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Engagement
at Geva

Engagement at Geva’s overarching objective is to connect more people and organizations with the productions presented on the theatre’s stages. Engagement at Geva programs include Geva Insights, Mondays at Geva, the Essie Calhoun Diversity in the Arts Awards, symposiums and more. 

The goal of these programs and initiatives is to build more connected relationships with existing patrons and partners. To build new and meaningful relationships with people and organizations with whom we have traditionally had no or little connectivity, the kind of sticky connectivity that endures.

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Geva Insights

Geva Insights is a series of post-performance conversations with thought leaders, experts, and members of the community who contextualize or provoke more in-depth consideration of the themes inherent to each play during the course of Geva’s season. These unscripted, unrehearsed chats are produced and hosted by Geva’s Engagement department.

Next Event

Next Insights event:

How I Learned What I Learned

  • Date to be announced soon!

About

Stay tuned for event details!

Later This Season

Nina Simone: Four Women

  • Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
24/25 Season Post-Performance Insights Dates:
Little Women
  • Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
Pure Native
  • Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
  • Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025
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Mondays at Geva

The stages are dark on Monday evenings at Geva, so the art and action shift to the lobby and café where brilliant local visual artists, performers, musicians, and speakers broaden our consideration of the onstage productions. Geva Theatre invites the community to join us for a free series of art openings and to party for a couple of hours each month!

Next Event

Next Mondays at Geva event:

Young Frankenstein

  • Monday, October 7th, 2024 – from 6pm to 8pm
Michelle Parnett Dwyer

Michelle Parnett-Dwyer

About

This event features a Mondays at Geva Show & Tell about Monsters with Strong Museum of Play curator -Michelle Parnett-Dwyer. The Strong Museum collections include a Frankenstein Mechanical Doll (1980) created for Universal Studios, the Monster Bash Pinball Machine (1998) by Williams Pinball Co, and more. Parnette-Dwyer will provide insights and answer questions about Frankenstein and other Monsters in American popular play culture. The event will feature a monster-inspired playlist and the showing of YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN MOVIE DOCUMENTARY (with Mel Brooks). Refreshments will be served.

Later This Season

How I Learned What I Learned

  • Monday, November 11th, 2024 – From 6pm to 8pm

Features a Long Table Conversation installed in the Geva lobby co-produced with Dr. Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. and other 7 Black male identifying creatives to discuss the ground on which they stand today – inspired by August Wilson’s famous speech The Ground on Which I Stand. Wilson’s speech was delivered at the Theatre Communications Group conference at Princeton University on June 26, 1996.

Dr. Jeffrey McCune

Dr. Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr.

24/25 Season Mondays at Geva Dates:
Nina Simone Four Women
  • Monday, January 27th, 2025
Little Women
  • Monday, February 10th, 2025
Pure Native
  • Monday, April 28th, 2025
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
  • Monday, June 9th, 2025

Engagement at Geva programs  are sponsored, in part, by Volvo Cars Rochester Volvo Cars Rochester Horizontal Wide
Roc Geva Pass

ROC Geva Pass

Get Roc Pass Tickets

Geva is excited to continue this partnership with the City of Rochester which provides two hundred complimentary tickets for each of Geva’s Subscription Series Production to city residents in specified zip-codes (14621, 14605, 14608, 14611, 14619, 14606, 14613, 14615, and 14616). Tickets are available on a first come, first served basis. Individual households may reserve up to 4 tickets per production. Restrictions will apply, such as: only valid for the first two weeks of a production, excludes Opening Nights, A Christmas Carol and other holiday or special programming, and cannot be applied to previous purchases. Once tickets are booked, no exchanges will be allowed.

Residents wishing to obtain complimentary tickets through the ROC Geva Pass may call the Geva Box Office at 585-232-GEVA(4382) or visit the Box Office in-person at 75 Woodbury Boulevard, Rochester, New York 14607. For groups larger than 4, please email RocGevaPass@gevatheatre.org

Thank You!

We would like to thank our partner organizations for making the ROC Geva Pass a success and raising awareness of this incredible program with their constituents and communities:

  • Beyond the Sanctuary
  • Ibero-American Action League
  • Baden Street Settlement
  • Soulstainable Living
  • Rochester Public Library system’s participants in the Safe to Be Smart teen program
  • Center for Youth

Essie Calhoun Diversity in the Arts Award

Geva Theatre annually presents the Essie Calhoun Diversity in the Arts Award to an individual who or organization that promotes and encourages diversity in the arts. The award recognizes that art allows for the expression of truths and beliefs, and helps us gain an understanding of one another and our world.  It further acknowledges that a mixture of cultures stimulates creativity, the sharing of ideas, and the building of a common collective future, which has always been close to Ms. Calhoun-McDavid’s heart.

The award was established in 2011 and named in honor of Essie Calhoun-McDavid, retired Chief Diversity Officer, Director of Community Affairs, and Vice President of Eastman Kodak Company. Ms. Calhoun-McDavid, a longtime advocate for diversity in the arts, was the first recipient of the award.

The award is designed by renowned Rochester glass artist Nancy Gong.

        Past Recipients

  • Dr. David Anderson (Sankofa)
  • The Center for Youth Strings for Success
  • Rachel Y. DeGuzman
  • Shawn Dunwoody
  • Garth Fagan
  • Reenah Golden
  • Delores Jackson Radney
  • Tonia Loran-Galban (Akwesasne Mohawk, Bear Clan)
  • Debora McDell-Hernandez
  • Nydia Padilla-Rodriguez
  • School of the Arts
  • Seneca Art & Culture Center at Ganondagan
  • David Shakes
  • Dangerous Signs 
  • Thomas Warfield

Geva's Engagement Staff

Importance of Engagement

It’s no secret that the programming at Geva Theatre is evolving with the rest of the nonprofit theater world to begin to reflect the authentic creative expressions of more people, from multiple perspectives. As director of engagement programs, I ask myself, everyday, “How can engagement programs at Geva reflect the art on the stage and a strategic shift in vision and mission as well as contribute to building the meaningful relationships that are necessary to achieve equity and live up to our organizations anti-racism commitment?”

– Rachel Y. DeGuzman

Contact Information

Eritrea Haile
Connectivity Assistant – Engagement
EHaile@gevatheatre.org