Is it harder for two comedians to survive an apocalypse or Hollywood? Diani & Devine spent five months making their initial video (below) & release 1 or 3 new ones every day. You also may just see a familiar face in #Apocatips #14 .
It’s a big, bright time in fund-raising & crowd-funding.
As always, today brings a new edition of The Crowd Crowd on Turnstyle News. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS or on iTunes. Join the conversation on Twitter by using the hashtag #TheCrowdCrowd.
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:
I am a Contributor to Bitter Lemons, and their conversation opening, standards breaking, standards creating, and passion for the local independent theatre 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:
Playwright Steve Julian (you may recognize his voice from early morning KPCC) launched an incredibly ambitious project that begins with What Kind of God? which opens Sept. 14th.
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.
Here are some of my picks for #FindingFriday ! Check their campaigns out and let me know if you donate.
Just for fun: Squatch Watchers. I am not sure how to explain this without ruining it. Just watch.
I’ve mentioned Storyteller Antonio Sacre before, and here he is asking for the public to help fund free multicultural experiences for the children of LA. You really have to see it:
More cool projects mentioned during The Latte Fund portion of The CrowdCrowd podcast (listen via RSSor on iTunes or watch below)
Thanks to a grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation, I’m consulting for an exciting new Fringe show Gracie and Rose. Today we launched our IndieGogo campaign!
Check out the video and campaign details. Every dollar and share helps make this show of an even higher quality than if presented on passion and credit cards alone.
Michael Kass is an award winning storyteller, writer and actor whose experience ranges from work with folks like Tony Award winning director Mary Zimmerman to telling naughty tales for five drunk guys in a bar. He’s a regular at storytelling venues around Los Angeles like The Moth, Taboo Tales, Spark Off Rose, Storyworthy and others. Ceremony, premiering at the Hollywood Fringe Festival this year, is his first stab at a full length solo performance.
In addition to his creative work, Michael also works with nonprofits to develop strategies for sustainable growth, fundraising and communications. He has been privileged to work with clients including Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company, Pasadena Playhouse and up ‘n coming LA companies like Theatre Dybbuk and Lower Depth Theater Ensemble.
We are the explorers: a movie trailer for our space program H/T Jay O’Balles “Since the sequester is anticipated, NASA is getting their funding cut for education, marketing, and awareness. Without this, they can’t appeal to the public to tell their congress critters to leave more in the budget for NASA.”
The past few months have been an experiment with G+ Broadcasts. Their purpose is to connect new audience with indie artists, but the same old methods of interviews aren’t doing the trick.
Imagine that. So I’m changing it up!
Out of all of the broadcasts I tried, here is what has survived – all in a slightly new form:
*Be sure to follow this new series, which has its own site/channel. Co-hort Patty Jean Robinson & I dig deeply into the web series world & bring you our picks!
RT @GoingMedieval: I am the god damn plague/Renaissance police and I will be issuing citations anytime I see these takes on the TL. No. Abs… 22 minutes ago
RT @brainpicker: On Maya Angelou's birthday, her courage-leavening vintage verses for kids, illustrated by Basquiat – which speak so tender… 11 hours ago
Congrats to Re-Election: A Web Series for meeting their $25,000 Goal!
