Volunteers and Support Needed
We did receive funding from the Guam Council on the Arts and Humanities. However, it will not cover all our expenses. Therefore, we are seeking donations and various kinds of support to offer our ideal program. Below is a list of our requests. If you can help in any way, please let me know. If you or your business can support us with donations of money or materials, we will include you in our posters, flyers, and programs and if you are a major donor, we will mention you in our announcements at the performances.
Food: Our goal is to feed the participants a healthy lunch and have drinking water available. We are seeking donations in order to do this, and will need volunteers to prepare the lunch. We need a volunteer to coordinate this.
Sets: Depending on the set design, we will need wood, that is light enough to carry and durable enough to stand on when built into boxes or platforms. We will need hammers and nails. We will need paint and paintbrushes. We may need material, such as old white sheets, to paint scenes on. We will need someone with carpentry skills and tools to help students
in the construction of simple set pieces. We will likely need someone to cut the pieces into our desired lengths so that the interns will not need to do that.
Costumes: We plan for our costumes, like the set, to be simple, lava lava or pareau-style. However, we will likely need material and ropes, and may have more specific needs for props, like coconut frond baskets and coconut cups (chiretas). We may also need volunteers to help the participants make the costumes.
Sketchbooks/Journals/Supplies: We would like all participants to have a sketchbook or journal for note-taking, design projects, journaling their experience, and art during down times. Writing and drawing materials needed as well.
Supervisory and Support: As participants work on their projects, it would be helpful to have adults there to help supervise and to give positive encouragement as participants work on their various projects.
Marketing and Publicity: We are seeking a volunteer who can conduct a marketing workshop for our participants.
We need a volunteer to coordinate our media and publicity campaign. Also, we would like to have as much free publicity as possible, so it would be helpful to publicize our project and performances through your personal networks.
Pulani Children's Books for all participants: I am in the process of writing and illustrating a Pulani children's book. I would like to be able to provide this book to all participants free of charge, and am seeking a sponsor to fund this cost.