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The Jack Jones Children’s Literacy Gala
April 23, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
sponsored by
The Jones Family & Pat and Ernest Kelly
Saturday, April 23 at 6:00 pm
Indoors and Outdoors at
Tennessee Shakespeare Company
“Southerners love a good tale” – Eudora Welty
On the weekend of William Shakespeare’s birthday, please join us for a breezy, rejuvenating evening of outdoor/indoor dining, open bar libations, unique live auctions, the “Broadway Trip for Two” Drawing, and your favorite classical authors brought to life from the page to the Tabor Stage.
“Loafe with me on the grass – loose the stop from your throat.” – Walt Whitman
Your sponsorship (Platinum or Gold or Silver) secures a dining table and theatre seats for you and your guests inside TSC’s festive facility and outdoors near our newly-planted Shakespeare Garden under the tent.
“She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.”‘ – Edith Wharton
As a celebrated Platinum Sponsor, you can help curate the evening by selecting from among 39 of the greatest authors and poets for TSC’s acting company to adapt and perform for you that night!
“There are two kinds of travel: first class, and with children.” – Robert Benchley
Your sponsorship and revelry are in the springlike spirit of our Gala namesake, John Paul (Jack) Jones, and are for the people he loved so much: our children.
“Necessity…the mother of invention.” – Plato
Seating is very limited. The stage performance will be simulcast on monitors outside the Tabor Stage and online (where donations may be submitted to TSC’s Jack Jones Children’s Literacy Fund and the Barbara B. Apperson Angel Fund).
Reserve your Platinum/Gold/Silver Sponsorship today by contacting Stephanie Shine at (901) 759-0620 or stephanieshine@tnshakespeare.org
Platinum Sponsorship ($5,000)
Provides you with an eight-seat dinner table for you and your guests, a $200 gift box, the best seats in theatre, your choice of performed classical author (1 per sponsorship), and open bar. You will join our Platinum Sponsor family, including The Camp Tabor Family, Nancy R. Copp, Davis Commodities, Dorothy O. Kirsch, The Sims Family Charitable Trust, and Pat and Thane Smith.
Gold Sponsorship ($2,500)
Provides you with an eight-seat dinner table for you and your guests, the best seats in the theatre after Platinums, and open bar. You will join our Gold Sponsor family, including E.F. and Brenda Bluestein, Louise and Jim Calandruccio, Elise and Richard Jordan, Hon. Sheri Lipman and Dale Anderson, and W. Reid and Chris Sanders.
Silver Sponsorship ($1,500)
Provides you with a four-seat dinner table for you and your guests, the best seats in the theatre after Golds, and open bar. You will join our generous Silver Sponsors, including Rhea Clift, and Pete Pranica.
Single Bronze Ticket ($250)
Provides you with the buffet (no table), open bars, and side-seating at the Tabor Stage. Reserve one or more Bronze Tickets by going to tnshakespeare.org or calling TSC at (901) 759-0604.
A portion of your ticket is a tax-deductible gift to TSC.
Our Potential Authors for the Evening
Platinum Sponsors may chose from the below list an author from whom TSC will select a book, curate a segment, and act for the first time during the Gala:
Amiri Baraka
Anais Nin
Ann Sexton
Aphra Behn
Arthur Conan Doyle
Barbara Kingsolver
Carson McCullers
Charlotte Bronte
Dorothy Parker
Edith Wharton
Edmund Rostand
Ernest Hemingway
Eudora Welty
Flannery O’Connor
Frank O’Connor
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Herman Melville
Henry Miller
Jack Kerouac
James Baldwin
Jane Austen
JK Rowling
John Steinbeck
Joyce Carol Oates
Kate Chopin
Langston Hughes
Louisa May Alcott
Mary Shelley
Maya Angelou
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Octavia Butler
Oscar Wilde
Ralph Ellison
Toni Morrison
Virginia Woolf
Walt Whitman
WEB Du Bois
William Shakespeare
Zora Neale Hurston
