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Bringing the best in emerging European performing artists to the heart of England

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"Okay so where do I start? Words are not really enough to describe the feelings I’ve experienced tonight. My senses were assailed with movement, images, narrative and theatricality. The dinner performance blew me away completely. Plus I have a balloon – if only all nights ended like this." - Audience Feedback BE FESTIVAL 2010

BE FESTIVAL is Birmingham's first international performing arts festival. We bring 15 emerging companies from across the UK and Europe to perform for 4 days in the atmospheric AE Harris Venue in the Jewellery Quarter. All acts in the main festival are competing for a £1500 development prize. We are also programming 4 shows from last year around the main festival as part of our partnership with mac (Midland Arts Centre.) We offer a free programme of talks, public masterclasses and visual arts as well as a youth development project (BE NEXT). For the main programme we only charge £10 a night to see 4 - 30 minute shows as we believe the price should be accessible and affordable. We receive a grant from the Arts Council and we have secured an enormous amount of support-in-kind from the major Birmingham arts organisations for which we are enormously thankful, but putting on a 4 day festival is costly stuff. To help us fully realise our vision for an accessible, diverse and artistically adventurous festival this year we are seeking support from We Funders. Your help will give the next generation of UK and European performing artists a platform to show, explore and develop their work. Who knows, maybe the next Complicite, Mark Rylance, Matthew Bourne or even Picasso will be among them.

WE ARE ALSO RUNNING A COMPETITION FOR ALL PLEDGERS - SEE 'BLOG'

Competition for all pledgers

Posted on 30/05/2011

As an extra thank you to everyone who pledges to support us with no matter how large or small a sum, you will all be entered into a prize draw to win a pair of return tickets from London - Paris, Lille or Brussels courtesy of our friends at www.eurostar.com. So get pledging and soon you might need to get packing... Tickets will be subject to availability, terms & conditions apply. For more information email: felix@befestival.org

Name Amount
Anonymous Supporter 1,060
davidDrayton 100
james.golob@bti... 100
michaeljohn 50
jennym 50
jennym 50
Helgahenry 50
Tomoko 50
pedro miro 50
jamescopp 50
Dylant 50
JennyTopper 50
jamescopp 50
Felix Andrew 30
marklowen 30
bamullin 25
Daniel Goldman 20
Miguel Oyarzun 20
Rob Smales 20
Beatriz B 20
estrellacorral 20
Tuncer 20
volant 20
lucyfoster 20
pascuale 20
Mokho 20
beatrizmerida 15
Javier Lara 10
juju 10
Buzz 10
sofaki 5
mariacaudevilla... 5
Name
development
Felix Andrew
Miguel Oyarzun
jeanwardle

103%

£2050 Wefunded
of £2000 Target
32 Wefunders
46 weeks 1 day ago

  1. Pledge £5 or more

    We will enter you into our We Funders competition - see "Blog"

    and we thank you from the bottom of our deep hearts (but shallow wallets...)

  2. Pledge £10 or more

    Our deep thanks plus a thank you mention in our list of supporters on the website (if desired).

  3. Pledge £20 or more

    As above plus:

    A mention on our Supporters Wall at the venue (if desired).

    A drink on us any night you attend.

  4. Pledge £50 or more

    As above plus:

    A personal thank you letter from the Artistic Directors

    1 ticket to a night of your choice or
    a copy of the highlights DVD

  5. Pledge £100 or more

    As above plus:

    A personalised highlights DVD with message from the Directors and exclusive footage

    2 tickets to a night or nights of your choice instead of 1

    A copy of the festival brochure signed by all the staff & performers

  6. Pledge £250 or more

    As above plus:

    Supporters credit on the DVD

    1 Festival Pass including exclusive dinner with performers on the 5th July
    or
    2 tickets to opening show on 5th July including dinner and 2 tickets to another night of your choice

    The chance to sit in on a technical rehearsal during the day.

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