Top Hat
Top Hat
TOP HAT CAMPAIGN CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISING GOAL: $78,000 Topia Arts Center is building a completely green Performing Arts Center. One of the most important components of this new green performance space is core sustainability which means making the building energy efficient. In our ongoing effort to innovate and inspire in all of our endeavors, we here at Topia Arts Center are seeking $78,000 in Online Arts Funding from you – the members of our community – to help us cover the cost of purchasing and installing a new roof insulated from the outside. To be clear – Topia Arts Center is offering you the unique opportunity to become part of our growing community. We are offering you the chance to get directly involved. To support us in our fundraising goals please review the following entitlements and contribute as you see fit in exchange for something much more rewarding -a modern fundraising experience that goes far beyond simply seeing your name on a plaque. In addition to other tax benefits, 10% of all purchases automatically goes to the Keeping the Lights On fund and is tax deductible. TOP HAT ONLINE ARTS FUNDING CAMPAIGN
$10 Welcome Level We would like to welcome you to our developing space with One Advance Ticket to the Symphony of 100 Carpenters on June 12, 2010. A big part of our concept is to keep the doors open as we continue to realize the world-class theatrical design by Theatre Consultants Collaborative. At this concert the Extended Stage and Performance Platform construction will be completed during the concert. This offer must be redeemed by June 5, 2010.
$20 Welcome Welcome Level We would like to doubly welcome you and a guest to our developing space with Two Advance Tickets to the Symphony of 100 Carpenters on June 12, 2010. A varied sonic landscape will be created to accompany a choreography of actual construction and you and your guest get to point to the stage and performance platform and say “We were there when…”. This offer must be redeemed by June 5, 2010.
$50 Welcome, I’d Like To Introduce You To Some Of My Friends Level We want to welcome you and your friends to our developing space with Five Advance Tickets to the Symphony of 100 Carpenters on June 12, 2010. We like to share this creative space, and will treat your friends like our friends. The more the merrier. This offer must be redeemed by June 5, 2010.
$150 Soups On Cooking Class Level Support Topia Arts Center at this level and receive a one of a kind free cooking class from Jeanne Matthew of the Stone Soup Cafe at Topia Arts Center. The Cafe at Topia opened in February 2005 with a guitar-shaped bar designed by Greek artist, Stella Sarianidou. A beautiful, sculptural facade designed by Architect Dana Bixby was completed in the spring of 2009 with a grant from the Town of Adams facade program. Jeanne Matthew currently runs the cafe as a family business and calls it Stone Soup. The menu includes delicious local and organic food offerings and fair trade coffee.
$500 Movement Made for You Level If your New Year’s resolutions lean away from couch potato but jumping on a bunch of machines at the gym doesn’t quite resonate, Caryn Heilman, one of Topia Arts Center’s founders, can help you navigate the fitness terrain with three fitness coaching sessions that focus on what will work for you. Draw on Caryn’s experience with modern dance (10 years with the Paul Taylor Dance Company), Ashtanga yoga, Pilates, Tai Chi, Aikido, ballet and her own LiquidBody movement which is based on the pioneering work of Emilie Conrad’s Continuum Movement. There can so be gain without pain and Caryn can get you there without having to “feel the burn”.
$ 1000 Movie Night Level Ever hear those stories about famous people screening movies for their friends within the cozy confines of their massive home theaters? Now you can play Spielberg to your friends or Coppola to your family. Wow them with blu-ray quality on Topia Arts Center’s huge 32 foot screen for a movie night they won’t forget. Screen whatever film you like and be the envy of your peers –the one with the red carpet, A-List hook up.
$1500 Jazz Brunch Level Book your own private Jazz brunch for you and your friends at your house. Topia Arts Center Chairman, Mary Ann McSweeney will provide the live music and a delicious spread for 10-20 friends will magically appear.
$3000 Grab Your Wallet, God’s Looking Level aka The Instant Karma Level This one’s simple – you get to feel good twice over. Donate $3000 to the funding of our Solar Panels and both of Topia Arts Center’s founders will match your monetary contribution by donating a day’s worth of their time to the local charity of your choice.
$5000 I’m With The Diva Level The New York Times compared her to Maria Callas. Newsday called her “an adrenaline diva” and New York Magazine trumpeted her role last spring as Christine in Richard Strauss’ Intermezzo at New York City Opera as “the operatic performance of the season”. She’s Lauren Flanigan and for $5000 you can accompany her to Opera for “one night only.”
$8000 Be Our Angel Donor For $8000 you can can become one of our most rare Angel Donors. Your donation is 100% tax deductible.
