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Why Support HartBeat?

Here are three people to tell you how HartBeat’s work has made a difference in their lives.  Let us know if we’ve made a difference in yours: donate today or send us your HartBeat story.

Jack Dougherty — Greater Hartford Resident
“No one works harder than HartBeat to bring theater directly to Hartford’s neighborhoods. HartBeat’s talent is to take a complex story – such as our current housing crisis – and translate it on stage for a wide range of audiences across the city. This summer my family and I saw their show at Sigourney Park, where HartBeat’s performance brought together residents from a wide spectrum of our segregated region.”

Rita Blair — Teacher at Kinsella School of the Performing Arts

“[Co-Artistic Director] Julia Rosenblatt was absolutely wonderful with our students.  I was very impressed with how she weaved the 7th and 8th grade curriculum with the arts. I feel like the content really came alive for the students and we all had fun, too, while learning about important times in American History. Julia and I are planning to work together in February on our integrated units. I can’t wait!”

Rev. Dana Campbell — Church of the Good Shepherd, Hartford
“Thank you HartBeat for bringing Plays in the Parks to Good Shepherd.  Among the crowd were not only members of our parish, but also parishioners from other Episcopal churches in the Hartford area.  They particularly enjoyed HartBeat’s choices of community issues to address, and their ironic looks at bilingual life in Hartford.

[Plays in the Parks] was like having the Pied Piper on the lawn. It was quite a lovely day for the whole Sheldon/Charter Oak neighborhood, and it was a pleasure to enjoy such a high quality production right here in our own front yard!”