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This season, Penumbra celebrates a remarkable anniversary: 50 years of Black cultural leadership and national artistic impact. Help shape the next fifty years.

Penumbra’s story is not simply one of an organization reaching a milestone. It is the story of a community choosing, year after year, to invest in what moves us forward, with the greatest amount of care.

With your support, our work continues. Generations of artists will find a home here. Groundbreaking stories will reach our stage. Difficult conversations will be welcomed. New pathways for healing, learning, and belonging will emerge. Together, we will create a space where people can gather to reflect on who we are, where we have been, and who we might yet become.

This season we celebrate a flame in our community, one that illuminates mysteries, dispels illusions, and lights the way forward. But a flame does not sustain itself. It requires care, commitment, and people willing to tend it across generations.

Thank you for helping make this moment, and many more, possible.

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Build a philanthropic legacy that includes racial healing.

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Make your vision of a strong legacy a reality.

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“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
—Angela Davis, Activist, professor, and author

“We tend to think of healing as something binary. But healing and growth take place on a continuum, with innumerable points between utter brokenness and total health.”
—Dr. Resmaa Menakem, Therapist, author, and trauma specialist

“I believe that one of the most beautiful things about theater is that no one artist can do it alone.”
—Harrison David Rivers, Playwright and Penumbra company member

“You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.”
—Audre Lorde, Black feminist, lesbian, poet, mother, warrior

“You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.”
—Rev. Jesse Jackson, American civil rights leader, Baptist minister, and political activist

“Within Penumbra's walls, a genuine spirit of care breathes and thrives, weaving a rich and tender atmosphere where creative courage is not just invited, but deeply embraced.”
—Lester Purry, Actor and Penumbra company member

Thank you for your support