Mission Statement.
Our mission is to promote diversity and community development through performing arts. Through all artistic media, we aim to partake in creating a hopeful future for us by cultivating compassion and peaceful environment.
History.
ARRT was formed in the summer of 2006, by a diverse group of actors who had performed together that summer and wanted to continue getting together to practice and nurture our craft. As a result, we managed to build a sense of community through performing arts: we studied scenes, monologues, script-readings, improv, and performed for one another in a classroom or living room settings. In 2007 and 2008, we had our first and second free public performances at Cambridge Public Library at Central Square branch. Motivated by the well-received performances, in 2009, ARRT put on another public performance, in the theatre space at First Church in Back Bay, with a small admission fee. As a result of another success, ARRT had become in demand to produce more plays to serve our community which whole-heartedly had accepted us.
Each year, we put on one show, typically resulting in a fundraiser productions for local/non-local non-profit organizations. ARRT had also grown to stretch into the field of film industry. The landmark event struck on March 11, 2011, during the rehearsal process of the women's play festival "Towards New Ecology for Women," and shortly after the end of the run, ARRT shifted its direction to a disaster relief for "Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami" for the next two years, followed by a series of fundraising events, most recently, the "Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Memorial" in 2017 and 2018.
Vision.
One of our goals is to be part of a community center program, and to provide performing opportunities for talented yet underrated community members who may, otherwise, not be easily cast in traditional theatre and film industries, and foster their aspiration and to help realize their greatest artistic potential. We envision to inspire and empower our community by culturally blending our unique and distinct communities, and reflect that on stage. Another important goal is to always partake in productions/events that utilize artistic creativity to cultivate compassion and to reach out beyond our local community.
ARRT values collaborative arts. This includes collaboration within its artistic community as well as with other organizations. ARRT also put its greatest value in projecting messages of hope, peace, love and compassion, and its uniqueness involves executing our mission in an artistic, honest, subtle, yet, straightforward way.