Support Creative Dance Center

Yes! I'd like to make a tax-deductible donation to Creative Dance Center! Your donation will help CDC grow into the future and keep dance classes and ticket prices affordable for families and students, provide scholarship funds for students and teachers who would otherwise be unable to attend classes, and continue the superior programs of Creative Dance Center and Kaleidoscope Dance Company! You may also choose to support the Anne Green Gilbert (AGG) Endowment Fund created to benefit children and adults in their pursuit of physical, intellectual, and spiritual growth through dance. Yes! I'd like to purchase Patron Tickets to KALEIDOSCOPE IN CONCERT. Complete and send form by May 5 to reserve your patron seat in the center section of Broadway Performance Hall Theater. Adult Patron Tickets: $35 each Youth/Senior Patron Tickets: $20 each Yes! I'd like to take a Chance for Dance with my purchase of 5 chances for $10.00 Choose one item or a combination of the items listed. Drawing will be May 11, 2008. You need not be present to win. Handmade Kaleidoscope Quilt, "Let's BrainDance," created with blue and white silk-screened dancing forms and quilted BrainDance symbols. Quilted by Sylvie Currie. View Quilt CDC Class Tuition- one student's tuition for one session of CDC classes (excluding the CDC/SCT Patterns in Movement and Drama Summer camp) - expires June 2009 Inn At Langley Overnight Extravaganza - a gift certificate for a night for two at this elegant Whidbey Island Inn. $200 REI Gift Certificate - donated by the Creative Dance Center's Board of Directors. Exquisite Wooden Inlaid Jewelry Box handcrafted by artist Keith Martin. Contains a gift certificate for dinner for two at the Stumbling Goat Bistro on Greenwood Ave. View Box

Why Dance? Why Give?

The Creative Dance Center and Kaleidoscope Dance Company invite you to support and acknowledge the amazing contributions CDC and Kaleidoscope have made to children, families, and the community over the past 26 years. The Creative Dance Center is recognized world wide as a leader in the field of dance education. This speaks to the ceaseless curiosity, passionate intellect, and thoughtful inquiry of CDC's Founder and Director, Anne Green Gilbert. With great dedication she has steered the organization for 26 years.

CDC can look back at the past 26 years with a great sense of satisfaction and pride. As we move into the future, the Creative Dance Center is thoughtfully expanding and growing the basic philosophy behind the success of the past 26 years. We believe that dance can sharpen the minds, touch the hearts, strengthen the bodies, and nurture the creativity of children and adults alike. We know the answer to the question, why dance? Let's answer the question, why give?

When you give, the contribution you make to the Creative Dance Center ensures we continue building on the foundation of the past 26 years. In recognition of CDC having reached the quarter century mark, we offer a variety of ways you can show your support. The Annual Giving campaign is our largest and most important fundraiser. It may be that your employer can match your tax-deductible donation, doubling your contribution to CDC. Another option for giving is contributing to the Pathway Project. We are paving the way to the future by creating a pathway around our new office. For $75 you can immortalize your family, a sentiment, or a memory on a beautiful cast glass brick engraved with your special, personalized message.

When you give, you become a part of CDC's future. If you have benefited from the wonderful classes we offer, if you've developed or renewed your love of dance and shared that with your family by attending a performance of Kaleidoscope Dance Company, then you are a part of the past, present, and future of CDC. You are a part of the Creative Dance Center family.

When you give, we are able to continue outreach to families and children throughout our community and you support the vision and goals we have for the future of CDC. With your help we will:

• increase our parent education and outreach with the application of brain research for ages Zero to Five
• expand on our Early Childhood and School Age and Adult Programs
• train educators in Brain-Compatible teaching methods through the Summer Dance Institute for Teachers and our Educator/Parent Workshops
• enlarge our facilities to better serve you with office and performance space on site
• continue to entertain and enthall audiences near (the Gift of Dance, local school performances, the Spring Concert) and far (international travel and performances at Dance and the Child International conferences) with our modern dance company of children, Kaleidoscope Dance Company

Why do we dance? To bring joy into our lives and balance to our bodies and minds! Why give? So we can keep on dancing!