60.5 Grant writing, social media, & marketing

Hey everyone,

So wrapping up year 5 with a bang. Check out the three highlights and everything that's happening with DC PALs for the rest of the month!!

*DCCAH Grant Writing Assistance

*Social Media Club DC

*Nonprofit Marketing Bank

*Potential Happenings

*Present Happenings

*Ephemeral Happenings

*Future Happening

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*DCCAH Grant Writing Assistance

"DCCAH staff conduct general workshops where you learn everything you need to know about DCCAH and the steps to take to submit a grant application. At these workshops, staff and applicants discuss each opportunity that DCCAH offers to assist DC artists and arts organizations in sharing their creativity. To assist grant recipients, workshops will also include detailed instruction on how to properly complete final reports due at the end of each fiscal year."

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*Social Media Club DC

"Social Media Club's primary mission is to expand digital media literacy, promote standard technologies, encourage ethical behavior and share best practices. We bring together journalists, publishers, communications professionals, artists, amateur media creators, citizen journalists, teachers, students, tool makers, and other interested collaborators.

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*Nonprofit Marketing Bank

"A Marketing Bank is a a single location where you store all of the stuff that you need, and that you are often asked to provide to others. Building your marketing bank will save you tons of time, because you’ll always know where to look for that logo, program description, color palette, etc. And you can also send staff and volunteers right to it, so you aren’t constantly forwarding files to others, saving even more time. You can store your bank on a shared drive, ideally where others can access it remotely."

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Potential Happenings:

Music Man Master Class w/ Parker Esse (@ Joy of Motion) - May 20

Auditions for The Comedy Pigs (Maryland Ensemble Theatre) - May 23

Student Auditions (Adventure Theatre MTC Ensembles) - Jun 2

http://www.adventuretheatre-mtc.org/academy/studentauditions.html

Theatre Tent (Prince George's Arts Council @ C Street Arts Festival) - Jun 9

email deb@venustheatre.org

Call for submissions (Pinky Swear Productions) - Jun 11

https://www.facebook.com/events/151253298333328/

Kickstarter for A is for Artist (AWoL Productions @ Capital Fringe) - Jun 14

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/282071744/a-is-for-artist-an-original-play-this-year-capital/

Audition (Revision @ Dance Place) - Jun 15

http://www.danceplace.org/news/audition-revision-dance-collaborative/

Summer Institute (Dance Exchange) - Jul 6 to 15 / Culminates in performance during the Capital Fringe Festival

http://danceexchange.org/dance-with-dx/institutes/

On-Camera Acting Technique (@ Shakespeare Theatre Company) - Jul 14 to 21

http://www.shakespearetheatre.org/info/education/expand-your-knowledge/classes/adult-classes

Smart Mouth A Cappella Camp (Snowday) - Jul 20 to 21

http://www.iwantasnowday.com/#!smart-mouth

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Present Happenings:

Hamlecchino, Clown Prince of Denmark (Faction of Fools @ Gallaudet University) - Apr 26 to May 19 / DC PAL: Matthew R. Wilson

Six Degrees of Separation (Vpstart Crow Productions) - May 11 to 20 / DC PAL: Geoffrey Baskir

Metamorphoses (Constellation Theatre Company @ Source) - May 2 to Jun 3 / DC PAL: Gwen Grastorf

The Bacchae (WSC Avant Bard @ Artisphere) - May 10 to Jul 1 / DC PALs: Anna Brungardt, Heather Haney, James Finley, Jeremy Pace, Jon Jon Johnson, JR Russ, Kari Ginsburg

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Ephemeral Happenings:

PWYC Previews for The Illusion (Forum Theatre) - May 24 & 25 / DC PAL: Brynn Tucker, Mandy Yu, Mark Halpern

Galactica Special-Agent Happy Hour *Free* (@ Black Fox Lounge) - May 25 / DC PAL: Jeffrey Johnson

The Greatest Songs You've Never Heard (Doug Bowles & the SingCo. Orchestra @ the Arts Club of DC) - May 25 / DC PAL: Doug Bowles

An Evening of Roses (18th St Singers) - Jun 9 / DC PAL: Mike Rowan

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Future Happenings:

The Illusion (Forum Theatre) - May 24 to Jun 16 / DC PAL: Mandy Yu

Home of the Soldier (Synetic Theater) - May 31 to Jul 1 / DC PAL: Pasquale Grubs Guiducci

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And that's it for year 5. Thank you for an awesome half-decade (yikes!!) of spreading the word on what's happening with all you DC PALs.

Keep it up, and I look forward to another awesome 5 years :-)

JR