Fundraiser Ideas for
Arts Organizations by Savvy Mom Ruth Paget
Arts
organizations might wish to expand their traditional fundraising methods to
untapped audiences with fundraising lectures that are introductions to various
kinds of “arts” in their communities and beyond.
These
lectures could be held in venues such as:
-the
arts center itself
-shopping
mall community rooms
-restaurant
private rooms with a box lunch and lecture format
-city
auditoriums
-grange
facilities
-condominium
community rooms
-library
community rooms
Building
managers can let you know if the room is zoned for fundraising activities for
non-profit organizations.
The
session itself could be a 1-hour lecture with slideshow with ½ hour before and
after the session for “meet and greet.”
The
tickets should be the money for the fundraiser with extra donation and idea
solicitation forms left out on tables by the entrances with volunteers to
answer questions and/or take memberships or donations.
Using
the community I live in – Monterey County California – these are some of the
ideas that I think various cities in our county might be interested in for
fundraising:
-Spanish
adobe architecture and garden design
-Spanish
Christmas posadas explanation and slideshow
-English
garden design at various points around California’s first capital in the city
of Monterey
-English
domestic architectural styles around Monterey Country
-Rose
gardens around the world and varieties of rose
-Quincenería
(16th birthday) traditions including mariachi music demonstration
-Sicilian
puppet shows
-Portuguese
fado singing
-Spanish
guitar concerts
-Messiah
choir singing with Christmas market
-Christmas
carol singing with market
-Russian
Easter celebrations and slideshow of St. Isaac’s in St Petersburg
-Mexican
landscape architecture
-Western
fashion – 1960s to the present
-Japanese
bansai tree technqiues
-Japanese
ikebana
-kimono
decoration through the decades
-tea
ceremony essentials
-Chinese
bronze vessels through the millennia
-Tibetan
monastic schools art and symbols
-Theatre
overview –
US,
England, France, Spain, Germany, and Japan in separate lectures
-Opera
overview –
Italian
by city and French
-Arabic
alphabet and calligraphy styles
Fundraising
ideas for organizations and gig ideas for speakers for the weekend!
By
Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
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