LT2026-025 ELLENSBURG SHAKESPEARE PROJECT FINAL

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Response 1.1: Please provide a description of your project/event.* Response 1.2: Please provide us link to a brief video summary of you organization's event/project.* 3| Impact Response 3: Describe how you will promote your event/activity/facility to attract tourists.* 4| Collaboration Response 4.1: If your organization collaborates or has created partnerships with other organizations, groups, or other events, how is this accomplished?* Building on the success of our 2025 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ellensburg Shakespeare Project will mount a free outdoor production of a Shakespeare play to be performed in Unity Park. We confirm the play and its production team in fall 2025. 2500 character limit Note: You MUST be present at the Q&A meeting to qualify for funding. https://youtu.be/MyraSockBlY Response 1.3: List of Intended Use of Funds * Note: This language will be related in the contract if awarded. The CLTAC cannot approve funds not listed under RCW 67.28.1816. However, the committee has the right to be more restrictive. Digital (online) marketing $2500 Theatrical lighting $1200 2| Supporting Kittitas County as a tourism destination. 1. Away from their place of residence or business and staying overnight in paid accommodations; 2. To a place fifty miles or more away from their place of residence or business for the day or staying overnight; 3. Or from another country or state outside of their place of residence or business. You must provide the evidence utilized in determining your projections. Response 2.1: Why would tourists travel to Kittitas County to attend your event/activity/facility?* There is no other outdoor Shakespeare company in Washington on this side of the mountains, and we perform at a time in the summer where there are not as many other events in Ellensburg to draw in an audience (after Valley Theatre Company and Ellensburg Music Festival, before the Rodeo). Even without marketing to a non-Ellenburg audience in 2025, we were successful in pulling in an audience from throughout Washington. 2500 character limit Response 2.2: Describe the prior success of your event/activity/facility to attract tourists.* Our 2025 production drew audiences totalling at least 404 people, of which 48 (12%) were from locations over 50 miles away from Ellensburg. We gathered this data by asking audience members for their zip codes, which we collected from 42.5% of the audience, and extrapolating that data to the other half of the audience. 2500 character limit Application Questions: Part 2 We will add a significant component of online (digital) marketing to reach audiences throughout the Pacific NorthWest. 2500 character limit Application Questions: Part 3 This past year we partnered with the International Order of Odd Fellows, the Ellensburg United Methodist Church, and the Kittitas Valley Unitarian Universalist Congregation, as well as Ellensburg School District and the Ellensburg Parks and Recreation department. 2500 character limit