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Funded! This project successfully raised its funding goal on August 22, 2011.

Opera Kids is COMING

Update #9 · Aug 21, 2011 · 1 comment

Dear Opera Kids Friends, Family, and Supporters,

We awoke this morning to find we had surpassed our goal! We can't tell you how inspiring and wonderful this feels. All the incredibly generous support we've gotten -- from people we've never met, from teachers and students who believe in the arts, from movie buffs, from friends and friends of friends -- is a reminder to us how blessed we are to have a community of people like you. 

There will be much more to come for sure, but for now we just want to THANK YOU for the tremendous love and encouragement we've received. We cannot believe we're here, and it's all due to you.  

We look forward to bringing you a wonderful, warm, and challenging film. In the meantime, we want to keep the momentum going! We still have 34 hours until our Kickstarter campaign is over! Please keep spreading the word. Any more donations we receive will allow us to do even more with our completed film (such as bringing on board a high profile arts education advocate/actor to narrate the movie). We're not done yet!

Much love and gratitude to everyone. We are so honored and humbled to have achieved this goal with you.

Joe, Max, Henry, John, and the Opera Kids Team

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      Creator Donna Rae Davidson & Robinski Jones on August 21, 2011

      First of all, never say "I can't believe it" when something wonderful happens. It negates the experience. Believe it! You totally earned it and it would have been unbelievable if you hadn't made it because this is an awesome project. I have done musical theater with kids and know how rewarding it is. I decided to pledge because you only had 61 hours left when I looked at it, plus I wanted to create some good karma for my current kickstarter project "OK.luv" and I 100% believe that we will also be fully funded. The absolute best for you. This film is going to have a wonderful effect regarding arts in the schools, opening people's awareness of how important and enriching it is for kids to learn how to create and collaborate together and make something beautiful. Congratulations! Donna Rae Davidson

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