Thank you to our funders and supporters for their vision and generosity.
They are helping almost one million children every year think creatively!
For operating funding, we thank The Province of Ontario through the Ontario Arts Council and The City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.
For the Distillery Arts Outreach Project and the Arts Education Partnership Project, Prologue gratefully acknowledges the financial support of The Ontario Trillium Foundation, an agency of the Ministry of Culture. With $100 million in annual funding from the province’s charitable gaming initiative, the Foundation provides grants to eligible charitable and not-for-profit organizations in the arts, culture, sports, and recreation, environment and social service agencies.
For the support of an Education Resource Consultant, we are grateful for funding from the George Cedric Metcalf Foundation.
For assistance with travel costs for outreach and marketing across Canada, we thank The Canada Council for the Arts.
For the costs of touring to specific Ontario schools and communities we thank our Anonymous Donor.
Foundations
The Charles H. Ivey Foundation
The George Lunan Foundation
The J.P. Bickell Foundation
The Jack & Barbara Hay Charitable Foundation
The Henry White Kinnear Foundation
The Hudson’s Bay Charitable Foundation
The Imperial Oil Charitable Foundation
The Jackman Foundation
The Norman & Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation
The McLean Foundation
The John McKellar Foundation
The Leonard Foundation
The F.K. Morrow Foundation
The Winberg Foundation
Corporations
Bank of Montreal
Canada Trust
Deloitte
Fraser Milner Casgrain
Holt Financial
PricewaterhouseCoopers
The Paula Awards
The Paula Awards are named in recognition of the extraordinary contribution made by Paula and David Butterfield to Prologue’s Arts’ Endowment Fund. The interest received from the Fund is used fully, or in part, to enable a work for young audiences by one or more Prologue artists and companies to be brought to completion through a final workshop or rehearsal period.
The four recipients of The 2006 Paula Awards are:
Ballet Creole, Toronto, ON - $2,950 towards final development costs of Drum Masquerade
The Trillium Brass Quintet, Toronto, ON - $2,450 towards completion costs of Dance Music
Rag and Bone Puppet Theatre, Orleans, ON - $3,100 towards production costs of The Flying Canoe
Rukhsana Khan, Toronto, ON - $1,000 towards final development of Work In Progress
Board of Directors
Barb Bryden, Senior Manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Toronto
Sue Daniel, Arts Education Consultant, Toronto
Doug Dewell, Businessman, Port Hope
Teodoro Dragonieri, Educator/Artist, Toronto
Yvette Martin, Stage Manager, Artist/Educator, Toronto
Patricia McCarthy, Arts Education Consultant, Toronto
Edgardo Moreno, Performer/Musician, Prologue Artist Representative, Toronto
Bram Morrison, Performer/Musician, Toronto
Soheil Parsa, Artistic Director, Modern Times Stage Company, Toronto
Ruth Preston, Director, Global Middle Office, RBC Dominion Securities Inc., Toronto
Nathalie Prézeau, Publisher of Toronto Fun Places, Journalist, Toronto
Glenn Sernyk, Arts Consultant & Producer, Toronto
Margo Hébert, Director of Development, Oakville Galleries, Mississauga
Kristin Taylor, Partner, Fraser Milner Casgrain, Toronto
Joseph Totaro, Educator, Sebringville
Laurie Wilhelm, Business Consultant, Toronto
Honourary Board Members
Frank Augustyn, Producer, Former Principal Dancer, National Ballet of Canada
Jane Bishop, Founder, Prologue to the Performing Arts
Martha Burns, Actor, Founding Member, Soulpepper Theatre Company
Joan McCordic, Founder, Prologue to the Performing Arts
Mary Mingie, Founder, Prologue to the Performing Arts
Eric Nagler, Performer/Musician
Joan Osler, Founder, Prologue to the Performing Arts
Walter Pitman, Writer/Educator
Jan Rubes, Actor/Singer
Susan Rubes, Founder, Prologue to the Performing Arts
Life Members
Paula Butterfield, Parent, Toronto
A special thanks go to David & Paula Butterfield for their extraordinary contribution to our Endowment Fund.
Prologue is also grateful to the talented artists and companies on our roster, our individual donors, our volunteers and our committed staff and Board of Directors.
Thank you to all our clients who continue to support and encourage the performing arts as an essential part of education.
Make a Donation and “think creatively…!”
We rely on donations of any amount to ensure that students across Ontario are able to experience a live performance in their school or community. You can be a Prologue Partner for the Arts and benefit by receiving:
- A charitable tax receipt
- Prologue’s catalogue of performances
- An invitation to all Prologue special events and showcases
- The opportunity to make a difference creatively!
Prologue to the Performing Arts is a registered charity and participates in the Ontario Arts Endowment Fund Program.
Charitable Registration # 1191 05476 RT0001.
Your donation can be directed to support:
- Performances by Prologue artists and companies in needy schools in Toronto
- Performances by Prologue artists and companies in needy schools across Ontario
- The Paula Awards, through a contribution to our Endowment Fund Program
- Prologue’s on-going Performing Arts in Schools Program
Make your cheque or money order payable to Prologue to the Performing Arts and mail to:
55 Mill Street, The Case Goods Building #74, Suite 201, Toronto, ON M5A 3C4.