The Symbulon Charitable Trust is on a mission to create a permanent home for McGregor’s youth interested in dance, music and theatre.
The trust is working closely with the founder of First Step Ballet, Mary Corpe Silver, in making this dream of a multifunctional performing arts studio a realty. First Step Ballet, founded in 2012, currently uses a church hall in the town to practise.
Symbulon has secured a property and plans to have the multi-purpose centre built there to meet the needs of the ballet school as well as create a space where other performing arts can be practiced and performed.
“The plan is to have a space with a proper ballet floor and mirrors and also invite others to use the space to perform,” explains Anne Binos, a trustee of the Symbulon Charitable Trust.
To this end it has received funding from its friends in the Netherlands to obtain a property and has had it rezoned as well.
However, it needs more funds to complete the projects and convert the property to a space for the ballerinas and other youth.
“This whole project aims to uplift the community as a whole,” Binos said. “So many members of the community is so invested in the project, including all the parents of the little ballerinas.”
She said the trust’s dream is to have the project completed within the next two years. “We, however, need to get the funding to complete the project. We need more money to prepare the ground so that the project can move along.”
Anyone who would like to contribute to this endeavour can visit symbulon.co.za for more information.
