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Support Season 12: A Season to Grow!
If you are able to help with a donation, it means that we can keep visiting towns with small populations, schools with little or no arts budgets, neighborhoods where the community is hungry for art, but also hungry for food. This year it also means we will be able to add technology to our shows when they need to be remote, and add features that will allow for streaming to audience members who miss us when we are on the road. We want everyone to feast, on Shakespeare and soup. Please donate today so that we can all feast together.
This year as we embark on Tour 2022: A Midsummer Night's Dream, we are raising money to raise our artists salaries as we strive to find a way to create equity and sustainability for artists to join our tours and visit your towns. Just as we do not think that location, education, or economic position should hinder any audience from enjoying our timeless tales, we similarly do not think that differences in circumstance should hinder artists from joining us as we create, rehearse, and travel to bring you quality entertainment.
Our goal is to be able to offer an equitable stipend to each performer. A stipend for taking almost two months of time away from their homes and away from other work. A stipend for traveling far more miles than most of us travel in a year, for memorizing lines, for assisting as we visit classrooms and libraries in addition to performing in parks; for helping create costumes and props, loading and unloading, flyering, posting, and taking on multiple personalities all for your pleasure.
In addition to raising higher stipends we need to raise our usual funds for travel, production, bookmarks, and breakfasts!
We are raising money incrementally - bite sized goals. This current campaign will run from now until the end of our tour as we travel throughout Illinois, and into Missouri, Indiana, and Wisconsin.
This year as we embark on Tour 2022: A Midsummer Night's Dream, we are raising money to raise our artists salaries as we strive to find a way to create equity and sustainability for artists to join our tours and visit your towns. Just as we do not think that location, education, or economic position should hinder any audience from enjoying our timeless tales, we similarly do not think that differences in circumstance should hinder artists from joining us as we create, rehearse, and travel to bring you quality entertainment.
Our goal is to be able to offer an equitable stipend to each performer. A stipend for taking almost two months of time away from their homes and away from other work. A stipend for traveling far more miles than most of us travel in a year, for memorizing lines, for assisting as we visit classrooms and libraries in addition to performing in parks; for helping create costumes and props, loading and unloading, flyering, posting, and taking on multiple personalities all for your pleasure.
In addition to raising higher stipends we need to raise our usual funds for travel, production, bookmarks, and breakfasts!
We are raising money incrementally - bite sized goals. This current campaign will run from now until the end of our tour as we travel throughout Illinois, and into Missouri, Indiana, and Wisconsin.
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If you prefer, send tax-deductible checks payable to *Stone Soup Shakespeare Theater to:
Stone Soup Shakespeare
attn: Julia Stemper 4142 N Keystone Ave, #4 Chicago, IL 60641 |
Our Season 12 Total Budget Goal is $28,000.
We want to make sure you know how we are spending the money we raise, so below is a list of exactly how we have budgeted this year. If you would like your contribution to go to something specifically let us know and we will make sure it does. If you see that we need something below and you can help us in other ways (ex. you have a van to donate so we don't have to rent one), please e-mail us.
We want to make sure you know how we are spending the money we raise, so below is a list of exactly how we have budgeted this year. If you would like your contribution to go to something specifically let us know and we will make sure it does. If you see that we need something below and you can help us in other ways (ex. you have a van to donate so we don't have to rent one), please e-mail us.
$12,000: Artists' Stipends (for tour and our mid-season virtual offerings)
$4,000: Van rental and gas
$2,000: Artists' Food
$2,000: Readings and Auxiliary Events
$2,000: Education Supplies
$1,500: Tour World (props, costumes, set and designer fees)
$1,000: Artists' Travel (flights and train tickets and the occasional hotel)
$1,000: Printing (posters, programs and scripts)
$1,000: Insurance
$1,000: Audition Tour
$400: Space rentals
$100: THIS website
$4,000: Van rental and gas
$2,000: Artists' Food
$2,000: Readings and Auxiliary Events
$2,000: Education Supplies
$1,500: Tour World (props, costumes, set and designer fees)
$1,000: Artists' Travel (flights and train tickets and the occasional hotel)
$1,000: Printing (posters, programs and scripts)
$1,000: Insurance
$1,000: Audition Tour
$400: Space rentals
$100: THIS website
It's help from you that makes it possible for us to diversify the cultural opportunities available to our Tour region.
other ways to help
Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and tell all your friends to do the same. If you know of communities that might be interested in us visiting them during our next season, please e-mail us at community@stonesoupshakespeare.com.
Additionally we are looking for some volunteers to assist in capturing images, editing video and working on a very exciting poster project for our season. If you have experience in any of these areas, or have a quality digital video camera we can borrow (or if you are upgrading and are looking for a home for you old one) we would love to talk to you. We are working to maximize your donation dollars and match them with grant monies. Your help in anyway helps us as we move forward.
Additionally this season we are in need of food, a guitar, earth friendly glitter, copying, a wooden crate and a wooden ladder...and a van (we're always on the hunt for a van). If you own any of this things and would be willing to let us borrow them for awhile, please e-mail info@stonesoupshakespeare.com.
Remember not only are your cash gifts tax deductible, but certain items can be tax deductible too. Cash gifts can easily be donated online,* and other gifts can be donated by first e-mailing us (one more time send all thoughts to info@stonesoupshakespeare.com).
Additionally we are looking for some volunteers to assist in capturing images, editing video and working on a very exciting poster project for our season. If you have experience in any of these areas, or have a quality digital video camera we can borrow (or if you are upgrading and are looking for a home for you old one) we would love to talk to you. We are working to maximize your donation dollars and match them with grant monies. Your help in anyway helps us as we move forward.
Additionally this season we are in need of food, a guitar, earth friendly glitter, copying, a wooden crate and a wooden ladder...and a van (we're always on the hunt for a van). If you own any of this things and would be willing to let us borrow them for awhile, please e-mail info@stonesoupshakespeare.com.
Remember not only are your cash gifts tax deductible, but certain items can be tax deductible too. Cash gifts can easily be donated online,* and other gifts can be donated by first e-mailing us (one more time send all thoughts to info@stonesoupshakespeare.com).
BIG THANKS to our supporters:
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Antonio Casanova
Connie Frazier, Law Office Best Western/U.S. Inn Curry & Associates Engineers Shakespeare Reading Group Lutz Agency Meier Chevrolet-Buick Little Nashville Baldwin House Agency Nascote Industries Friends of the Nashville Public Library Nashville Savings Bank Roselie Vasquez-Yetter Timothy Prestridge Mark Cannon Paul Vanni |
Laura Klein
Greg Lewis Bonnie Goldstein Maren Curtis Leigh Jameson Kathleen Culler Peter Bunder Michael Jorgensen Anika Morris Rachael Baker Tom Flaherty Garth Ross Ben and Shawna Murrie Performics Ryan Nelson |
Floyd McWilliams
Kevin Purcell Kelly Walden Robert Price Paul Sriberg Frank and Nancy Stemper Angelia Cho Tony Tsai Linda Marder Vogler Ford Ken and Margie Collins John Klemke Marsha Ryan Kathy Patton Ann Garrett |
*Stone Soup Shakespeare Theater is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit., a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf of Stone Soup Shakespeare are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.