‘Tis the season for giving and to celebrate the start of our 2024/2025 “Under Pressure” theatre season! We are delighted to be able to continue to produce live, in-person theatre, and engage the community with theatre for the heart, soul, and mind. One of the main reasons we are able to continue sharing stories on stage is thanks to the incredible generosity shown to us by our donors, volunteers, artists, sponsors, and our amazingly supportive patrons. Thank you so much for your ongoing affirmation of the work we do to bring light, hope and inspiration to our community through live theatre!

This December, to bring a successful close to the year and to ensure a bright and prosperous future, please help us ‘Decorate the Christmas Tree’ by making either a one-time gift, or setting up a monthly donation to keep our stage decorated year round! No matter how big or small, every gift matters a great deal to us and will be put to very good use.

Our Christmas goal is to raise $10,000 by December 31st, our first big step towards our ultimate goal of $36,000 by June, 2025. Any donation over $10 will receive a tax receipt and for every $1,000 received as part of our Christmas campaign, we’ll add decorations to our Christmas tree! Check our social media to see the progress we’re making! When we reach $10k, you’ll see the tree adorned with lights and decorations…we just need your help to put the star on top.

Ken Hildebrandt and Sara Mayfield
Managing Artistic Director Business and Operations Manager

What an incredible year of theatre! Gallery 7 Theatre finished off the 2023-2024 “Heart of Community” season, which proved to be an artistic and financial success, and is celebrating a return to programming for our 2024-2025 “Under Pressure” season!

Some quick highlights:

• Last season there were over 12,000 individual and subscription tickets sold
• Volunteers contributed well over 10,000 hours to stage the season
• Gallery 7 Theatre presented an all-new G7 Comedy Fest featuring all-ages stand-up comedy and improv, and brought it back this past October
• G7 hired a full-time Business & Operations Manager, a part-time Box Office Agent, and a part-time Digital Marketing Associate.
• G7 expanded their physical footprint by leasing additional space at the current administration and rehearsal hall
• Gallery 7 Theatre presented five entertaining and thought-provoking mainstage productions in the 2023/24 season that explored living and participating in community

How amazing! For our tremendous success, we thank our amazing staff, artists, technicians, volunteers, members, sponsors, donors, audiences, Board of Directors and the Good Lord above. We can’t express enough how much I appreciate every person who engaged with and participated in the past season. You are to be celebrated!

Your donation is an investment in our future

Gallery 7 Theatre operates on a shoe-string budget. Ticket sales account for about 70% of our revenues.

To meet our financial obligations, to continue offering a diverse program of commercially appealing and artistically compelling theatre, to ensure future growth and sustainability, and to tackle long-term needs such as the ones listed above, we need to fundraise through grants, sponsorships, and donations provided by generous donors such as yourself.

As we close out the fiscal year, I invite you to think of your donation as an investment in Gallery 7 Theatre's future—an investment you can make today with a donation of any amount. Every dollar received is used in our long-term mandate to create thought-provoking and entertaining theatre that encourages the spiritual, emotional, social, and intellectual health of our community.

Our target

Through the 2024-2025 season, Gallery 7 Theatre aims to raise $36,000 in donations towards our operating costs. Reaching our goal is also done through multiple Fundraising Campaigns and initiatives through the year. The first push of the season is through our Christmas fundraising campaign done this December. This year we aim to raise $10,000 and decorate the Christmas tree!

To celebrate the success of this past season, and support us through the future, please consider donating in one of the following ways:

Ways to donate

Set-Up a Monthly Giving Plan:

Regular monthly donations allow you to spread your investment over the course of a year. This helps you manage your cash flow and ensures a reliable and steady cash flow for us.

Make a Single Donation:

Single donations help us cover up front administrative and marketing costs early in the season before ticket revenues have a chance to catch up. You can add this donation to your subscription order, or you can submit it independently.

Ready to invest?

In addition to the online form above, there are several ways to donate to our cause:

By Phone: Call us at 604-504-5940

By Mail: Send your cheque to Gallery 7 Theatre P.O. Box 825 Abbotsford, BC V2T 7A2

Your support is a tremendous affirmation of the mission and vision of Gallery 7 Theatre, and it ensures we can continue offering this venue of excellent theatre that brings the community together, provides a life-affirming space for participants and engages the community with inspiring story-telling the stirs the heart, challenges the mind and elevates the soul.

Goal: $10,000

Raised so far: 50+50+10+10+100+50+100+500+350+100+1437+10+10+250+30+50+25+10+400+20+50+100+25+100+50+1000+100+15+10+100+750+100+50+100 = $6112

Contribute to help us meet our goal! Still to go: $3888