Friends of School of the Arts - Rochester, NY

🎶Help the SOTA Concert Choir Sing in NYC! 🎶

Our talented choir from School of the Arts is headed to the New York Heritage Festival in April 2025, but we need your help to get there! As a low-income school, we’re raising funds for travel, accommodation, and competition fees to make this dream a reality for all 38 students.

These young artists have worked hard to get to this point, and with your support, they’ll have the chance to perform in the Big Apple and gain invaluable experience.

Every donation counts—thank you for helping us make this unforgettable trip possible! 🙏🎤

👉 https://gofund.me/bf4c4946

Today is Giving Tuesday!! ROC the Day by giving to School of the Arts: https://www.roctheday.org/roc-the-day/causes/fosota All donations go to support students' academic, artistic, and humanistic success at SOTA. Friends of SOTA Board is 100% volunteer with a passion and drive to see our students flourish! Your donation makes a huge impact on SOTA students, faculty, and staff. Thank you!

SOTA Gear on SALE! Proceeds benefit Friends of SOTA (and in turn, our SOTA students, faculty, and staff)!!

https://sotafriends.itemorder.com/

Store closes November 17. Shipped or pick up - early December. Great for HOLIDAY gifts!

https://www.friendsofsota.org/scholarships/ - Deadline is Wednesday, May 15, 2024!

https://youtu.be/XyJXFxqy8Vo?si=81O3ejM87Y-ulmal&t=62

Deadline for Seniors to apply for Friends of SOTA scholarships is May 15!!

SOTA Seniors can start applying for scholarships today, April 15!

Scholarships – Friends of School of the Arts Friends of SOTA Scholarships In its mission to provide financial support to promote the academic, artistic, and humanistic success of School of the Arts students, Friends offers several scholarships to graduating seniors. Eligibility requirements and scholarship details are available by clicking on....

From Parent Laura Shackelford (daughter is in 11th grade at SOTA).
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High School Women.

You are invited to join us for a film screening of a series of Finnish Women Directors’ Short Films at the Dryden Theatre at the George Eastman House on Wednesday, January 31st at 7:30-9:00 p.m. (https://www.eastman.org/event/film-screenings/finnish-women-filmmakers-shorts-program).Gathering Stories, with the generous support of the Cornelia T Bailey NEW ERA Women Writers Grant, will pay for your ticket and for those who are free for a pre-screening dinner at 6:00-6:15 p.m. at the nearby Old Pueblo Grill (https://www.oldpueblogrillroc.com/), we will pay for your dinner before we all walk across the street together to the film screening.You can find out more about our Gathering Stories workshops, organized through the Center for Engaged Storycraft at the Rochester Institute of Technology, at https://www.rit.edu/storycraft/high-school-storytelling-workshopsThere is no registration process for this event, but please do email Professor Laura Shackelford at [email protected] to RSVP if you are coming. Please indicate your name and school, and whether you will attend the dinner and film, or just the film screening so we know to expect you and confirm that you have your parent’s consent to join us.In the meantime, we hope you willStay warm, keep writing, keep reading!Best,Laura Shackelford, Karen ‘Ren’ vanMeenen, Rashida Burch-Washington, Emily Offerman, and Kenzie Vanacore – Gathering Stories Workshop leaders

Want to know what kinds of things are going to be auctioned off? Check out the list of our donors! Don’t miss out on getting your hands on some amazing deals!!