… you can still help make sure that the 2013 People’s Poetry Festival happens! As a registered not for profit that relies entirely on the support and dedication of our volunteers, we also rely on grants and generous donations to make the festival a reality each August. Things like:
- Buying supplies for our Do-It-Yourself poetry stations, including scissors, glue, paper, pencils and various art supplies; yarn for poetry bombs; and typewriter ribbon
- Buying supplies to create poetic graffiti, such as canvas, paint, brushes, paper and other multimedia art supplies
- Covering various advertising costs, including printing and distributing posters
- Operational costs, like our annual website fee, monthly banking costs, providing food and beverages at our opening event–and to feed our volunteers over the weekend. They work hard!–and membership with organizations like Volunteer Calgary
- Equipment costs, such as renting sound equipment for our outdoor open mic, and finding tables, chairs, couches, easles and the like for our DIY poetry stations, outdoor lounge and poetic graffiti art walk
- Additional event costs, like booking a venue for our afterhours Cabaret
- Keeping the festival FREE and accessible (except for a handful of adult-only events, that have a suggested $5 donation at the door)
- And most importantly, thanking our poets, artists and performers by providing them with a modest honorarium
We love to share poetry with you–online, on the streets, in the coffee shops and everywhere we can get it. But our poets, artists, performers and volunteers work hard to make it happen. We want to be able to continue to share poetry with you, but we also want to thank these individuals for their continued dedication and support. As any poet will tell you, poetry doesn’t often pay particularly well. And we want to show our poets, artists and performers the same support they show us each and every year. For that, we need your help.
Now, it’s even easier to support The People’s Poetry Festival by making a donation online. If you love us, we’d appreciate your support by clicking the button below and helping us continue to do what we love! Thank you!