Dear Friends:
With your support last year, we launched 2022 strongly with programs, performances, and special events. We offered our regular spring classes and a CCS Drama Club production of Cinderella in the spring. We implemented a full summer of classes and programs, including The Wizard of Oz and Bugsy Malone, and presented our beloved Music from Salem concerts. We featured two full productions of Shakespeare in August, with The Comedy of Errors and Titus Andronicus. We celebrated the return of the Seagle Festival with a celebration of Stephen Sondheim. We supported local artists with an artist residency and featured a world premiere play with Grant’s Ghost. This month we will welcome back the great Celtic band Coig and produce the classic Little Women with the CCS Drama Club. In 2023 we will produce Fun Home, the Tony Award-winning musical and a yet to be announced Sondheim musical.
At the same time, we made structural improvements to our historic buildings, with a new HVAC system in Hubbard Hall, and additional heating and cooling in our other buildings. All the while we raised more funds from the Preservation League of NY and the New York Council on the Arts to support our mission, and managed all of this with a regular staff of only three people.
For over four decades, Hubbard Hall has engaged thousands of students, artists, and audience members in acclaimed productions of theater, opera, music, and dance; built a top-notch education program; and served as an engine for cultural and economic development. We work tirelessly to cultivate, sustain, and promote the cultural life of our rural community. We care deeply about our community, as we know you do.
All of this work has been rewarding but challenging. We want to continue to grow our offerings in 2023. We want to serve our community for many years to come. We want to continue to protect and improve our historic structures. But we need your support. Can you help us? Your support has made all of the difference over the past two years. We’ve proven that, together, there’s nothing we can’t accomplish. Thanks in advance for your help!
Sincerely,
David A. Snider Margaret Surowka
Executive & Artistic Director Chair, Board of Directors
P.S. It’s easy to give. Give online and click DONATE. If you’re interested in learning more about becoming a Sustaining Donor (with easy monthly payments, assuring you are helping every month without worry), planned gifts or gifts of stocks and securities, please reach out to David at 518.677.2495. Thank you!
Hubbard Hall for All
Hubbard Hall strives to enrich the lives of individuals and communities, and offer valuable pathways to learning through the arts. In collaboration with individual donors and funders, Hubbard Hall for All guarantees that all of our main stage productions are available and accessible for all community members. Hubbard Hall for All provides free tickets to those who serve our community each day, including: Military personnel and their families, Veterans, EMS workers, the Farming Community, Fire and Rescue, Police and those who serve the Special Needs Community. Through the generous sponsorships of local individuals and businesses, we are able to offer these tickets at no charge to qualifying individuals and their families. Call 518-677-2495 for more information.
Hubbard Hall Giving Levels: What kind of gift will you give to our students, audiences and artists?
We encourage you to make a gift that is personally significant to you. Please know that each and every dollar you give will make a big difference in the lives of our students, audiences, and artists and help Hubbard Hall deliver on its missions to enrich the lives of individuals and communities, and offer valuable pathways to learning through the arts. You are certainly not limited to these levels, but hopefully they can give you some ideas on how your gift helps:
Access: $1-$99 (or about $8 per month) – Helps to provide a semester of our award-winning classes for one student in need.
Imagination: $100-$249 (or about $20 per month) – Provides greatly reduced price tickets to one of our productions for up to twenty-five public school students, giving them the rare chance to see professional theater or opera in their own backyard.
Creativity: $250-$499 (or about $40 per month) – Helps purchase supplies (paper, costumes, crayons, paint, glue, string, etc.) for an entire semester of our wonderful education programs for local students in need.
Insight: $500-$999 (or about $80 per month) – Helps to sponsor an artist in residence at Hubbard Hall, giving our local community a golden opportunity to connect with, learn from and train world class talent right here in Washington County, NY.
Inspiration: $1,000 and up (or about $100+ per month) – Helps to sponsor an entire performance of theater, opera, dance or music at Hubbard Hall, giving over a hundred community members an opportunity to see and enjoy world class talent right here in our community.
*Donors will be thanked in a general list of supporters (not by level) unless requesting to remain anonymous.
Sustaining Supporter
Hubbard Hall has now made it easier for you to support Making Art and Community Happen by becoming a Sustaining Supporter of Hubbard Hall. By making a sustaining contribution on a monthly basis by way of a credit card or bank withdrawal it provides Hubbard Hall with steady funding that we can count on to bring quality programs and performances to our local community all year round. And making an automatic gift is convenient for you and easier on your budget. Set up your recurring donation by credit card or call David Snider at 518-677-2495 for more information. Thank You!
