We are now organizing a tour this coming fall with "3 Innocents and a Spirit" with great positive experience under our belts from our spring tour 2006, thanks to so across the US! This time we will be travelling with Welele (see his bio below), an extraordinary drummer and dancer to provide classes in Haitian rhythms and dance as well as being our invited artist for the Native American role in the play.Our thoughts and hopes are to make as much of our capacities to raise as much as we can for the vision, N a Sonje and the Memory Village, in a limited amount of time. Here are some ideas: 1-Present and perform on university campuses by speaking in classrooms and by performing the play in university theatres. We have spoken and love to speak in classrooms ranging from black studies, culture, development, environment, history, international politics, literature, peace and justice studies, philosophy, religion, women's studies, etc. for students to hear from an authentic Haitian
perspective!2-Perform in community theatres and speak to various appropriate types of community organizations such as African American, Native American, anti-racism, Peace and Justice groups, Haitian associations, Rotary clubs, etc.A suggestion would be to spend a week in one place. Arrival on Suncay, then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, present in classrooms, speak to local community organizations at potluck* types of gatherings as well as speak/appear on local radio and/or television. Then either Wednesday or Thursday do an evening performance on campus, which would provide more publicity for a performance in the community Friday and/or Saturday evenings. We would the coverage both in local media and campus feedback to bring in maximum for the final community performance(s). We understand and appreciate the
time required for such an undertaking and thus humbly look for inspiration and guidance as we put this before you. If you have ideas such as knowing someone available and/or interested in helping on the ground in your area for these types of things: University contacts, could be several universities in one specific area to maximize our time in classrooms and theatre production which would include publicity on campus and off. Many universities have their own radio programs, some are even connected with NPR as well. Community contacts to reserve, promote, contact media, organize ticket sales, provide publicity for one or two performances in the community. From our experience last year, we realize that publicity is probably the key element to success in getting people out to an event like this and that costs money as well, we realize. There was so much initiative taken last year which makes us believe greater things are possible!*The potluck: a place where people who are already interested in the vision and that might have access to finding funding for the vision. We would provide the Foundation and Memory Village materials, powerpoint presentation, and all the details about the Village, so that perhaps someone or a group would be interested in financing one of the buildings of the Memory Village, for example.
