Please consider helping us: it's the last time, I promise
I'm in a bad spot, but I'm hoping we can make it work
Hi y’all,
I have a favor to ask. BUT: It involves everyone getting a gift! If you think that Out All Day is worth $5 per year (10c per week), then I’ll reward you for it. This is the last time I’ll bug you (this year, anyway!), I promise.
We’ve been running OAD for two years now, and we’ve organically built up a nice readership, and managed to employ some great writers. Sadly, I’m having to relocate to the UK for a time. My dad is very sick and my elderly mum needs help. I’m happy to do this, of course, but I’m sad to be away from New Orleans, where a lot of my close friends are, and where my community is.
I run two online publications: Out All Day: New Orleans and Up All Night: New Orleans. They exist mainly to uplift independent artists, hospitality workers, creators, and show producers and performers in our city. This kind of coverage is disappearing in local media, and I really want to do as much as I can to promote the cool stuff that people in New Orleans are doing, from kitchen pop-ups to plays and art exhibitions to burlesque and cabarets.
I’ll be in the UK, but I want to employ a collection of writers for one year so that these weekly magazines can continue. It will also really help me to feel connected to home while I’m going through a crappy situation. I’m interested in all voices and all experiences, and of course I want to pay them (or YOU!) for their (or YOUR) time and talents.
I can run both Out All Day and Up All Night for one year with a freelance budget of around $5,000. I’m asking for $5 to help me do this. If I can raise $3,000, I’ll top it up to $5,000 with my own money. All of it will be spent on local writers, I don’t take a salary. I’m currently at around $1,200.
$5 will get you a gift no matter what (I have original art, books, travel amenity kits, general swag, lots of options, all worth at least $5). Here are some options:
You can simply donate $5, or any amount you like to @shandypockets on Venmo (https://venmo.com/shandypockets), or paul.oswell@gmail.com on PayPal - I’ll deliver a gift to your door to say thanks or if you have a business or website, I can offer free advertising (the combined readership is around 6,000 people weekly).
Buy a ticket for the upcoming show Godless: A Cabaret, at 11pm on Sat Aug 10th and I will also give you five (5) free raffle tickets for the draw on August 1st. You can buy tickets here and I’ll email you to set up your raffle tickets. It’s going to be a great night, with Trombone Squirty, Laveau Contraire, Simone del Mar, Xena Zeit-Geist, Pinky de Ville, Lauren Malara, Laura Sanders and Jeff de Rouen performing.
Thank you for reading this far, and thank you so much for your consideration. Thanks for reading and supporting us. I can’t wait to come home, and in the meantime, I hope I can continue to be part of things here from a few time zones away.
Sincerely, much love to you all.
Paul O