Field Trip Funding

Transportation Subsidy Available

The Honey and Bill Jaffe Endowment for Audience Development and the Center for the Performing Arts are pleased to offer a limited busing subsidy to assist your school with transportation costs for School-Time Matinees. Ask for details when you make your reservation with Shannon Arney at 814-863-2688 or via e-mail.

Please download, print, compete, and return the busing subsidy request form, to the address provided on the form, two weeks prior to the date of the performance.

Target Field Trip Grants

Go to Target to learn about Target field trip grants. Applications are accepted beginning August 1 for the 2012–2013 grants. Applications are accepted through October 31.

Making the Case to Your Funders

The School-Time Matinee series at the Center for the Performing Arts enhances in-class learning.

School-Time Matinees:

• Allow educators to engage students with a living laboratory — the performing arts;
• Incorporate Pennsylvania State Education Standards to help educators further in-class educational goals;
• Provide experiential learners with ways to engage with core curriculum areas;
• Introduce youth to the performing arts at a fraction of the cost of public performances;
• Are educational and fun for you and your students.

Two excellent websites, Americans for the Arts and National Guild for Community Arts Education provide more resources to help you explain to funders, parent-teacher organizations, and principals the reasons you want to take your students to experience a School-Time Matinee.