BUDGET
It may be surprising, but creating a live production can cost a lot.
Most larger-scale concerts, theatrical, or immersive experiences you may have seen can have a budget of at least $100,000. It's rare to find a quality live performance whose true costs aren’t around that amount.
As self-producing working artists for over 10 years, we would like to continue working with the right collaborators with expertise in a range of artistic and production fields. We would like to be able to have a larger budget for interactive development and experimentation.
We are enormously grateful for all the donations of materials and labor, but it’s important for us going forward to make sure we are paying our team what they are worth, and to achieve this we will need help from our community to make this project more sustainable.
PRODUCTION COST BREAKDOWN
FUNDRAISING GOAL: $20,000
TIMELINE
TRUTH & MAGIC premiered at Culture Lab LIC in December 2024!
With the project’s debut now under our belts, we intend to expand the TRUTH & MAGIC further over the next 3-5 years.
SEPT-OCT 2024 | Dramaturgy & Tech Development
NOV 2024| Rehearsals & Marketing Outreach
DEC 13 & 14, 2024 | Initial Show Run
JAN/FEB ‘25 | Grant Submissions
Spring/Summer ‘25 | 2nd Developmental Phase
our goals
The primary goal of this project is to advocate for real play & JOY in our everyday lives.
long-term, we hope to create a sustainable, scalable, and accessible live concert experience, collaborating with local visual and performing artists under our GB brand identity.
The overwhelmingly positive response from our local Queens community, our audiences, and producing partners at Culture Lab LIC and NYU made it clear that there is a strong desire for more joy-centric community-based projects like this. People came curious and READY to tap into their inner child — that speaks volumes. Our audiences left disappointed that there were only two shows, and we would love the opportunity to expand future iterations of the show’s run and build on our present momentum.