A donation of $100 will help underwrite tickets for 5 students to attend a Student Matinee.

If you asked any staff member what their favorite kind of performance is, hands down, the answer would be Student Matinees. The energy in the theatre is electric on those days, and there is nothing like seeing students experience live theatre, often for the first time. For many of these kids, a Student Matinee is life-changing.

In Season 46, for the first time ever, we will be having Student Matinee performances for all of our productions.

It is not an exaggeration to say that this donation has the potential to change lives.

A $250 donation will fund a workshop with a teaching artist from VSC in a classroom or another public space in and around Hampton Roads.

VSC theater professionals work one-on-one and in group settings with students, and in conjunction with educators' own lesson plans and standards of learning to make those lessons come alive.

Topics and age groups for these workshops vary, but every session provides a unique learning opportunity.

This is the work of stoking the passions of the next, next generation of theatre artists, advocates and audience members!

For a donation of $1000, you can support the essential services that make VSC accessible to everyone.

For every production in our season, VSC is committed to having a performance with at least two ASL interpreters, and open captioning for our deaf and hard of hearing patrons. For our low-vision patrons, we also offer a show with audio description services.

These are essential services that ensure we reach as many people as possible in our community, regardless of disability.

A donation of $2,500 will help get VSC to our Collaborative Fundraising goal of $50,000.

Four years ago, when the world shut down, the leaders of the four major arts organizations in Norfolk worked together keep us all afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This collaborative effort was the first of its kind here, and together, we raised $2 million.

This collaborative effort helped us to weather that storm.

COVID-19 fundamentally changed the arts, and today, we face a different kind of storm: subscriptions are down, production costs continue to rise, and people have grown accustomed to sitting at home alone with their streaming services instead of coming together for the arts.
To face this new storm, the four major arts organizations have decided to collaborate again, this time with the goal of raising $1 million.

Through the generous support of donors like you, we have reached $600,000.

An anonymous donor has offered a dollar to dollar match at $200,000, that match relies on all of us raising the $200,000 that gets us to $1 million.

So VSC needs to raise $50,000 in new donations before the end of June.