event sponsorship package

temporal city

festival
spaces in downtown Mobile.

april 12-15th 2013

A festival for time-based, performance, & new media art sited in unused

2012 performance/ installation by Lillian McKinney

Temporal City Festival is an annual 3-day event presented by The Rumor Union and hosted by downtowns Arts Alive! festival. TCF intersects downtown geography with unconventional media. Ten Artists are invited each year to execute temporary projects of either new media, performance, or installation art in vacant buildings within a three block radius of Cathedral Square. Patrons are invited on a journey to rediscover our city through an artist-designed map of the all work sited in the festival, as well as the location of scheduled artist talks. Each work is site-specic. Tours are scheduled throughout, as well as a host of opportunities for artists to enter into public conversation.

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Program History:
Temporal City Festival began in 2011 with the spark of an idea. With no budget, materials, or sites a group of artists came together to coordinate an experience of downtown like no other. Only a year later, an entire arts organization has sprouted up around those eager creative thinkers. Temporal City Festival 2011 was wildly successful despite limited time and resources. We pulled together 10 fantastic and widely varied spaces. We reached hundreds people with virtually no publicity. And we received praise from our patronage beyond any expectation. Over and over again we were told Mobile needs this, keep going. With the gracious support of the Arts Alive! festival we feel now that we have something that both feeds our community through fresh perspectives and the innovative use of forgotten space.

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Who We Are
Rumor Unions mission is to support art that is engaging, fosters dialogue, and seeds growth in the greater community. ! We help artists accomplish ambitious projects by resourcing venues and materials, building alliances, advocating for projects, and troubleshooting project ideas.! Our emphasis on grassroots organizing seeks to include all races, genders, and socio-economic classes.! We believe together we are much more than the sum of our parts.

Event Goals
To bring together different groups from the community. We do this by collaborating with both Arts Alive! and Southsounds Music Festival on creating a cohesive and inclusive community event. To create awareness of local businesses that support the arts. To create a unique event that will heighten community engagement and awareness of local arts and culture. To host untraditional media, and accommodate work that is without a home in the current art market structure downtown. To provide new sustainable and economically benecial methods of creative practice for artists. To activate, and inspire dialog on the uses and possibilities of space. To build Mobile into a reputable destination for evocative and trans-disciplinary art practice. To interject new critical thought into the site-specics and social ecology of downtown.
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Temporal City Festival! 2013 Curatorial aim

SCHEDULED FOR: April 12th-14th 2013!

Other Worlds Within

Temporal City Festival is an exercise in re-imagining PLACE.! Our urban landscape is a body of secrets. Just beyond the teaming ruckus of street-life are the shells of unfullled imagination. Daily we stroll past the membrane. Looming feats of architecture and effort that shroud unrealized potential, the husks of possibility. Here, we call for artful revision. Art in the South has the benet of of an expansive and untamed margin. The South is in ux. Here, we are free to experiment, re-invent ourselves, and lay down new paths through history into a undetermined future. Mobile has had a years worth of devastating storms and wild successes. With the onset of new economic opportunities, as well as the effort to cope with marked loss, this is a moment for vision. The way in which a child may map out his or her hopes and dreams for the future, we must take a charge of unfettered dreaming for not-so distant prospect. We must lay claim to the potentials of our town, and dare to re-imagine the value of our place. ! The Rumor Union would like to invite ten artists to take temporary intervention on unused buildings within the downtown landscape, in the form of performance, installation and new media art work. This is to be a body of work that re-envisions local. Projects that are site-specic and present an alternative idea of place are preferred. All media and art forms will be considered, so long as they thematically address the aim of this years festival.!
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Why Sponsor This Event?

The Rumor Union operates on the basis of relationships. The great majority of our programming! is transient for one reason: to get heads through the door of local establishments. This not only helps stimulate our local economy, but it builds connections that deepen and widen our sense of community. Our goal is to create a sense of abundance, not only for local contemporary art, but for our city.! Sponsors are culture-builders, they make meaningful investments in the community. Likewise, sponsorship to one of our events is not your average marketing opportunity. We take great care in where we hold our alligences. We treat each sponsor as a partnership that holds growth potential. From the seeds of those partnerships sproute new programming and ideas. Wherever we can, we aim to foster awareness of, and to celebrate what our city has to offer.! By becoming an Event Sponsor you bet through:

Association with an active community based organization. Recognition as a supporter of innovative and exciting new art forms. A presence at Art Alive and Southsounds Music Festival. Visibility through all promotional materials, a direct link on our website (a weekly destination for our members) and at the event itself. The knowledge that you are supporting your creative community, and helping to grow Mobile into a destination of innovation.

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Event Sponsor Packages

LUMINARY - $1500. donation
" Logo on all print matter, direct link on website, acknowledgment in all media , info table presence at event, and invite to our private tour of First Night opening. BARON -$750. donation " Logo on some print matter, direct link on sponsors page of website, information presence at event, and invite to our private tour of First Night opening. ARTIST- SPECIFIC HONORARIUM -$300. donation " Send your money directly to support a participating artist of your choosing. If you wish, your name will be mentioned in all publicity and media around that particular artist's work for the event. HERO - $150. donation " Acknowledgment on some print matter and at the event itself. Plus well probably sing to you. SECRET ADMIRER - $50. donation " Just because you like this sort of thing.

If you have another amount in mind please just write it in when you ll out the form below. Be sure to specify any special requests along with it.

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Event Sponsorship Form!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Date_____________

Company/ Organization _______________________________________ Name _________________________________ Title___________________ Phone __________________________Email___________________________ Mailing Address__________________________________________________ Web address where logo can be found___________________________
Or ___I need to email a copy of our logo to joelle@rumorunion.com

Event: Temporal City Festival 2013 Date: April 11th Location: Downtown Mobile Sponsorship Amount $____________ . ___check ___cash ___credit(online) Comments/ Questions/ Special Requests:_________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________
Please make checks payable to the rumor union earmarked TCF/ES

*************Office Use Only************** Funding Coordinator: Pick Up: _______________________ Notes: __________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________
detach and mail to 306 A Stocking St Mobile Al 36604
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