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The $98 Club: Arts For All Debbie Hansen -Weekly Lessons: Funds weekly music lessons for one student. -Direct Impact: Every $98 donation directly supports individual students. -Local Support: Aids local music schools and struggling musicians by covering lesson costs. -Quality Education: Ensures high-quality music education tailored to each student's needs. -Community Engagement: Supports student recitals at local venues, enhancing community ties. -Direct Funding: 100% of donations go directly to program costs—no administrative salaries. -Empowerment Through Music: Provides disadvantaged youth and those with disabilities access to music education. -Community Impact: Strengthens local economies by supporting music educators and venues. -Personal Development: Helps students develop confidence and skills through public performances. -Transparency and Accountability: Donors can see the tangible impact of their contributions.

The $98 Club: Arts For All Debbie Hansen -Weekly Lessons: Funds weekly music lessons for one student. -Direct Impact: Every $98 donation directly supports individual students. -Local Support: Aids local music schools and struggling musicians by covering lesson costs. -Quality Education: Ensures high-quality music education tailored to each student's needs. -Community Engagement: Supports student recitals at local venues, enhancing community ties. -Direct Funding: 100% of donations go directly to program costs—no administrative salaries. -Empowerment Through Music: Provides disadvantaged youth and those with disabilities access to music education. -Community Impact: Strengthens local economies by supporting music educators and venues. -Personal Development: Helps students develop confidence and skills through public performances. -Transparency and Accountability: Donors can see the tangible impact of their contributions.

Last night I went to an event called "The Great Kitchen Party." Allow me to set the scene for you: Location: Carlu in Toronto Time: 5pm till......... Charity MusiCounts is Canada's music education charity associated with The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and The JUNO Awards. At MusiCounts, they make music education inclusive, sustainable, and accessible for youth across Canada by providing musical instruments, equipment, and resources. Cause: The MusiCounts Community Music Program provides not-for-profit organizations with grants of up to $15,000 in instruments, equipment, and resources to support music education programs at the community level. Lead sponsor: MNP Idea: A culinary competition of chefs, moving onto the Canadian Culinary championships in Ottawa March of 2024. Silent Auction: Travel, destinations with chefs and musicans like Jim cuddy, 54-40, Steven Page and many more acompanying you on the adventure. Producer: Chad Brincheski of ESP Inc. I enjoy being a guest, because for all the years I attended events for my company called The Idea Hunter, I remember what it felt like to have the perfect day or not. It takes strength, awareness and pure imagination to make an event great and even when you think it's perfect, you can analyze it later to see what you might have done differently. This image is the truth about an event professional. This is where humility takes a front row seat in our industry. The truth is we need to print this on a t. shirt and give them away as a reminder of what the perfect day is like in the life of an event prof. Funny Friday and who knows, this could be your perfect day? #eventprofessionals #meetingprofs #culinarycreativity Lisa Pasin #musicindustry

Why Give to the ICO? Our staff, musicians, and board members tell you why they believe in the work the ICO does in this video. Join other supporters who have already donated this morning here: https://lnkd.in/g4bRjQy3. We need your help to raise $20,000 by midnight tonight! 2023 Events and Programs Made Possible By Donors: 1. The 40th Anniversary Season began with nearly sold-out performances on September 30th and November 18th at Schrott Center for the Arts and will continue through May 2024 with 9 additional concerts (more than previous years). 2. The ICO expanded its Mocktails & Masterpieces video series into a podcast with a goal to offer as much free content to the community as possible. 3. The ICO received registration for nearly 2,000 students to attend its November 16th educational concert, distributed virtual education programs to 4,800 students attending schools in our community with little to no music education opportunities, and completed the first full year of our new after-school program. 4. The ICO presented 3 free parks concerts in September 2023 highlighting community partners. 5. The ICO completed a successful 39th season with Beethoven’s “Fidelio” in May 2023 (our first opera production). #givingtuesday #givingtuesday2023

