Hey, I started a nonprofit for independent artists
It's called Shaky Alien Publications Incorporated
Here's the general jist:
Basically the whole idea of rolling over backwards to get your stories published, get your films seen, get your tv show greenlighted, start your music career and get picked up by some big wig manager or whatever is bogus and the financial barrier to pursuing your creative passions prevents a lot of people from pursuing that as a career, and also the exorbitant costs of going to festivals and concerts and shows, and theatre is getting harder and harder to do.
Shaky Alien is built to make that easier for everyone.
Here's what we do:
1. Build free ecologically friendly transitory lodging for travelers, artists, and anyone who needs a place to stay for however long they need it.
2. Run a community broadcast that gives announcements and updates on our artists tours, shares underrepresented music from ONLY independent artists with a rotating Featured Artist program (also yes, this is entirely free)
3. provide software and tutorials to set up YOUR OWN broadcast for people who want to get into radio, whether you want to be a part of Alien Radio or otherwise.
4. Offer online classes for folks who want to hine their writing skills, music composition skills, and also tutorials and classes on graphic design, publishing and more.
5. Offer a charity donation program for any author that chooses to use Shaky Alien's printing and distribution services where we automatically give a percentage of profit to your chosen charity or other nonprofit (we don't take anything, the profits go directly to the author, no royalties, it's all yours. We just offer an automated charity donation service)
6. Host pop up multimedia event festivals where artists, musicians, DJ, actors, and performers are able to attend as Open Play (like karaoke but you're performing like it's a venue you booked, except it's free) as well as independently made film viewings. You can even choose to tour with us in this, it's called The Starlight Circus, all genres are welcome.
7. Host a voluntary digital archive where creatives can share their films, TV shows, pilots, whatever visual media they want either for profit, or donated as free for anyone to view. You can rent the entire library for a month for 10$, or subscribe to it as it gains media for 20$ a month, or stick to the free media catalog. All profits are divided evenly among every contributing artist sharing their works on the paid platform. None of the profits go to Shaky Alien.
8. Build a communal donation ring for high quality professional equipment for anyone to use for their creative pursuits so that people can make their vision a reality without breaking the bank.
We just set up the GoFundMe, and we ARE a legitimate nonprofit (filed all the paperwork and everything)
You can support artists, and completely redefine the entertainment industry to be for the artist, and for the consumer.
Support our GoFundMe here
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