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GIVING ensures you a better place in HEAVEN
LITTLE RED THEATRE SAYS:
THANK YOU TO SPONSORS FOR OUR LAST TOURING SEASON
TD Canada
Trust
Exploration Link,
Deborah Bojman,
Parade,
Dr. Anna
Baranowski,
Jacquie Menezes
David Walsh
Dr. Ralph Halpert
Little Red Theatre invites you and your organization to participate in our
Sponsorship of the Arts Program. Our program pairs sponsors
from the business community with schools that have been identified as
having fewer 'learning opportunities’ because of their financial
inequities. It is a cost-sharing program that helps low income schools
introduce their students to the dramatic arts which will inspire their
academic success, and help them to learn healthy modes of self-expression.
The Little Red Theatre Sponsorship of the Arts Program places
original theatrical productions in low-income schools with the intent of
stimulating creative potential and educational opportunity for children
ages 4 - 12 years.
We would be very happy to discuss the
possibilities available to you personally or your organization if you
would like to participate in our Sponsorship of the Arts Program and bring
joy and art to beacon schools.
Please see the details of
participation in the attached program description. Our registered charity
number is #12971 4234 RR0001. Call us with your questions.
Yours
truly,
Jody Terio Artistic Director
Little Red Theatre
HISTORY OF LITTLE RED THEATRE
Since 1988, Little
Red Theatre has been providing original theatre performances to more than
50,000 delighted school kids in Ontario every year. For
many of these children, a Little Red Theatre performance has been their
first, and perhaps their only, experience of the dramatic arts. As a
touring theatre company, we have visited hundreds of schools, helping
teachers enrich their arts programs and helping students derive the
profound benefits available from arts education.
Little Red Theatre
is a non-profit organization and a registered charity. Our plays are
provided to schools at a not-for-profit cost. Each performance uses
professional actors, custom-designed sets, costumes and props and
original musical scores. In addition to our dedication to professional
production values, Little Red Theatre provides each school with an
well planned study guide package. This guide contains background
information on the cultural and educational aspects of the scheduled
performance. Teachers use the study guide in lesson planning to prepare
their students to get the most out of the Little Red Theatre visit to
their school.
WHY SPONSORSHIP IS NECESSARY!
Research has shown that the 'benefits of integrating arts into education
have a positive and direct impact on the academic and emotional well-being
of young students.'
Costs Per Show V.S. Low Budgets of
School
Typically, the fee is $550 per show (in the Toronto
area).
This fee covers the costs of
* performers' salaries
*
Travel
* production costs (such as those incurred from designing and
making costumes and sets)
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Little
Red Theatre's Sponsorship Program is cost-shared equally between host
schools and corporate sponsors. Little Red Theatre determines which
schools need support the most from school board indices of 'Learning
Opportunities'. This data compiles a list of the neediest schools from
each board based on criteria such as:
*average family income and
ability to fundraise
*level of parental education
*transience of
population
TIMELINE;
Performances are
booked during the school year, from September to May.
Sponsorship is
ongoing, and available at any time.
SPONSORSHIP
RECOGNITION OPPORTUNITIES
Little Red Theatre would very much
like to thank sponsors of this important program and your name will appear
on ALL public programs for the year.
And, of course, each sponsorship
receives a charitable tax receipt.
Keep in mind that schools are not
allowed to advertise products or place endorsements however a thank you
verbally and in writing to you from the principal and the students is
permitted.
If any sponsor wishes to finance productions to schools in
a specific area, Little Red Theatre will make every effort to honour that
request.
Please let us know about specific schools or specific areas
when you mail your cheque.
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To participate in our
Sponsorship of the Arts Program or for further information about the
Little Red Theatre, email us at info@littleredtheatre.on.ca or call our
office at: 416-533-8848 .
Make cheque payable to:
Little Red
Theatre and send it to us at
25 Beaty Avenue, Toronto M6K 3B3.
www.littleredtheatre.on.ca
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