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This year, Ishti Collective celebrates 10 years of creating movement-based work rooted in collaboration, community, and conversation. Over the last decade, we’ve brought artists together across forms and generations, created performances that engage audiences as active participants, and built spaces for learning, reflection, and connection.

To honor this milestone, we’re launching our $10K for 10 Years Campaign — a community-powered effort to raise $10,000 in support of Ishti’s next chapter.

Your support helps us:

• Create original interdisciplinary performances

• Pay collaborating artists equitably

• Offer workshops, mentorship, and artist development opportunities

• Build accessible community programming

• Sustain the long-term future of independent, collaborative art-making

This campaign kicks off alongside Movements of Many, our 10-year celebration performances taking place July 9–11, 2026 — a gathering of artists, collaborators, audiences, and friends who have shaped Ishti over the years. Learn more at Movements of Many.

Every contribution, large or small, directly supports the artists, ideas, and community relationships that make this work possible.

Unable to donate? Please share widely and contact us to see how you can get involved!

Our Major Donors and Institutional Partners

Illinois Arts Council Agency, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, The Saints and The Veerlapati Family Foundation