With Your Help, We'll Cover It All
- Culture OC Editors
- Jul 2
- 2 min read
Culture OC approaches its second anniversary with fresh honors and a determination to grow with support from readers like you.
Summer’s here, and most of the 2024-25 performing arts season is over, although there’s still plenty to see between now and Labor Day.
It’s also the perfect time to support local arts journalism: Today we're launching our summer donation drive, and we need your help to keep this important work going. Thanks to several generous donors, every gift made during the month of July will be matched — doubling your impact.
Culture OC is taking this moment to reflect on what we've built — and what comes next. From award-winning reporting to stories no one else is telling, we hope you’ll agree: we’ve earned your support.
Our talented writers distinguished themselves during awards season. At the Southern California Journalism Awards last month, Cynthia Rebolledo won a first-place prize for her story about Santa Ana artist Alicia Rojas’s public art project, "Las Poderosas de Latino Health Access," We also won top honors for our collaborative series with PBS SoCal about Pacific Symphony's search for a new music director. And we represented proudly at the OC Press Club Awards, winning 15 honors this year.
We covered major issues, including the first reported news story about the Orange County Museum of Art's pending management agreement with UC Irvine. It was one of several Culture OC stories that was picked up by Arts Journal, the preeminent national arts news website.
Culture OC also delivered comprehensive guides to Fourth of July and Pride celebrations; provided the lowdown on dueling Nutcrackers; took a nostalgic look at O.C.'s punk history; gave you alterna-cocktail suggestions for Dry January; marked the passing of O.C. arts leaders and the arrival of others. More often than not, we’re the only professional journalism source for these stories.
But we’re not content to rest on our laurels. Our second anniversary is just around the corner, and we’re gearing up to bring you even more coverage of theater, dance, music, visual arts, community events, food and the restaurant scene in our third year.
Please help us cover the county's rich, widespread and constantly morphing cultural scene by making a donation, where a small commitment brings major rewards.
