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Manchester Shakespeare Company Cabaret Night in aid of: FUNDS-FOR-FEES!
FUNDS-FOR-FEES CABARET NIGHT with Manchester Shakespeare Company actors and practitioners!
https://www.indiegogo.com/campaigns/funds-for-fees-cabaret-night/edit/#/basics
We’re not what the Arts Council England are looking for. We submitted a perfectly sound bid.
Gina, an MSC director, retired performer and previous teacher of drama and theatre trained to become a successful fundraiser and knew what she had to do to submit a bid with rigour. It was a surprise when the bid failed on the grounds: ‘Preferred another project’.
Determination led the organisation to present an evening of cabaret with the MSC actors performing for their own funds. The 3MT Venue offered its space and facilities to allow this event to go ahead.
Gina shares her motto with the MSC cast and crew: ‘Never let anyone or anything slam a door in your face. Get up, dust yourselves down and ‘get on with it’.
It’s clear the cuts to Arts will have a further negative impact on actors and practitioners’ fees; a subject always in the headlines, quite rightly so.
Being creative and finding ways to overcome the things that try to set you back, is to continue to find ways to support ideas that promote payment for the work Manchester actors and practitioners have to do to ensure good drama on the TV screen and on the stage when you fancy a night at the theatre.
Manchester City Council and the Arts Council have significant funding to find for their new project: HOME and other city centre National Portfolio Organisations. How can we possibly expect them to find further funds for Arts on the periphery of mainstream theatre in the city? As we are independent, we are less likely to attract funding.
We hope you can join in the Indiegogo campaign coming up very soon. Do let us know if you would like to join us on Friday, 29th May to support this project.
Thank you.
Manchester Shakespeare Company
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