Don't put your children on the stage? Why, certainly you should! Think of every way you can to link things up and create mutually supporting structures to benefit young singers. My current roles combine running the Junior Choir in the parish church, leading the local choral society and volunteering at a (RC) primary school. I do what I can to make this a virtuous triangle. My church and school choirs share a lot of repertoire - motets my choristers use at Family Communion are sung again at school Mass. Shared membership across the two children's choirs means I get twice as much rehearsal time with many of them in a week. And of course there are opportunities for cross-recruitment. My choral society concerts now start at 6.30pm, early enough to invite members of both children's choirs to sing in a slot at the beginning of the first half - some music on their own (always appropriate to the theme of the concert as a whole) and some with the adults. When the interval comes round, and they can leave with their families if they want to, it's not beyond too many bedtimes. In our next concert, young string players will also join our professional ensemble for a couple of pieces sung by the children. Providing this additional platform for the children acts as a showcase for what we're doing in church and school, and a means of recruiting - visibility in the town for activity that would otherwise be largely hidden. Choral society concerts also finish with a retiring collection for Purbeck Youth Music, the local charity that provides instruments, subsidised group lessons and workshops for young players. So adult musicians and their audiences are able to support the next generation, not only with platforms and performance opportunities, but with financial investment. What do you do to create such beneficial networks across your own areas of activity? Who can you partner with, to make the whole greater than the sum of its parts?

Once again drawing attention to this because they are so close to meeting their match funding requirement now... Any alumni of Flakefleet Primary School in here? Or a company in need of a good cause to get behind? Those who have followed the mighty Flakefleet's adventures over recent years will have seen their run to the Britain's Got Talent final including a Golden Buzzer and their tilt at Xmas number 1! The point, of course, is to show that kids that you should hashtag #daretodream and that anything is possible regardless of your background. Their next big adventure is to have a music festival on their school field. They did this successful pre-pandemic and it's time for the return. The simple idea is to provide the festival experience for those families without the budget to travel to other festivals and once again show the kids that anything is possible. They are in need of support be it either via donations or with a sponsor. https://lnkd.in/dSAv8QUr. Sponsor wise, I am happy to advise and explore with anyone. Please DM me for details. And anyone else? Please share this. You never know who YOUR share might hit. And why am I involved? Simple. Once a Flakey kid, always a Flakey kid. hashtag #sponsorship #Corporatesocial responsibility

Grimalkin Records Inc. is looking for a QTBIPOC sound engineer to run sound for our 3rd annual festival in Richmond, VA. It's on October 12-13 at Basic City Beer Co. The equipment there isn't great so we were hoping to hire someone who also has equipment to ensure good sound. Last year, Musiq Cultura RVA ran sound for us. Rei was great, but this year they aren't available for both days and we're trying to keep the sound consistent. Rei is going to play the day they're available instead. Ideally, we would like to record it from the soundboard as well. Oct 12 is 4pm-midnight and Oct 13 is 4pm-10pm. I know the manager Alex there and he said we can leave everything securely overnight from the 12th to the 13th. We can guarantee a minimum of $400 per day. We're fundraising and so it depends on if we reach our goal if we can pay more. Last year we guaranteed Rei the same rate, but we were able to pay them $500 a day after we saw what we raised in total after the festival. This may not be great pay. We're a nonprofit and so anything additional could be an in-kind donation. I know that doesn't pay the bills though. If you are interested or know someone who is, please email [email protected]. Grimalkin Fest is a manifestation of our mission and a celebration of Queer Joy and Resilience through a sharing of music, skills, resources and connections. It also supports, uplifts, and cultivates relationships with musicians, other creatives, community partners, and our communities. Last year, our festival’s budget was $12,600. Over $10,000 went directly to the performers and folks working at and planning the event. That's 86% of our budget going directly to artists and folks working the fest, which is unheard of as far as I know for festivals. Our goal is to raise $26,000 to expand this year’s festival budget. Achieving this goal will allow us to: *Compensate folks for travel *Provide food and snacks *Rent a house for out-of-town performers *Purchase decorations, supplies, posters, and locally silk-screened shirts *Hire a video editor for the virtual live-streamed day *Compensate event planners *Hire a consultant to assist the volunteer coordinator *Rent Starlink equipment to live-stream events happening during the two in-person days *Increase compensation for performers and folks working at the fest Last year, our budget didn’t allow us to compensate travel costs, provide full meals for performers, workers and volunteers, fairly compensate event planners, hire a consultant to assist volunteers, nor rent a Starlink to live stream the in-person days. A budget increase will. https://lnkd.in/e39VtTXB

