"Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." - Voltaire

Thank you to all our wonderful friends, supporters, and donors for joining us on this journey. Helicon would not be here were it not for the kindness and generosity of those who wish to honor the artistic talents and diverse creations of our students here at NU. We cannot express how much it means to us that you would see us through these challenging and unprecedented times, ensuring the legacy of Helicon lives on for generations to come!

It's almost time!

With one day left before the end of our fundraising project, we're putting one last call to all you patrons and purveyors of the arts. This is your final chance to help keep the fire of the arts alive at NU as we persist in putting together our spring Issue! Your contributions are essential to making sure we are able to create a high quality magazine that does justice to the incredible artistic and literary contributions of our students who deserve to have their work shown in the best possible light.

“The end is rarely the end my friend, it is often just the beginning." - A. A. Milne

We here at Helicon would like to extend our immense gratitude to all our patrons for helping us reach our goal ahead of time! This means that we can aim even higher and spread our wings even farther as we look to our stretch goal of $550. These additional funds would go a long way to allowing us to print and ship extra copies to students and alumni across the country who value the work we do here at Helicon. It would also help create a firm financial foundation for next year, as we are a newly financially independent org that needs all the stability we can get!

"Crossing the starting line may be an act of courage, but crossing the finish line is an act of faith." - John Bingham

And here we are! It's been quite a journey trying to reach our funding goal together, but we finally have the resources we need to make this project possible. Copies of Helicon will be available throughout the campus thanks to the generations gifts and earnest efforts of our kind patrons!

"Victory comes by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before." - Herodotus

As we near our end goal, we just wanted to thank you for helping to make this possible. Our team has been hard at work compiling and collating the incredible batch of student submissions we have for this year's issue. With just a little more funding, we will be able to do these works justice by producing our high quality print issue of Helicon, complete with student artwork and a foreword from our editor-in-chief. Let us all strive to exert more vigorous efforts than ever before in funding this valuable piece of Northwestern's legacy!

"Long is the road from conception to creation." - Molière 

With 50% of our fundraising goal met, we are that much closer to continuing our historic tradition of showcasing student-made art, literature, film, music, and more in a celebration of the arts at Northwestern! We depend on contributions from kind donors like you to make our print magazine freely available across the campus at NU, because we believe our showcase of diverse student art deserves to be both high quality and highly accessible. If you agree with our ethos and know others who would be interested in supporting our mission, please consider sharing this project and help us reach our funding goal for this year!

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Lao Tzu

We're on our way! Thank you so much to our wonderful donors for making this project possible, your contributions ensure that we can uphold our commitment to showcasing and advancing student art and literary creations here at NU. Since 1979, the Helicon team has worked to foster a thriving community of student art, literature, music, and film here at NU, and such a community is alive today because of support from people like you. This is also the first year Helicon has been financially independent since our founding, so now more than ever we rely on the generosity and good will of our amazing donors to keep our organization running!