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Aim: We are raising funds to help us take Drowning In The Sound to the Brighton and Chichester Fringes!
Who Are The Midnight Florists?
The Midnight Florists are an emerging collective of artists, producers, and researchers manifesting our burning concerns about the world, those things that keep us up at night, and turning them into experimental performance. From social injustices and ecological collapse to queer intimacies and community making. We seek to explore the relationship between the audience/performer and audience/participant, facilitating space so that we can begin to heal or to continue to heal, from the experiences that violently transform us as individuals and as a society.
What Is Drowning In The Sound?
Drowning In The Sound is a verbatim theatre performance collating over 25 hours of interviews with survivors of coercive, domestic, and sexual violence spoken through the surrogate mouths of the performers who hear the original interviews via headphones. Telling the very real stories of “Alex, “Maisie”, and “Sarah”, as they chronicle their journeys of healing and hope, searching for meaning in the aftermath.
Supported by music, dance, multimedia, and broadcast, this performance redirects the narrative from acts of abuse and those who conduct them to the slow and necessary recovery of those who survived. Exploring the dark nuances of survivorship, Drowning In The Sound is ‘relentless in its attack on the subject and celebrating of the voices of victims of abuse’ (Robert Daniels, Bootworks Theatre).
What Will The Funds Be Used For?
Fringe Theatre is an incredibly unprofitable model, and public funding, such as Arts Council England grants are harder and harder to get. Fringe work relies on underpaying or not paying its creative teams. Without crowdfunding this work could simply not happen, so let's break down the funds. We are seeking £1,412 for:
Marketing & Fringe Costs
£309 Brighton Fringe Registration Fee
£246 Brighton Fringe Marketing Buy
£40 for Design Costs
£74 Posters & Flyers
Assets:
- £329 Focusrite Scarlett 18I20 - an Audio Interface to replace our Scarlet 18i8 which cannot support the amount of transmitters required.
- £69 T100 Audio Transmitter - an Audio Transmitter to replace a pre-exisiting, faulty transmitter
- £74 Misc Rehearsal Materials - Made of script printing costs, gaffa tape, audio jacks, usb-c adaptor, and various misc cables and leads
- £66 for a Flight Case - built by us from materials to keep the costs down to replace the broken suitcase we used to transport the kit in.
Insurance & Licenses
- £108 Public Liability Insurance
- £30 PRS Music License
- £67 Contingency
We have made substantial savings of over £3,000 for rehearsal space by using space at The University of Chichester in the late evenings and £400 of audio equipment on loan from Bootworks Theatre. Our entire team is working on a profit share model and has put in an lot of work for no pay. Any additional funds raised will go to paying the artists and towards the development of our next work/support a future tour of Drowning In The Sound.