The E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts
A groundbreaking collaboration made possible with a gift from Joyce Raley Teel
Raley Studios—The Next Big Thing
The E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts at 14th and H streets will be the home to rehearsal spaces, administrative offices and the Sacramento Ballet’s new Center for Dance Education. This groundbreaking partnership will provide financial stability and will create opportunities for additional shared resources and collaborations between the region’s principle nonprofit arts organizations.
The four partner organizations will build on their already extensive outreach and education programs, giving the children in our community, and beyond, the opportunity to train, meet and work with artists, and engage in the artistic processes. We envision the Raley Studios as an artistic hub filled with constant activity – classes, rehearsals, performances, events and idea sharing.
We are pleased to report that our recently launched capital campaign has raised more than 80% of the funds needed to build the Studios!
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INSIDE THE RALEY STUDIOS…
February 2010 Newsletter
Studios Facts:
Did you know that the education and community engagement programs of the Raley Studios partner organizations provide an arts experience for more than 12,000 children each year? It’s true—children learn about ballet, opera, and musical theatre through events such as summer camps, in‐school programs, student discount performances, and internships.
Campaign Update:
The campaign’s leadership continues to add members as the campaign shifts into high gear in preparation for a public roll‐out. Cultivation and solicitation activities are proceeding with an emphasis on securing the final $4M in campaign pledges by July 2010.
Community Benefit Highlight
The Studios for the Performing Arts Education Partners is a collaborative effort of education directors and coordinators from the four partner organizations. Brought together initially to share resources and programming ideas, these arts educators discovered that they share similar missions to enrich, expand, engage and educate new audiences. Now they meet quarterly, preparing for the day when the shared space of Raley Studios will offer infinite ways to coordinate and strengthen their educational programming and funding options more effectively.
The group’s goals are:
1) to coordinate educational efforts;
2) to share future markets;
3) to establish a master calendar to promote programming;
4) to share an educational website.
Thus far, they have accomplished several collaborative efforts, including:
♦ Identified added benefits of offering more opportunities to performing arts students in the region, sharing teaching artists, developing a speaker’s bureau to deliver presentations at schools, offering year‐round internships, and providing tours of the Raley Studios.
♦ Participated in the CSUS Teacher’s Resource Faire, where they shared a table to promote upcoming partner organizations programming to more than 300 teachers.
♦ Submitted a proposal for an arts education grant to the National Endowment for the Arts, in conjunction with the arts education coordinator of the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission. They eagerly await the NEA grant announcements due out in April.
Raley Studios Education Partners—Joey Castaneda, Sacramento Opera; Julian Dixon, Sacramento Philharmonic; Victoria Plata, CMT; and Rae‐Nani Stokes, Sacramento Ballet—are leading the way for innovative arts education efforts in the region. Their coordinated and shared efforts have set the standard for a programming model that will serve schools and new audiences of the Sacramento region for many years to come.
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