To our amazing audiences, talented participants, and valued current and past donors:
As the season of Thanksgiving is here, we want to thank each and every one of you for participating in programs here at the Hillcrest Center for the Arts. We are grateful that you have chosen to call HCFA your home away from home. In 2024, your generous support helped us relaunch the popular YAE Teen Drama program, produce a large-scale Teen Summer Musical, host multiple outdoor activities, increase our class offerings and summer camps, helped transition Elementary Music band and strings to an afterschool format, and supported multiple financial aid applications for various participants in our programs.
As the cultural unit for a wonderful park district, we work hard to produce high quality and educational theatre; coordinate valuable elementary music programs for our local schools; offer a safe and beautiful rental location for over 15 arts and culture groups in the community; cultivate a place to enjoy our varied and unique partnerships through theatrical and musical presentations, demonstrations, events, fundraisers, and comedy shows; and build a place to enrich and grow your skills through art, photography, theatre, music, dance, writing, relaxation and fitness classes for all ages. The staff here are truly a special team who want to make sure every person has a wonderful experience with us.
As a public agency, we do not have unlimited funding available for our programs and fundraising is a part of what our unit does to be able to expand our class offerings, support new programs, and to allow us to do big-name titles; purchase new costumes, sets, props; and continue to offer generous financial assistance options for those in need. As Giving Tuesday is approaching on December 3, 2024, we kindly ask that you think of supporting Young Artists Ensemble, Hillcrest Players, Conejo Theatre for Everyone, and Elementary Music this year to help keep Hillcrest Center for the Arts a thriving location for you and your families. Giving is easy and tax deductible and can be done using cash, check, or credit card.
1) You can send a check made out to TOArts and mail directly to Hillcrest Center for the Arts at 403 W. Hillcrest Drive Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 with “Donation to YAE” in the memo line and a note for how you would like to be written into the program.
2)You can pay cash donations at a performance, in the box office, or at the Hillcrest Center for the Arts office.
3) You can use your credit card to donate through our website https://yaeonline.com/donate, call us at 805-381-2747, or come into the office or box office with your credit card to make a donation. If you choose to donate you will be listed in our YAE show programs as a contributor for the following year and you will receive a letter that acts as a receipt with the tax information for your donation.
What can your money do to support us?
Funds can sponsor scholarships for the youth to be able to participate in our theatre programs. You can help make sure that all who audition are not worried about paying for their participation fee. We have offered scholarships to families in need for over 44 years and look forward to continuing to support them moving forward.
Funds can be used to ensure the longevity of the incredible Conejo Theatre for Everyone program, teaming up talented teens with incredible performers with special needs of all ages!
Funds can support the Elementary Music Program by giving towards a scholarship to any child that desires to take music at their elementary school in the Conejo Valley Unified School District through a choral, strings, or band program.
Funds can support the Hillcrest Players program for younger performers to help introduce generations of Conejo Valley youth to the performing arts in an inspiring, accessible, and wholesome format. Funds can provide more educational opportunities for master classes, one-day workshops, and specialty support that can allow students young and old to learn from professionals in the music, theatre, visual arts, and dance world.
Your support is an important part of how we have been able to be a part of your lives and this community for over 44 years. We look forward to seeing how we can increase our interactions with the community, expand our educational and theatrical outreach, continue to connect with community groups to offer a place for programming and performances, and offering your favorite and new programs each session to keep you active and engaged in both art and culture. We cannot wait to interact with each of you during 2025 and are looking forward to sharing more fundraising event and performance opportunities with you next year! Thank you for thinking of us and making HCFA a part of your Giving Tuesday and Thanksgiving Season.
With grateful hearts and with positive wishes for the future!
Your Hillcrest Center for the Arts Staff,
Brianne Anderson Megan McDonough Mark Reyes Natalie De Savia Ian Kelley Lauren Alexander Charlotte Bacharach Nick Bronaugh Matt Huffschmidt Olive Karr Esther Kwon Logan Malley Aubrey McGowan Christi Reusch Adam Wise