| Mission
Statement
HAI
inspires healing, growth and learning through engagement in
the arts for the culturally underserved.
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HAI (Hospital Audiences,
Inc.) is a 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit organization founded in
1969 by Michael Jon Spencer.
Each year, HAI touches the lives of more than 400,000 people
in the New York City community whose access to the arts has
been limited by health, age or income. HAI provides cultural
access through music, dance, theatre and the visual arts,
reaching out to the frail elderly, mentally and physically
disabled, seriously ill children at health and social service
facilities, and youth in grades K - 12. Services include tickets
to cultural events; arts workshops; onsite performances of
music, theater and dance; audio description for visually impaired
theater-goers; youth-leadership, conflict resolution, HIV
and life skills workshops using role play technique; and transportation
for people with disabilities on two specially designed Omni*Buses.
HAI relies on the talent and creativity of hundreds of artists
and performers, in partnership with government agencies, foundations,
corporations and private individuals, to deliver arts services
that improve the daily lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable
people.
Since
its inception, HAI has reached an aggregate audience totaling
more than 11,787,000 million at more than 376,000 cultural
events.
HAI's work
is made possible by your generous support. The goals of HAI
are to bring Hope And Inspiration by providing access:
- to the arts: by bringing people isolated from the cultural
mainstream to cultural institutions and other visual and
performing arts experiences or by presenting the arts directly
to them in the institutions.
- through the arts: to life-saving information and decision-making
skills regarding critical public health issues, including
HIV/AIDS, TB, violence prevention, and homelessness, for
people in shelters, hospitals, mental health facilities,
residences and housing programs for special populations
(such as people living with HIV or AIDS), schools, drug
treatment programs, and other settings.
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