THIS IS A PERSONAL PLEA FROM THE BUSKING PROJECT

We’ve filmed hundreds of you around the world, your home lives, your performances, interviews with you. We’re now in possession of the world’s only global footage of street performance: we’re uniquely situated to make a documentary that ties the street art of Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America together. We’ve also made free promo videos for some of those that we’ve filmed — 90 so far — and are committed to making the rest.

It has been a real education, working with some of the most talented and artistic people on the planet. One thing we’ve learned on our journey is the power of a good hat speech, and that’s why I’m writing this message.

Street performers are necessarily skilled in convincing others of the worth of what you are doing. We need to borrow that skill, and ask you to convince people of the worth of what The Busking Project is doing.

If you’re not sure what that is, we’ve put a comprehensive list of aims here: http://thebuskingproject.com/news-views/news/the-benefits-of-the-busking-project

We desperately need to raise funds to continue. So, we have recently launched a KickStarter Crowd Funding campaign. Crowd Funding works on the principle that lots of people give a little to make worthwhile projects possible. So we need lots of people to

a) know about us,
b) think we’re worthwhile, and
c) give a little.

Our KickStarter campaign offers some great rewards in return for donations (from $5 – $10,000)

Our target amount is small: $3,200. This will allow us to tie up loose ends for the filming phase of our project, but it would be great if we could smash that target and start collecting for creation of the finished product (post-production costs are likely to be $90,000 — equal to what we have personally spent on the filming phase). The more people who know about our campaign the better and more likely we are to reach and beat our target.

So please take a little time, have a think about people who would like to support our worthwhile project. And give them your best bottling speech!

Here is the link to our Kickstarter Campaign, where we need to reach (and beat) our target:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1932327933/international-street-performing-documentary

If you would like to ask questions, don’t hesitate to contact me: nick@thebuskingproject.com

Yours kindly for already making this project possible,

The Busking Project Team,

Nick, Chris, and Belle.