Month: December 2016

Studio Walk

There is still time to make your year-end tax deductible donation!

For the past two days, we have been in the studio finishing the piano parts! Here’s a little tour going from the control room to the piano room and back:

What a gift to be able to work!

Your contribution ensures the recording of Aberfan continues! Please give what you can and tell someone else about it!

Laura Siersema is composer of Aberfan (7 pianos, voice and tools of rescue), a sponsored project of New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), a 501(c)(3), tax-exempt organization. All donations are tax deductible. Your contribution ensures we can return to the studio to complete its recording.

Thank you!

Almost Halfway There!

In just a few days, $175 has come in! Fantastic! Join them with your tax deductible gift today.

A total of $8370 has been raised! With gifts ranging from $10 to $2250, individuals, small non-profit foundations and institutions are helping us get closer to the recording of Aberfan being a reality!

$1630 more will get us halfway there! Please give what you can and tell someone else about it!

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Thank you!

Every Gift Matters

I am grateful to every listener and believer in this mission.

Your support is critical to the success of Aberfan. For a project this large, every donation makes an impact.

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$8220 has been raised! With gifts ranging from $15 to $2250, individuals, non-profit foundations and institutions are helping to make the recording and presentation of Aberfan a reality! Join them with your tax deductible gift today!

Why Art Matters: “Aberfan”

Art connects us not only to the symbolic life of the soul, bringing light to darkness, but to external events that caution us. Art stretches our minds and hearts, eliciting change where we had not felt before.

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Over this week, $515 has been contributed, raising the total to $8,195! Fantastic! Join them with your tax deductible gift today.

$11,805 more will enable us to complete the studio recording of Aberfan.

Aberfan (7 pianos, percussion, voice and tools of rescue) is a sponsored project of New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), a 501(c)(3), tax-exempt organization. All donations are tax deductible.

$7680 Raised for “Aberfan”

The end-of-the-year fundraiser continues. It’s not too late to support Aberfan!

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So far, individuals, institutions and non-profit foundations have contributed a total of $7,680. Join them with your tax deductible gift today.

$12,320 more will enable us to complete the recording, which is necessary for use in live performance and installation. Express your support of independent creative art whose effect is to incite change.

In the words of one donor: “This wonderful piece of music with its visual component has the ability to educate people about issues as large as the industrial rape of the landscape and the environment. We have visited parts of the country that have been ‘saved’ by fracking, and the people with jobs aren’t looking down the future at what they are doing to the earth.” By addressing the visceral, personal experiences of the disaster, Aberfan investigates how art, together with technology, can be used for experiential healing, while implying the disaster’s universal relevance as an almost-forgotten humanitarian crime. ACT NOW.

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Aberfan is a sponsored project of New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), a 501(c)(3), tax-exempt organization. All donations are tax deductible.