STEP

Hi Everyone! The end of year Play-in is just around the corner! In fact, it's on Saturday, June 7th in D.F. Cook Hall hall at the MUN music school. Concert dress is black pants with white or colored tops. Tuning call is at 9:15am (in the Instrumental Room) and the play-in starts at 10:00am. The tuning call is early so parents can come in to the hall by 9:30 and be seated to hear all about our exciting new fundraising initiative; below is a message with details from Jennifer Johnson. Dear STEP Families; The STEP Board and Teachers have decided to move STEP's fundraising in the direction of one large-scale fundraiser every year and away from several smaller events that bring in small amounts of money but still require a great deal of effort. We are fortunate that one of STEP's families personally knows Mr. Wayne Bartlett, professional fundraiser and auctioneer extraordinaire and that he has agreed to run our fundraiser for us this coming fall on the evening of October 23, 2008. The most important ingredient to the success of Mr. Bartlett's fundraising events is that every family gets involved to a small degree and is able to procure a minimum of two donations either in the form of goods or services that can be auctioned on the evening of our event. Each family will also need to bring at least one other person or couple not already involved in the Suzuki program to the evening's auction and dinner. The monies raised will go towards a STEP "Performance Fund" which will pay for exciting new opportunities for the students in our program. Examples of events that could begin to happen for us would be bringing in prestigious performers/teachers to give master classes to our students, doing exchanges with other Suzuki programs in Canada (there has already been interest in us from the Toronto and Guelph, Ontario programs as well as a Suzuki program in B.C.), purchasing performance costumes for our students and sending our students on performance tours. Wayne Bartlett has kindly agreed to come and speak to our membership on Saturday, June 7 at STEP's final group concert. He will explain in detail how his "recipe for success" works and the important role that each and every family can play so that we not only reach our fundraising goals but that so that the event itself (dinner and wine come into the picture!) is a fun-filled evening that we all look forward to each year. Please come early before 9:30 a.m. - to get the children into the Instrumental Room so they can be tuned with their group classes and then proceed to the Cook Recital Hall. At 9:30, Mr. Bartlett will begin filling us all in on the details of how we can successfully support the artistic aspirations of STEP for next year and the years to come! The concert begins at 10:00 a.m. Because it is so vital to the success of this fundraising plan that all families participate, it is very important that we are all there to hear the grand plan as outlined by Mr. Bartlett. See you all there!

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