100 Gay Men for a Cause Vancouver choose Zee Zee Theatre for $10,000 donation

A Vancouver philanthropic organization has decided on a queer carrying out arts business to donate to in the course of a time time period fraught with some of the major worries to individuals in the arts.

This thirty day period, a hundred Gay Gentlemen for a Result in Vancouver voted on which charity must receive its to start with $ten,000 donation.

The organization is made up of a hundred males who donate $a hundred each. Each quarter of the yr, members determine which charity must be a receiver of a $ten,000 donation.

The topic for this quarter was the arts sector, which has had to resort to new strategies to link with audiences in the course of pandemic limits.

Users of the organization voted that Zee Zee Theatre was this quarter’s receiver for continuing “to convey the stories of marginalized voices into people’s properties almost, with a aim on amplifying the stories of LGBTQ2S+ individuals”.

Zee Zee Theatre was established in 2008 and its productions have bundled Elbow Place Café: The Musical, My Funny Valentine, Virtual Humanity, and Residence is a Drag (on digital tour).

Inventive and government director Cameron Mackenzie states in a concept on the theatre company’s website: “Our issue for this, our 13th season, in the midst of a pandemic and a revolution dismantling white supremacy is, ‘How do we share our humanity now?’ ”

But that’s not all that a hundred Gay Gentlemen had to give.

Quick-listed charities also receive donations—the organization designed donations of $1,000 each to the Vancouver Men’s Refrain and the Vancouver Queer Movie Pageant (which is operate by Out on Display).

a hundred Gay Gentlemen for a Result in YVR, which was encouraged by a hundred Ladies Who Care and commenced in 2019 with an endowment from the Vancouver Basis, will subsequent satisfy on July 29. The a hundred Who Care Alliance, which supports about 650 chapters about the entire world, also aided establish the Vancouver chapter.