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tell stories
visit your town
share Shakespeare
picnic
expand your "backyard"

 A tax deductible donation from you will go a long way in making sure you and your neighbors are able to enjoy Shakespeare for years to come!
Thank you!

And remember as you shop your back-to-school needs, shop local, but if you need to order that perfect lunchbox from Amazon, consider us and shop using AmazonSmile. Any purchase made using that link will automatically send a small percentage of the total to us - no cost to you! So shop away. Buy presents for yourself this season and we'll thank you for it!

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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.

As we finish recharging from Tour 10, as we brainstorm how to best celebrate our communities, as we approach Twelfth Night we also approach our Twelfth Season!

We will be announcing Tour 11 on Twelfth Night and as we "Count Up" to the start of our 12th Season and all of the possibilities it holds, we are asking for your generosity to make sure all of the dreams happen.

This year 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 a $2,000 stipend to each performer. That's $2,000 for taking almost two months of time away from their homes and away from other work. That's $2,000 for traveling far more than 2,000 miles, 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 first campaign will be matched dollar for dollar by a generous donor up to $1,200. As you consider your end of year giving, as you consider how to make your dollars count, consider making a donation to Stone Soup Shakespeare, and be on the look-out for all that Season 12 and 2022 have to offer!

Donate

​​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

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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.

$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

It's help from you that makes it possible for us to diversify the cultural opportunities available to our Tour region.

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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).

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BIG THANKS to our supporters:

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

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*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.