Eastmorland Community Center
Developing space and spirit for life in the Eastmorland Neighborhood
Mission Statement
The Eastmorland Community Center was founded on a vision of bringing people together for life-giving work. Our mission is to create space for the collaborative life of the neighborhood. We value the arts, education, and social justice work for what it brings to the lives of the residents of Eastmorland and our school community. We strive to support groups and programs engaged in valuable life-affirming work and to be a gathering place for people to come together in community. We value bringing people into the life of the building as a whole so that we build community as we create a hub for the amazing things happening in the Eastmorland Neighborhood.
Upcoming Events
2025 Event Calendar
Financial Planning Event March 31, 2025 @ 5:30 pm
ECA Monthy Meeting with Tyler Krupp April 8, 2025 @7:00
Shakespeare in the Park April 25-26, 2025
Eastmorland Outdoor Market (rain location) May 17, 2025
Eastmorland Pride Picnic June 7, 2025
Make Music Madison June 21, 2025
Leaving the Nest: Celebrating a Building Migration July 27, 2025
Community Partners
A ministry of Lakeview Moravian Community Church & Zion Faith Community (ELCA). We believe that building relationships of love, compassion, and mutual care will help bring peace and justice to our neighborhood and the world.
A volunteer-run, non-profit. They sell fair trade items produced by former victims of human trafficking and artisans in places of extreme poverty. Proceeds from these sales go to support programs that do the work of offering sustainable living wages and education in impoverished areas, domestically and globally. They make fair trade goods available locally offering a shopping alternative to Amazon and other online shopping.
Presents year-round classic theater in Madison and surrounding communities. Since 2016, MSC has rehearsed performances large and small in our building, transforming almost every square inch of the grounds into a throne room, battlefield, or lovers’ hideaway at one time or another.
A not-for-profit community theatre–primarily volunteer run–whose mission is to celebrate and advance queer representation through theatre written by and about LGBTQ+ persons. StageQ was founded in 2001 in order to provide a stable home for gay and lesbian-themed plays in the broader Madison community. StageQ is a resident of the Bartell Community Theatre where we produce 3-5 productions annually. We serve as a home for queer artists to tell their stories on stage and allow queer audiences the ability to see themselves and their lives represented on stage.
Kindling Community Arts is a place to fuel creative spirits. We envision a world filled with imaginative thinkers who take care of each other and our earth. Kindling is a place for the artist inside all of us to build creative confidence, explore curiosities, and grow community. We offer arts exploration classes, studio memberships, and a small gathering space. The studio is stocked with creative reuse supplies for tinkering and making, as well as traditional visual arts materials.
The Madison Death Collective is a collective of healers and practitioners providing resources for caregivers, grievers, and those of us living at the end of life. We know that we heal in community with each other, and community care and a spirit of abundance are central to our work as a death collective. We believe deathwork belongs in the hands of the people, where it had always been before recent history.
Whole Child Parenting offers tools for parents, grandparents, educators, and caregivers as they embrace the gifts and challenges of developing children. We also offer free Community Parenting Seminars.
Lucid Dreaming Sketch comedy promotes the performance and growth of sketch comedy in Madison, WI. Since 2015 we've hosted shows, classes, and workshops to give budding sketch comedians a place to practice their skills and share their creativity with the world.
Play and Learn is a fun and interactive program that is offered free-of-charge for children ages birth to 3+ and their caregivers, who reside in the Madison School District.
The Play and Learn sessions provide a learning environment for families who may not have access to similar opportunities and who are not currently participating in similar programs. Children learn early math, literacy, and social skills through play and caregivers learn about child development, the importance of play, and parenting skills.
