Support from individual donors is vital to the production of the Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival. Individuals that assist the GCDF help to bring pay-what-you-can programming to the streets and parks of Guelph, low-cost workshops to public schools and cutting-edge contemporary dance performances to Guelph.
The GCDF is nationally recognized as a ground-breaking dance festival with an attentive and devoted audience. Over eleven years, the GCDF has grown from 600 patrons attending in 1999, to over 7,000 in 2009. In 2010, the GCDF expects over 8,000 patrons to attend its events throughout the year.
All Donors are eligible to receive a charitable tax receipt for the full amount of their donation and are recognized in our festival program .
Click here to donate online by credit card through CanadaHelps.org. Please consider low-monthly donations.
$5 a month (the cost of a lunch out) amounts to a $60 tax receipt for you in December and helps us to keep dance open and accessible in our community.
Donations by cash or cheque can be dropped of or mailed to our office. Please let us know if you would like to remain anonymous or if you would like your donation to be dedicated to the Monica Davis Scholarship Fund (below).
The Monica Davis Camp Scholarship Fund Monica Davis (1931-2009) was a passionate and caring woman who saw the true value of the arts in our community. She was an active volunteer with the Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival for many years and avidly supportedvarious other charities with both cultural and child poverty mandates. She was a mother, a grandmother and a wonderful role-model who never gave up on making the world a tiny bit better.
To continue her legacy of supporting young people and the arts, the Monica Davis Camp Scholarship Fund was established in 2009 to allow young people who may otherwise not be able to, an opportunity to attend the Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival's March Break or Summer Day Camps at a subsidized rate. Through this fund, her memory lives on, inspiring young people to be creative in everything they do.
Being part of a community that embraces the arts in a non-competitive atmosphere enhances the creativity and growth in our community's young people while improving self-esteem, self-expression and self-confidence. The fund has already started to see donations and was able to subsidize 4 spaces at our Summer Camp in July 2009.
For more information on becoming a donor, please contact us at gcdf@bellnet.ca or call 519-780-2220.
