Giving Tuesday 2023

Dear friends,

Each year on Giving Tuesday, we look back at the organizations who have helped and/or inspired us. We are blessed to have such great companies working tirelessly for a better, more just, and more beautiful world. Below is our list of organizations that we uplifted in Cold Readings, as well as organizations who have helped us this year.

This Giving Tuesday, we ask you to consider supporting one (or more!) of the organizations we highlighted this year. Below, see a loosely categorized list of heroes who are:

• Making and spreading theater
• Providing direct relief to those in need
• Empowering people and communities

Thank you so much. Please take care of yourselves and each other.

Peace, power, and love to you,
Theater in Asylum

Making and spreading theater

• The Anthropologists is dedicated to the collaborative creation of investigative theatre that inspires action. Rooted in research and community engagement and shaped by physical theatre techniques, they’re committed to exploring current social topics from an anthropological perspective in order to break down and unleash cultural discoveries. Donate here.
• The Boxcutter Collective is a politically active crew of puppeteers, artists and performers committed to using art to create a hopeful reimagining of our reality. They believe cultural change precedes political change and are committed (and compelled!) to use their weirdo-puppet skills to create new accessible art for collective transformation. Donate here.
• The Jalopy Theatre and School of Music is a multi-faceted arts space showcasing folk and traditional music and art from New York City, the Americas, and the world. Their programming supports artists, fosters community, and provides enrichment and education about our shared musical heritage. Donate here.
• National Black Theatre. NBT’s mission is: 1) To produce transformational and dialogue-generative theatre that successfully shifts inaccuracies around African Americans' cultural identity by telling authentic, intersectional stories of Black life. 2) To use theatre as a means to educate, enrich, entertain, empower and inform national consciousness around the social issues impacting our communities. 3) To provide a courageous and supportive space for artists of the Black diaspora to hone their entrepreneurial spirit and articulate the complexity, beauty and artistic excellence intrinsic in how we experience the world through their craft—acting, directing, producing, creative placemaking, designing and/or playwriting. Donate here.

Providing direct relief to those in need

• Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides independent, impartial medical humanitarian assistance to the people who need it most. MSF cares for people affected by conflict, disease outbreaks, natural and human-made disasters, and exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries. Donate here.
• The TEARS Foundation, an international organization that seeks to lift the financial burden from families that have lost a child by providing funds to assist with the cost of burials or cremation services. They also provided access to grief support groups and peer companions, as well as other forms of bereavement care. For more information or to make a donation, click HERE.
• TLC NYC, a heroic organization working on the front lines, welcoming asylum seekers to NYC and connecting them with resources. Team TLC NYC is an all-volunteer organization proudly committed to providing basic needs and support to asylum seekers and migrants. They aim to make the lives of those seeking a better place to live safer and brighter. Team TLC NYC is an affiliate group of Grannies Respond / Abuelas Responden, Inc." Donate here.
• Resilience Force is a national initiative to transform America’s response to disasters by strengthening and securing America’s Resilience Workforce—the millions of people whose work, heart and expertise make sustainable recovery from disasters possible. Disasters are now a fact of life in America. Every year, they increase in frequency and impact. Disasters are changing all of our lives, and no one is more important in shaping how we plan for them than the people we depend on to prepare, respond and recover. It’s the work of the Resilience Workforce (many of whom are migrants with limited legal protections) that allows us to adapt and thrive. Learn more and potentially donate here.

Empowering people and communities

• GreenLatinos is an active comunidad of Latino/a/x leaders, emboldened by the power and wisdom of our culture, united to demand equity and dismantle racism, resourced to win our environmental, conservation, and climate justice battles, and driven to secure our political, economic, cultural, and environmental liberation. Donate here.