To help or donate, please contact SOCSA's Capital Campaign Chair, Alan Wickstrom, at 949.842.0594
CLICK HERE if you can not view a YouTube.com video. This link is a .MOV file and will take about 5 to 10 minutes to download and can be played with a QuickTime video player.
ABOUT SOCSA's $4 MILLION CAPITAL CAMPAIGN FOR A NEW PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
This has been an amazing couple of years for SOCSA. SOCSA's Artistic Director, Mr. Ray Woods, received Arts Orange County's 2007 Outstanding Arts Educator of the Year award on behalf of SOCSA. In April of 2008, the CUSD Trustees voted unanimously approving the acceptance of a $3 million Career Technical Education (CTE) match grant from the State of California to help fund a new $13 million, 475-seat Performing Arts Center for SOCSA on the campus of Dana Hills High School. 3 other CUSD board votes have passed 7-0 in support of the completion of this project, with the latest in March 2009. CUSD has identified $6 million in district facilities funding, leaving us short $4 million to complete the project.
The proposed Dana Hills High School Performing Arts Center will feature:
Theater seating for 475
65' high fly loft and fly system
2,000 sq ft stage
An orchestra pit
Modern cooling/heating system to keep the theater at a consistant temperature during performances
Choir classroom
Instrumental classroom with practice rooms
Spacious backstage area
Digital sound recording and light studio
A black box theater for rehearsals and small performances
Classrooms for stagecraft and more.
In the past year, SOCSA productions have rented space at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana (for SOCSA's Opera Night Gala and Performance), the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall at the Orange County Performing Arts Center (for SOCSA's Showcase year-end art exhibit and performance) and other local venues to accomodate the large crowds for SOCSA Performances, some reaching 800+, and it is time for a new, state-of-the-art performing arts center to be built on the campus of Dana Hills High School. Each production required coordination and many hours of work from staff and coaches, volunteers and parents, and the students themselves.
In its own state-of-the-art facility, SOCSA will flourish.
The SOCSA program will finally have the space and the facilities to grow and expand into the next decade ? and beyond.
In 2008, the SOCSA Foundation embarked on an aggressive capital campaign to raise $4 million over the next 3 years to help shore up the remaining funds needed to complete our dream of a new $13 million Performing Arts Center for SOCSA students of the future. Now... we need YOUR help.
Click here to learn how YOU can HELP BUILD THE THEATER!
CLICK THE PLAY BUTTON BELOW
To watch our 30-second commercial on the theater
The 2nd video features extended excerpts from an interview with Carl St. Clair, Music Director Pacific Symphony, about his thoughts on SOCSA's Capital Campaign and the new Dana Hills Performing Arts Center that is in development. WATCH THIS 2nd VIDEO...
The following is a Letter from SOCSA's Artistic Director, Ray Woods, as Featured in the Star-Studded Spectacular Program from Sunday, Feb 28, 2010.
ARTISTIC RENDERINGS AND ELEVATION DRAWINGS
OF THE FUTURE DANA HILLS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
AUGUST 28, 2009: Proposed School Theater Up For Environemental Review (SOURCE: DANA POINT TIMES)
OCT 6, 2008: CUSD TRUSTEES APPROVE $768K FOR DHHS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
We are glad to report that due to YOUR input, the CUSD trustees voted 7-0 to approve the next round of funding for the district's architects to complete the construction drawings and other related items at a cost of $769,418.00. This approved funding will see the project through for the next 12-14 months... all the way to the California Division of State Architect (DSA) approval by Dec 2009. This should ensure that the $3 million CTE grant money will be provided to Dana Hills High School in Dec 2009. This is due to the hundreds of eMails, letters and phone calls from YOU and support from the City of Dana Point. For this, we say thank you... more to come, but for now we celebrate this amazing support of arts education at Dana Hills High School. :-)
SEPT 2008: INITIAL SCHEMATIC DESIGNS & FUNDING AWAITING TRUSTEE APPROVAL IN OCT 2008
JUNE to Mid-SEPT 2008 DISTRICT ARCHITECTS COLLABORATE WITH CONSULTANTS, CUSD FACILITIES ADMIN, DHHS ADMIN, SOCSA TEACHERS AND PARENTS OVER THE SUMMER... SCHEMATIC DESIGNS AND PROJECT BUDGET CREATED FOR NEW DHHS THEATER PER THE SPECS OF THE CTE GRANT... THIS AWAITS A VOTE OF THE CUSD TRUSTEES IN OCT 2008.
