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Please Consider Sponsoring A Young Dancer. Why?
Footprints is a small organization that is proud to be part of Alberta's vibrant arts community which includes wonderful avenues into the arts such as Dancers Studio West, culturaldistrict.ca, Art Gallery of Calgary, Triangle Gallery, Lunch Box Theatre, Quest Theatre, Loose Moose Theatre, untitledarts.org, reallivearts.com, craf.org, epcorcentre.org, Dancer's Studio West, Wildflower Arts Centre, Decidedly Jazz Dance Works, Alberta Ballet, tryzub.ab.ca, the University of Calgary's Dance Montage and finearts.ucalgary.ca, as well as, Theatre Calgary, the Calgary Children's Festival, Calgary Opera and the Calgary Folk Arts Council. The engine driving our robust cultural sector is found in our neighborhoods where legions of music, dance and arts teachers patiently work to draw out the creativity inside each and every young person who has the socioeconomic chance to explore the arts.
This is impossible for many immigrant kids and those with economic, physical and social handicaps. Dance is a potent tool for opening up the hearts, minds and bodies of neglected and deprived young people. We've pioneered using dance to motivate young people by appealing to their creative impulses so that they begin to realize the panoply of opportunites available through Alberta's arts community. Please help us nurture our young dancers.
Won't You Join Our Gala Garden Guild? Why?
Because Its A Good Deal, A Good Deed and Great Fun!
In addition to helping us help Calgary kidz discover the joys that dance brings, your annual $50 membership in our Gala Garden Guild entitles you to family passes to the Footprints Kids Summer Blast Festival, pairs of tickets to Footprints performances and events, Dancers' Studio West professional concert dance shows, as well as, a gallon of perennial blue Siberian beauties similar to these borrowed from the plant display at the spectacular A Southern Garden website.
 Wanganui, New Zealand delphinium growers, Janice and Terry Dowdeswell, who know what it takes to grow great delphinium hybrids, are helping us grow tall, confident, creative kidz. Their seeds have now arrived from New Zealand and these gorgeous, giant delphiniums will be growing in Footprints' Gala Garden Guild members' gardens this summer.Thank you Footprints's supporters. Thank you Dowdeswell's Delphiniums.
It takes a master gardener to know a superb garden. Calgarians who know that the Calgary Herald has featured our Administrator's garden under the title, Ella's Garden of Eden, appreciate the host of extra curricular benefits that come with Guild membership... Siberica iris are excellent additions to any garden and make perfect companions for these two-toned luscious, fabulously fragrant, rare, heritage peonies that will be on offer to Guild members from Ella's garden next fall.
In addition to helping organize Footprints gala openings, silent auctions and bottles drives, Guild members do a lot of things that keep our little project going year after year. Most members contribute about thirty hours a year to Guild work.
If you'd like to join us, please send an email with your name, address and phone number and the names and phone numbers of two references. Tell us a little about yourself and what part you'd like to play in this project. Outline any questions or concerns that you have about membership, the fields of children's dreams and/or gardening. Tell us what you hope Guild participation will do for you and, if you're good at typing,baking,sewing, working on websites or mentoring the less fortunate. If you are, please do join us.
Helping Calgary Kidz Discover the Joys the Arts Bring.
Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. Photos: Siberica iris, Phillip Oliver 2006. Delphinium, Dowdeswell's Delphinimus 2007. Peonia, Ella Matthews 2006.
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CONTACT ::
Tawyna Boisvert
Chair, Gala Garden Guild
Footprints Dance Project Society of Alberta
c/o 9848 Oakhill Drive SW
Calgary, Alberta
T2V 3X2
403.238.1210
The best way to know if we're worthy of your financial and volunteer support is to visit our classes to meet our students and faculty. Call for an appointment. 403-238-1210
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