Story Pirates Fundraising Update
I just had to up my goal because you’re all being so generous! Can we raise $900 by May 19th? I BET WE CAN!
I just had to up my goal because you’re all being so generous! Can we raise $900 by May 19th? I BET WE CAN!
Hey guys! Hope you’re enjoying all the info about my projects on Tumblr, and my photos and music. Sometimes your “likes” really make me feel better about being an artist in this sometimes admittedly difficult metropolis!
I’m posting for a very specific reason:
Last year I directed an amazing one man show written by and starring my friend Roman Rimer called Evolution.
In the fall of 2009, Roman traveled to the Southern United States and did a bunch of outreach work with queer-identified youth. His concentration was at Universities where students were not allowed to be openly gay - pretty rough places for people trying to earn an education. Evolution is about those experiences.
I really loved working on the show. Evolution deals with issues of identity, regional differences and similarities and is also really funny and heartfelt. We had a great run of eight shows at The Magnet Theater in NYC.
Now, this summer, we are taking the Evolution on tour! We are going to the Kansas City, Indianapolis and Chicago Fringe Festivals. We want as many people to see this show as possible so we are raising money to cover our production costs and to be able to offer sliding scale tickets. We have a fund-raising web-page set up here:
We are trying to raise $3000 by June 11th! We are at a little over $1000 right now and need all the help we can get. If we don’t raise our goal of $3000 by June 11th, we don’t get any of the already raised funds. I’m asking all of you to give what you can to this project. Even $1 or $10 could mean that someone gets to see this show who otherwise wouldn’t be able to. I believe in the work that Roman is doing in these communities. I truly think it’s making the world a better place and that’s why I’m asking you to contribute to this project.
Here is that link to contribute and learn more again:
Please, just a couple bucks could really help! If you can’t contribute, reblogging or posting the link on your Facebook would super-help too! And of course, let me know if any of you have any questions.
Thanks for continuing to follow me on Tumblr. You’re all great.
