Join Us!
Three easy ways to donate to and join the EEFC:
1) Mail-in membership/donation form.
Print the 2011 donation form and mail it in with your donation check or credit card information.
2) Call EEFC at 510/547-1118 to join with a credit card.
3) Sign up securely online.
The easiest way to join or make a donation is to click here for online donations. We accept Visa, MasterCard and Discover credit and debit cards.
Year 2011 membership levels are:
- $65 Individual
- $95 Family
- $30 Individual Student/Individual Low Income
- $65 Band/Chorus/Dance Group
- $120 Business Member
- $1,500 Individual Lifetime
- $1,750 Family Lifetime
All contributions are fully tax-deductible. Additional donations are gratefully accepted. Please see the form for more ways to give.
Thank you for Keeping the Music Flowing!
How does the EEFC enrich people’s lives?
How many of these apply to you?
Have you . . .
- danced to a tune someone learned at an EEFC workshop?
- learned some of the music you play at an EEFC workshop or from someone who attended one?
- enjoyed the company of friends you met through EEFC events?
- learned a dance at an EEFC workshop or from someone who attended one?
- received advice or help in purchasing an instrument from an EEFC member?
- enjoyed a concert where EEFC members helped teach or coach the performers?
- requested or used song words, translations, or linguistic information from the EEFC listserv?
- received information about travel from EEFC members?
- enjoyed recordings made by EEFC teachers or purchased at EEFC events?
- met people you now play music with at an EEFC event?
- enjoyed wearing clothing, jewelry, T-shirts or aprons originating at EEFC events?
- shared the joy of music and dance with children as a result of an EEFC event?
- experienced a moment of magic in your life involving Balkan music or dance which might never have occurred were it not for the EEFC?
The East European Folklife Center not only brings beauty, music, dance and culture to the lives of the people who attend its workshops, but its influence reaches out in countless ways to enrich the lives of others in the wider community. If your life has been enhanced in some way by the activities of the EEFC, please give generously to ensure the health and continuity of this unique and wonderful organization.
Donating to the EEFC places you among those ensuring that the we can bring people together--people of any background, gender, or age--to share their knowledge and love of Balkan traditions.
For over thirty years, the Balkan Music & Dance Workshops of the East European Folklife Center have brought the finest available teachers and performers together with thousands eager to share the joys of Balkan traditions. With dance instruction, culture corners, instrumental, vocal, and ensemble classes, days of lessons and nights of parties, these weeklong workshops have been an unforgettable annual celebration for a growing and increasingly diverse community on both U.S. coasts.
The Balkan camps form a kind of charmed circle. Here adults find permission to be beginners, beginners can grow into accomplished performers, friendships deepen, and American and Balkan-born musicians meet without borders, even in times of strife. In recent years, in particular, many master singers and instrumentalists from the Balkans have joined our staffs, and found a loving audience, devoted students, and new colleagues. And events like the kids' kafana at the East Coast workshop, or the junior brass band at Mendocino, show what happens when children live amid the raucous joy of Balkan camp.
Culture, Community, and Kef (Elevated Good Feeling)--these words sum up what the East European Folklife Center is about. Given all that we are going through as a nation and as a planet, all that we are learning about the need for community and cross-cultural understanding, surely the EEFC speaks to the very heart of our time. Please show us your support through your EEFC membership.