Business Sponsorship / Corporate Membership

For information about becoming a Corporate Member, call (802) 476-0293.

The Barre Opera House is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. All contributions are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.

 

Becoming a Corporate Member of the Barre Opera House offers tremendous marketing benefits:

• Heightening your image as a civic-minded corporate citizen by linking it to Central Vermont's Premier Performing Arts Venue, a pillar of the local arts community.
• Putting your name and commitment to our community in front of the 25,000 engaged music fans who pass through our doors annually, from Central Vermont, Chittenden County, the Upper Valley, and beyond.
• Broadcasting your support of the arts to an audience of 20,000 newspaper readers, radio listeners, and recipients of direct mail, email, and social media.
• Improving the local economy by bringing those thousands of fans and their dollars to downtown Barre.

Your Sponsorship:

• Helps cover the cost of bringing top-notch professional performances and events to our stage.
• Enhances our educational programs, such as our school matinee series and vacation-week and summer camps, that provide creative cultural enrichment and performance opportunities to area children.
• Keeps our doors open for the local performing groups of all ages (orchestras, bands, dance companies, etc.) who develop and display their talent on our stage.
• Sustains the vital operations of the Opera House so that it can serve the community.
• Helps maintain a piece of the living history of Barre.

All Corporate Members receive:

• Acknowledgement on the Barre Opera House website
• Listing in the season program book, seen by over 8,000 patrons annually 

 

Concert Sponsors

Celebration Series Concert: $2,000-6,000

For over 30 years the Celebration Series has been Central Vermont’s premier performing arts series, bringing world-class artists in music, theater, dance, and other performing arts from all around the globe to our region. These are the highest-caliber artists that we present: original performers across many genres, all with international reputations.

BOH Presents Concert Sponsor: $1,500-3,000

Performers on the Barre Opera House Presents Series represent genres from rock to international folk to Americana to classical music, as well as other performing arts. They include popular regional artists, bands covering popular music of previous decades (some of our best attended events), and new and upcoming performers. New shows are added to this series as the season progresses.

Benefits:

• Credit on all publicity materials for the sponsored performance. Where possible, these items include your corporate logo. The Barre Opera House budgets at least $2,000 in advertising for every performance. Our publicity reaches over 20,000 patrons annually, and includes brochures, calendar listings, direct mail pieces, email, posters, press releases, print ads, program books, radio ads, social media posts, and stage announcements.
• Sponsorship credit with your corporate logo on the Barre Opera House web page for the sponsored performance.
• Sponsorship credit for the sponsored performance in the season brochure. We distribute 2,500 brochures by mail, at flyer pickup spots, and during the course of the season at the Barre Opera House.
• Sponsorship credit on the program page for the sponsored performance in the season program book and also a “Sponsor Profile” ad. We distribute a program book to every patron of the Celebration Series and the Barre Opera House Presents Series: more than 8,000 people annually.
• Sponsorship credit with your corporate logo on the program book insert for the sponsored performance.
• Option to provide a business insert stuffer for the Program Book at the sponsored performance. 
• Complimentary tickets to the sponsored performance. Give your employees a fabulous night out … or offer the tickets to your clients and customers as thanks for their loyalty. Additional tickets may be purchased at 20% discount.
• Option to provide a lobby display, with hanging banner and table, at the sponsored performance. Connect directly with the patrons who came to hear the concert you sponsored. You can put out literature, collect information, or even staff the table and answer questions before the show and at intermission.

 

Banner Sponsors

Large Banner: $2,000 or more

• A 32"x 69" banner, featuring your logo in color.
• Banner hangs in our Main Entrance, seen by all visitors to the Barre Opera House and by all visitors to City Hall entering from Merchants Row.
• Links between the Barre Opera House website and your website.

Medium Banner: $750-1,999

• A 24”x 36" banner, featuring your logo.
• Banner hangs in our Grand Stairway. 

Small Banner: $350-749

• A 16”x 36" banner, featuring your logo.
• Banner hangs in our Grand Stairway.

 

Program Book Advertisers

• Our program book is distributed at every presented event, seen by over 8,000 patrons each season.
• Ads range from $250 to $675 depending upon size and location.

 

For more information about becoming a Corporate Member, call (802) 476-0293.