Membership and Benefits for
the 2010-2011 Season:

Members: ($60+) Advance notice of all events prior to public ticket sales

Supporters: ($100+) The above, plus 15% discount on purchases at all eleven Books Inc. locations

Sponsors: ($300+) All of the above, plus an invitation for two to a special reception honoring one of our guests

Patrons: ($500+) All of the above, plus reception at Absinthe Brasserie & Bar with one of our guests, and acknowledgement in printed programs

Benefactors: ($1,000+) All of the above, plus backstage soundcheck and Hayes Street Grill pre-performance dinner for two with a guest of your choice

Fellows: ($3,000+) All of the above, plus an invitation to the Annual Emma Jones’s Fried Chicken Dinner in City Arts & Lectures’ production office

Printable Membership Form

Please send your name, address,
and phone number and make your
check payable to:

Friends of City Arts & Lectures, Inc
1955 Sutter Street
San Francisco, California 94115

We also accept Visa and Master Card

Tickets:
City Box Office www.cityboxoffice.com
415.392.4400

Books:
Books Inc. www.booksinc.net

Dear Friends and Patrons of City Arts & Lectures

We are now booking our thirtieth consecutive season of live programs in San Francisco and public radio broadcasts around the country. This is our once-a-year request to you – our audience – for support beyond the cost of tickets.

Since 1980, City Arts & Lectures has offered programs covering a great range of cultural perspectives. We host compelling figures whose work in literature, criticism, science, and the arts have inspired and challenged us. We present events in an elegant theater and manage to keep ticket prices low. We can afford to do this because of contributions.

City Arts & Lectures is gratified to have earned 74% of our budget last season. Contributions from individuals and foundations, along with support from San Francisco’s Hotel Tax Fund, make our work possible. Contributions cover the entire cost of year-round radio broadcasts hosted by Linda Hunt on KQED-FM and more than 160 public radio stations nationwide (visit our www.cityarts.net/radio for affiliates). Contributed income has made it possible for us to digitize 29 years of programming to be archived and available at the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley. Contributions also enable us to support and highlight the work of other nonprofit, community-based projects. With your help, we raise funds for the 826 Valencia College Scholarships and host student guests and teachers at all events. Most of all, contributions help City Arts & Lectures maintain excellence in presenting more than fifty events each season, drawn from all corners of our cultural landscape. Contributed income is critical to so many aspects of adventuresome programming and accessibility to so many.

Membership as a Friend of City Arts & Lectures offers several benefits:

Advance notice: Members were able to obtain the best seats to this season’s most popular programs, including NIck Hornby, Patti Smith, Craig Ferguson, David Byrne, Wendell Berry, desmond Tutu and Margaret Atwood among others. 15% Discount at all twelve Books Inc. locations Reception at Absinthe Brasserie & Bar with a featured guest Backstage sound check and Hayes Street Grill pre-performance dinner for two with a guest of your choice Invitation to the Annual Emma Jones’s Fried Chicken Dinner

We are preparing now for the 2010-2011 season. We hope you will consider supporting these programs with a tax-deductible donation. Your gift goes a long way to ensure the vitality and excellence of our programming.

Sincere thanks for your consideration and continuing support of City Arts & Lectures,

Sydney Goldstein
Executive Director