2019 Festival

Patron Proposal

The Chinquapin
Summer Festival
 Hello!

Dear Arts Patron,

Over the last decade, the Rogue Valley has truly blossomed. We are welcoming
development, innovation and culture-hungry people into our home. We are
standing on the precipice of a cultural moment. Now is the time to invest in our
community by giving the gift of powerful and uniquely Oregonian art. Thank you
for taking the time to consider being a patron of this cultural movement by
investing in the 2019 Chinquapin Summer Festival for the Arts.

Since 2012 The Chinquapin Center for the Arts has been open in the Applegate
Valley, offering residencies to individual artists and enriching our community
with their work. In 2015 the Chinquapin Center began the Chinquapin Summer
Festival which has subsequently offered two weeks, a month – and in 2017 – six
full weeks of concerts, exhibitions, festivities and cultural events. Each summer
our artists come to the Chinquapin Center for the duration of the Festival to live,
rehearse, and present their work throughout the Valley.

The Chinquapin Summer Festival focuses on cutting-edge new opera, chamber

music, as well as the work of Southern Oregon's emerging and forward-looking
artists. The Summer Festival's Vision is to create socially conscious programming
that makes contemporary and classical to the arts relevant to the zeitgeist of our
times.

In the following pages you'll learn how we have executed our vision in the past
(Our Story), the levels at which you can join in our cause (Giving Levels), learn
about the financial specifics of our 2019 operation (2019 Summer Festival
Estimated Budget), and most importantly you can learn more about the
exciting 2019 Festival programs that your financial support will go towards
creating (2019 Festival).

Because we are permanently based at the Chinquapin Center for the Arts, our
Festival is uniquely positioned to provide a significant contribution to our vibrant
Oregon arts scene. Your generous support will provide the funding needed to
build this festival and enrich the northwest for years to come. 

With anticipation,
Alexander Vassos
Chinquapin Summer Festival Artistic Director

TWINHEROESPRODUCTIONS.COM  |  541.218.7035
Our Story
The Chinquapin
Center for the Arts
After a fruitful career in San Franscisco
remodeling victorian homes and as senior project
manager at Presidio, Steve Radcliffe, a bluegrass
boy from Pennsylvania, moved to Southern
Oregon's  Applegate Valley. In 2012, pledging one
million dollars to it's development Steve bought
40 woodland acres and founded the Chinquapin
Center for the Arts. 

Steve's vision was to create a place where

artists of all disciplines could come and do
deep, focused work in a supportive
environment of nature and serenity. Now,
outfitted with a workshop, main house,
rehearsal space, two buildings for future
artists' studios, a piano, meadows, and a
gorgeous half-acre pond, The Chinquapin
Center for the Arts is ready and open,
The Chinquapin welcoming artists to come live and work.

Summer Festival
In 2014 Steve met Alexander Vassos. Straight
from grad school Alex came to Chinquapin for a
seven-month residency completing major
portions of his new opera, The Fourth. Fast-
forward to 2016 Alex returned to Chinquapin
with a national team of 10 artists from the Rogue
Valley, Los Angeles, Portland and New York City.
Together, they laid the foundation towards to
building a permanent Rogue Valley arts festival
and founded the Chinquapin Summer Festival.

During it's first season The Summer Festival

began work on two of it's signature programs:
'The Accessible Opera Project' and the
'Rogue Arts Initiative'. Coming to Chinquapin
for a two-week residency, The Chinquapin
Ensemble worked around the clock realizing
excerpts from the new opera, The Fourth. This
cutting-edge work was presented throughout
the Rogue Valley alongside the poetry of local
spoken-word poet Blaine Alexander Lindsey, as
well as a new string quartet by young, rising-star
Rogue Valley composer Seven Spillios. 
Chinquapin Summer Festival
- Our Second Season -
Mission
In 2017 responding to the deep divisions in
our country, the Chinquapin Festival centered
it's programming along the themes of
Compassion and Common Ground. This
season we created socially conscious events
designed to strengthen community, promote
compassionate thinking, and communication. 
In 2017 the Chinquapin Ensemble would
return to Chinquapin – this time for a full
month –adding three new additions to their
offerings. 
Chamber music Now!
The first major addition was our chamber
music series, 'Chamber Music Now!'.
Offering nine exquisite chamber music
concerts, we featured the music of seven
disparate composers, their music woven
together with compelling spoken narratives
about their lives –narratives designed to
underline music's ability to unite and
transcend. In keeping with our commitment
to young, local artists, our series culminated
in a new piece for string quartet and spoken
word by Seven Spillios and Blaine Alexander
Transcend Lindsay.

