Express your support during this season of giving with a tax-
deductible contribution to Church Street School for Music and Art:
Your donation of $1,000 or more entitles you to a naming opportunity in our newly-expanded space. Benches, studios, classrooms, even the lobby, can be named for you or for someone of your choice.
Your donation of $500 or more entitles you to a stair tile with your name on our beautiful new stairway to the newly-renovated sapce. You will also receive a finished a Gingerbread House, designed by our team or architects, in celebration of the completion of our new home!
Your donation of $250 or more entitles you to a Gingerbread House Decorating Kit, so that you can build your own home in celebration of the remodeling of ours.
Your donation of $100 or more entitles you to create a ceramic tile to be included on our ever-popular "Wall of Fame." You - or your children - can create your own personal work of art for our walls!
Your donation of $50 or more will include your name on a plaque listing Church Street School's patrons, which is displayed in our lobby, in recognition and thanks for your thoughtfulness.
Scroll down for more details.
Capital Campaign Naming Opportunities
Church Street School for Music and Art's expansion into two floors provides a number of opportunities for Church Street's friends to make a meaningful and visible investment in the school's future.
Some naming opportunities are still available:
$60K – Lobby
A hub of student activity, the newly-expanded lobby is cheerful and welcoming as children and parents cross the threshold into the magical world of music and art.
$50K - Art Room
A space dedicated to the imagination and power of the artistic process – and now almost doubled in size!
$15K - Large Practice Rooms (2)
A bassoon, a double bass, even a flute – no instrument is too large or small for lessons in our new music teaching facilities.
$10K - Small Practice Rooms (2)
With our additional musical teaching capacity, we are able to take on students who had been patiently waiting for space at our pre-renovation facility.
$7.5K - Drum
Our signature architectural feature, showcasing our innovative spirit.
$5K - Corridor Hallway and Staff Lounge
Two additional spaces which are invaluable in helping our school function so effectively.
$2K - Benches (5)
Designed uniquely for Church Street, and filled with kids excited to be entering into an ongoing artistic adventure.
$500 – Staircase Tile (many)
Our walkway of fame, lined with our supporters' best wishes.
<=== Click to name something today!
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Steinway Piano Fund
Church Street School for Music and Art was recently offered a unique and extraordinary opportunity to acquire a wonderful, and historic, concert grand piano for its performances and recitals.
But we need your help to pay for it!
The piano is a 7-foot Steinway with ivory keys, which was originally built in 1893 and was rebuilt in the last ten years. Two independent piano experts have certified the piano to be in excellent condition. The piano belonged to Igor Buketoff, a well-known orchestral composer who conducted the NY Philharmonic and was on the faculty of Julliard. Mr. Buketoff is best known for his arrangement of the 1812 Overture (the very popular version with the cannons and other colorful effects that we all know) and the posthumous orchestration of Rachmaninoff's final opera. The school also hopes to acquire a series of wonderful photographs of Mr. Buketoff with Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Kabalevsky, Eugene Ormandy, and others.
Pianos of this caliber are valued at $50,000 but Church Street School had the opportunity for a limited time to purchase it from Mr. Buketoff's estate for $25,000. Click here to read a copy of a letter from Mr. Buketoff's daughter, recounting the story of the piano, and why she wanted it to come to the school as a legacy for her father.
Church Street School for Music and Art - the only school of its kind in Lower Manhattan - is a not-for-profit organization, and all gifts are fully tax-deductible. Specializing in educational programs in the arts for children, the school has served families in Lower Manhattan for almost 15 years. The acquisition of Mr. Buketoff's piano not only enhances musical instruction at Church Street School, but also preserves an historic instrument for future generations to enjoy.
We hope you agree with us that this was an opportunity that could not be passed up – and that you will help support this purchase with a generous contribution.
Click here to read a newspaper article about our wonderful piano!
<=== Click to donate to the Steinway Piano Fund.
