The Belmont Arts Collaborative (BAC) exists to provide artists and arts organizations the opportunity to create, learn, and perform in a dedicated performing arts space. Located in historic Belmont, the BAC fills a long-standing need for accesible performance and rehearsal space for artists, arts organizations, and arts education programs for youth and adults in Charlottesville. In an effort to raise funds to help us provide this much-needed space for the Charlottesville community, we are holding a silent auction on Saturday, September 30th, 6:30pm, at the Belmont Arts Collaborative theater. We hope you will attend and take the opportunity to learn more about the Belmont Arts Collaborative.

Tickets and more information are available at: http://partylikeits1776.bpt.me/

To make a non-auction donation, please visit http://www.gofundme.com/belmontartscollaborative

The Belmont Arts Collaborative offers:
Black Box Theater -- An accessible, and appropriately sized theater space for small performance groups. The theater seats 85-100 guests, with a dressing room, box office, and waiting area; it can be configured for full-scale productions, cabaret-style performances, workshops, classes, or community forums.
Rehearsal Studios – Three studios adjacent to the theater, available for dance, vocal, acting, and other training programs for youth and adults.
A permanent home for DMR Adventures – Rehearsal and performance space for DMR Adventures, which provides pre-professional performing arts training to youth ages 5-18, and the Youth Leadership Program for training young designers, technicians, and creative team members.
 
The Belmont Arts Collaborative offers local performing arts groups a rare resource: an intimate venue with affordable production costs, allowing longer show runs (without competing for stage time in larger, busier, expensive venues), more opportunities to perform, and the flexibility to create and foster new work. In the past six months, the space has been used for rehearsals, performances, and events by DMR Adventures, Phoenix Theater Company, Big Blue Door, the Center for Vocal Study, the Charlottesville Playwrights Collective, Charlottesville Families in Action, the Belmont-Carlton Neighborhood Association, and the Valley Fencing Alliance.

We are excited to have launched the Belmont Arts Collaborative, but still have a lot to do! From purchasing lighting, curtains, sound equipment, and chairs, to refurbishing the rehearsal spaces, to paying for the professional performers that we bring to Charlottesville to provide workshops and training; we hope you will support us in our efforts!