{"id":18229,"date":"2012-09-12T08:54:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T13:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=18229"},"modified":"2012-09-12T08:54:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T13:54:45","slug":"theatre-in-education-series-gets-cash-infusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/09\/theatre-in-education-series-gets-cash-infusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Theatre in Education series gets cash infusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-18232\" title=\"Theatre in Eduction\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/theatre-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Theatre in Eduction\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>More students will be able to enjoy <a title=\"Theatre in Education\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.brocku.ca\/performances\/schoolperformances.php\" target=\"_blank\">Brock University&#8217;s Theatre in Education series<\/a> at the Centre for the Arts, thanks to a $10,000-donation from Freedom 55 Financial.<\/p>\n<p>The donation, made through the national corporate citizenship program of Great-West Life, London Life, of which Freedom 55 Financial is a division, and Canada Life, provides discounted tickets to all Niagara students in senior kindergarten through Grade 12 for the 2012-2013 season.<\/p>\n<p>It also supports in-school workshops with professional artists and a ticket subsidy program for students in need.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The <a title=\"Centre for the Arts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.brocku.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Centre for the Arts<\/a> seeks to build and strengthen relationships and make Theatre in Education more accessible to all Niagara students, regardless of income or regional location,&#8221; said Sara Palmieri, Centre for the Arts sales and marketing manager.<\/p>\n<p>Theatre in Education has presented 43 national and international companies and 71 performances since starting in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>During the past eight seasons, 25,613 Niagara students have had the opportunity to experience live performing arts at Brock University&#8217;s theatres.<\/p>\n<p>While attendance over the years has grown, ticket prices remain a financial barrier for many students.\u00a0 With this financial contribution, more students will be able to share ideas and interpretations of performances and see and learn about the world in a whole new way, Palmieri said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More students will be able to enjoy Brock University&#8217;s Theatre in Education series at the Centre for the Arts, thanks to a $10,000-donation from Freedom 55 Financial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":10251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[90,536,535],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18233,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18229\/revisions\/18233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}