We need help…
We’re planning to bring our usual range of amazing performers to the National Centre for Early Music on 29th November. We always pay our hard-working artists and interpreters a decent fee and expenses (no “doing this for exposure” here!), and properly accessible venues are always more expensive to hire. We usually have local funding but were unable to apply this year. We had applied for funding to Arts Council England for this and a tour across the year of three further dates, but were, unfortunately, unsuccessful.
So now we’re looking to our community to help us fund the event – we will be able to make a fair amount of the money required on ticket sales and merchandise (Poetry for All anthologies, bespoke notebooks, printed programmes of the event, Poetry For All badges, and bespoke BSL fingerspelling cards) sales, but we need help to pay for the venue hire, and our amazing interpreters and artists, along with costs of producing the merch in the first place.
In order to put on the event, we estimate that it will cost us £2,930 and a conservative estimate of how much we can make selling tickets and merchandise on the night nets us about £1,720. Obviously there’s a significant shortfall there! So we need your help to make up the difference and ensure that we can pay our artists and interpreters without going into debt ourselves.
What Do You Get For Helping Us?
Apart from the warm sense of satisfaction of not only being a patron of the arts but supporting making arts more accessible to everyone, you can choose from whole host of rewards available to suit a wide range of budgets. Everything from a Hearty Thanks for £1 through merchandise and copies of our forthcoming anthology (£10) to mentoring sessions and private group workshops in performance and writing skills, and for creatives who want to learn how to plan their projects more effectively and market themselves/ their projects with some bespoke advice (£100) all the way to a grand reward for one poet of a publishing package with Stairwell Books (£250)! The workshops will be run by either Rose Drew or Fay Roberts, depending on which one you choose, and you can find out more about these very experiences, friendly workshop facilitators here.
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