Membership

Performance Sponsorship

Support from generous performance sponsors helps to offset artist fees and production costs, allowing us to bring world-renowned artists to our stages and our community.

All performance sponsors receive the following benefits:

• Complimentary tickets for your performance (maximum 4; value of tickets is non-deductible)
• Ability to purchase additional tickets, as available, for your performance at a 20% discount
• Backstage introduction to the visiting artist for your performance
• Prominent recognition in the Stanford Live materials and program page for your performance
• Reserved parking for your performance and for all Stanford Live performances throughout the season
• Complimentary tickets to Bing Fling, Stanford Live’s annual donor recognition event with a reception, dinner, and concert performance ($300 non-deductible value per ticket)
• Access to the Bing member concierge ticket services for all your ticketing needs
• Invitations to attend receptions and events throughout the season
  

For more information about becoming a Stanford Live performance sponsor, please contact Laurel Skehen, Director of Development, at 650.498.9365 or lskehen@stanford.edu.

Commissions & Programming Fund

Our artist residency and commission programs are central to our mission, allowing us to support emerging artists and deepen our engagement with the many communities we serve. Commissioning allows us to participate early in the creative process by supporting artists, and we are proud to present new works as they imagine them.

See Stanford Live’s 2022–23 season Commissions and Programming Fund report.

For more information about supporting our Commissions and Programming Fund, please contact Laurel Skehen, Director of Development at 650.498.9365 or lskehen@stanford.edu.

Education & Community Programs

Donor support not only helps bring outstanding performances for you to experience but also makes it possible for Stanford and local K–12 students to experience these works.

Through matinee performances with our mainstage artists, teacher workshops, and a thriving in-school teaching artist program, Stanford Live has developed deep and longstanding relationships with schools and their teachers in our surrounding community. From providing deeply discounted and free tickets to K–12 students to developing curriculum guides that help teachers incorporate the arts in their classrooms, Stanford Live is dedicated to nurturing and supporting the next generation of artists and art lovers in our local community. See Stanford Live’s 2022–23 season K–12 Programs report for additional details.

We provide a broad range of programs that increase arts access for Stanford students and our community. These include free masterclasses, student fellowship and internship opportunities, campus talks by visiting artists, and an array of pre- and post-performance talks with artists and scholars, all to increase arts access for our community and offer many ways to engage with the performing arts.

For more information about supporting our education and community programs, please contact Laurel Skehen, Director of Development, at 650.498.9365 or lskehen@stanford.edu.

Student Ticket Program Underwriting

As part of our commitment to engaging Stanford students in the arts, we offer performance opportunities with visiting artists and extend discounted student tickets to most performances. We continue to offer $15 student tickets to nearly every performance, which plays a crucial role in the ability of students to experience the arts. It is only with the generous support from program underwriters that Stanford Live is able to continue and even increase access for Stanford students to attend performances by a diverse array of world-renowned artists and strengthen our commitment to connecting with students through a broad range of inspirational and thought-provoking performances.

For more information about this and other program underwriting opportunities, please contact Laurel Skehen, Director of Development, at 650.498.9365 or lskehen@stanford.edu.