Photos by Brad Goldstein – Dream Serenade is an annual benefit concert and celebration of Toronto’s community of children with developmental and/or physical disabilities and their caregivers at Toronto’s Massey Hall. Created by Toronto musician Hayden Desser and his wife Christie Greyerbiehl in 2014, the event was a way to show appreciation and raise funds for a new playground at their daughter’s school, Beverley School.
Dream Serenade has since become one of Toronto’s most highly anticipated annual events, combining a celebration of this hard working community while raising money and awareness for schools and services for children with developmental and/or physical disabilities and their caregivers. The popular annual event has now expanded to support other like-minded schools and care-centres across the GTA and raise funds that directly assist hundreds of Toronto area families each year through the Summer Bursary Fund.
The Dream Serenade Summer Bursary is an initiative that provides financial support for Toronto area students with exceptionalities and their families to access summer programs or enhance their summer experience. The Summer Bursary opens each spring with two streams of distributions: one application stream through our partner Social Workers and School Principals, and another online application made available to the public. Please visit the Bursary page for more information.