Grimalkin Records is looking for a QTBIPOC sound engineer to run sound for our 3rd annual festival in Richmond, VA. It's on October 12-13 at Basic City Beer Co. The equipment there isn't great so we were hoping to hire someone who also has equipment to ensure good sound. Last year, Musiq Cultura RVA ran sound for us. Rei was great, but this year they aren't available for both days and we're trying to keep the sound consistent. Rei is going to play the day they're available instead. Ideally, we would like to record it from the soundboard as well. Oct 12 is 4pm-midnight and Oct 13 is 4pm-10pm. I know the manager Alex there and he said we can leave everything securely overnight from the 12th to the 13th. We can guarantee a minimum of $400 per day. We're fundraising and so it depends on if we reach our goal if we can pay more. Last year we guaranteed Rei the same rate, but we were able to pay them $500 a day after we saw what we raised in total after the festival. This may not be great pay. We're a nonprofit and so anything additional could be an in-kind donation. I know that doesn't pay the bills though. If you are interested or know someone who is, please email [email protected]. Grimalkin Fest is a manifestation of our mission and a celebration of Queer Joy and Resilience through a sharing of music, skills, resources and connections. It also supports, uplifts, and cultivates relationships with musicians, other creatives, community partners, and our communities. Last year, our festival’s budget was $12,600. Over $10,000 went directly to the performers and folks working at and planning the event. That's 86% of our budget going directly to artists and folks working the fest, which is unheard of as far as I know for festivals. Our goal is to raise $26,000 to expand this year’s festival budget. Achieving this goal will allow us to: *Compensate folks for travel *Provide food and snacks *Rent a house for out-of-town performers *Purchase decorations, supplies, posters, and locally silk-screened shirts *Hire a video editor for the virtual live-streamed day *Compensate event planners *Hire a consultant to assist the volunteer coordinator *Rent Starlink equipment to live-stream events happening during the two in-person days *Increase compensation for performers and folks working at the fest Last year, our budget didn’t allow us to compensate travel costs, provide full meals for performers, workers and volunteers, fairly compensate event planners, hire a consultant to assist volunteers, nor rent a Starlink to live stream the in-person days. A budget increase will. https://lnkd.in/emDMDwyJ

I just posted this on a Guardian article about the state of the UK music ecosystem, specifically the plight of smaller venues. Most people don’t realise that beneath these ‘grassroots venues’ are the actual grassroots venues. Around 95% of UK music is performed in non dedicated music venues like, pubs, social clubs, churches, community halls etc. THESE are the actual grassroots below the ‘official’ grassroots venues. Sure, they don’t have the kind of outgoings the size of an actual venue but they do have some, (venue hire, advertising, website fees, equipment purchase and maintenance etc) which are often paid for by the volunteers who run the nights, when times get hard. With absolutely zero help in the post Covid ‘Culture Recovery Fund’ many of these clubs have folded because the money has simply run out. What kind of government allows this to happen? I started a charity to help exactly these venues. So far we’ve helped 15 of them. Jazz is my area (I can’t help everyone). If it’s yours too then please consider donating. 100% of donations goes straight to the clubs. I don’t take a wage for this. Thanks  https://lnkd.in/e-EmyUEv

Dear friends - 1.5 months are trying to raise money for an all day music and arts festival in September.The event will be free, although we will welcome donations - all the money we collect through our funding will go to paying for the venue, engineer, to the artists participating and allowing anyone irrespective of funds to attend. We have always self funded and all profits from our events go to those participating. Proceeds from our events are never large and we never feel we pay artists enough. This is a common theme for people running small events and artists who spend hours making and working on their art. As Astra Taylor writes in The People's Platform there is a notion that if you make art you do it for the love of it and that somehow means that you don’t mind not being paid properly for what you do. But artist’s need to survive in capitalism too! It always struck me that during covid, everyone wanted to be able to get back out and congregate and hear music again, yet it was the capitalist system that was propped up during that time and musicians and artists were told too retrain. We are not sure that our model of funding for our festival will work, or whether it is the right model. It’s also difficult asking for funds when there are so many needful peoples and groups, and we appreciate that people my not want to support us. Please let me know what you think of our approach. We’d also be really interested to talk with other DIY/self funding promoters on further ideas as to how we can all increase monies for artists and support artists in our communities, much love and peace RFxxx https://lnkd.in/e_YNQvmv https://lnkd.in/eqzJMz4D