Help us raise money by raising your toes in the air!
Handstand experts as well as first-timers, young and old, are invited to come to Prospect Heights, Brooklyn to log seconds and minutes with their hands on the ground and their feet in the air! Haven’t done a handstand before? No problem! Handstanders can use the wall, a spotter, or several spotters. The total time spent upside down will be tallied and added to a collective handstand pool. The goal for the total time of people with their feet raised is 1 second for every dollar raised, with a goal of $20,000.
Handstanders are encouraged to create their personalized fund-raising pages at www.firstgiving.com/lava. Each person who registers for will receive an "I <3 Handstanding" wristband. As fundraisers meet different incentive tiers they will receive different gifts while helping to keep LAVA accessible to all.
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Handstand-a-Thon raises funds to support LAVA’s free activities: Community Class (a weekly class for kids ages 5 to 12), Night of Renegades (a seasonal open mic performance night in the LAVA Studio with music, dance, acrobatics, etc), Magma Mix (a seasonal performance event for kids, hosted by MAGMA, LAVA’s junior company), and the P.S. 9 Pick-Up Program (a weekly partnership with P.S. 9 in which 6 kids from P.S. 9 get picked up at school and brought to the LAVA studio for a class). It also goes to support tuition subsidies and scholarships for our kids and adult classes which comprises nearly 25% of our student body.
We raise money so that some of our work can exist outside of the pressures of the market economy and provide wider access to the LAVA Studio for the people of Brooklyn and NYC.
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LAVA is a performance troupe based in Brooklyn dedicated to creating original, empowering, boundary-breaking performances based in dance and acrobatics. At the LAVA Studio, ensemble and community members train and teach LAVA’s rigorous, creative and inclusive movement language to kids and adults, and host several community programs. For more info including photos and video footage of the company as well as last year’s Handstand-a-Thon, go to http://lavabrooklyn.org.
