Red Eye

RAIN

You're probably already caring for multiple communities - your block, your family, maybe a food shelf or mutual aid group. If Red Eye is also part of your constellation of care, here's how to show up right now.

Healthy systems have and need diversity - many different elements doing different things, all in relationships. Food. Medicine. Shelter. Connection. Art. Rest. Resistance. All these can take on many, many forms.

The questions our artists dare to ask—about sovereignties, collective practice and care, bodies, texts, self determination, relationships, local / national / global issues, systemic inequities, borders and supremacies—these questions demand imagination and courage, and cannot solely be resourced within the systems that cause the harm. It really matters to us that you have a stake. We are asking you, regardless of your background or identity, to join us in supporting this vital cultural rupture.

Red Eye is a seemingly small thing in a huge ecosystem. But as many of you already feel and know, infinitely vital. We understand if your resources need to go elsewhere this year. We're grateful you're here however you can be. 

Support at Your Capacity

The Rain and the Reservoir: Two Ways to Sustain

We ask for a one-time gift and/or a monthly gift for Give to the Max. 

THE RAIN: One Time Gift of ANY AMOUNT: $10 - $1000 or more

THE RESERVOIR: A Fixed Amount Monthly Gift of ANY AMOUNT: $5 - $200 or more

I am thinking about our spring melt, those of us that long for it (and those out mourn it!) or our sometimes massive summer rains gathering into flowing abundance and its relationships to our lakes, our reservoir—what holds steady.

We're asking you to be in relationship with what we're building—a space that holds all the questions, that ruptures the expected, that resources imagination the dominant systems won't fund.

The rain is like a one-time giving. A surge of accumulated energy. You show up as a collective of voices—A needed and necessary wash or flood for our Red Eye ecosystems.

The Reservoir: A reservoir isn't built for abundance—it's built for drought. Sustenance is different from survival. Sustenance is what allows us to plan, to dream, to commit—to build for the long march ahead. The work of reimagining requires infrastructure for the long haul. Committed reciprocity. Your $10, $25, $50/month is sustenance—the kind that lets imaginations thrive, not just survive.

Both are how small organizations like Red Eye survive precarity. Both are how we build the infrastructure we need.

Give to the Max! Join the Reservoir because the long game matters. No gift is too small!

What Your Support Makes Possible

• Artist fees at all levels
• The artists who work at Red Eye: humans who tend our space and systems
• Accessible ticket prices - Sliding Scale (No one turned away for lack of funds)
• Infrastructure that lets us be long-range
• Accessible Infrastructure - Such as ASL for performances, Continual Upgrades
• Responsive Culture-Building - The ability to meet some immediate needs when asked - for space, technical support, partnerships etc.
• Continual dialogue and exchange and the ability to tend our most vital relations

Most importantly, we can tend to what is emergent, unfundable, unpackaged.

Can't Give Money Right Now?

That's completely okay. Here are other ways to tend:

• Help clean up after an event!
• Introduce us to someone we should know
• Volunteer or share your skills and time
• Come to our performance or workshop offerings and bring a friend!
• Help us with chunkable tasks - archival work or maintenance tasks!