Sony in America supports a variety of arts organizations and cultural institutions that help spread and preserve cultural legacies for future generations to enjoy. These organizations also contribute to the spirit and vigor of local communities, and improve the fabric of daily lives for their inhabitants.

Sony Pictures Entertainment supports art and culture throughout the neighborhoods around its Culver City world headquarters. A grant made to Culver City provides for a variety of arts programs such as free outdoor concerts, a guest lecture series, the Culver City Art Walk, and other events, many of which are free to the public. Sony Pictures Entertainment also supports East West Players, The Actors’ Gang Theater, Shakespeare Festival / LA, Skirball Cultural Center and Inside Out Community Arts.

Sony Corporation of America, Sony Electronics Inc. and Sony Pictures Entertainment contribute to other institutions as well:

Museums and other cultural organizations: the American Craft Museum, the American Film Institute, the American Museum of Natural History, Asia Society, the Autry Museum of Western Culture, Carnegie Hall, the Holocaust Museum, the Japan Society, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center Consolidated Corporate Fund, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Muhammad Ali Center, El Museo del Barrio, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Television and Radio, the National Constitution Center, the Paley Center for Media, the Smithsonian Institution and the UCLA Fowler Museum.

Film Festivals and Awards Shows: the Tribeca Film Festival, the Los Angeles Film Festival, Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, IsraFest—The Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles, Outfest, the Pan African Film & Arts Festival, and VC Filmfest—the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.