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Prawat Laucharoen
Church Street School for Music and Art has received an exciting donation of prints from the internationally acclaimed artist, Prawat Laucharoen.
Prawat, a long-time parent of the school, generously donated all the editions in this collection to benefit Church Street School for Music and Art.
The eight prints are for sale here at the school. Check out the exhibit in our newly renovated lobby and downstairs, or click here for more information and images of the work for sale (pictures viewed online may not be entirely true to the color and detail of the original prints).
<=== Click to buy a Prawat Laucharoen print.
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Ceramic Tile Wall of Fame
Since 1996, Church Street School has been holding an annual fundraising drive each fall to help raise money for program support. As part of this annual fall drive, your donation of $100 makes possible your participation in our "Wall of Fame"; you will be invited to paint your own ceramic tile to add to our collection. Ceramic tile painting workshops are held periodically throughout the year. In our school lobby, you will see many ceramic tiles created over the years by Church Street School students and their families, and your donation of $100 entitles you to a place!
<=== Click for to make a donation, and participate in the ceramic “Wall of Fame.”
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Geraldine Neff Anderson Piano Scholarship Fund
Geraldine Neff Anderson believed in the power and beauty of music. She played the piano from the time she was a young girl until she was well into her 90's. Her father recognized her musical talents early on and made sure that she always had a piano to play. This is quite remarkable, because Geraldine's father was a “homesteader” and moved his family to a log cabin in Montana from 1910 until 1920. Geraldine not only had a piano to play in the family's log cabin on the prairie in Montana, but she rode a horse five miles to take her piano lessons every week. When Geraldine returned to Pennsylvania in 1920 in her teens, she began playing improvised piano accompaniment for silent movies in her home town.
Geraldine Neff Anderson was grandmother to Lisa Ecklund-Flores, Church Street School for Music and Art's director and founder. Lisa shared her love for music with her grandmother until her death in March 2005. As a legacy to this musical heritage, Lisa has created a scholarship fund in her grandmother's name.
Dedicated to supporting the musical education of young pianists, the Geraldine Neff Anderson Scholarship Fund will offer financial support for instrumental lessons based on economic need and musical ability. Church Street School for Music and Art is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization, and donations made to the Geraldine Neff Anderson Scholarship Fund are 100% tax-deductible.
<=== Click to donate to the Geraldine Neff Anderson Piano Scholarship Fund.
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Special Events
Gingerbread House: December 1&2,8&9,15&16
As autumn leaves give way to winter nights, warm up with Church Street School's holiday tradition of GINGERBREAD HOUSE DECORATING. This is the time when the school takes on the smell of ginger, and elves hand-pick candies to help us create our visions!
Children from 2 to 92 delight us with their joyful glee.
As acclaimed by The New York Times!
Gingerbread House Decorating Workshops are offered December 1&2, 8&9 and 15&16. Saturdays 2:15&4pm, Sundays 11am,1&3pm
Brought to you by your neighbors at Artisan Lofts
Email us at info@churchstreetschool.org to register.
Book Fair : December 1-17th
As part of our holiday fundraising efforts, Church Street School for Music and Art holds a Scholastic Book Fair each year! For the first three weeks of December, Scholastic - world-renowned children's book publisher - brings bookcases filled with their high-quality, always popular, selection of children's books. They also provide an adorable collection of stuffed animals and other merchandise related to Scholastic's publications and TV shows. Church Street School receives 30% of the profits from all sales, so please plan to visit Church Street School's Scholastic Book Fair this from December 1-17 for your holiday shopping!
T.O.A.S.T . (TriBeCa Open Artist Studio Tour)
Church Street School for Music and Art, in conjunction with TOAST, annually holds free art activities for kids accompanied by an adult, as well as an exhibition of child/parent art. There are musical performances by students and staff throughout the afternoon. 50% of proceeds of all art sold goes to Church Street School.
Visit www.toastartwalk.com for more info about T.O.A.S.T.
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