Advocacy Activities

ATHE has advocated for a number of causes and participated in a number of advocacy events.

• Campaign to increase National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funding. View the sample letter
  (.pdf file).
• Support of Esperanza Center lawsuit (went to federal court claiming First Amendment and Equal Protection rights violations after funding denied by the City of San Antonio in 1997 for producing a gay and lesbian film festival. View the sample letter (.pdf file).
  
• National Arts Advocacy Day every March
• ATHE archiving of outgoing head of the Charlotte Rep Keith Martin's legal documents used in their fight to perform the censored Angels in America. The
• 280 puppet protesters from the Arts in Action Democratic Convention Intervention Festival who were arrested and whose puppets were destroyed
• The Singapore Theatre artist arrested for attempting to stage a play about marital violence
• Age discrimination against Hollywood writers
• Day (With) Out Art / World AID Day commemorated on December 1, 2000
• Challenged the University of Michigan Board of Regents targeting of Professor David Halperin's English 317 class titled "How to be Gay: Homosexuality and Initiation"
• Poets arrested in China for organizing a poetry symposium
• The Missouri Arts Council funding diverted from Hothouse Theatre's production of Bent due to gay themes and male nudity
• The First Amendment case over the exclusion of the work of artists Sharon Rupp and Janette Hopper from a city hall exhibit in Pasco, Washington
• Relief efforts for the damaged buildings of arts organizations in Houston that suffered the damage during Tropical Storm Allison
• Promotion of Theatre Teacher Education for K-12