Support your favorite Fine Arts Student….ME!

Dear ______(Friends and Family’s name),

Things have gotten off to a great start at my new school, Riverside High School!

Loudoun County provides a lot of support for Fine Arts in our schools with great facilities and instructional items along with many of the supplies, instruments we use. However, as you know Fine Arts students participate in a lot activities both in and out of school. County funds do not cover all of the ongoing costs that make it possible for our kids to participate in this wide range of activities that enrich and complement the academic programs.

Some of these activities can be expensive, so the Riverside High School Fine Arts Boosters raises funds to support students participating in Art, Chorus, Band, Orchestra, Guitar and Theater. We have many events planned during the year, some of which are:

  • Competitions and assessments in each fine arts discipline
  • Musicals, Plays, Orchestra/Strings/Choir Concerts and Improv Shows
  • Additional instruction by outside adjudicators in each performance dicipline
  • Optional field trips including a department wide excursion to Disney World in Florida. Each fine arts discipline will have a chance to do focused seminars related to their area of study, and we will have fun too!

Especially in this, our first year, we need a lot of support to make this happen, and we are asking for your help! Your tax-deductible contribution will help each discipline make these activities a reality and helps ease the students’ out of pocket costs.

As an example donations of various sizes can be used to fund:

  • $1 – Pencils for notations on scripts, sheet music and drawing
  • $3 – 1 Copy of Sheet music (each student participating in an event will need sheet music) – each ensemble has an average of 30-40 participants
  • $5 – Valve oil, slide grease, cork grease (to keep our band instruments in working condition)
  • $10 – Sticks, Reeds, Berps (Buzzing device for brass players), specialized paint brush, art canvas
  • $15 – Theater make-up (1 shade)
  • $20 – 1 Gallon of Mural Paint
  • $25 – Reeds, Music
  • $35 – 1 Box of Wheel Throwing Clay
  • $40 – Photographic & Digital Print Paper
  • $50 – Mouthpieces, Reeds, Mallets, Music, Chemicals for Darkroom Photography processing
  • $100 – Mouthpieces, Reeds, Mallets, Music, Ink jets for large format printers
  • $150 – 1 Photographic tri-pod
  • $200 – 1 Theatrical costume

If you would like to support our Fine Arts Department in this way, we ask you to either follow the following link for an online donation, or send us a check! We appreciate any donation you can give, regardless of the size, every bit is one step closer to launching a successful Fine Arts program for the Riverside Rams!

Online donations:

or

Please send your contribution to:

Riverside HS Fine Arts Boosters

19019 Upper Belmont Place, Leesburg VA 20176

(Please note your favorite Ram’s name (that’s ME!) and my fine arts discipline on your donation)

Your Fine Arts student,

(please type/sign for snail mail your name)

Band/Drama/Chorus/Art/Photography/Show Choir/Strings/Orchestra (please choose)

would love your support!

We appreciate your support, and would also love your support in the form of attendance at our many performances during the school year. Details can be found at:

Riverside High School Fine Arts Boosters, Inc. is a non-profit, tax-exempt, publicly supported organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code and is incorporated and registered in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Your donation to RVHSFAB is tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Please consult with your tax advisor to determine whether your donation is tax deductible in whole or in part