How might we expand dance as public art and uplift our communities like never before?

Dear BANDALOOP Friends, 

Now is the time to create beauty, take care of each other, and stretch our ideas of what is possible - in ourselves, our communities, and our environment. Thank you for being a partner in the growth of BANDALOOP and our collective good. Join us as a donor this year and amplify the awe, joy, and freedom that is uniquely vertical dance.

This year we performed across 13 sites for 39,000+ live-audience members experiencing our work free-of-charge - including 5,000+ at Somewhere to Land in Alameda this past September, where I met some of you. We served 300+ students across 450 classes and uplifted 12 local dance artists at our vital new West Oakland home, the BANDALOOP Studios. Collectively, this is what we need: space that is shared, talent that is nurtured, and artistry that is vibrant, gracious and, in our case, vertical.

Like many in our field, we are feeling the crush of inflation and market forces and facing a grim future of government support for the arts. Nevertheless, for 2025:

• We have secured a California Parks grant for a next site-reactive performance Somewhere to Oakland

• We make our Broadway vertical debut with Redwood featuring Idina Menzel

• We are building a multi-city tour of FLOCK with the gracious support of the National Dance Project

These are the golden threads on our loom, and I invite each of you to be a part of the fabric of our future! 

Donate today and help us usher in 2025 with strength. Your contribution supports our innovation and our community in co-creation of the beauty, safety and belonging intrinsic to our 30+ years of success.

We will not stop our pursuit of dance and art as freedom, our effort toward a more hopeful tomorrow. We are steadfast in our resolve to continue to share our work with the public at no cost, and we have a clear path to success.

Fly with us.

Your tax-deductible donations, large and small, monthly or as one-time gifts, are needed and appreciated for BANDALOOP to ascend in 2025. Mountains of thanks for your support.


To Beauty,

DONATE BY CHECK

Mail your donation check with your address, phone, and email for confirmation, to:

BANDALOOP
1601 18th Street
Oakland, CA 94607 USA
Tel: 415-421-LOOP (5667)

Questions? Contact jeanne@bandaloop.org

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• Trusts – A charitable lead trust will generate funding for BANDALOOP.

• Bequests – Through your will or living trust you can gift to BANDALOOP a fixed amount or a percentage of your estate.

WE THANK OUR FUNDERS

OUR LOCAL BAY AREA PARTNERS

FOUNDATIONS

California Arts Council
Creative Work Fund
Dance/USA
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
East Bay Community Foundation Fund for Artists
MAP Fund
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
New England Foundation for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
National Performance Network Creation Fund
San Francisco Arts Commission
The American Express Foundation
The City of Oakland Cultural Funding Program
The Gerbode Foundation Choreographer’s Commission
The Fleishhacker Foundation
The James Irvine Foundation
The Kenneth Rainin Foundation
The National Dance Project
The Wattis Foundation
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
US Artists International

GIFTS IN KIND

Morrison Foerster LLP
TMG Partners
Prescott Properties / srm Ernst