How Your Donations Will Help Us Run Grimalkin Fest
Grimalkin Fest is a manifestation of our mission and a celebration of Queer Joy and Resilience through a sharing of music, skills, resources and connections. It also supports, uplifts, and cultivates relationships with musicians, other creatives, community partners, and our communities. Last year, our festival’s budget was $12,600. Over $10,000 went directly to the performers and folks working at and planning the event.
We must raise $26,000 to expand this year’s festival budget. Achieving this goal will allow us to:
Compensate folks for travel
Provide food and snacks
Rent a house for out-of-town performers
Purchase decorations, supplies, posters, and locally silk-screened shirts
Rely on a video editor for the virtual live-streamed day
Compensate event planners
Hire a consultant to assist the volunteer coordinator
Rent Starlink equipment to live-stream events happening during the two in-person days
Increase compensation for performers and folks working at the fest
Last year, our budget didn’t allow us to compensate travel costs, provide full meals for performers, workers and volunteers, fairly compensate event planners, hire a consultant to assist volunteers, nor rent a Starlink to live stream the in-person days. A budget increase will.
We started the planning process in November 2023.
Our goal is to raise an additional $16,000 by early June. Doing so will allow us to assess our budget and then complete and finalize the planning for our festival, which will occur in October. We’re also looking for in-kind donations and volunteers leading up to and during the festival. Please apply here.
