Austin ISD’s district-wide performing arts center receives its first
corporate sponsor
StubHub today announced a charitable partnership with the Austin
Independent School District (AISD) Performing Arts Center (PAC),
including $75,000 in grant funding to help the newly constructed
facility roll out a complete box office operation.
With the StubHub Foundation (a corporate advised fund of the Silicon
Valley Community Foundation) donation and a new world-class box office
operation, the performing arts center, which serves nearly 85,000
students across 130 schools in the Austin area, dramatically enhances
its fundraising capabilities, future revenue streams and most
importantly, its ability to meet the needs of students from across the
Austin school district, including children from low-income communities
who face tremendous barriers to access to quality arts experiences.
"AISD’s Performing Arts Center is dedicated to providing the highest
quality arts experience for every student, teacher, and stakeholder in
AISD by showcasing incredible talent in a state-of-the-art, professional
facility,” said Greg Goodman, Director of Fine Arts. “Thanks to
the generous grant from StubHub, we are able to develop an online box
office that is as innovative and responsive as the facility itself. This
box office is a vital piece in enhancing how we are able to serve our
students and our community."
Opened in January 2015, the state-of-the-art AISD PAC is one of the only
educational facilities of its kind, designed specifically to enhance the
arts experience for students and teachers in the Austin Independent
School District. With a 1,200-seat main auditorium, 250-seat Black Box
Theatre, dance studio, multi-purpose room, kiln room and individual
recording studio, the complex literally opens doors for kids to explore
their dreams in a time when arts education funding is severely limited.
StubHub partner AudienceView will provide the PAC a full online box
office solution, as well as pro bono services to help train staff and
launch the service.
“For StubHub and AudienceView, the mission of the AISD PAC fits squarely
within our collective missions to support the performing arts industry
by investing in today’s youth and specifically, through arts education,”
said Jessica Erskine, StubHub Senior Head of Entertainment
Communications. “With the combination of financial and in-kind resources
our two companies can offer, we’re thrilled to operationalize the PAC’s
box office, help it more efficiently do business, expand access to
programming for all Austin students and ultimately, sell tickets and
fundraise to directly benefit arts programs and the students of Austin.”
StubHub and AudienceView joined forces in 2014, significantly growing
StubHub’s business in theater and the performing arts. Since then,
StubHub built its first and largest tech venture to date, allowing
AudienceView clients to seamlessly integrate with StubHub’s ticketing
technology and reach its vast audience of performing arts ticket buyers
at no additional cost, the same platform in which the PAC will now
operate.
The partnership with the PAC expands upon StubHub’s robust charitable
effort dedicated to supporting youth music education; the Next Stage
Social Good Music Program. In its second year, the initiative is
committed to putting $1 million of musical instruments into struggling
public school music education programs this year. Partnering with music
artists, the StubHub Foundation will identify up to 30 schools in ten
markets nationwide to make donations through the support of benefit
partner The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation. As a part of this program,
more than $99,000 in instrument value has already been donated this year
to Austin schools Travis High School and Bedichek Middle School. In
total, the StubHub Foundation has donated more than $1 million to
arts-related causes since 2012.
About StubHub
At StubHub,
our mission is simple: help fans find fun. We connect fans with their
favorite teams, shows and artists and introduce them to the ones they'll
love next. As the world's largest ticket marketplace, we enable fans to
buy and sell tickets to tens of thousands of events, whenever they want,
through our desktop and mobile experiences, including our StubHub and
StubHub Music apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Android. Offering a
superior fan experience at its core, StubHub reinvented the ticket
resale market in 2000 and continues to lead it through innovation. Our
industry firsts include the introduction of the first ticketing
application, the first interactive seat mapping tool and the first live
entertainment rewards program, Fan Rewards™. Our business partners
include more than 60 teams in MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS and NCAA, plus ESPN,
AEG, AXS and Spectra Ticketing & Fan Engagement. Throughout North
America, the United Kingdom and Germany, StubHub provides the total
end-to-end event going experience.
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