Queer Arts Festival

The second addition to our 2017 program
was the 'Transcend Queer Arts Festival'.
Responding to the Rogue Valley's need for
inclusive queer spaces, we brought the
community together presenting the work of
12 Rogue Valley performers, actors, singers,
visual artists, and poets in three separate
spaces presenting an evening's worth of art
and fun including performances, an art
exhibition and a dance party.

We Choose Love
To celebrate the spirit of compassion so alive in the
Rogue Valley, we would honor our local hero, Taliesin
Myrddin Namkai-Meche. On the first day of Ramadan
2017, Taliesin was killed while defending two teen girls —
one a Muslim wearing a hijab — from a man shouting
racist epithets on a train in Portland. He died alongside
Ricky John Best, a veteran of the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Though coming from different sides of our
country's political poles, these twin heroes came together
to stand for unity and compassion. In an inspiring
evening-long celebration the Chinquapin Ensemble was
joined by Taliesin's loved ones, offering a diverse
program of musical selections, poems and reflections on
themes of love, unity, and compassion.
 Chinquapin Summer Festival
- Our Current Season -

Rogue Arts Initiative

This season we focus primarily on the
'Rogue Arts Initiative' highlighting the talents of a
range of local musicians. We will continue our
support of young, local composers, programming
their work during our chamber series. Finally, we
will be adding a series of art song concerts,
presenting art songs and arias to the public. This
program will culminate in two new song cycles
written by young local composers incorporating
poetry written right here in the Rogue Valley.

Looking forward
- 2019 and beyond-
In 2019 we will continue to offer socially
conscious work, make the classical performing
arts relevant, and give voice to the Rogue
Valley's forward-thinking artists. In addition to
The Rogue Arts Initiative, Accessible Opera
Project and Chamber Music Now!, we hope to
add two new programs the Festival: an
educational 'Workshop for Young Composers
and String Players' as well a Mindfulness
Program serving our resident artists.

At the Chinquapin Summer Festival, we are tremendously lucky to have a

permanent artistic home at The Chinquapin Center for the Arts. We invite you to
be part of this exciting work by helping us create a festival that will develop our
vibrant Oregonian arts scene as well as enrich our community for years to come.
 Join us on the next page to learn more about our goals in 2019.

Listen to the Chinquapin Musicians now!

To listen to The Accessible Opera Project (The Fourth), our first opera The House Is Open,
and our young composer in residence, Seven Splillios go to:
twinheroesproductions.com/media.php
 To continue the momentum we

2019 have built over the past three years

we need your help. 
We have a range of exciting
projects planned for 2019. With

Festival your financial support we can bring

them to life. 

Base Project -$36,450

Overview
In 2019 we will bring the Chinquapin Musicians to live and work for a full
month at the Chinquapin Center of the Arts. We will continue our work on
the Accessible Opera Project (AOP) and our chamber music series,
Chamber Music Now! (CMN!).                          

Accessible
    Opera Project
For AOP 2019 the Chinquapin Musicians will rehearse, workshop, record,
and perform in concert a cutting-edge new chamber opera, The Fourth. 

In development at Chinquapin since 2016, written along deeply Buddhist

and Taoist themes, The Fourth takes us on a journey from the urban jungle,
out into the wilds, then in towards the deepest parts of the self. With a
boundary-breaking surround-sound orchestra of electronic and acoustic
instruments, The Fourth transports us through a lush succession of
kaleidoscopic sound-worlds. This journey into the depths follows three
iconic characters each on their own journey inward.

This 2019 concert version of The Fourth keeps the AOP on track towards a
fully staged 2020 premier. In 2020 this work will tour to unexpected,
unorthodox and welcoming venues all over Oregon, opening entirely new
audiences up to opera. After this 2020 Northwest tour, this production will
be taken and shown in New York City.            