TOP 11 REASONS WHY DANA HILLS HIGH SCHOOL NEEDS A NEW PERFORMING ARTS CENTER:
1) Dana Hills was awarded a $3 million match grant for a new Performing Arts Center from the Career Technical Education Facilities Program (CTEFP) and CUSD must complete several steps that will cost the district money before Dec 2009 or this $3 million grant will be lost forever.
2) To provide the best learning environment for career technical education for the performing arts at our local public high school.
3) South Orange County residents love the performing arts and this new venue will allow for year-round arts entertainment from a variety
of sources, including local theater groups with no facilities of their own.
4) Guests of the Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis and Marriott will have live
theater entertainment options while visiting Dana Point.
5) The converted lecture hall, now called the Porthole Theater, is 35
years old and not ADA compliant.
6) Provides SOCSA with a performing arts facility that matches the
caliber of talented teachers and students of the SOCSA Academy.
7) Provides a non-denominational place for hundreds of community members to
congregate for meetings.
8) Provides SOCSA a secure facility to store its growing collection of pianos, instruments, costumes and other valuables.
9) Demonstrates that the community recognizes the importance of the arts in education.
10) Eliminates the need to rent facilities twenty-five miles away and manage the transportation of students, equipment and faculty to those facilities for any special event.
11) Will help increase enrollment among current and prospective Dana Hills students while helping to modernize an outdated campus.
JUNE 13, 2008: DANA POINT TIMES:SOCSA to Raise $5 Million for Dana Hills Theater: THE LATEST: The South Orange County School of the Arts recently announced a $5 million capital campaign to help the Capistrano Unified School District build a $15-million theater complex at Dana Hills High School. The district will pay the other $10 million. MORE... APRIL 25, 2008: DANA POINT TIMES:Theater Project for DHHS Moving Forward: THE LATEST: A brand-new performing arts center at Dana Hills High School took a large step to becoming a reality on April 21 when the Capo Unified school board voted to accept $3 million from a state grant to help pay for the proposed $13 million project. MORE...
ABOUT THE NEW PROPOSED PERFORMING ARTS COMPLEX AT DANA HILLS:
GREAT NEWS for SOCSA and Dana Hills!!
It is official, the proposed new "Dana Hills High School Performing Arts Center" is on the next CUSD Board meeting agenda... as Agenda item #41. View the full April 21 CUSD Board agenda at: capousd.org/board_agen/4-21-08Agenda.pdf
After CUSD received approvals of a $3 million match grant from the state in late March, the district Trustees should be voting this coming Monday night at their April 21st Board meeting. The following link is an 11 page PDF that was clipped from the 390+ page Board Text for the April 21 CUSD Board meeting: SOCSArts.org/docs/2008-04-21-cusd-agenda-41.pdf
This PDF file contains the entire Board text of Agenda item #41 for the proposed new "Dana Hills High School Performing Arts Center".
WE NEED 100 SOCSA SUPPORTERS AT THE APRIL 21 CUSD BOARD MEETING!
We need as many SOCSA supporters as possible at the CUSD Board meeting this coming Monday night. The meeting is at:
Capistrano Unified School District headquarters
33122 Valle Road
San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
Directions available at: capousd.org/dist_dir.htm#edcenter
If we can get about 100 SOCSA supporters WEARING DHHS BLUE COLORED SHIRTS in the room, we will be able to politely demonstrate to the trustees how much we support the proposed new "Dana Hills High School Performing Arts Center". Please sit as far forward as you can at this meeting. Even if you can only stay for an hour or so, any time you can provide will make a huge difference.
