Hopefully we don’t drive Steven nuts with our questions, comments and ideas..

Thanks to the wonderful people at D Films, we have a limited number of free passes available for our friends and supporters to the exclusive advance screening of Coriolanus in Toronto on January 18th! Get your tickets at the link below using the pincode ‘corio-driftwood‘.

Coriolanus Passes Link

Coriolanus

Toronto premiere – Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 – 7PM – Varsity Cinema

CORIOLANUS, a modern day adaptation of the classic Shakespeare tragedy, opens in theatres on January 20th! Starring Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave and Jessica Chastain.
Trailer: http://www.dfilmscorp.ca/movies/coriolanus.asp

Thank you for all your support in 2011 – we look forward to more grand adventures in 2012.

Competition in the semi finals was very high, but Driftwood finished the round with over 1,500 supporters and well over 5,000 votes! Whether we manage to move up enough to capture a finalist’ position in the Aviva Competition or not, the journey has been exciting and inspirational!

The Bard’s Bus

Driftwood has relied since 2006 on an old 1987 Ford E350 bus to get the company around the province every summer. ‘Charlie’, as we affectionately call her, has been showing signs of her age lately and we need to start planning for her replacement. Driftwood Theatre entered the Aviva Community Fund competition in hopes of acquiring the funding we need (about $100,000) to replace our beloved Bard’s Bus.

The results of the Aviva competition’s semi-final round will be announced on December 19 – so stay tuned!

After a slow weekend of voting all around, its time to kick Driftwood’s efforts to replace our ageing Bard’s Bus into high gear! As of this morning, Driftwood was sitting in 22nd place in our category (medium, $50-$100k). In order to have a chance at winning the Aviva funding,WE NEED TO BE IN THE TOP 10!!

Thanks so much for your votes so far – KEEP VOTING! And don’t forget to remind everyone you know who has voted to vote again today and every day until December 16!

If all 1321 supporters voted right now, we WOULD MOVE INTO 13th PLACE!!!

We need all of our supporters to vote every day for the next four and a half days if we’re going to become one of the top 10 contestants in our category (medium, $50-$100k).

We’ve come so far, and with your help, we’ll go all the way! Help give the Bard’s Bus a boost! Registering takes only a minute or two, and voting takes seconds a day.

Here’s the link for voting: 

If you need help registering with Aviva, or figuring out how to vote, feel free to contact Jeremy Smith at 416-466-3843 or jsmith@driftwoodtheatre.com.

In the past 24 hours, the Bard’s Bus received just under 400 votes! That’s 200 votes less than the day before! We really need all of our supporters to keep voting every day until December 16 if we’re going to win a chance at replacing our 25-year old Bard’s Bus. The top 10 contestants (Driftwood is currently sitting in 23rd place) also logged fewer votes yesterday; from 520 – 787. WE CAN CATCH UP!!

If all 1162 supporters voted right now, we WOULD MOVE INTO NINTH PLACE!!!

We need all of our supporters to vote every day for the next 11 days if we’re going to become one of the top 10 contestants in our category (medium, $50-$100k).

We’ve come so far, and with your help, we’ll go all the way! Help give the Bard’s Bus a boost! Registering takes only a minute or two, and voting takes seconds a day.

Here’s the link for voting: 

If you need help registering with Aviva, or figuring out how to vote, feel free to contact Jeremy Smith at 416-466-3843 or jsmith@driftwoodtheatre.com.

In the past 24 hours, the Bard’s Bus received just over 600 votes! We’re getting closer, but we need all of our supporters to keep voting every day until December 16 if we’re going to win a chance at replacing our 25-year old Bard’s Bus. The top 10 contestants (Driftwood has been sitting at 22-24th place) are logging 870 – 1,100 votes per day!!

Today’s Challenge: Vote. Remind everyone you know to vote. And if you know an INSURANCE BROKER, ask them to vote on behalf of their brokerage!

If all 1092 supporters voted today, we would have a total of 3,495 votes! HAVING THAT TOTAL RIGHT NOW WOULD PUT US INTO SIXTH PLACE!!!

