2008 SPONSOR PROFILES

ASPEN SEASON PRESENTING SPONSOR

Alpine Bank Aspen has proudly partnered with Aspen Santa Fe Ballet as the 2007-2008 season presenting sponsor. We are a “local bank” committed to the communities we serve and support. Being locally owned and operated enables us to be within your reach. This close proximity to customers enables us to meet the needs of the community. Our size and streamlined organizational structure enable us to react quickly to the needs of our customers.
We all live and work here. We understand the role we should play in our communities. Alpine Bank’s financial commitment to the community is substantial, and our employees give generously of their time and talent. We look forward to the opportunity to serve you.

SANTA FE SEASON PRESENTING SPONSOR

BODY is a center for well-being, health, and community, offering a day spa, studio, organic café, boutique, childcare, and special events. Relax with massage, facials, body treatments, and special packages. Get moving with 56 classes a week, including Yoga, Nia and dance conditioning. Come together for concerts, workshops and cutting edge lectures. Body kids offers childcare and children’s art and movement classes. Enjoy seasonal organic foods grown by local farmers in the café. Find sustainable, organic and fair-trade products in the Boutique; from homeware to handcrafted gifts, jewelry, Yoga products, Bodyworker supplies, and clothing for the whole family.

333 Cordova Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505

505.986.0362

info@bodyofsantafe.com or www.bodyofsantafe.com.

OFFICIAL AIRLINE OF ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET

United is pleased to continue its tradition of supporting Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. As a global airline, we take great pride in presenting the ballet to new audiences in the United States and around the world. As we have for half a century, United is dedicated to enriching the lives of our customers and employees in the communities we serve.

OFFICIAL HEALTH CLUB AND SPA OF ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET

An Escape for Everyone: The Aspen Club & Spa. Whether you’re looking for an alternative to skiing or just want to get away from it all, The Aspen Club & Spa is the perfect place to relax and revitalize the body, mind and spirit. SpaAspen, Aspen’s only full-service wellness facility and spa, is open to the public with 34 treatment rooms, two relaxation lounges, and an endless menu of traditional and innovative therapies. Indulge in relaxing and therapeutic massages, body treatments, and skin and hair services. Your SpaAspen services include access to The Aspen Club & Spa’s state-of-the-art health and fitness center, luxurious locker rooms with steam, sauna and indoor/outdoor whirlpools, the Club Cafe, the Kid’s Gym, and more. The Aspen Club & Spa is located at the end of Ute Avenue. For more information call 970.925.8900 or visit www.aspenclub.com.

The West’s oldest newspaper, founded 1849, is Santa Fe’s only independent, family-owned and locally owned newspaper. Publishes daily. In 2007, Pasatiempo, its Friday weekly arts and entertainment magazine, won for the third time the Missouri School of Journalism’s award for excellence in lifestyle magazines among all USA newspapers. Also publishes event guides to Indian Market, International Folk Art Market, Spanish Market, as well as Summer, Winter and Holiday Visitor Guides. www.SantaFeNewMexican.com, or to subscribe: 1.800.873.3372

The Silvertree Hotel: Snowmass Village’s only full-service ski-in/ski-out hotel! Centrally located, next to the Snowmass Conference Center and Village Mall, with easy access to shopping, dining, activities, and events. All guestroom amenities, luxurious suites, restaurant, room service, ski valet, concierge, health club and spa with steam room and massage therapy, heated outdoor pools and whirlpools, sauna, ski shop, complimentary Aspen airport shuttle, and plenty of conference space.

Pet friendly, too!

Diamond Resorts International®, with global headquarters in Las Vegas, NV, is one of the largest vacation ownership companies in the world with more than 110 branded and affiliated resorts and nearly 23,000 guest beds in 14 countries with destinations throughout the continental United States and Hawaii, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Europe. Offering simplicity, choice and comfort to more than 370,000 owners and members through the branded service of more than 5,500 team members worldwide, Diamond Resorts International® is dedicated to providing its guests with effortless and relaxing vacation experiences every time, for a lifetime.

In 1983, at the request of Lita Warner Heller, President of the Board of Ballet/Aspen, board member Christine Aubale Gerschel organized, founded and became President for three years of a group of dynamic and energetic women to be a fund raising auxiliary for Ballet/Aspen called Les Dames de Ballet.

During the fall of 1985, Christine Aubale Gerschel and Joan Bracken Bain were responsible for restructuring the group into an autonomous organization with its own 501 (c)(3) renamed Les Dames d’Aspen, Ltd.

In February 2002, Christine Aubale Gerschel once again became President of Les Dames d’Aspen and restructured and revived the group into a new identity.

Les Dames d’Aspen celebrates its 25th Anniversary in 2008. Over the years, this prestigious organization has contributed $2.4 million to local arts organizations and scholarships.

Aspen Community Foundation has been working since 1980 to improve the quality of life in the greater Roaring Fork Valley, directing funds created by individuals, families, nonprofits, businesses, and the Foundation itself for charitable purposes, each year awarding millions of dollars in grants to nonprofits. The Community Foundation also holds nonprofit endowment funds and the Aspen Community Foundation Endowment Fund, with its operations covered by fund fees and the Endowment. All contributions, other than those into the Endowment, support grantmaking.

