Red Eye

In our shifting funding landscape, Red Eye has spent this past year rooting down, deepening relationships, and building resources for the communities we share. We’ve done so much work – we’re inspired and ready to do more! 

The recent election results have us feeling so hopeful. As we move together towards a more equitable world, Red Eye needs financial support to continue stewarding our shared resources, relationships, and creative potential. 

Show up for us , as we will continue showing up for you!

Our year-end fundraising goal is $10,000. Help us get half way there  – $5,000 – on or before Give to the Max Day! 

Over the past year, Red Eye has: 

• Launched KIN, a performance series that interrupts the transactional way the field values commissioning work. 

• Launched CLASSSS, a new format for gathering, learning, and sharing. 

• Gathered and shared resources  – raised nearly $1,000 for Smitten Kitten’s mutual aid fund and Pow-Wow Grounds’ fund for first responders in the Franklin corridor, our neighbors. 

• Hosted Legal Observer Training with Unidos/Monarca. 

• Partnered with Queer Voices, Mni Giizhik Theatre Ensemble & Exposed Brick Theatre, Body Watani, Grief & Rage Circle for Palestine, Mizna, and FD13 Residency for the Arts among others to host vital performances and offerings through our Curated Rentals program.

• Joyfully presented our ongoing programs Tiger Balm and Red Eye Festival (Works in Progress) with dozens of artists and hundreds of witnesses. Together we continue to experiment, to push, to innovate powerful, resonant forms of expression in our communities.

We feel so honored to be part of an ecosystem of makers, creative agitators, and beautiful souls with whom we share space and energy. 
Support for Red Eye is support for this interconnected community! 

We invite you to Support at Your Capacity

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

THE RESERVOIR: A Monthly Gift of ANY AMOUNT: $5 - $200 (or more). 

A one-time gift and/or a monthly gift helps Red Eye sustain our commitment to artists and our communities. 
No gift is too small!

What Your Support Makes Possible

• Artist fees at all levels

• Wages for the artists who work at Red Eye: the humans who tend our space and systems

• Accessible ticket prices - every Red Eye event is Sliding Scale (no one turned away for lack of funds)

• Accessible Infrastructure - ASL for performances, Access training for artists, Equipment and Space Upgrades

• Responsive Culture-Building - The ability to meet immediate needs when asked - for space, technical support, partnerships etc., like hosting Legal Observer Training ahead of the ICE occupation

• Continual dialogue and exchange that tends our most vital relations and creativity

Can't Give Money Right Now?

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

• Help clean up after an event!

• Connect us to like-missioned organizations, groups or individuals.

• Volunteer to help with Box Office at Red Eye Festival.

• Follow us on Instagram or Facebook. 
• Sign up for our newsletter.
• Pay a little more on our sliding scale for a ticket when you can.

• Come to performances and bring your friends!

Do the work that creates networks: 

• Create your own networks that deepen our ecosystem.
• Build the resources to mutually support each other, even interorganizationally.
• Build your capacity for community care: Go to Know Your Rights trainings, Legal Observer trainings, Medic Trainings, First Aid Training etc. Consider these essential skills as a community member.
• Connect with your mutual aid networks—figure out what networks exist and really see the value of your time and contributions to your neighbors and community.
  
  When the time comes, we will band together and create powerful collective voices for culture change!