O/T Fundraising

5pants
Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:03:26 +0000

st8gemom,

I agree as I am sure everyone out here does that theatre is not only underfunded, but underrated by the general public. We here at CC think differently because we have wrapped our lives in it, but to Joe Smoe it’s trivialized…at least that is the case in our city of 65,000 people.

We have a wonderful children’s theatre group in our city, called SpotLight On Kids http://www.spotlightonkids.org/ , which has struggled for the last 13 years…the artisitic director has taken drastic measures to raise money and is actually raffling her own home to keep the group going.

This particular group has allowed children and their families to work together diversely & creatively. They have learned things such as commitment, focus, research (each child is required to do a biography on their character…casts are typicaly 70+ kids), love of literature, and that there is no such thing as a small part.

It’s sad that such groups suffer to make end meet…sorry for the soap box. It’s an issue close to my heart.

Good luck with fundraising!!

5pants aka SUE

P.S. Thank God for people like you who can’t say no to kids and theatre!!