We encourage you to wear a BLUE SOCSA SHIRT or ANY BLUE DHHS LOGOED SHIRT.... if you don't have a blue SOCSA or DHHS t-shirt, arrive at 6:30pm and SOCSA will be giving out BLUE SOCSA LOGOED T-SHIRT to the first 100 SOCSA supporters that attend that need one, but you must wear this free blue SOCSA t-shirt at this CUSD board meeting. Sizes are limited, so arrive early IF you need one. If you have a BLUE SOCSA or DHHS BLUE shirt (or ANY BLUE shirt for that matter) please wear it. :-)
ARRIVE EARLY! Please try to arrive at the Capistrano Unified School District headquarters on MONDAY April 21 at 6:30pm, about 30 minutes before the meeting starts and sit as far forward as you can at this meeting... The CUSD board meeting starts at 7pm and we need to fill the first few rows with as many people wearing BLUE SOCSA or BLUE DHHS or ANY BLUE COLORED shirts as possible.
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT OF SOCSA and ARTS EDUCATION AT DANA HILLS!! Feel free to call Alan Wickstrom, SOCSA Foundation Capital Campaign Chiar, on his cell at 949.842.0594 or via eMail at capital-campaign@SOCSArts.org, if you have any questions about this.
Cordially,
Alan Wickstrom
SOCSA Foundation Capital Campaign Chiar
eMail: capital-campaign@SOCSArts.org ~ Cell: 949.842.0594
SOCSA Academy and Foundation, South Orange County School of the Arts
PO Box 3174, Dana Point, CA 92629-8174
SOCSA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
Web: http://www.SOCSArts.org
APRIL 25, 2008: DANA POINT TIMES: Theater Project for DHHS Moving Forward: THE LATEST: A brand-new performing arts center at Dana Hills High School took a large step to becoming a reality on April 21 when the Capo Unified school board voted to accept $3 million from a state grant to help pay for the proposed $13 million project....
The following news article ran in the ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER on Thursday, April 17th... to learn more about the proposed new Performing Arts Complex at Dana Hills, read the following and attend SOCSA's next board meeting at 7:00pm on Monday, May 12, 2008, in the Choir Room at Dana Hills High School... or join the SOCSA eMail list at SOCSArts.org (it's near the bottom of the home page) or call Alan Wickstrom, SOCSA Foundation Capital Campaign Chair, on his cell at 949.842.0594.
The following news article ran in the Dana Point Times on Friday, April 4th... to learn more about the proposed new Performing Arts Complex at Dana Hills, read the following and attend SOCSA's next board meeting at 7:00pm on Monday, May 12, 2008, in the Choir Room at Dana Hills High School... or join the SOCSA eMail list at SOCSArts.org (it's near the bottom of the home page) or call Alan Wickstrom, SOCSA Foundation Capital Campaign Chair, on his cell at 949.842.0594.
THANK YOU all for your continued support of SOCSA!
Now, more than ever, we need 110% support and involvement from each and every SOCSA member... I look forward to seeing you at the next SOCSA Board Meeting on Monday, April 14th at 7:00pm in the Choir Room at Dana Hills High School and welcome your phone call or eMail me at capital-campaign@SOCSArts.org... My cell is 949.842.0594. :-)
Cordially,
Alan Wickstrom
SOCSA Foundation Capital Campaign Chair
eMail: capital-campaign@SOCSArts.org ~ Cell: 949.842.0594
SOCSA Academy and Foundation, South Orange County School of the Arts
PO Box 3174, Dana Point, CA 92629-8174
SOCSA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
Web: http://www.SOCSArts.org
![](http://dev.socsarts.org/images/action-800.gif")