This year, the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado is honored to celebrate 11 years of partnering with non-profit organizations that enhance quality of life and promote equality for all people throughout the state.

Since its inception, the fund has invested more than $20 million in hundreds of nonprofit organizations that work to enhance Colorado quality of life by strengthening the health of Colorado families, enriching and preserving the arts and our diverse cultural heritage, and building strong civic leadership programs that improve the lives of all Coloradans.

In addition to providing financial assistance in the areas of healthy families, arts and culture, civic leadership and public broadcasting, the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado offers workshops and public meeting space to strengthen nonprofits’ ability to grow, flourish, and succeed.

The Marshall L. and Perrine D. McCune Charitable Foundation is dedicated to enriching the health, education, environment, and cultural and spiritual life of New Mexicans. The Foundation memorializes its benefactors through proactive grantmaking that seeks to foster positive social change. The Foundation distributes approximately $6.5 million annually in the areas of arts, education, environment, economic development, health and social services.

The City of Aspen supports non-profit organizations through grants of $1 million. The City of Aspen provides and operates 26 public parks, the Wheeler Opera House, an 18 hole golf course, tennis courts, ball fields, an ice-skating facility, and Kids First (Childcare Resources) in addition to the traditional governmental services. Aspen’s newest facility, Aspen Recreation Center (ARC), provides an NHL sized ice rink, 2 pools, 3-story water slide, climbing tower, saunas, locker rooms, snack bar, and meeting space. For additional information visit our website at www.aspenpitkin.com or call 970.920.5082.

The Santa Fe Arts Commission (SFAC), an agency within the municipal government of the City of Santa Fe, provides leadership by and for city government in supporting arts and cultural affairs. The SFAC also recommends programs and policies that develop, sustain and promote artistic excellence in the community. Through its work, the SFAC nurtures and supports Santa Fe’s unparalleled artistic heritage.

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet is funded in part by the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission, the 1% Lodgers’ tax, and New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Colorado Council on the Arts, a state agency, was created in 1967 to stimulate arts development in the state, to assist and encourage artists and arts organizations, and to help make the arts more accessible to the people of Colorado. Using public funds appropriated by the state and federal support from the National Endowment for the Arts, we have invested in the cultural life of communities across the state for almost 40 years.

New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, is the state arts agency that administers the state’s One Percent for Public Art program, awards grants to nonprofit organizations for arts and cultural programs in their communities across the state, and provides technical assistance and educational opportunities for organizations, artists, and arts educators throughout New Mexico.

The National Endowment for the Arts is a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts (both new and established), bringing the arts to all Americans, and providing leadership in arts education. Established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government, the Endowment is the nation’s largest annual funder of the arts, bringing great art to all 50 states, including rural areas, inner cities, and military bases.

The Aspen Daily News is the Roaring Fork Valley’s only locally owned and operated daily newspaper. Published daily, and on line at aspendailynews.com the Aspen Daily News provides locals and visitors hard hitting, forward thinking news through targeted market publications including Roaring Sports, covering local and national spor ts, Time Out, an entertainment and event publication and Mountain Business Journal with real estate, business and technology coverage.

If you were to describe all that you love about Aspen to a friend, you would probably mention a surprisingly broad range of things: Aspen’s world-class cultural offerings, its jaw-dropping natural beauty, its big-city-like array of dining choices and, of course, the amazing tapestry of locals that make up its community. Aspen is about all of those things, which is why Aspen Sojourner chooses to be about all of those things, too. It’s the magazine that best reflects the true Aspen – the Aspen you’d be proud to show your friends.

Founded in 1881, The Aspen Times is the oldest business in town, and publishes seven days a week, 365 days a year. The Aspen Times printed both weekly and daily editions until 2004, when the weekly was converted into a Sunday edition. At that point, the Times Daily went from Monday through Friday to seven days a week. The word “Daily” was dropped from the title of the daily paper in the 1990s.

The Times’ main offices have been located at 310 E. Main St., next to the historic Hotel Jerome, since 1905. The newspaper employs more than 30 people full time.

Culture. History. Sophistication. The Lifestyle of Santa Fe. Santa Fean

For over 35 years Santa Fean magazine has reflected the area’s sophisticated lifestyle and is proud to be a media partner with the esteemed Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. Santa Fean captures the internationally acclaimed arts community, breathtaking landscapes and architecture, and rich cultural history extraordinarily unique to northern New Mexico. The abundance of world class cuisine is also featured in every issue, as is Santa Fe’s design scene – whether wearable art or ancient pottery piques your interest! Published 6 times per year, Santa Fean offers a thematic editorial calendar that includes History, Indian Market, Home & Design, The Arts, People, and Holidays. Each issue provides a compelling must-read opportunity for advertisers and discriminating readers alike. Santa Fean is a part of a multi-media company that includes the Aspen Sojourner and publications in Vail, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley and Park City. Please visit www.santafean.com or contact us at 505-983-1444.