As of Thursday, June 11, the campaign had raised nearly $9,200 from 16 donors.<\/p>\n
The money would be used for rent and facility costs, staff payroll, utilities, insurance and other operating expenses, the organizers said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis fundraiser is designed to help bridge a temporary financial gap so that the theater can continue operating while these future resources come online,\u201d according to the campaign.<\/p>\n
The Great Star<\/a>, which celebrated its centennial<\/a> last year, describes itself as one of Chinatown\u2019s last independent cultural venues and a home for Cantonese opera, film, music and community events.<\/p>\n City records describe it as a 410-seat performing arts and film theater and the last remaining Chinese theater in any Chinatown in the United States.<\/p>\n The theater at 636 Jackson St. opened in 1925 as the Great China Theater for Chinese opera. Over the decades, it also became a movie house and community gathering place.<\/p>\n After years of inactivity, Alice Chu and Roger Pincombe reopened the venue in 2021 and created a nonprofit to continue its legacy. Since then, the theater has hosted more than 650 events, 117 unique productions and more than 80,000 audience members, according to city records.<\/p>\n The fundraiser says the theater has upcoming performances, rentals and community events expected to generate revenue. It also acknowledged the theater received a San Francisco Arts Commission grant earlier this year, but noted additional support is needed to remain operational.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery contribution, no matter the size, helps keep the lights on, the doors open, and the stage active for artists, audiences, and community members,\u201d the campaign says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As of Thursday, June 11, the campaign had raised nearly $9,200 from 16 donors. The money would be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[329,1472,838,101,103,102,104,106,105,1058],"class_list":["post-357076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-dance","tag-movies-and-tv","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}