How Can I Help?

The regional community has supported the BCRAC’s growth and programs for 19 years!  However, we need help to keep our historic facilities maintained and our programs of the highest quality while maintaining fiscal health.  Please help through one of the programs listed below by contacting  Brooks Eldredge-Martin at 570-268-2787 or brooks@bcrac.org or your local BCRAC staff or board member.

The BCRAC receives annual financial support through Membership donations.  Individuals wishing to help by volunteering or donating material items, help through our Wishlist program. Individuals or businesses who are able to make larger donations, grants or bequests, help through our Partners in the Future campaign.  Businesses support Live Performances in the historic theatres by becoming a Major Donor or advertising in our yearly Playbill.  Individuals make membership donations to the Patron Fund under Membership below.

BCRAC Membership

Our supporters are our members.  Each person who makes a financial donation receives our free quarterly ARTSletter and/or our E-letter.  Financial supporters usually earmark their gift to the:

• GENERAL FUND – where the need is most
• ARTS IN EDUCATION FUND – sends artists into the schools
• PATRON’S FUND – supports BCRAC live performances
• LEARNING EARLY FUND – supports BCRAC early childhood programs
• KEYSTONE THEATRE FUND – supports building projects at the Keystone
• SAYRE THEATRE FUND – supports building projects at the Sayre
• RIALTO THEATRE FUND – supports building projects at the Rialto

Categories of financial support are:

FRIEND ………………………………….    $25.
SPONSOR ……………………………….   $40.
PATRON …………………………………   $60.
LIFE MEMBER ………………………   $1,000. or more in a calendar year

Membership Form - in PDF.  Please open, print and mail in with appropriate Membership Level.

BCRAC Wishlist

If you’d like to help aside from monetary donations….

• We need volunteer support in the BCRAC office to help with computer work, copying, organization, decorating/straightening the office, assembling mailings, answering phones, run errands, etc.
• We need volunteer support for small, maintenance jobs including painting, cleaning, organizing, even some sewing!
• Needed Items:  a new printer, a bookshelf, a freezer to hold ice, a new refrigerator, new carpet in several places.

Partners in the Future Capital Campaign For the Historic Theatres of Bradford County

The Bradford County Regional Arts Council (BCRAC) and a wonderful team of Donors, Volunteers, Board and Staff have saved three wonderful theatres that embody a significant cultural period of Bradford County’s history.  We raised over $2,400,000 for this work, but needed to borrow $850,000 to complete the projects.  This debt keeps the future of the Theatres at risk should technology or other change threaten our financial stability.   

Supporters are encouraged to become Partners in the Future by making a bequest or major donation to the BCRAC to support one of the Theatres.  All “Partners” donations will be used to ensure a financially stable future for our historic theatres.

To acknowledge large donations, the BCRAC is offering the following:

Keystone Theatre:

• Name of the Historic Performance Hall ………..   $250,000  
• Name of Stadium Theatre  ………..     100,000  
• Name of Rehearsal Hall …………          25,000   
• Name of Theatre Endowment Fund – Allen F. Pierce Endowment Fund – Thanks!
• Historic Theatre Seat  - $100 (balcony) to $200 (orchestra)
• Stadium Theatre Seat  - $250.
• Donor Plaque levels –  call to see how to move up

Rialto Theatre:

• Name of the Historic Performance Hall …………..  $50,000
• Theatre Seats (150) are all sold!  Thanks!
• Name of Theatre Endowment Fund – Allen F. Pierce Endowment Fund – Thanks!
• Donor Plaque levels – call to see how to move up

Sayre Theatre:

• Name of Performance Hall – Sold! (Guthrie Performing Arts Center – Thanks Guthrie Health!)
• Name of Cinema 2 - $50,000 
• Name of Cinema 3 - $50,000
• Name of Upstairs Meeting Room - $10,000
• Guthrie Performing Arts Center Seats - $250.
• Cinema 2 & 3 Seats:  $150.
• Move up Brick Plaza Donor Plaque – Granite, Colored Bricks – Plaza Recognition - $100 and up – call for details

Live Performances

          Major Sponsors are typically businesses that support live performances with yearly donations, playbill ads and sometimes by sponsoring a particular show.  Many more businesses purchase Playbill ads which are spaced between information listed in our Playbill.  The Playbill is handed out to all patrons who attend live shows at the BCRAC theatres and along with the BCRAC website inform the wider community about the BCRAC and its programs.   Individuals typically support BCRAC live shows through attendance and the Patron Fund under Membership support.

Contact Elaine Poost at 268-2787 for details on supporting BCRAC live performances.