Today we visited the local town hall and asked who to speak with about the initial fundraising and people-raising event. I quickly threw together a paper with the basic data and a wish list to try and get their support. Took only a few minutes and someone came to talk to us, said as we are on private grounds we need no licenses other than an insurance, and to email a formal request for support to the president.
Can’t say that I really thought the town hall people would downright stop our event, but talking to politicians and public servants can be a little ‘ew’ (it wasn’t in this case and many local people had advised us to go there and that they would be friendly, but we were nervous before). I’m glad to be able to present our important points about project and event in an email, anyways, which I find a lot easier than talking to people.
So it looks like this event is going to happen! Next step is crafting a beautiful email (currently in work) for the presidente!
Parallel to this work we have started contacting artists, possible collaborators, insurance company (266€ for the event, ouch!). Our date isn’t really fixed yet, we plan for 2 months from here. I’ve started setting up a website, designed a crappy logo and wrote up some descriptions.