Black Theatre Workshop
SUPPORT BTW
  • 10. You’ll start seeing giant Black Theatre Workshop billboards advertising our season on your drive home
  • 9. Donating gives you a “Honourary Brotha/Sistah” status for a whole year!
  • 8. We want to be on Oprah’s ‘my favourite things’ list
  • 7. Chance to see real actors sweat for their salary – not like those spoiled, “rich artists who gather at galas to whine about their grants…”
  • 6. We will be able to afford to give you a third glass of wine at Vision
  • 5. We will send our most talented YouthWorks students to Broadway
  • 4. Obama would donate – yes you can!
  • 3. We will expand The Empress Centre to be more impressive than the Segal Centre
  • and make N.D.G Montreal’s Broadway…really!
  • 2. Every dollar you contribute saves us from doing a reality TV show to raise money (Do you really want to see the Real World BTW?)
  • 1. Without your generosity and support BTW would disappear

The 2009-2010 Black Theatre Workshop season has come to an end, and thanks to all of your help it was a huge success. Black Theatre Workshop is getting ready to launch its 40th Anniversary Celebrations in 2010-2011 on top of all the excitement planned for this season.

This past year, your generous donations have allowed Black Theatre Workshop to make great strides forward. We subsidized and registered more kids for our YouthWorks program and we hired more teachers. The children were taught not only acting but dance, singing and spoken word, and put on impressive productions for parents and friends. We were able to hire more actors for our school tour and travelled to more schools than ever before. We staged a brand new play by Canadian playwright George Boyd with a large and diverse cast, impressive lighting, sets and costumes at the Segal Centre Studio. We painted the BTW office and updated the Marketing Director’s computer (She now has sound!). Finally, we have taken great strides towards obtaining our own theatre space at the Empress Cultural Centre.

That’s the good news. The bad news is government support for arts funding is at an all time low and the recession means that it is that much harder to get corporate and individual support. We would like to keep all of our incredible low-cost programs for our youth running and keep creating great theatre.

So again, we turn to you for financial help. Your support is more important to us than ever before. Please consider filling out the form attached to our season brochure and mailing back your contribution to Black Theatre Workshop. Please help save the oldest and only Black theatre company of our kind in Canada and allow us to continue creating great theatre!

Have you Considered?

Bequeath – to leave personal property to an organization in your will. Black Theatre Workshop is encouraging all of its members to take this extra step in helping support the future of our organization.