We need all of our supporters to vote every day for the next 11 days if we’re going to become one of the top 10 contestants in our category (medium, $50-$100k).

We’ve come so far, and with your help, we’ll go all the way! Help give the Bard’s Bus a boost! Registering takes only a minute or two, and voting takes seconds a day.

Here’s the link for voting: 

If you need help registering with Aviva, or figuring out how to vote, feel free to contact Jeremy Smith at 416-466-3843 or jsmith@driftwoodtheatre.com.

Driftwood now has 955 supporters in the Aviva competition, but only half of them voted yesterday. If you’ve voted before, please keep voting in support of a new Bard’s Bus!

Yesterday, the Bard’s Bus received 550 votes (way to go!). But the TOP 10 COMPETITORS in the Aviva competition RECEIVED 740 to 1200 votes! Don’t forget to vote every day until December 16 to help Driftwood win a chance at replacing its 25-year old bus.

But we have more work to do (who said getting $100,000 would be easy).

Today’s Challenge: Vote. And then remind everyone you know who has voted previously to vote again today and every day until December 16!

Driftwood now has nearly 1,000 supporters in the Aviva Competition. If all of our supporters voted today, that would certainly get us back in the running! The difficulty being that we don’t know who those voters are (voter information is not shared, just the number) or how they heard about our efforts to replace our ageing Bard’s Bus!

If all 955 supporters voted today, we would have a total of 1,865 votes! HAVING THAT TOTAL RIGHT NOW WOULD PUT US INTO FOURTH PLACE!!!

We need all of our supporters to vote every day for the next 11 days if we’re going to become one of the top 10 contestants in our category (medium, $50-$100k).

We’ve come so far, and with your help, we’ll go all the way! Help give the Bard’s Bus a boost! Registering takes only a minute or two, and voting takes seconds a day.

Here’s the link for voting: 

If you need help registering with Aviva, or figuring out how to vote, feel free to contact Jeremy Smith at 416-466-3843 or jsmith@driftwoodtheatre.com.

Thank you all for your support so far! You have helped Driftwood to accomplish something really incredible. We’ve made it to the semi-finals of the Aviva Community Fund Competition!

But even the folks at Aviva tell us that what comes next is the hard part!

The semi-final round takes place from December 5 – 16 and we’ll be competing against 30 other great ideas in our category for a top 10 spot and a chance of giving our Bard’s Bus Tour the boost it needs to stay on the road! We have twelve days to get there, starting right now!

12 Days of Driftwood, DAY 1 GOAL: Reach 500 votes by the end of the day!

Every day from December 5 to 16, we’ll post a new goal and we hope that you can help to spread the word by getting on Facebook, Twitter, email, the phone and encouraging everyone you know to vote in support of this great idea!

And remember, we don’t know who all of our existing voters are, so don’t forget to remind everyone you know who has already voted to get their votes in every day from December 5-16!

If you haven’t already registered, please do so right now by visiting this link:

If you need help registering with Aviva, or figuring out how to vote, feel free to contact Jeremy Smith at 416-466-3843 or jsmith@driftwoodtheatre.com.

You brought us this far, friends and supporters of Driftwood, and for that we owe you all a great big hug!

But now the real work begins. The semi-final round takes place from December 5 – 16 and we’ll be competing against 30 other great ideas for a top 10 spot and a chance of giving our Bard’s Bus Tour the boost it needs to stay on the road!

We have three days to get ready. Share the link below with everyone you know and encourage them to register right now and then VOTE EVERY DAY FROM DECEMBER 5 – 16 in support of Driftwood!

And because we don’t know who all of our existing voters are, don’t forget to remind everyone you know who has already voted to get their votes in every day from December 5-12!

Of course, it goes without saying that we’ll need you to vote every day also!

Thank you so much for all of your support so far! It is incredible to know that we have such a strong network of support for the Bard’s Bus.

If you haven’t already registered, please do so right now by clicking the link below!

If you need help registering with Aviva, or figuring out how to vote, feel free to contact Jeremy Smith at 416-466-3843 or jsmith@driftwoodtheatre.com.