HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM ALL OF US AT OUTPOST! And with the holiday season comes Outpost’s Annual Year End Fundraising Appeal – Season’s Pleadings, our most important fundraising appeal of the year, when your 100% tax deductible donation has the greatest impact on Outpost’s programs! Outpost Founder/Director details below why your support is so important to us! So, if you can, make a donation TODAY (or anytime through December 31) and let’s Keep Outpost Strong & Swingin’ into the New Year! However and whenever you can give to help support Outpost this season is greatly appreciated and we thank you in advance for your love and support! We truly can’t do what we do without you!
Dear Friend of Outpost,
As we enter the holiday season after a tumultuous year of politics, one thing we can all agree on and celebrate is the joy we give and receive through our involvement in the arts. Whether we are performers, students, or audience members, I believe we can we all agree that the arts inspire and lift us together to a better place. In this season of celebration, family, and generosity, we are asking you once again this year (as you do every year) to answer Outpost’s Year-End Fundraising Appeal—we call it SEASON’S PLEADINGS— so that we may continue to share our cultural cornucopia with you. Season’s Pleadings is our most important fundraising appeal of the year, when your tax-deductible gift has the greatest impact on Outpost’s programs! Where ticket sales in our small space can only provide 35% of our income, it should be clear that, in order to continue to provide world class music, art and educational programs in our intimate, friendly, respectful Outpost Performance Space and beyond, WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT.
Last spring and the fall season so far, have been great at Outpost in so many ways! We had a terrific spring and summer season (including Hubby Jenkins, Magos Herrera, Raul Midón, the Goldings, Bernstein, Stewart Organ Trio, Ethan Iverson, and the all-NM-based Artists’ Summer Thursday Jazz Nights Series). In September, we presented the 18th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival featuring a stunning and exciting three and a half weeks of music (25 events in 25 days) in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Taos with memorable performances by Dave Holland, Joshua Redman, Ranky Tanky and Ms. Lisa Fischer, Meshell Ndegeocello, Jazzmeia Horn, Marc Ribot, John Santos and so many more! Flip this letter over and you will see what we offered this past year plus a few Teaser Highlights for our Spring 2025 Season, which opens in late February. It’s going to be another exciting one, and again, IT’S ONLY MADE POSSIBLE WITH YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT!
We know we can continue to thrive and be stronger than ever as we move into another new year! Won’t you be part of our big, wonderful supportive family by MAKING A YEAR-END, TAX DEDUCTIBLE GIFT TODAY? An additional way to support our programs is Become an Outpost member! We have 850 members now! OR, maybe you’d like to SPONSOR AN OUTPOST CONCERT! Last Spring we received a record number of 16 sponsorships. Concert sponsorship runs from $1000 up, and this year we are offering a Jazz Festival Title Sponsorship for $20,000. If you are interested, contact us at [email protected]
We thank you in advance for your love, generosity and support these many years, and we look forward to sharing the rest of the 2024-2025 season with you.
Sincerely,
Tom Guralnick
Founder & Executive Director
Outpost Productions, Inc.