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The Carolina Arts Network, a non-profit arts organization in Robeson County, North Carolina, is launching an effort to revitalize our outdoor drama, Strike at the Wind! We plan to take the production to a new level of cultural and economic impact on our region. To adequately explore this potential, we are embarking on a three-year development campaign.

Our first year goals are to upgrade the equipment and facilities at the Adolph L. Dial Amphitheater, provide for one full-time year-round staff member to manage and promote Strike at the Wind!, and market the drama to residents and visitors within a 100-mile radius of Robeson County. We hope to raise $150,000 in the next year as part of this three-year campaign. This sum allows us to hire one staff member, upgrade our facilities, and conduct a 9-month advance marketing campaign.

The campaign’s total goal is $320,000 for the next three years; these monies will enable us to finish the amphitheater renovations, expand our marketing campaign, and provide our staff, cast, and crew with professional development opportunities, costume and prop upgrades, and other resources that are critical to the drama’s reputation among visitors.

Why Give?

Strike at the Wind! has had astonishing successes over the years—over a thousand people employed since its opening, tens of thousands seeing the show, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue for our community. It is a timeless piece of musical theater that preserves the culture and history of the Lumbee Indians, while providing a priceless educational experience for our neighbors and visitors. It tells a side of Civil War history and of American Indian history that should never be forgotten, a part of history that still resonates today.

Strike at the Wind! is a unique production, a national treasure that we cannot afford to lose. But Strike at the Wind! also provides jobs and educational opportunities for our state, jobs that we need and experiences that children and adults alike cherish for their lifetimes. Strike at the Wind! is an essential community resource—it provides income and revenue to businesses all over our area, not to mention raises the hopes, expectations, and quality of life for our citizens. In the lean economic times our state has faced recently, people often look at the arts and culture and cut funding for those projects first, assuming that these essential community services will somehow pay for themselves. But as funding for the arts has declined in North Carolina, the number of visitors who come to our state for its artistic qualities has risen dramatically. Why not support projects like Strike at the Wind!, that have such potential to raise the standard of living in our community?

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Did You Know?

• Strike at the Wind! can have an annual impact of $12.6 million dollars or more on our local and state economy?
• Strike at the Wind! provides seasonal employment for over seventy people, and can provide year-round employment for at least five people?
• Our potential for economic impact places Strike at the Wind! among the nation’s elite outdoor historical dramas, in a class with The Lost Colony and Unto These Hills.

In the words of one of our community supporters, Tony Normand of the Carolina Commerce and Technology Center, expansion of our activities “would be the equivalent of recruiting a new business or manufacturing enterprise” to our community.
 

To make a tax-deductible donation, please write your check to:

Carolina Arts Network, Inc.

PO Box 1350

Pembroke, NC 28372

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