[Imc-web] Re: [Imc] July 4th Festival!

[Paul Kotheimer]

hi IMC 4th of July festival working grooopers:

i'd like to perform a set:  acoustic guitar, singing, talking about the
IMC, talking about how SERIOUS FOLKING MUSIC is a CD project benefitting
the IMC Capital Campaign, etc. i could even play the role of "Em-Cee" if
it's desired. i would also hope to contribute grunt work and ideas.

the current set of meeting times is not great for me.  i don't yet have a
proposal that helps me out of that long-standing predicament.

i'd love to be kept posted and attend a planning session if it's feasible.

paulkotheimer:)

On Thu,
5 Jun 2003, Zachary C. Miller wrote:

> The IMC Shows group is currently working on trying to set up an
> outdoor IMC festival. We're talking with the city and local businesses
> about this and it seems entirely possible that it can be done as long
> as we get enough volunteer support.
> 
> The idea would be to have a bunch of local bands play, have a lot of
> fundraising pitches for the capital campaign, and showcase the IMC's
> many functions, and also have other local businesses that want to
> participate have booths of their own.
> 
> Meghan Krausch and I, with the help of the shows group have agreed to
> coordinate the event overall but as coordinators we need people to
> coordinate. We can't pull this event together by ourselves. 
> 
> Things we will need from IMCstas: 
> 
>         People willing to lend a helping hand on the day of the event,
>         set up, booth staffing, carrying donation boxes around, giving
>         an IMC schpiel on stage, breakdown, etc.
> 
>         People willing to help before the fest coordinate very
>         specific tasks as assigned by the overall festival
>         coordinators such as getting tents, getting a stage,
>         organizing band logistics, organizing booths, contacting local
>         businesses, distributing promotional material, etc.
> 
>         Ideas. Brainstorm. Think low budget. What kinds of fun stuff
>         can we make happen if we have a couple blocks of city streets
>         to do with as we please?
> 
> Working Groups
> 
>         It would be great if various working groups could do something to
>         promote themselves at this event. We could set up a video
>         viewing area for the video group, a listening area for the
>         radio group, a reading area for print and zines. We could have
>         a zine reading on stage in amongst the performances. We could
>         have a mini-cabaret on stage in amongst the performances. We
>         could have reporters from each group covering the event. We
>         could give on the spot trainings to random people from the
>         street and have THEM cover the event. We could have art
>         gallery art on the street for viewing.
> 
>         It would be great if someone could step forward from each
>         interested working group and agree to come to shows meetings
>         since this is the primary thing that we'll be working on at
>         all shows group meetings between now and then.
> 
> This festival is entirely doable but it isn't finalized. If we don't
> get a critical mass of non-shows group people showing interest it
> ain't gonna happen.
> 
> Please respond if you are interested in helping to make this happen
> and let me know what kinds of things you are interested in helping
> with.
> 
> We'll be sending out a LOT more detailed information about this event
> next week after we get some of the foundational logistics
> finalized. Right now though one of the foundational logistics issues
> is "how many people will help us on this?" 
> 
> Are you with us!?
> 
> -- 
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