Support Carousel Players Programs
Sponsorship & Donation OpportunitiesGive the Gift Of Creativity
Carousel Players is a professional theatre company that specializes in making and teaching theatre for young people. Our core activities are producing
- two to four plays a year for school and public audiences
- working with artists to create new Canadian plays for young audiences
- providing arts education to young people ages 2-14
You can be part of this work!
Give the Gift of Imagination
Children don’t forget how art makes them feel. Carousel Players creates spaces for young people to express themselves through drama education and to see themselves on the stage and feel represented. Our work helps them make memories, not just in the moment but for a long time. People still remember Carousel shows decades later because it is a live experience – it creates a different effect than watching through a screen.
Your organization can support this life changing experience by sponsoring performances, projects, and families.
Give the Gift of Community
As children return to school and socializing after long periods of isolation, there is a particular need for the social and emotional benefits of live theatre. Once we are able to be together in schools and communities again, the act of gathering and sharing will be very important for the healing of children who have been without community for so long.
Why Your Support Matters
WHAT IT COSTS TO BRING THEATRE TO YOUNG PEOPLE
Carousel Players is a not for profit charity. Our mandate is to offer theatre without barriers of geography or cost, which is made possible by the support of sponsors and individual donors. We hope you’ll consider being part of this work.
The average Carousel Players tour costs between $50,000 and $60,000 to create and tour, while schools pay $300 to $750 per performance, and family audiences pay $10 per ticket. Our Arts Education programs cost more than $50,000 per year, but they are currently offered below cost, or in some cases at no cost to schools or parents.
These prices reflect the economic realities of school board arts funding and of household incomes in Niagara. Charging the full cost per show or per educational program would create financial barriers for many of Niagara’s children, 1 in 7 of whom live in households with incomes below the poverty line.
Carousel Players is able to access support from governments and foundations, but we need support of the private sector to help take us the final steps to our goal of removing all financial barriers between Niagara’s young people and the proven benefits of experiencing theatre.
Recent Carousel Players Corporate History
2020/21 Annual Report | Financial Statements
2019/20 Annual Report | Financial Statements
2018/19 Annual Report | Financial Statements
2017/18 Annual Report | Financial Statements
2016/17 Annual Report | Financial Statements
Big Picture giving
sponsorships with wide ranging impactSchool & Community Tours
- Help bring a show to up to 3,000 children, educators, and families
- Be prominantly featured in all promotional materials, study guides, and letters to parents
- Be highlighted on our social media and website
- Discounted Festival Passes for your staff
- Be acknowledged from the stage at every performance
- 10 Free Festival Passes for your use
- shows available for sponsorship Pop! Pop!, Meet Chloe, The Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito
50th Anniversary Festival
- Help bring the 50th Festival to children and families in your community
- Be featured in all promotional materials (community-based or Region-wide)
- Be highlighted on our social media and website
- Discounted Festival Passes for your staff
- Be acknowledged from the stage at every performance in your community
- Communities available for sponsorship Fort Erie & Ridgeway, Grimsby, Lincoln, Niagara Falls, Niagara on the Lake, Pelham, Wainfleet & Port Colborne, Welland, West Lincoln
Theatre School Programs
- Help bring the benefits of arts education to children by removing barriers of cost and geography
- Be prominantly featured in all education program promotional materials
- Be featured in all other promotional materials
- Be highlighted on our social media and website
- Discounted tickets to public performances for your staff
- programs available for sponsorship After School Drama Program, Early Years Drama Program, Playlinks, D&D Adventures, Summer & March Break Camps
Give Local
with a very specific donationSchool Benefactor
- Bring a Carousel Players Show to an Elementary School in your community
- Be prominantly featured in pre-show letters to parents
- Be highlighted on our social media and website
- Be acknowledged from the stage at the performance
Early Years Benefactor
- Gift a performance of Pop! Pop! and a virtual Early Years Drama Program to a daycare or Early Years Centre in your community
- Be prominantly featured in all show and Early Years Drama promotions in your community
- Be highlighted on our social media and website
- Be acknowledged from the stage at the performance
student Benefactor
- Create a free access to arts education for a student in one of Carousel Players programs
- Be highlighted on our social media and website
- After School Drama Program $90
- Saturday Drama Classes $100
- March Break Camp $225
- Summer Theatre School $200-450