 Main Street Landing was founded as a redevelopment company 30 years ago, to redevelop, reinvigorate and restore the Burlington Waterfront to the Burlington community. The Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center is an auxiliary department of Main Street Landing that fulfills and helps carry out its mission to give back to the community through engagement in the arts and the creative sector of Burlington. Main Street Landing gives a 50% discount to all nonprofits when they come and rent our spaces. So the idea was that this center was a place where nonprofits could raise money, have meetings, engage in the community in a gorgeous location and beautiful space at a reasonable subsidized fee. We have a lot of lovely partnerships with local artist groups throughout the Burlington community. We work with Vermont Stage, we work with Girls Night Out, we work with the Vermont International Film Foundation, as well as other local arts organizations, some of the younger groups like Fowl Contending Rebels and some of the younger arts organizations around Vermont. We also try to foster their growth and development by working with them so that they can afford the spaces and engage in the spaces in order to create art. One of the things I love about Main Street Landing is that my work allows arts communities to incubate, to grow and to excel in our community and also engage all of the people in Burlington and the surrounding areas in contemporary art.