Give to the Max Day 2020

OUR GOAL: BIPOC ARTIST SUPPORT FUND

Give to the Max Day is Minnesota’s annual day of giving. This year we, at the Twin Cities Horror Festival, would like to take a little bit of a different approach toward our Give to the Max Day fundraiser. Like many companies, we have been analyzing and reflecting on how we can better embrace, support and develop the voices of Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color within our artistic community and we would like to take this season of giving as a chance to support our efforts to bring a more diverse set of horrific voices onto our festival stages. Your GTMD gift this year will support the creation of our BIPOC Artist Support Fund. This fund will be used to remove barriers to participation for BIPOC artists in perpetuity. Every dollar raised during this GTMD fundraiser will be used to increase accessibility for BIPOC artist in the following ways:

·      Subsidizing production fees for future BIPOC creators

·      Providing stipends for BIPOC artists to sit on our curation panels

·      Funding seed money to develop new works

·      And more

We plan on working towards these efforts regardless of how much money we raise, but we are committed to making sure that 100% of the money fundraised in this campaign goes to supporting BIPOC artist and creator involvement in our festival. We believe that by making it easier for every artist to share their work we can expand the types of stories we share, enriching the horror experience for our artists and audiences alike. This is just a first step, but we hope you will join us as we try to make leaps towards being a more diverse, inclusive and monstrously scarier festival.