I was thinking to create an event to raise money for a charity called Candlelighters. Candlelighters is a charity for people that suffer from cancer. I chose this because I’m already in contact with them, this is because I wanted to work with them for my last years’ project. However, due to coronavirus, everything had to be canceled. This would also be much easier to get to them because they already know who I am. So for my event idea, I would make an event to raise money for Candlelighters because of they are a very nice charity to work with.
Additionally, Candlelighters can provide us with badges, balloons, and many more. This links to actually trying to raise money for the charity. In my opinion, paying for tickets wouldn’t be such a great idea because some people then might not actually donate for the charity. So I was thinking about selling the tickets for free and then at the event, we would sell stuff from Candlelighters. I think that this would help us raise more money. We will also need to know the exact number of people so we can set everything out.
For the venue, I think the best idea would be to perform in college at the art gallery because it would be much easier for us to move all the instruments but also because we wouldn’t have to pay for anything. Another reason why we should perform in college is that not many people will come and see us only family and friends, so we don’t need a very big venue. However, we need to at least set all the chairs out for a maximum of 100 people.
For the theme of the event I was thinking to really focus it on the charity. However, we can create posters and give them out in college and in the other buildings to let people know what we are raising money for and maybe we can have more people coming to see us perform. As I remember from last year we used to take photos of the different band that performed and what were their names. So I was thinking to do the same this would also guide the audience what will happen next and who is going to perform.
So overall, I think that raising money for Candlelighters would be a good idea because it would take us less time to get to them but they would also provide us with stuff. Also performing in college would be much easier because it would take us less amount of time to move all the instruments and we would have more time to practice and test everything out. Lastly, we can also film all of the performances as we did in our previous projects this would help us to evaluate our projects more and to reflect on our mistakes and successes.