Dear Friends,

I recently marked twenty-five years in the performing arts. Those years, spent at two community-based theatres in very different locales, have offered me the opportunity to see just how much an active performing arts center provides to the region that it serves — cultural inspiration, economic vitality and a sense of a community. It acts as a civic center where people, especially children, can gather, engage and discover.

None of this is done by the arts center alone. This very special relationship is two-way, with the community and people giving as much to the center as the arts center gives to them. In the best case, the center and the community lift each other in an ever rising canon, finding year after year new possibilities as to what they might achieve together.

I write today to ask you to join us in this shared effort; to make a gift of support to The Theatre at RVCC. Let’s work together to see what new heights we might reach in the coming year.