Fundraiser for food pantry will result in a pie in the face

NEW BEDFORD — Attitude Academy of the Doing Arts dancers will be serving up a pie in the facial area to a single of their instructors, but it is all in the spirit of encouraging out a area meals pantry.

Dance studio owner Toni Contois said she has normally instilled in her dance college students the “love of dance, pleasure and local community assistance.” Apart from doing work on their procedure and learning new choreography, the studio chooses a concentrate subject matter each thirty day period. For November, students are participating in a thirty day period-long fundraiser for the Murphy and Other people Living Independently for Future Endeavors (M.O. L.I.F.E.) Food Pantry downtown. 

For the “Enable Them Take in Pie” fundraiser, the studio is collecting spare improve and canned merchandise as a result of Nov. 30 to gain the food items pantry. In addition, pupils, families and close friends will vote with their donations for the dance instructor they would like to see get a pie in the face on Dec. 2. 

“It’s a pleasurable activity for the learners,” Contois reported. “It will get them included.” 

In earlier years, Contois has held fundraiser gatherings for a scholarship for senior college students, but she preferred to contribute to a more substantial induce and think larger. 

“I want my dancers to be very well-rounded persons,” Contois mentioned. “We never just educate for acro and dance system, we aim on the great importance of starting to be a specialist particular person in everyday living.” 

Though students are urged to bring in “couch alter,” Contois would really like to see local community involvement by means of financial donations and canned products dropped off in human being, as she would adore to thank contributors experience-to-face. 

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“I want men and women to bodily be a element of the lead to, not just a click of a button,” Contois claimed.