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Friday, February 1, 2019

Fundraiser Ideas for Arts Organizations and "gig" Ideas for Speakers by Savvy Mom Ruth Paget

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

-QuincenerĂ­a (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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