I've also been looking at sample grant proposals from theatre groups and interdisciplinary artists that have been awarded and have saved quite a few of them to my hardrive for future perusal.
One thing that gives me the willies is coming up with things like mission statements, mostly because the majority of the ones I've read are hyper-hype bullsh*t. Is there really anything wrong with wanting to do honest work? Or is veracity in writing a thing of the past?
Okay, I'll try to subdue this rant. On a more positive note, Overnight Prints is having a postcard sale; 65 percent off - just use this code: POSTCARDSALE. In Seattle, theater companies do a lot of canvassing of areas close to little theaters and place postcards on parked cars; they also send them through the mail to audience members on their mailing lists, post them on billboards at colleges, grocery stores, schools, churches, and anywhere we can get the message out. For the most part we use postcards because:
1. They're small.
2. They're fairly cheap - you get a lot of bang for your buck if you can get them on sale.
3. You can mail them out.
4. They're collectible.
The last item seems a bit odd, but it is true. Some of them are so good you want to keep them around.
Here are some from two separate companies: one was for a show that premiered at the Seattle Fringe Fest in 2002 called Cannibal the Musical; the other for a company that specializes in cabaret shows and featured a variety of freak performers (Louis/Louisa the half-man half-woman, The Chicken Girl, and Countess Lucretia Crustacea, who was born with lobster claws for hands).
Incidentally, Cannibal the Musical was put on at the Edinburgh Fringe Fest last year, but by a different company.
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