Do you LOVE this Symphony?
We Need Your Support to Keep this Symphony Playing!
30K MATCHING CAMPAIGN – Limited Time Opportunity!
Campaign Gift Deadline: December 31, 2024
“The VIS has given us such joy. With bigger orchestras, like LA and San Francisco and even Vancouver, you never get that connection that we feel with the musicians and maestro of the VIS.” – Joyce Clarke
We are thrilled to announce that VIS supporter Joyce Clarke has pledged $30,000 in matching funds in honour of the Symphony 30th Season. This means she will match each new donation garnered between Sep 1 and December 31, 2024. Giving during our Matching Fund Campaign is a great way to empower yourself, multiply your donation, and bolster your impact.
Help us make the most of this pledge! We don’t want a single dollar to go unmatched! All new donations to any program, including new monthly gifts, will count towards the Matching Fund campaign. Already a monthly donor? Increases in monthly gifts will also count towards the Matching Fund Campaign.
Your 30th Anniversary Gift
Your 30th Anniversary GiftDid you know it costs about $60,000 to put on an orchestral concert? Ticket sales only cover a 1/3 of the expenses.
There are so many unglamorous costs like security, pension plans and sheet music. However, without these vital pieces you would not experience the thrill of 40 musicians performing live onstage. Your annual symphony donation is vital to producing powerful, moving and exceptional live music experiences in our community. In celebration of our 30 th year milestone, we hope you will choose to donate and Keep Music Live! in our community.
Donors enjoy some great benefits and opportunities. [See Sidebar “Circle Levels”]
WAYS TO GIVE
BY PHONE
Please Call the VIS Office at 250.754.0177
VIA E-TRANFER
Send an e-transfer to info@vancouverislandsymphony.com
BY MAIL
Mail a cheque made out to the
Vancouver Island Symphony
to
PO Box 661
Nanaimo, BC V9R 5L9
BANG FOR YOUR BUCKS
Percussion Capital Campaign
Did you know that percussion musicians don’t necessarily own their own drums?
Unlike a flutist who performs with their own flute, percussionists cannot travel with all the instruments required to play a piece of music – that could be over 20 different instruments! It’s therefore up to the orchestra to provide them. For 30 years, the VIS has rented and carted dozens of percussion instruments for each concert at a cost of $5,000 each season. With eyes on the long-term financial benefits, we have a goal to purchase 2 Bass Drums & stands, a Xylophone, a Marimba, Cymbals, Tubular Bells, Gongs, a Glockenspiel, an electric Keyboard and Chimes. Help us purchase these integral instruments, the heartbeat of the orchestra. We want a percussion section of instruments to be proud of!
All supporters will be invited to a Percussion Party. Make an impact that everyone will feel at every concert.
MUSICAL CHAIRS
Legacy Gift
Do you have a favourite Musician or Instrument in the Symphony? Play Musical Chairs with us!
Name your favourite seat onstage with a significant legacy gift pf $4,000. Honour the memory of a friend or music-lover. Put your business or corporate name in lights. Show our orchestra and your community how much you love your Symphony. Legacy gifts like this can be made over multiple years, but benefit your symphony today.
- Specific Orchestra Seats cost $4,000 and can be paid over 4 years.
- Your selected seat will have your name in perpetuity.
- You’ll be invited to try out your seat at a rehearsal and meet the musician who sits there.
- A chair in your favourite section is still available.
- A tax receipt will be issued for your Musical Chair Gift.
NAMED CHAIRS
Concertmaster – Eveline O’Rourke Honourary Concertmaster’s Chair
Principal Viola – Betty St. Jean Memorial Chair
Principal Cello – Judy Fraser Memorial Chair
Principal Oboe – Dr. Marjorie S. Holmes Memorial Chair
Principal French Horn – Carl Saarinen Memorial Chair
Donor Benefits
Circle Levels
DREAM CIRCLE ($5,000+)
- 4 Complimentary tickets to any VIS performance
- A private meeting or meal with the Artistic Director Cosette Justo Valdés
- Plus everything listed below
MAESTRA’S CIRCLE ($2,000+)
- An Invitation to the Maestra’s Circle Cuban Fiesta on March 4, 2025 hosted by Cosette Justo Valdés
- Plus everything listed below
CONCERTMASTER’S CIRCLE ($1,000+)
- An invitation to the Concertmaster’s Mad Hatter Tea Party on January 21, 2025 hosted by Calvin Dyck
- An invitation to the Opening Night post-concert reception in the Harmac Room with our musicians, including Calvin Dyck, our guests artists and Maestra Justo Valdés on October 19, 2024
- Plus everything listed below
ENCORE CIRCLE ($600+) or $50/month
- An invitation to an Open Rehearsal experience on Friday, March 7, 2025 at 7:00 pm
- Plus everything listed below
BRAVO CIRCLE ($360+) including 30-for-30 Monthly Donors
- An invitation to the holiday reception after the 7:30pm concert with our musicians, Festive Brass and Maestra Justo Valdés on November 30, 2024
- Be a Kid Again and bring a friend to attend a rehearsal of M is for Music on April 5, 2025
- Plus everything listed below
APPLAUSE CIRCLE ($240+) or $20/month
- Our heartfelt gratitude, admiration and praise for Keeping Music Live! in Year 30
- Receive our exclusive Insiders Newsletter
- A tax receipt for your generous gift
Donations can be allocated to a fund of your choice: General Operations, Choir, Music Education Programs or New Music Commissions. The Vancouver Island Symphony is a registered charity (#11905 0813 RR0001) and will issue a tax receipt for donations of $20 or more.
