Could you please spare $5 to help us operate for the next 12 months?

Your free, weekly, curated guide to arts and culture in New Orleans

Hi, 

We’re officially on hiatus this week as we make the website better and more accessible, but just to let you know that I updated the weekly diary if you want to check in on events and new plays, etc.

Please read on if you’d like to help us operate for another year! Thank you!

It’s one year since we last had a fundraising drive. It’s been a great twelve months, and reader numbers are up (we recently had our first 1,000-reader day)! I try to keep ads on the site to a minimum, but I can only do this via reader donations. Last year we raised $4,000 thanks to your generosity, which just about got us through the year. I would love to top that, so that I can pay more people to write about more of the city. 

My aim is to get 1,000 people (out of our 6,000 subscribers) to donate $5 each during the month of June for this year’s budget. That’s just $5 for one full year of Out All Day (and Up All Night for that matter) - the arts coverage and the reviews and the event round ups and the interviews and the curated weekly diary and more videos. I work many unpaid hours every week to put this all together (something I’m happy to do!), and I spent my own money towards the end of this year, but I want to pay local writers for their work, and I would be sincerely grateful for your help. 

This year, we’re running a raffle and rewards system. Every $5 donation = 1 raffle ticket. The grand prize will be one $200 gift voucher (for a local business of your choice) for funds raised up to $3,000, going up $100 for every $1,000 raised above that (if we raise $5,000, we’ll give away a $400 gift voucher). The winner will be drawn at random on a live Instagram story on June 30th. Here are the other, guaranteed rewards:

Up to $10: Our thanks, a tagged shout-out on our social media and your name on the websites.

$20: As above plus a tagged IG story on both accounts (Out All Day and Up All Night) promoting your website/business/show/etc

$40: As above plus a paperback copy of my recently released, acclaimed* comic memoir, Do Mind If I Don’t (*by my friends, who are only being a bit polite? It’s funny, I think/hope?)

$50: As above, plus two tagged IG posts (one on each account) promoting your website/business/show/etc

$75: As above plus two display ads (one on each of the main websites for Out All Day and Up All Night) for one week 

$100: As above plus four display ads - one on each website and one on both newsletters for one week (= four total)

$150: As above plus a long-form advertorial feature (e.g. an interview or a general feature) about your business/organization on both websites

$200: As above, plus eight display ads (two ads across four editions of both websites) and a total of two IG posts and two IG stories (or we can talk about what would work best for you).

To donate (circumventing fees as much as I can to boost the prize fund): 

My Venmo: @shandypockets (last four digits of my cell are 8421 if they ask).

Zelle: (for Chase Bank customers): paul.oswell@gmail.com

For a credit card donation: email outalldaynola@gmail.com and we can send you a link (5% admin charge applies as it’s via PayPal and they rinse me on fees)

Thank you for supporting independent journalism and ongoing arts coverage in New Orleans. Arts and culture have fewer and fewer outlets, and I really want to keep this publication going, all the while employing local writers and supporting local productions, artists and musicians. 

Thank you for your consideration, I can’t tell you how much it means to me and how much I appreciate it. 

As always, much love. 

Paul O