Dear Scottish MoBsters,

I hope that your love of all things cabaret and burlesque is enough that you can get behind this rather crazy project!

We're attempting the seemingly impossible! Attempting to raise £8000 in four days!

We are doing it using We Fund which is the portal through which you can pledge - WeFund | WeFund is a fund-raising platform for creative projects where people offer perks in exchange for pledges

The main way to do this is using Pay Pal however if this doesn't work for you and you really want to pledge (in which case we adore you!) then email us on info[at]rhymeswithpurple[dot]net and we will provide you with alternative details to pledge.

The key thing is that we are not just holding out our hands asking for cash, we will reward you in return for your generosity with VIP tickets, merchandise, discounts and other fun prizes.

We worked out the other day that if the majority of people who will view this thread, an average of 300 judging by the norm, pledged just £15 in the next 48hours then we would hit our target. How incredible would that be? Seriously! you guys quite literally could make or break this Festival. I think it's time to put that legendary MoB community spirit to the test.

That would really give us hope that people care about cabaret and want to see this Festival happen. We have been foiled at every turn in our attempt to get funding for the Cabaret Festival and been led down the garden path a fair bit as well; lots of funding bodies made promises for 2012 but no cigar this year. Which leaves us somewhat in the lurch.

So we're going to try and raise £8000 in four days!


Now here's the sexy PR bit...


The Glasgow Cabaret Festival 2011 is the UK's only celebration of cabaret and variety entertainment as a legitimate theatrical art form.


The festival consists of eight days of performance taking place in a variety of spaces across the city of Glasgow. The key remit for the programming is to be all encompassing and to allow a platform for artists working in underrepresented and often underappreciated disciplines; circus, street arts, musical comedy, spoken word, burlesque, variety and any artist that is unable to define or label their work within any pre-existing genre.


We are programming and producing a primary programme of over 20 shows, including appearances by Frisky & Mannish, The Creative Martyrs, Vive le Cabaret, Piff The Magic Dragon, Des O'Connor, The Gatsby Club and many more.



To be staged for the second time in October 2011, we launched this concept in 2009 to great success despite the limitations of being completely unfunded.


The festival in 2009 was a huge success considering its ambitious endeavours and facing the challenge of being an unknown concept and there has been consistent demand for the Festival to return not only from the artists and venues who took part but from audience members and the businesses that came on board and provided in kind support for the festival.


There is palpable desire to see a second festival take place and our objective is for it to continue bi-annually for the foreseeable future. However it had a crippling effect on the company’s resources and without subsidy the festival will be unable to continue.


We feel that the Glasgow Cabaret Festival is successful for its accessibility for audiences and its unique curatorial angle. It also provides Glasgow with a fantastic contribution to the festival market that sets it apart from the melee of activity in Edinburgh.


Rhymes with Purple are extremely proud of what we achieved with the Glasgow Cabaret Festival in 2009, it provided testament to the fact that if you believe in your project and the value it has to the wider artistic community then incredible things can happen, no matter what your limitations are. The Cabaret Festival is proof that cabaret, as an art-form, can push boundaries and create new artistic concepts out with the tradition of the theatrical framework that will be successful and that people of all walks of life can enjoy.


The Glasgow Cabaret Festival 2011 already has support from several partner venues including The Tron Theatre, The Arches, The Glasgow Art Club, Cottiers Theatre and The Rio Cafe and we need your support too.


Your donation will go towards the running costs of the Festival and ensure that the Glasgow Cabaret Festival continues for many years to come.


Thanks in advance,


The Glasgow Cabaret Festival team.
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