennifer Rubell, International Contemporary Ensemble Private Performance, Prune dinner for eight with a cooking demo with Chef Gabrielle Hamilton, Reclining Nude: Jean-Michel Basquiat VIII by photographer Paige Powell, Absinthe Vegas Package including accommodations, air fare, and tickets to Absinthe Las Vegas and Vegas Nocturne.

Event Sponsors: Alacran, The Bowery Hotel, Brennevin, FAIR Vodka, illycaffe, Monsieur Touton, Perrier, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, Swarovski

Select 2014 Press Inclusions: NYTimes T Magazine, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine Approval Matrix, Guest of a Guest

Financials Money raised in 2013: 98k Money raised in 2014: 130k Projected goal for 2015: 240k

Performance Space 122 2015 Spring Gala EVENT SPONSOR DETAIL INFORMATION

Lead Architect $50,000 • 20 tickets to the Gala • Step and Repeat Logo placement • Recognition in the new building as part of the Give Performance Space Campaign • Exclusive invitation to the donor recognition event for the opening of our Building • Prominent listing, Logo/Link on website event page and 2015-2016 Season Sponsor Listing • Featured content in pre-benefit newsletter and follow-up email, 21,000+ recipients • Inclusion in all promotional and press materials as released • Customized marketing presence and additional sampling opportunities at the event • Inside Cover/or Center Full page advertisement and sponsorship listing in program • A table portrait taken of your party with Gala Host Alan Cumming • 20 complimentary tickets to the 2015-2016 Season, unlimited discount code and a post- show cocktail reception in the new building held in your honor

Architects & Contractors $25,000 • 12 tickets to the Gala • Step and Repeat Logo placement • Recognition as part of the Give Performance Space Campaign • Exclusive invitation to the donor recognition event for the opening of our Building • Prominent listing, Logo/Link on website event page and 2015-2016 Season Sponsor Listing • Link and logo inclusion in benefit section of weekly e-newsletter, 21,000+ recipients • Inclusion in all promotional and press materials as released • Marketing presence and additional sampling opportunities at the event • Inside Cover/or Center Full page advertisement and sponsorship listing in program • A table portrait taken of your party with Gala Host Alan Cumming • 12 complimentary tickets to the 2015-2016 Season and unlimited discount code

Roof Deck $15,000 • 10 tickets to the Gala • Step and Repeat Logo placement • Prominent listing, Logo/Link on website event page • Link and logo inclusion in benefit section of weekly e-newsletter, 21,000+ recipients • Inclusion in all promotional and press materials as released • Marketing presence and additional sampling opportunities at the event • Full-page advertisement and sponsorship listing in program • 10 complimentary tickets to the 2015-2016 season

Bricks & Mortar $10,000 • 10 tickets to the Gala • 5 complimentary tickets to our 2015-2016 Season • Full-page advertisement or acknowledgment in the PS122 Gala program, a contribution listing in Gala invitation, program and on PS122 website

Insulation $5,000 • 8 tickets to the Gala • 2 complimentary tickets to our 2015-2016 Season • Half-page advertisement or acknowledgment in the PS122 Gala program, a contribution listing in Gala invitation, program and on PS122 website

Bedrock $2,500 • 4 tickets to the Gala • Business card size advertisement or acknowledgment in the PS122 Gala program and a contribution listing in Gala invitation, program and on PS122 website Performance Space 122 is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization www.ps122.org

Performance Space 122 provides incomparable experiences for audiences by presenting and commissioning artists whose work challenges boundaries of live performance. PS122 is dedicated to supporting the creative risks taken by artists from diverse genres, cultures and perspectives. We are an innovative local, national and international leader in contemporary performance.

PS122’s HISTORY For over 30 years, Performance Space 122 has been a leading contemporary performance hub in New York City. PS122 provides support for audiences, artists and artistic practices, with an ambition to better engage in contemporary society and positively affect the cultural landscape of the East Village, New York City, the United States and the globe. Under the curatorial vision of Mark Russell (1985–2005) and Vallejo Gantner (2005–present), PS122 has presented over 25,000 artists from more than 20 different countries for hundreds of thousands of audience members since our beginning in 1980.

Through PS122’s focus on audience experience, artistic support and the development of artistic practice, we have brought forward not only artists like John Leguizamo, Jonathan Ames, Eric Bogosian, the Blue Man Group and Annie Dorsen, who have gone on to make waves in commercial arenas like Broadway, cinema and television, but also artists who have triggered national debate about political and ethical issues. These include the original “NEA four,” and more recently Young Jean Lee and Thomas Bradshaw, as well as artists who have radicalized aesthetic form, like Meredith Monk, Spalding Gray, Ron Athey, UPCOMING PERFORMANCES & Richard Maxwell, Elevator Repair Service, Radiohole, Adrienne EVENTS: Truscott, Rabih Mroué (Lebanon), Philippe Quesne (France) and Maria Hassabi. Through the presentation of these artists and COIL Festival many more, PS122 has launched careers and art forms, and Jan. 2 - 18, 2015 developed new art practices that have enriched the cultural PS122’s annual winter festival full of petri dish that is New York City and subsequently the globe. contemporary, global, local and always very live performance. For th PS122’S FUTURE COIL’s 10 anniversary we will Since our start as an East Village artist squat, PS122 has evolved present 13 shows in 12 locations. from a scrappy underdog providing artists a space to The Evening experiment, to a globally renowned leader in our field. PS122 Richard Maxwell now presents and commissions emerging and mid-career artists March 12 – 28, 2015 at the forefront of contemporary performance here and around The Evening distills an archetypal the world. tale of a good man in moral decline. This modern yet loose adaptation of With the generous support of the City of New York, PS122 is Dante’s Inferno and Milton’s Paradise engaging in a transformative renovation of our home at 150 Lost is commissioned through the First Avenue, with a planned completion date of early 2016. Our 2014 Spalding Gray Award. renovated space will open up a world of programming opportunities that enable the artists of today and the future to Welcome to LYFE™ Glass Ghost (Eliot Krimsky) thrive through enhanced technological capability, flexible May 14, 2015 configuration and vastly improved stage space. This moment Presented at Lincoln Center’s provides PS122 with a unique opportunity to increase and Atrium, Eliot Krimsky’s Welcome to evolve our organizational and artistic output of thought- LYFE™ was developed in PS122’s provoking, provocative work across all live artistic disciplines. In RAMP residency program in spring concert with the City–led renovation, our increased 2014. organizational capacity will make our space a hub for bold new ideas surging through contemporary conversations.

The PS122 community is invigorated by the prospect of 2016’s reopening in larger, state-of-the-art and column-free, flexible, ADA-compliant theaters. PS122’s theaters are the heart and soul of the East Village and the launching board for artists worldwide. We could not be more excited by the prospects of our new venues, which will ensure that PS122 will remain a leader in the contemporary performance field for decades to come.