 Chamber
                      Music Now!
As part of our CMN! series the Chinquapin Musicians will present exquisite
chamber music concerts throughout the Rogue Valley.
Seeking to make chamber music as relevant, dynamic, social, and alive as
possible, CMN! brings new audiences in to hear classical music with
concerts that experiment with venue and presentation. CMN! makes
classical music relevant with compelling stories of the composers' lives and
struggles– stories designed to draw parallels to the struggles and themes of
our times.
As part of our dedication to local, young composers CMN! will commission
new works to program alongside masterpieces from the repertoire.
Learn in detail about our story, past work and about any of
our 2019 projects in the Additional Materials packet
(hardcopy available on request) on the web at:
www.scribd.com/document/385791222/Additional-Materials
 2019
If we raise enough capital, we will
expand our offerings, investing in this
2019 Stretch Project.

Festival

Stretch Project -$47,950

Overview
Our 2019 Stretch Project will expand the length of our festival from four
to five weeks. In this five-week period we will execute all the projects in
the Base-Level Project description, as well as launch our educational
program: Classes at Chinquapin.

 Classes
           at Chinquapin
Our inaugural educational program will be a Chamber Music Workshop
for Young Composers and String Players.     

The Strings Component of this workshop will offer four young, local
string players the opportunity to join The Chinquapin Ensemble twice a
week for five weeks at The Chinquapin Center for the Arts. During this
time they will be given individual lessons and chamber music coaching.
Students will be matched to play with one another, preparing works of
chamber music from the classical repertoire. Students will work with our
staff accompanist and prepare a solo work. All music created during the
workshop will be performed in our showcase at the end of the five
weeks.      
                                                    
For the Composition Component of our workshop, three young, local
composers will be invited to create original compositions. The
Chinquapin Ensemble will rehearse, workshop and critique these
compositions in masterclasses at the Chinquapin Center. These
compositions will be performed in our final showcase and recorded by
our resident professionals, giving our young composers something to
take along with them to further their compositional careers.
                                          
This Stretch Project lays the groundwork for a future sleep-away
summer program built to nurture and give rigorous training to young
musicians from the Rogue Valley and beyond.

To listen to exquisite examples of our past work join us on the web at:
twinheroesproductions.com/media.php
 Giving Levels
Donors at each level will receive the ticket reservations listed,
as well as the benefits of all the preceding levels.

FESTIVAL BRONZE 
SUPPORTER LEVEL
$999 or less $1,000

Your gift of $999 or less contributes to: Your $1,000 gift sponsors:

 $750 in advertising Artist stipends for 1 musician for a full month of

$500 in airfare for musicians concerts, rehearsals and work

$300 in reception costs –or–

Scholarships for Workshop for Young 2 Scholarships for the Young Composers and

Composers and String Players stretch project  String Players Workshop stretch project 

Festival Supporter Benefits: Bronze Benefits:

Mention in promotional materials Invitation to cast party for 2019 Opera, The

Mention on Festival website Fourth

2 reserved seats at all Festival events 2 reserved seats at all Festival events

SILVER GOLD
LEVEL LEVEL
$2,000 $5,000

Your $2,000 gift sponsors: Your $5,000 gift sponsors:

Full cost for Workshop for the Young Composer's commission fee for the Accessible

Composers and String Players stretch project  Opera Project

Silver Benefits: Gold Benefits:

Invitation to private dinner at Invitation to private dinner and round table

the Chinquapin Center with the 2019 discussion with the composer and director at

Festival Arists the Chinquapin Center

5 reserved seats at all Festival events 5 reserved seats at all Festival events

PLATINUM DIAMOND
LEVEL LEVEL
$10,000 $20,000

Your $10,000 gift sponsors: Your $20,000 gift sponsors:

Composers commission fee for the Accessible All Artist fees for a full month of Chamber

