Volcano USA is supported by individual donations, partnership agreements with like-minded arts organizations, and foundations. We welcome your help!

Important projects that need your support:

1) APPETITE: The Philadelphia directorial debut of Sarah Sanford - one of the city's most-exciting theatre artists, taking on consumerism, consumption, our loves and appetites in a thought-provoking, haunting and very funny physical theatre piece.

2) GOODNESS in Rwanda: volcano USA and volcano Canada partner to take a remarkable, international award-winning production to Rwanda, to participate in the Arts Azimut Festival's 15-year anniversary commemoration of the Rwandan genocide. We will play in two cities: Kigali and Butare, during the festival's first week, and remain to teach classes during week two.

Goodness tells the story of a young Jewish writer, the descendent of Holocaust survivors, encountering the survivor of a much more recent genocide. The show won the 2006 "Best of Edinburgh" prize, and received a rave in the New York Times.

This historically significant tour to Rwanda will only be possible with your help.

3) THE AFRICA TRILOGY: volcano USA and volcano Canada partner to create a trilogy of plays examining the West's relationship with Africa. Set to premiere in Toronto in June 2010 at the Luminato Festival, and to tour thereafter, this project draws together a core creative team from six countries:

Playwrights: Christina Anderson (USA), Roland Schimmelpfennig (Germany), and Binyavanga Wainaina (Kenya).
Directors: Josette Bushell-Mingo (UK), Ross Manson (Canada), and Liesl Tommy (South Africa).

This is an unprecedented project in world theatre.

"This ambitious & powerful trilogy promises to be important & entertaining. Please support these artists."
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — multiple award-winning Nigerian novelist

"It is crucial that the information we use when we look at Africa is not limited to the news - usually the bad news. We need to engage with Africa through our imaginations as well & with a deeper sense of what is true. In doing exactly this, Volcano’s Africa Trilogy opens a world of possibility. It’s a tremendous idea."
James Orbinski — director of the 1999 Nobel Prize-winning Médecins Sans Frontières

"In Uganda, as is the case across the continent, we use theatre to educate, inform & to change the course of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. So I understand the power of this Africa Trilogy project. I welcome it wholeheartedly."
Beatrice Were - one of Africa’s foremost HIV/AIDS activists, from Uganda

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