A new schedule of events may be coming to Twentynine Palms in the new year. The City’s Tourism Business Improvement District, known colloquially as TBID, has released a list of who has applied for events funding and sponsorship for the first half of 2025.
The TBID provides significant funding to large and small events held in Twentynine Palms as part of an effort to increase tourism dollars. Applications are in and the TBID has released all of the received applications in advance of their December 18 meeting at which the Board of Directors will allocate and approve funds.
Major events seeking grants up to $20,000 include a women’s event organized by the Joshua Tree National Park Association, a music festival produced by JT City Limits, a film and music festival hosted at Smith’s Ranch Drive-In, Theatre 29 applying to fund the second half of their current theater season including performances of Jesus Christ Superstar and Streetcar Named Desire, an outdoor, dark sky dance event from Dance Mojave, a queer-minded arts culture festival put on by DESERTRADE, and a program inviting producers for all-expense paid visits to entice filming in Twentynine Palms, called the “Shoot in 29 Palms Initiative.”
Applications for TBID sponsorship, which can mean funding up to $3,000 for smaller events, includes moving the hi-desert fringe festival from the joshua tree retreat center to twentynine palms, a children’s sensory play event, an improvised music and meditation event, a chalk art festival, a two-day festival of ten minute long plays at the Palms, a full moon festival at Sky’s the limit observatory, a second year of the revived Desert Rat Convention.
Event grants, totaling in the tens of thousands of dollars, were reviewed and scored by a five-member TBID advisory committee, separate from the TBID board of directors.
You can learn more about these applications, the grant funding initiatives, and the tourism in Twentynine Palms when TBID board member Ashton Ramsey and Marketing Director Breanne Dusastre appear on Friday morning’s Z107.7 Up Close Show with Gary Daigneault.
TBID Sponsorship and Event Grant Program FY24-25 Round One Event Sponsorship Applications – PDF
TBID Sponsorship & Event Grant Program FY24-25 Round One Event Grant Applications – PDF
