Connecting Communities Through
Arts, Dialogue & Transformation
Help Us Prepare for The HIVE's First Official Season of Events Starting March 2025
Become A Member of
The Golden Honey
Donor Club!
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And scroll down to see all the things we've accomplished in 2024, with your help!
​​Level 1: Any Amount! Be A Member Of The Golden Honey Donor Club ALL donors of ANY AMOUNT will be honored on our website by name in perpetuity (forever!) as Golden Honey Donors - a special group of those who supported us from the very beginning! Already a Golden Honey Donor? If you make a second donation, we will add a "Queen Bee" crown to your name on our site. You can also "Level Up" by adding to your last donation to get the Level benefits below.
Level 2: $250 or More! Be A Super Pollinator Member Of The Golden Honey Donor Club. For every $250 you donate, receive an invitation for 1 person to come to The HIVE HQ for a toast and private concert by Frederic as a thank you! (Each additional $250 gets a ticket as well!) Champagne and light apps will be served.
Level 3: $5,000+ Be a Queen Bee Of Your own Private Party! Donate $5,000 and Frederic and Jeanine will come to you and turn your private dinner party into a HIVE Event! Included is a mini-concert by Frederic followed by a HIVE Conversation on a theme of your choice among your guests during dinner! (Max guests 16, food & piano not included!)
Thank You,
Golden Honey
Donors!
If You Believe What We Believe,
Consider Supporting The Hive!
"Community" is almost always defined as a group of people with common ideas, common characteristics, common goals or living in a common location. But in recent times, this has created a society made up of closed circles and hunkering down.
The HIVE believes there is a broader community that is defined simply by being human and that the time to reveal and activate it is now...
Make Your Tax-deductible gift today by filling out the form below.
The HIVE operates under Beechwood Arts and Innovation, a 501(c)3 non-profit.
All donations are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.
Donation Form
A letter to our supporters...
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At The HIVE, we believe that a broader sense of community, defined by being human, can be revealed within and across communities. We believe this can happen by creating opportunities to engage, fueled by the arts, dialogue & collaborative ideas. These opportunities allow people to discover connections around being human, build understanding, foster a spirit of belonging and transform perspectives. We believe that the world needs more of this, and we believe the time for this is now.
The Launch of The HIVE! The unique combination of excitement, care, angst and conviction that comes with starting a new venture, especially one dedicated to community and that forges new ground, reminds us of the first days of starting Beechwood Arts in 2011, when we set out to reimagine the arts experience. Our ideas then brought many enthusiastic early supporters willing to take the journey to forge new ground. Looking back on the legacy of 12 yrs of 100+ collaborative, immersive events and the incredible and improbable connections that were made, its clear that the encouragement and kick-start support of those early adventurers who believed what we believed gave us the start and the energy to build it.
Today, with The HIVE, we stand once again at a newly opened door, with an even more expansive mission that continues to build on that legacy of community and connection, brought across all communities. The tools we are bringing to The HIVE are ones that we know work to build connection, understanding, empathy, collaboration & ideas between people. We have seen this work:
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Through our 12 years of building and running Beechwood Arts
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Through our 25+ years of innovation and transformation work with corporations and community organizations
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Through our teaching of university students who come from communities and countries around the world to connect & collaborate.
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Through our lifetime individual work as visual and performing artists
What Your Support Allows Us To Do:
In 2024 we launched The Golden Honey Donor Club. It was the year of Building The HIVE. The Golden Honey Donor Club allowed us to build the foundation of The HIVE. We met with 65 leaders of close to 50 Arts & Community Organizations, presenting The HIVE concept, getting input and feedback and assessing interest. ​On the community side, we tested HIVE-fueled programs with audiences at our long-time partner, The Westport Library (with great responses!) and also met with younger, hard-to-reach community members to understand their needs. In October, we hosted the first-ever HIVE Partner Network (HPN) Conference with 30 organizations registering. This collaborative work session helped outline the value of The HIVE to orgs and to their communities and helped develop how The HIVE Partner Network will work together to create a "Human Pollinator Pathway" across communities.
BEE A VOLUNTEER!!
As with all beehives, it takes a lot of teamwork to
create and run The HIVE's community-centered programs, and we can only do it with your help!
The HIVE needs volunteers of all kinds, and we promise we'll have fun together doing the work! Please sign up and let us know how you'd like to be involved.