Louie Pearlman is a comedic performer, educator and Story Pirate living in Queens, NY. This tumblr may or may not contain information about upcoming performances and artistic pursuits, observations about life in NYC and/or numerous posts and reblogs about his obsessions.
What a wonderful day for Story Pirates fundraising! Chris Frantz, Alexis Coleman, Marcella Branca and Amy Fein all forced me to up my fundraising goal! All of their very generous donations will be going towards Story Pirates arts and literacy programs in under-funded schools. Yay!
Amy dedicated her donation to her favorite educator, SaraJane OneWord Fein - who is coincidentally one of MY favorite educators too!
Thank you SO much to Leigh Adel-Arnold and Marian Donely for their recent donations to Story Pirates! I’ve got 9 more days to raise $176 for arts and literacy programs in low-income schools!
Make me raise my goal again! I dare ya! Donate Here!
If you can’t spare the change (and I know times are rough for a lot of us), please reblog, RT, facebook post my link! It honestly helps as much as throwing us a few bucks!
You guys. Darci Mcarter, Sandra Engstrom and Blair Mosner have forced me to RAISE MY GOAL! Thank you! I’ve now got 15 more days to raise $441 more for Story Pirates arts and literacy programs in low-income schools. Who is going to help fund a child’s life-long love of writing and creativity next? Donating will make you feel good! Promise!
We’re almost there!!!! Because of the amazing generosity over the last day of Sandra Engstrom, Jennifer Lindahl, Marc Wilkinson, Tina O’Grady & Phillip Williams(I’m guessing, because he’s married to Tina he donated too and maybe I’m assuming too much) I am VERY CLOSE to achieving my initial goal for $2000 towards Story Pirates literacy and arts programs in low-income schools!
I’ve got 14 more days to raise $24 more bucks! I may have to up my goal! Because of you guys, more kids are learning and growing and becoming better learners and communicators. I thank you and the future of Planet Earth thanks you!
Thanks to some generous donations from James Munves, Trish Mayer, Diane Schapira, Jeffrey Paul Bobrick, Hope Holliner, Tara Varney, Faith Moore, Sean Harvey, Rachel Schapira, Andy Moskowitz and some anonymous donors, I’m very close to my $2000 goal.
All the money will go to arts and literacy programs in under-funded schools!
Thanks everyone! I’ve got 17 more days to raise $145! I may have to up my goal. We’ll see. Thanks for your support, everyone!
Thank thank you thank you to Covy Holland for his generous donation of $1000 (wow) to Story Pirates! Kids from low-income schools are learning, expressing themselves, becoming better writers and (dare I say it) global citizens? Because of him.
As a prize, I’m writing him a song on my ukulele and Story Pirates will be writing a song in honor of his favorite teacher, Jason Lewis!
I’ve got 20 more days and $840 more dollars to raise! Every little bit helps! If you can’t spare the bucks, spread the love by facebooking, tweeting, reblogging, instragramming, going out into the street and screaming your love about this campaign! Yay!
Hi! My name is Louie, and as a lot of you know, I’m a Story Pirate.
Story Pirates are a group of comedians, actors, musicians, puppeteers and teachers that go into schools, run amazing creative writing workshops and make them into big, loud, crazy shows to perform for the kid-authors of the stories!
These shows inspire kids to write more and prove to these kids that their words and ideas are important.
Every year we serve over two-hundred low income schools with Story Pirates programs and we need your help! So, I’m trying to raise $2000 by June 14th to continue the important work we do in schools across the country and beyond.
This year, we’re dedicating all of our fundraising efforts to teachers that made a difference in our lives. I’m dedicating my fundraising to Brigid Stewart, an amazing teacher from Strathcona Tweedsmuir school in Okotoks, Alberta who directed me in six plays during junior high and high school and helped make me the crazy guy that I am today!
If you donate money to Story Pirates in honor of a teacher that inspired you, the Story Pirates will spread the love by writing a thank you note to the teacher of your choice shouting out to them on our facebook page and more! So your love of your teacher who inspired you helps the Story Pirates inspire countless kids that need our help.
Not only that, but your donation will get you some awesome prizes that you can check out here.
If you don’t have any spare funds to donate to the Story Pirates cause, you can still donate your voice!
Ultimately our goal is to celebrate the ideas of young people, and one of the best ways we can do that is by continuing to have conversations about how to make education the best it can be.
You can donate your voice and opinions to that cause by interacting with story pirates on our twitter, Facebook, tumblr, Pinterest and more. The more people talking about education, the better! So spread the word and donate your voice today!
I love you all - Louie
Here are the rewards the Story Pirates and I will provide for your donation:
$25 – The Story Pirates will give a shout-out to the educator of your choice on our facebook wall.
$40 - Back by popular demand, Louie will make you a personalized Sixties Bubblegum Music Mix CD and mail it to you! $50 – The pirates will dedicate a post to the educator of your choice on our Facebook wall and twitter feed. $100 – The Story Pirates will send a thank-you letter to the educator of your choice
$200 - You will have a Holga portrait session taken by Louie, who will take some funky, amazing photos of you. You can see his work here: http://louie4711.tumblr.com/tagged/holga
$250 – The Pirates will create a video shout-out to the educator of your choice and post it on the Story Pirates YouTube account.
$300 - Louie will write a lovely ukulele song about you, record it and e-mail it to you.
$500 - We’ll give a shout-out to the educator of your choice from the stage at the Story Pirates and Friends show (and send you a video of the shout-out!)
$1000 - Story Pirates will write a song for the educator of your choice, and post a video of the Story Pirates singing the song on the Story Pirates YouTube page!