Opera Project AND Music and Opera AND

Artistic Director's fee Composers commission fee for the Accessible

Platinum Benefits: Opera Project AND

All venue costs

Front-page Billing on all promotional materials

Homepage billing on Festival website

Diamond Benefits:
Top billing on all promotional materials
Invitation to private dinner at the Chinquapin
Top homepage billing on festival website
Center with the 2019 festival musicians
Private concert and dinner with the
10 reserved seats at all Festival events
Chinquapin Musicians, in your home or venue

of your choice

15 reserved seats at all Festival events

The Chinquapin Center for the Arts is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization

All donations are tax-deductible
To make a donation join us on the web at: chinquapinartists.org/donation.html
 2019 Summer Festival
Estimated Budget
To show how your generous donation will be used, below are

projected budget allocations based on 2016-18 figures* 

BASE PROJECT - $36,450

One month of chamber music and opera

Artist Stipends - 32% Food for Resident Artists - 4% 

Artist Travel - 10% Advertisement - 2%

Administration - 16%  Local Transportation - 2%

Technical Costs - 10% Reception Costs - 1%

Venues - 8% Contigency - 15% 

STRETCH PROJECT - $47,950
Five weeks of chamber music, opera and an eight-session workshop,

concert and recording for young string players and composers

Artist/Educator Stipends - 30% Workshop/Scholarships - 3%

Artist Travel - 10% Local Transportation - 2%

Administration - 19%  Advertisement - 2%

Technical Costs - 8% Reception Costs 1%

Venues - 6% Contigency - 15% 

Food for Resident Artists - 4%

*Full and specific budget projections are available upon request

GIVE LISTEN LEARN

Learn in detail about our story, past work

The Chinquapin Center for the Arts Listen to exquisite examples of our

and about any of our 2019 projects in the

 is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization past work on the web now at:

Additional Materials packet in hardcopy

All donations are tax-deductible.

(available on request) or on the web at:

MAKE YOUR DONATION NOW AT:

scribd.com/document/385791222/
chinquapinartists.org/donation.html twinheroesproductions.com/media.php

Additional-Materials

     ALEXANDERVASSOS@GMAIL.COM    /  541.218.7035
 The Chinquapin
Summer Festival

Mission
"Though we are small, our vision is vast"

Festival Mission
We are building a permanent Summer Festival right here in the Rogue Valley at the
Chinquapin Center for the Arts.
We create socially conscious programming that makes contemporary and classical
performing arts relevant to the zeitgeist of our times.
With a focus on (but in no way limited to) performing arts, classical music and opera, the
Chinquapin Summer Festival fosters artists, bringing their work first to the Rogue Valley,
and then out into the wider world. We incubate, workshop, cultivate and perform daring
new works, touring them locally, state-wide, and then nationally.      

Festival Programs
Rogue Arts Initiative
Our mission is to cultivate the unique and powerful voice of the Rogue Valley and Southern
Oregon and to enshrine it's spiritual ethos and culture of environmental stewardship. To this
aim, we give special attention to the work of local creators and those making work on natural
and spiritual themes.        

Accessible Opera Project

With our flagship program, The Accessible Opera Project, we seek to break open opera's
often closed and guided doors.
The Accessible Opera Project is commissioning and creating a cutting-edge repertory of new
English-language operas on relevant contemporary themes.
With virtuosic, inexpensive and highly mobile productions we tour like a rock band or
traveling theater troupe. With speed and mobility, we seek out wholly new audiences and
perform in welcoming and unorthodox venues at a very reachable price. 

Classes at Chinquapin
We are passionate about educating the next generation of young composers and musicians.
Mentored by our experienced team of professional artists, young artists come to Chinquapin
to take workshops and lessons, to create, rehearse and present their work to the community.
                      
Chamber Music Now!
It is our mission to make classical chamber concerts as relevant, dynamic, social, and alive as
as the popular music traditions of our time. We brings new audiences in to hear classical
music, with concerts that experiment with venue and presentation. We make classical music
relevant with compelling stories of composers' lives and struggles– narratives that draw
history into parallel with our times.
We are dedicated to local, young composers. We commission new works to program
alongside masterpieces from the repertoire.                                             

Mindfulness
Finally, it is our vision at the Chinquapin Festival is to create not only extraordinary art, but
healthier, actualized and more grounded artists. We root our art-making, offering meditation,
yoga and mindfulness training to our artists, alongside a rigorous summer of extraordinary
art.