Sponsors
Your support
Planning a memorable Song Festival is a resource-intensive project, and there are countless avenues by which to contribute. Here are just some. Please join us and support this celebration of Lithuanian song. With your help, it will be a truly memorable experience.
Music & Musicians
- Choir director's seminar (at Camp Dainava)
- Youth choir seminar (at Camp Dainava)
- (e.g., facility rental; honorariums for guest instructors, accompanist, priest; materials; sustenance; piano tuning)
- Support for North American performers: adult, youth or child
- Support for choirs from Lithuania and abroad
- Rehearsal learning resources (i.e., voice part learning recordings, sheet music books)
- Quality control measures
Song Festival concert
- Lunch for performers during the Saturday all-day rehearsal
- Performers' concert attire
- Audio/Visual concert production
- Set design, props & costumes
- Folk orkestra from Lithuania
- Writing of orchestrations
- Instrument rental
- Post-production video editing
Song Festival weekend events
- Welcome evening event
- Song Festival Gala
- Concert at the Music Hall
- Children's & Family dinner/activities
- Choir director's appreciation
- VIP reception
- Catholic Mass
- Transportation
Why donate to the Song Festival?
Singing, pride, relaxation, freedom, joy, strength, Lithuanian soul, roots, history, friendship, community… UNITY!
Listen to what the choir directors have to say about what the Song Festival means to them.
Sponsorship levels
Donate now!
We accept all donations – both big and small.
The Lithuanian Song Festival and the Lithuanian American Community Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Federal Tax ID #36-3625439. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
Acknowledging your contribution
The XI North American Lithuanian Song Festival's organizing committee wishes to express our sincere thanks for your support. So that we can properly acknowledge your contribution we ask that you complete the sponsor information form.
Step 1
Make your donation via your preferred method (e.g., PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, Check, Wire transfer)
Step 2
Complete the sponsor information form, so that we know how to publicize your name and can prepare sponsorship-level benefits you would like to claim.
- Advertisements/Greetings for the Festival Program Book must be submitted no later than April 30, 2025.
- Information regarding tickets must be submitted no later than May 31, 2025.
- If you submit a form and later need to update or provide more precise information, you can do so by writing sponsors@dainusvente2025.com.
- If you do not wish to claim any sponsor-level benefits, please complete a form all the same.
Note:
If donating via PayPal or Stripe (Credit Card), you can complete the sponsor information form and make your donation in a single step.
Donation methods
via PayPal
via Venmo
via Zelle
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Last name: Song Festival 2025
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FOR (MEMO SECTION):
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MAIL TO:
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via Direct Deposit
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Advertisements & Greetings
Available sizes
Full page
8.5"x11"
$500
Half page
8.5"x5.5"
$375
Quarter page
4.25"x5.5"
$250
Eighth page
4.25"x2.75"
$150
Specifications
- print-ready PDF
- 300 DPI @ 100%
- full color for online, electronic version / will be converted to grayscale for printing in B&W
- 0.125 bleed on all sizes, no crop marks
- exact size subject to change upon layout and printing
Deadline
- Materials and payment must be submitted by April 30, 2025
A richly illustrated program is being prepared to acquaint attendees with all facets of the XI Song Festival. It will be available for purchase during the festival and will feature all participating choirs and their directors, lists of participants, volunteers, and sponsors, as well as the concert program. We invite organizations, businesses, individuals, and families to contribute to the publication by submitting advertisements or sending greetings to the festival participants and organizers! Don’t miss the opportunity to be part of this special publication!
Acknowledgements
A special thank you
To the Lithuanian Foundation
For having appropriated funds to the XI North American Lithuanian Song Festival, which allowed for reserving all concert and banquet halls as well as for hiring the high caliber audio/visual production team. As per your motto, you have ensured that this important cultural tradition passes from generation to generation.
A special thank you
Plėtra: Cleveland Lithuanian Development Fund
Having the XI North American Lithuanian Song Festival in Cleveland marks a historic milestone as the first time this event will be hosted in city history and over 40 years since Cleveland hosted the VII North American Lithuanian Folk Dance Festival in 1984. We are incredibly lucky and grateful to have a local organization like PLĖTRA that can be instrumental in realizing this magnificent, once-in-a-lifetime event.
A special thank you
Lithuanian Council for Culture
& Global Lithuania
For allocated funding and high assessment that this event is an important gathering of the Lithuanian diaspora community and contributes to the fostering of national identity; that the project provides for artistry of the highest caliber, active community involvement and inclusivity by involving of creators from Lithuania; and that the project has great potential to strengthen ties among the Lithuanian diaspora and promote awareness of Lithuanian culture in the world.
A special thank you
The Bascom Little Fund
The Bascom Little Fund is a charitable trust created for the promotion of music by modern Northeast Ohio composers. We are so grateful for their support of the festival theme song Viena šeima – Viena tauta (One Family – One Nation) as well as Ar žinai tu, klajūne, keleivi? (Do you know, o wandering traveler?) written by Cleveland native Rita Čyvas-Kliorys. Lyrics of both pieces are also written by Clevelanders, Nijolė Kersnauskas and Aušrinė Širvinskas, respectively. Thank you to Bascom Little for helping bring these works to life.
A special thank you
Lithuanian Catholic Religious Aid
To the New York-based non-profit, certified as one of the best charities in America: thank you for supporting the spiritual activities that are part of the Song Festival! We trust that Holy Mass over the festival weekend will be truly exceptional!