FUNDRAISING FOR CALARTS GOES PUBLIC SCHOOL HOPES FOR $43 MILLION.Byline: ALEX DOBUZINSKIS Staff Writer VALENCIA -- The who's who Who’s Who biographical dictionary of notable living people. [Am. Hist.: Hart, 922] See : Fame of Hollywood and other major donors already have contributed the bulk of California Institute of the Arts' $125 million fundraising campaign. And now that CalArts has raised 84 percent toward that goal, the Valencia school is looking to the general public for support. The fundraiser has been going on for five years and has raised $105 million. But the school only began the public part of the campaign on Saturday. ``This is a phase where, in a way, you head into unknown territory because it's not your closest friends (donating), it's the whole world,'' CalArts President Steven Lavine said Monday. Some $58 million of the $105 million raised so far was spent in recent years on annual operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales at the school, which receives only half its budget from tuition fees. About $24 million has been spent on new building projects, including the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater at the Walt Disney Concert Hall This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. at the Los Angeles Music Center The Music Center (officially named the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County) is one of the three largest performing arts centers in the nation. Located in downtown Los Angeles, the Music Center is home to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ahmanson Theater, Mark Taper . By the end of the campaign, the school hopes to have raised $43 million to create a special fund. The earnings from that fund will be used to provide scholarships to students and special endowment chairs and provide youth programs. The school hopes to reach its $125 million goal by the end of 2008.So far, the school has had Hollywood star The Hollywood Star was an idiosyncratic gossip tabloid published on an erratic schedule in Hollywood, California by William Kern, who wrote much of the magazine under the pseudonym "Bill Dakota. power on its side. Actor Andy Garcia's daughter attends CalArts, and on Saturday he welcomed more than 200 guests to the fundraising celebration at the REDCAT REDCAT The Roy and Edna Disney/Calarts Theater theater. The event also paid tribute to CalArts graduate Don Cheadle, who has been nominated for an Academy Award, and to fellow alumni John A. Lasseter, the Academy Award-winning director behind such Pixar Animation Studios films as ``Toy Story'' and ``Cars.'' alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com (661) 257-5253 |
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