Element Descriptor
Money makes the world go round. Putting on a bandnight can raise money while also giving everyone a good time, and slipping in some (subtle) Political Education, comrade. It’s an undervalued skill…
| You can, with plenty of advance warning and support, put together a simple band night with one or three bands that goes off safely and enjoyably, raising a bit of money and leaving people glad they played, glad they came. | With some advance warning you can stage a decent sized band night, with appeal to a broad range of potential supporters. The politics is in there, but not in anyone’s face, and everyone agrees they’d come back for more. The nights turn a reasonable profit too… | With minimal advance warning you host a large band night, attended by different groups, where everyone feels they had a good time, serious money is raised and serious (and fun) connections are made between the attendees. And babies are conceived. | Just like an expert, except you can do all this while running across a ploughed field pursued by cops and a helicopter, while dictating a press release to a skeptical journalist on your mobile. |
Level descriptors
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| You can, with plenty of advance warning and support, put together a simple band night with one or three bands that goes off safely and enjoyably, raising a bit of money and leaving people glad they played, glad they came. | With some advance warning you can stage a decent sized band night, with appeal to a broad range of potential supporters. The politics is in there, but not in anyone’s face, and everyone agrees they’d come back for more. The nights turn a reasonable profit too… | With minimal advance warning you host a large band night, attended by different groups, where everyone feels they had a good time, serious money is raised and serious (and fun) connections are made between the attendees. And babies are conceived. | Just like an expert, except you can do all this while running across a ploughed field pursued by cops and a helicopter, while dictating a press release to a skeptical journalist on your mobile. |
Element Overview Essay
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The reason band nights may not go well: You don’t have a good venue. You don’t do enough good publicity. You haven’t got a good lineup of bands.
The consequences are that you won’t raise as much money as you thought you would, that everyone’s morale will be a bit down, your credibility will be down with the bands that did come etc.
The solutions well, assuming that there will be bad nights again. Get a good venue Get good bands. Do an enormous amount of publicity and networking and more publicity and have all your ducks in a row and enjoy yourselves. And then nights can be really cool
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