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EVENT PRODUCTION 101
Friday 8/21 - Budgets and Revenue
Saturday 8/22 - Booking and Contracts
Sunday 8/23 - Promotion
I'm Noah Mickens. I've been producing big, successful shows in Portland and elsewhere since 1999 (Wanderlust Circus, Someday Lounge, 2Gyrlz, etc etc etc); and I've done it all on a shoestring budget. This is my profession - I haven't held a straight job in 10 years, just making my living producing and performing in shows. More about me at the bottom of this announcement.
I will teach as many of my secrets as I can pack into three 3-hour workshops over a single weekend.
You can take just one, or two; but take all three and you've got yourself a fine initiation into the ancient art of the local showbiz hustle.
DAY ONE Covers BUDGETING and conception of your show including Door Deals, Revenue Projection, Expenses, Guarantees, the Back End Split, and more!
DAY TWO is all about BOOKING - Contracts, Venues, the Hold System, Clients, Negotiation, Riders, Stage Plots, and more!
DAY THREE is PROMOTION - Press, Street Team (posters and handbills), Social Networks, Mailing List, Poster Design, and (you guessed it) MORE!
TICKETS:
You can get tickets RIGHT NOW by sending money through PayPal to battyshippodrome@gmail.com
Please include a note or send me a message when you PayPal, to make sure I understand what you're buying.
EARLY BIRD Discount Registration:
$100 for all three days
ONLY 10 AVAILABLE - Sign up today before they all sell out!
ONE CLASS ONLY
$50 advance registration, $60 at the door
OR, if you don't have PayPal or don't like PayPal or whatever; you can buy the tickets through www.brownpapertickets.com and pay a small fee. (This isn't up yet, but it will be soon)
As promised, here's more about me:
Noah Mickens is a theatrical director, circus ringmaster, scrap metal percussionist, compere, event producer, songwriter, hype machine, and bon vivant. Once labelled "the impresario of the underground", he has founded and performed in such diverse performing troupes as Wanderlust Circus (with Nick the Creature), Bogville (with NagaSita), Societas Insomnia (with David Heifetz), The 999 Eyes of Endless Dream (with Dylan McPuke and Samantha X), and Nequaquam Vacuum (with Tyler Armstrong and Travis McAlister); as well as such one-shot productions as A Midsummer Night's Dream (a butoh adaptation, with Mizu Desierto), Day of the Zombie (a rock opera, with Zombie Dan Abbott), and Queen of Knives (an opera, with Eric Stern). As a musician, Mickens has focused on singing and on the creation of improvised music using found objects, most particularly scrap metal. In addition to his own ensemble, Nequaquam Vacuum , some of the groups he's played with include Soriah, Pretty Art Narcotic, The Steve MacKay Ensemble, Vagabond Opera, 3 Leg Torso, Danse Perdue, Z'EV, Implied Violence, Sikhara, Stolen Sweets, The Shanghai Woolies, The Hop-Frog Kollectif, Moe! Staiano's Moe!kestra!, The Shanghai Woolies, Damo Suzuki's Network, and The Wanderlust Circus Orchestra. Beginning with the independently-produced 36 Invisibles series at The Jasmine Tree tiki lounge; his curatorial and organizational Work has included serving on the board of directors for 2Gyrlz Performative Arts and The EnterActive Language Festival; a U.S. node of the international Radon collective; creative director of Someday Lounge during its early period (and before); and in-house booker for Rotture, Branx, and The Hippodrome. He is known to the marathon running world as the Brooks Ringmaster; and has also MC'd for The Bite of Oregon, The Rose Festival, Miss Kennedy's Cabaret; and private parties for Nike, Weiden & Kennedy, Intel, the Cascade AIDS Project, Willamette Week, and all the usual Portland suspects. That's him in the top hat in that Dream of the 90s video. He'll take you off like a Saturday.
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LocationMusician's Union Local 99 (View)
325 NE 20th Ave
Portland, OR 97232
United States
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| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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