ear friends,

I am very excited to invite you to an upcoming Benefit PARTY for Terrain on Saturday, May 17^th from 2:00-4:00 p.m. at The Brooklyn Lyceum! (227 4^th Avenue, Brooklyn, R to Union Street.) Terrain will perform our latest work, Terminal, with music by Gregory Spears and costumes by Mary Jo Mecca. We will also have live music, kids raffles, a pinata, and lots of time for dancing and fun.

Raffle Tickets are Now on Sale!!!!

We have three fantastic raffles to help raise money. Only 100 tickets per raffle are being sold to increase your chances of winning! Buy one, two, three or more tickets to one raffle or a ticket for each raffle. Tickets are $10 each.

• Raffle A:
  • Grand Prize: Three nights at lovely Carroll Gardens B & B, sleeps up to six, full kitchen, kids welcome — Actual Value: $525
  • Second Prize: $50 gift certificate to Itunes Music Store
• Raffle B:
  • Grand Prize: Weekend stay at charming Provincetown, MA Apartment, one block from town center, near ocean, sleeps three. — Actual Value: $375
  • Second Prize: iPod shuffle — Actual Value: $50
• Raffle C:
  • Grand Prize: 2 Tickets to Broadway's The Little Mermaid + backstage tour — Actual Value: $240 + priceless
  • Second Prize: 2 Tickets to Spiegeltent — circus meets cabaret extravaganza under Brooklyn Bridge — Actual Value: $50
• Kids Raffle: We will have a kids raffle at the door for $1/ticket. Prizes include: signed books by Emily Jenkins and percussion lessons by Arthur Solari.

You can purchase tickets online, at the door, or by dropping by our house. Purchase tickets online by making a donation for the number of tickets you would like and sending an email to me (rjlazier@earthlink.net) indicating the raffle for which you are purchasing tickets. I will send you a confirmation email with your raffle number. Please be sure to include your best contact information in your email, or come to the party to claim your prize!

There are many other ways you can help Terrain work towards this Benefit:

if you are able to donate any goods or services, from baking a batch of cookies to bringing beverages, we will be greatly appreciative. We could also use volunteers to help to set-up chairs and collect tickets on May 17^th. One of the easiest ways you can help is by inviting your friends who have never seen Terrain to come to the show! We are always excited to expand our audience and meet new people. Please let me know if you are interested in helping in whatever way possible.

Click here to donate: . You will be transferred to the website for The Field, our fiscal sponsor. When asked for the Artist's Name, type Rebecca Lazier, and for the Artist's Group type TERRAIN. All of your donations are tax-deductible, as Terrain is a sponsored artist of The Field.

The goal of this event is to raise money to fund the creation of a new piece over the summer and three performances next year. I will hopefully have more dates to send you soon! To give you an idea of how the raffle money will be put to work, consider that:

$10,000	= total cost of creating, rehearsing and producing one new piece
$810	= one full week of studio space and dancers' fees
$450	= one full week of studio space
$100	= four dancers fees for two hours
$25	= two dancers fees for one hour
$15	= studio space for one hour