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All monetary donations to CONTRA-TIEMPO are 100% tax deductible.

Every little bit counts! You can make one-time donation or a recurring monthly donation. Monthly donations allows you to easily support our transformative work by making a contribution of at least $5 each month. All you have to do is select a monthly donation on the drop down link when you donate!

Or Donate By Mailing a check to:

3485 Greenwood Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90066

In-kind donations

CONTRA-TIEMPO depends on the generosity and support of our community. If you have any of the below-mentioned resources, services, or supplies, give us a call or email info@contra-tiempo.org to set up your in-kind donation.

Examples of useful donated goods:

iPads (for audience engagement post-show)
Laptops
Computer programs (video/graphic editing)
Office supplies
Stage Lights
Lighting equipment
Sound equipment
Musical Instruments (congas, claves, giros, etc.)
White clothing (for costuming)
Material (for costuming)
Professional Services (photography, videography, set design, music editing etc.)
Items for our silent auctions (yearly fundraisers)
Gift cards (of any kind)

Greensboro, NC

Performance and workshops

Greensboro, NC

Performance and workshops

Help us commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Greensboro massacre.

Why are we going to Greensboro?

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Greensboro Massacre. On Nov. 3, 1979 in Greensboro, North Carolina, a nine-car caravan of the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party members drove into Morningside Homes, a public housing project in the Black community, and opened fire onto demonstrators preparing for an anti-Klan rally. The march was to have been followed by an educational conference later that day addressing the recent upsurge in white supremacist activity in the South and explore how racism has historically been used to divide workers.

The Greensboro Police and FBI had information that this attack was planned, yet no law enforcement officers were on the scene. The shots fired that day took the lives of Sandy Smith, Jim Waller, Bill Sampson, Cesar Cauce, and Michael Nathan, labor and community organizers and wounded 10 others.

These murders, filmed and documented by numerous television news cameras on the scene, have largely gone unpunished. The Klan and Nazis were acquitted of all charges in two criminal trials by all-white juries. Later in a wrongful death civil suit, members of the Klan and Nazis, and the Greensboro Police were found jointly liable for the death of one of the five victims.

The true story of the Greensboro Massacre has mostly not been told.

We want to tell this story.

The story and lessons of the 1979 Greensboro Massacre must not be removed from the history books nor from the history of social justice movements in this country. The 40th anniversary seeks to raise mass consciousness by building upon a currently resurgent people’s movement with an ever-deepening understanding of the need for fundamental systemic change.

What is our connection to the Greensboro massacre?

Our Founding Artistic Director, Ana María Alvarez, was born in Greensboro (1977) and graduated from Grimsley High School (1995). Ana María’s parents, Joe & Sally Alvarez, were leaders in the anti-war and civil rights movements in the South. This tragic event in 1979, took the lives of 5 of Ana Maria’s “uncles and aunts”. César, Bill, Jim, Sandy & Michael were all a part of her village and the widows, their children, and the community who love them have continued to be that village. Like many, Joe & Sally both continued to work for justice.

Sally Alvarez is a labor educator whose work focuses on communication, media, leadership development, organizational change and ethics.

Joe Alvarez is an organization development practitioner, working with multi-stakeholder groups in the environmental, immigrant rights and labor movements, helping organizations and leaders to be visionary adaptive and effective.

Ana María and her brother, César Alvarez (named after César Cauce) both became boundary breaking artists who re-imagine and create a world full of more love, compassion and justice through their respective work.

Ana María’s work with CONTRA-TIEMPO, and especially the company’s newest work, “joyUS justUS”, is a powerful honoring of the legacy of César, Bill, Jim, Sandy & Michael (our 5 fallen family from the Greensboro Massacre). Thank you for helping us to share this work in Greensboro as part of this important 40th year commemoration.

For more information on the Greensboro Massacre and for events near you, visit: https://www.greensboromassacrelessonstoday.org/background/

Why are we asking for a donation?

CONTRA-TIEMPO is asking for donations and looking to partner with organizations for sponsorship to go this fall (October 30-November 3) and perform, teach some Master Classes (UNCG is already on board to host some dance classes), and conduct some community workshops as part of the 40-year commemoration of this event.

There will be a free performance on November 2, 2019 for all to attend at the Harrison Auditorium at NCA&TSU.

By donating, you will be helping with the cost of the following:

5 days in Greensboro for tech rehearsals & final performance
Transportation (several rental vans/gas from Raleigh) for 8 dancers and 2 support staff and all our production bags to get to Greensboro and have in town transportation once we are in town and drop off in Charlotte, NC
Airbnb/housing or cheap hotel for all ten company members for 5 nights
Per diems for 5 days
Artist stipends for 5 days

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3485 Greenwood Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90066

Futuro Fundraiser Campaigh

Help us reach our goal of $10,000 by August 10, 2019

Futuro Fundraiser Campaigh

Help us reach our goal of $10,000 by August 10, 2019

sponsor a young dance leader this summer.

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Help a young person learn our signature Urban Latin Dance technique and art-as-social-action methodologies in our two-week Futuro Summer Dance Intensive, held this year on the beautiful campus of Loyola Marymount University. 90% of our participants receive some form of financial assistance, all through the generosity of donors like you.

Sponsorship Levels:

$1200--full sponsorship of two weeks of intensive dance, leadership development, & community-building for one young dancer
$600--sponsors one full week of programming, including field trips
$500--underwrites the average scholarship given to program participants
$100--underwrites one full day of programming, including 4 dance masterclasses, Council circle, and team-building

Sponsors receive recognition on our Donor Wall

Dedicate you donation with your sponsorship level here!

OR

Mail a check to:

CONTRA-TIEMPO

3485 Greenwood Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90066