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Short Summary and the Impact
My name is Kay HE. I am a composer. I am a video artist. I am a pianist. I am a photographer. I am a painter. I am a teacher. I am a new-fashioned Chinese. I am a free thinker. And oh yes, I am a woman. Being female is one of the last things I have thought about regarding my identity as an artist or as a person in general. As a female composer and multimedia artist, it’s been challenging to follow my dream without influenced by the subconscious judgments the society brought into my life. I have to fight harder to have my ideas heard. I have to work harder to get my music performed.
We all know the fact, in many fields; woman artists who were undoubtedly great are painfully underappreciated. But I am still going to restate the example: in classical concert music, where less than 2% of the artists programed by mainstream organizations are women. 2%!! This is why we started the TURN UP Multimedia Festival.
TURN UP festival is a woman-centered, artist-led, culture-connecting, multimedia festival turning up the volume for woman artist in traditional and electronic/digital media. We are trying to bring female artists from different field together in Austin area and create high-quality multimedia concerts that serve the community. We will TURN UP the visibility of Women Artists.
What We Need & What You Get
To produce a concert is never easy, to produce a multimedia concert is even harder. If you would like to support woman artists and their works please consider a donation to TURN UP Multimedia Festival.
Our first concert will take place in Homer Rainey Hall (Jessen Auditorium), Austin, TX on April 14th 7:30 pm. (FREE admission, suggested donation $15)
You contribution will pay for our audio technicians who help us to run the equipment; will pay the talented performers; will pay the creativities of the awesome composers, will pay the innovations of our brilliant visual artists. I don’t like to see artists work for free or get underpaid for their hard work. But, because we just launched this festival, we will need help from the community, WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Here is our draft budget:
Venue: in-kind donation from UT Austin
Audio equipment: in-kind donation from UT Austin
Audio technicians: $200
Video/audio Recording: $300
BMI/ASCAP License (composers): $300
Performers (in-kind but prefer to pay for their work): $400
Video artists (in-kind but prefer to pay for their work): $240
Administrative Staff (in-kind but prefer to pay for their work): $160
Reception $200
Promotional material (posters, programs, information sheets) $200
Total: $2000
This is our idea budget for this concert, we will try to reach our goal, but if we couldn’t reach the entire goal. We will make sure the audio technician, videographer, and performers get paid for their hard work!
Unique Perks:
$25 perks: TURN UP Multimedia Festival keychain
$50 perks: TURN UP mug or TURN UP T-shirt.
$100 perks: best seats in the concert hall that provides the best audiovisual experience and a TURN UP mug or T-shirt (can be personalized just for you).
Other Ways You Can Help
May be you are a poor artist that can't contribute, but that doesn't mean you can't help:
My name is Kay HE. I am a composer. I am a video artist. I am a pianist. I am a photographer. I am a painter. I am a teacher. I am a new-fashioned Chinese. I am a free thinker. And oh yes, I am a woman. Being female is one of the last things I have thought about regarding my identity as an artist or as a person in general. As a female composer and multimedia artist, it’s been challenging to follow my dream without influenced by the subconscious judgments the society brought into my life. I have to fight harder to have my ideas heard. I have to work harder to get my music performed.
We all know the fact, in many fields; woman artists who were undoubtedly great are painfully underappreciated. But I am still going to restate the example: in classical concert music, where less than 2% of the artists programed by mainstream organizations are women. 2%!! This is why we started the TURN UP Multimedia Festival.
TURN UP festival is a woman-centered, artist-led, culture-connecting, multimedia festival turning up the volume for woman artist in traditional and electronic/digital media. We are trying to bring female artists from different field together in Austin area and create high-quality multimedia concerts that serve the community. We will TURN UP the visibility of Women Artists.
What We Need & What You Get
To produce a concert is never easy, to produce a multimedia concert is even harder. If you would like to support woman artists and their works please consider a donation to TURN UP Multimedia Festival.
Our first concert will take place in Homer Rainey Hall (Jessen Auditorium), Austin, TX on April 14th 7:30 pm. (FREE admission, suggested donation $15)
You contribution will pay for our audio technicians who help us to run the equipment; will pay the talented performers; will pay the creativities of the awesome composers, will pay the innovations of our brilliant visual artists. I don’t like to see artists work for free or get underpaid for their hard work. But, because we just launched this festival, we will need help from the community, WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Here is our draft budget:
Venue: in-kind donation from UT Austin
Audio equipment: in-kind donation from UT Austin
Audio technicians: $200
Video/audio Recording: $300
BMI/ASCAP License (composers): $300
Performers (in-kind but prefer to pay for their work): $400
Video artists (in-kind but prefer to pay for their work): $240
Administrative Staff (in-kind but prefer to pay for their work): $160
Reception $200
Promotional material (posters, programs, information sheets) $200
Total: $2000
This is our idea budget for this concert, we will try to reach our goal, but if we couldn’t reach the entire goal. We will make sure the audio technician, videographer, and performers get paid for their hard work!
Unique Perks:
$25 perks: TURN UP Multimedia Festival keychain
$50 perks: TURN UP mug or TURN UP T-shirt.
$100 perks: best seats in the concert hall that provides the best audiovisual experience and a TURN UP mug or T-shirt (can be personalized just for you).
Other Ways You Can Help
May be you are a poor artist that can't contribute, but that doesn't mean you can't help:
- Please use Indiegogo share tool to spread the words for us!
- Make some noise about our campaign on Facebook!
- Get your community involved!
- Just simply come to the concert and cheer for the amazing woman artists!
