WORLD SILLYweek is the quintessential DIY festival and a festive time totally dedicated to the sanctioning of social transgression – benign social transgression where nobody is hurt – the relief of social tensions, unorganised foolishness, communal clowning about and, most importantly, a little bit of serious urine collection – all in the aid of charity.
In 2011, if you are organising a WORLD SILLYweek DIYfestival event it is entirely up to you which charity you support. However, the WORLD SILLYweek PEOPLE would appreciate it if you used the comment section below to identify YOUR EVENT and tell the world which REGISTERED charity you will be supporting and ultimately to tell us all how much you raised.
The WORLD SILLYweek PEOPLE will be supporting the Examiner’s Winter Appeal as well as establishing a SILLYweek WHITE KNIGHT ARTIST SUPPORTS FUND. Why? It is simple really as artist notoriously do not earn enough from their arts practice to live and without them our lives would be the poorer for it ... click here for more information
The Examiner’s Winter Appeal is rightly directed toward raising money for the disenfranchised poor in our community. Artists do have access to grant programs but generally these funding agencies have meagre funding available. Generally SILLYweek funding will only be available for Launceston based artists or arts projects unlikely to or unable to win mainstream arts funding. As a White Knight Fund artists will not be able to apply for funding, rather the fund’s trustees will from time, given that funds are available:
When information about the trustees is available it will be posted in the Comments Section below as will all relevant information relevant to the WORLD SILLYweek charity funding.
In 2011, if you are organising a WORLD SILLYweek DIYfestival event it is entirely up to you which charity you support. However, the WORLD SILLYweek PEOPLE would appreciate it if you used the comment section below to identify YOUR EVENT and tell the world which REGISTERED charity you will be supporting and ultimately to tell us all how much you raised.
The WORLD SILLYweek PEOPLE will be supporting the Examiner’s Winter Appeal as well as establishing a SILLYweek WHITE KNIGHT ARTIST SUPPORTS FUND. Why? It is simple really as artist notoriously do not earn enough from their arts practice to live and without them our lives would be the poorer for it ... click here for more information
The Examiner’s Winter Appeal is rightly directed toward raising money for the disenfranchised poor in our community. Artists do have access to grant programs but generally these funding agencies have meagre funding available. Generally SILLYweek funding will only be available for Launceston based artists or arts projects unlikely to or unable to win mainstream arts funding. As a White Knight Fund artists will not be able to apply for funding, rather the fund’s trustees will from time, given that funds are available:
- Buy works from an artist and donate it to a collection;
- Commission a work;
- Pay an artist’s travel costs to do something in support of their practice; or
- Provide top up funding to enable the artist to participate in a project.
When information about the trustees is available it will be posted in the Comments Section below as will all relevant information relevant to the WORLD SILLYweek charity funding.
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