It’s a big, bright time in fund-raising & crowd-funding.
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Every week on The Crowd Crowd, we choose our Latte Fund picks: campaigns we think deserve your $5. I take suggestions in comments or via @CindyMarieJ . Here’s my pick for this week:
TheatreFactory Studio-The Madwoman Of Chaillot
Learn how to pop an ick (I’m serious, whatever that is) & help an indie company with fresh voices bring their vision to life.
Then, of course there is:
Operation LemonHeadMeter
I am a Contributor to Bitter Lemons, and their conversation opening, standards breaking, standards creating, and passion for the local independent theater scene have done so much for our community in the past five years. For the first time, they ask for your monetary assistance. Everyone writes and edits for free, and no two people put in more time than Enci and Colin.
Let the voices of the audiences actively assist audience development for intimate theatre!
Last but not at all least is not a crowd-funding campaign, and a very worthy cause:
Steve and his producing partner Robert Keasler fronted their own funds and credit to produce a show that gives voice to the silenced, tackling such difficult and thought-provoking topics as abuse of power, sexual abuse, coming out as a teen, being gay and Catholic, and body image.
Full Disclosure: I’m Outreach Director for this play, the first in a trilogy under the banner Silence No One. I do not take projects like this onto my plate lightly; their mission means a lot to me. Steve plans for the second play to tackle silencing rape victims in the military.
Watch the videos (first is below) and see some of our great incentives to give. The most important, as always, is to give voice to those who are silenced by people with power over them. Steve does not mean for this play to be a condemnation of the Catholic Church by any stretch; merely a conversation starter, a place for people to feel open to discussing what may have happened to them or their friends.
Ask questions at #WhatGodPlay and follow our efforts through these social media channels:
Most importantly, please see the play and support the silenced.