Event Sponsorship Package

event sponsorship package

t e m p o r a l c i t y f e s t i v a lapril 12-15th 2013

A festival for time-based, performance, & new media art sited in unused spaces in downtown Mobile.

Temporal City Festival is an annual 3-day event presented by The Rumor Union and hosted by

downtown’s 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-specific. Tours are

scheduled throughout, as well as a host of opportunities for artists to enter into public conversation.

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2012 performance/installation by Lillian McKinney

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.


Who We AreRumor Union’s 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 beneficial 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-specifics and social ecology of

downtown.


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 unfulfilled

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 benefit of of an expansive and untamed margin. The South is

in flux. Here, we are free to experiment, re-invent ourselves, and lay down new paths

through history into a undetermined future. Mobile has had a year’s 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-specific 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 year’s festival.


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 befit 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.


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 we’ll

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 fill out the form

below. Be sure to specify any special requests along with it.


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 [email protected]

Event: Temporal City Festival 2013Date: April 11thLocation: Downtown Mobile

Sponsorship Amount $____________ . ___check ___cash ___credit(online)

Comments/ Questions/ Special Requests:_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Please make checks payable to ‘the rumor union’ earmarked “TCF/ES”

* * * * * * * * * * * * * O f f i c e U s e O n l y * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Funding Coordinator:

Pick Up: _______________________

Notes: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

detach and mail to 306 A Stocking St Mobile Al 36604


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Event Sponsorship Package