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We invite you to join us in seeking awe in the everyday. Experience the world of BANDALOOP in this short film created in collaboration with visual storyteller Nino Fernandez. Dear BANDALOOP Friends, This Giving Tuesday, we give you a beautiful reminder of BANDALOOP's purpose and impact via this short film created in collaboration with visual storyteller Nino Fernandez. An outcome of the opening of BANDALOOP Studios, it brings you inside the culture of care we are creating together. Join our spirit of generosity with a donation and amplify the awe, joy, and freedom that is uniquely vertical dance. Your gift supports our innovation and our community in co-creation of the beauty, safety, and belonging intrinsic to our 30+ years of success. Fly with us. Now is the time to create beauty, take care of each other, and stretch our ideas of what is possible - in ourselves, our communities, and our environment. Thank you for being a partner in the growth of BANDALOOP and our collective good.  To beauty - in gratitude, Melecio Estrella Artistic Director, BANDALOOP Donate to BANDALOOP In 2024 BANDALOOP... Performed across 13 sites for 39,000+ live-audience members experiencing our work free-of-charge - including 5,000+ at Somewhere to Land in Alameda this past September Served 300+ students across 450 classes Uplifted 12 local dance artists at our West Oakland BANDALOOP Studios In 2025 BANDALOOP... Produces Somewhere to Oakland, our next site-reactive performance with support from an Arts in CA Parks grant   Makes our Broadway vertical choreography debut with Redwood featuring Idina Menzel Builds a multi-city tour of FLOCK with the gracious support of the National Dance Project Your support as a donor allows us to begin 2025 with strength and fuels the daily operations that make these exciting projects possible! Mountains of thanks for your support.   Your donations, large and small, monthly or as one-time gifts, are needed and appreciated for BANDALOOP to ascend in 2025. We are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with tax ID 95-4618614. Donating is simple and can be done by credit card via the link below or by check to mailing address: BANDALOOP 1601 18th St. Oakland, CA 94607 Questions? Contact Development Director, Jeanne Pfeffer, jeanne@bandaloop.org.   🎁 Make Your Year-End Tax Deductible Donation 🎁 Photo credit: Basil Tsimoyianis (top) and Brooke Anderson (bottom) Copyright © 2024 BANDALOOP, All rights reserved.