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OFFICIAL FESTIVAL SPONSORS

Town of Cary

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Festival Supporters

Why should you support the Cross Currents Chamber Music and Arts Festival?

By founding the Cross Currents Chamber Music and Arts Festival, the Brussels Chamber Orchestra hopes to create a yearly, internationally recognized chamber music festival in Raleigh and Cary, North Carolina. A festival of this caliber will not only bring prestige and interest to Raleigh and Cary, but also a new kind of arts community will be formed. The word community is very important in thinking about supporting the Cross Currents Festival. It is the community of residents, businesses, restaurants, and foundations in Raleigh and Cary who through their contributions have already helped ensure this year's festival. Community is also the feeling that we, the Brussels Chamber Orchestra, are inspired by for our vision of the festival.

Already last year, our first as a true festival, both an international and a local community are assembling to make music together. We are thrilled that last year’s festival included Israeli cellist Gavriel Lipkind and Belgian Violinist Michael Guttman, as well as collaborations with local artists from the North Carolina Symphony and the Mallarme Chamber Players.

So far announced for this year's 2010 festival season we are adding a mini festival in March, and a focus on jazz as a chamber art in the main July festival. We are thrilled that Gavriel Lipkind will return to Raleigh, and that our collaborations with the NC Symphony and the Mallarme Chamber Players will continue.

By supporting the Cross Currents Chamber Music and Arts Festival you are helping to insure a diverse cultural offering for Raleigh, Cary and the entire Triangle during the summer months. This investment in cultural togetherness, both internationally and locally, is what makes the Cross Currents Chamber Music and Arts Festival so exciting.

Together if we can dream it, together we can build it. Please dream with us, and build with us.

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How can you support the Cross Currents Chamber Music and Arts Festival?

The Friends of the Brussels Chamber Orchestra, local organizer of the Cross Currents Festival, is a 501c3 nonprofit organization. This means that monetary donations are tax deductible. We are still actively looking for corporate and private sponsors.

We know that the financial situation for the whole world is a question mark at this moment. This is why we are committed to building the festival not only through financial donations, but also community donations. For example, the housing of artists is quite expensive. To eliminate these costs, out of town artists, will be hosted by families in the Boylan Heights of Raleigh. By graciously hosting artists, Boylan Heights is making an invaluable contribution to our arts community. Likewise, local restaurants listed below will help feed artists throughout the festival. Local lawyers have helped to file visa applications and our request for 501c3 status. Local graphic artists are creating advertising and travel agents, airplane bookings. As you can see, we are building this festival together as a community. So, if you are unable to help financially, please think of a way you or your business might contribute. Volunteered time and non-financial donations are why this festival already exists. Together we can invest in our community and its future.

To support in any manner please contact either Carrie Knowles or Neil Leiter:
BY PHONE: 919 821 3478

You can now make donations on line through Paypal . Donations made in this way are tax deductable like all other donations made to the festival. If you prefer a more traditional method of donation:

Please make checks payable to "Friends of the Brussels Chamber Orchestra" and mail to:
Friends of the Brussels Chamber Orchestra
c/o Free Range Studio
410 Morson Street
Raleigh, NC 27601
USA

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Thank you to the following individuals, families, and businesses that have contributed to our dream of a international chamber music festival for Raleigh and Cary:

INDIVIDUALS & FAMILIES

Susan Arrendell & Abie Harris
Madison Bullard, Jr.
Ann Green Carver
Lyman Collins
Ann Cowperthwaite
Pam & Bill Dannelly
Mr. & Mrs. Bill Donovan
Elizabeth & Dan Dunbar
Pat Garrett & Michael Schulman
Dan Gaugert & Terri Harper
Mr. & Mrs. Henry Graden
John & Trish Healy
Mary Hill
Robin Jacobs
Elizabeth James
Jim & Leslie Kellenberger
Carrie Knowles & Jeff Leiter
Dr. Robert & Leslie Lacin
Valentina Lisitsa
Gayle Lowry
Anne McLaurin & Charles Meeker
Jim Maney
Tom & Ilse Mann
Kat Mateichik
Allison Mitchell
John Montgomery & Susan Parry
Sally Mullikin
Blaine Newman
Margaret Patterson
Peggy Payne
David Ranii & Bonnie Tilson
Joel Rosch & Carol Vatz
Suzanne Rousso
Richard Ruggero
Thomas Sayre
Ron Schwarz & Mina Levin
Kristi Woodard Sinclair
Rick & Rande Smith
Karen Tam
Trudi Taylor
Bonnie Thron
Lori Towner
Kris Troost
Ingrid Wood

John Turner

BUSINESSES

Bruegger’s Bagels
Cape Fear Formal Wear
Capital City Club
Town of Cary
The Classical Voice of North Carolina
Community Music School
Downtown Raleigh Alliance
Durham Bulls
Eidolon Design
518 West Italian Café
Free Range Studio
Fresh Market
Harvest Studios
The Independent
Irregardless Café
LaFarm Bakery
Lucy Daniels Foundation
John Montgomery Violins
Kimball & Company, Inc.
Marbles Kids Museum
Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School
Mitch’s Tavern
Neomonde
Peché
Pop’s
Raleigh Arts Commission
Ruggero Piano
Travel Experts/Jennifer Tennyson
The Independent
WCPE
Whole Foods
WUNC