I had a 45 minute conversation with my mentor today to figure out exactly how to go about this idea. She suggested that instead of Mariachi Girl, we go with Charlotte's Web for the DCT play itself because our audience is mostly younger kids who would probably appreciate Charlotte's Web more than Mariachi Girl. I agreed with her, but said that we would have to make sure there were still final presentation slots available after that event date (which is April 27th). According to the rough schedule Mr. Correa emailed us two weeks ago, the last slot available is on May 2nd, so it seems like Charlotte's Web should work just fine. I didn't really like the idea of pushing the event till the last minute like that, but it seems like there's not really any other go. Mariachi Girl is recommended for children ages 8 and up, and we have a lot of kids that are younger than that; Charlotte's Web would be better, since it's for children ages 5 and up.
My mentor also told me that she knows the director of the DCT personally, and that they had worked with her in the past to coordinate events like this, so that is a big plus for me! At least that way, this idea I'm pitching to her will have some credibility and it'll have a much higher likelihood of being approved with my mentor backing it up.
We also discussed in brief the matter of selling tickets - we plan to buy in bulk 200 tickets and sell them each for $25, giving the DCT $10 of the proceeds for each ticket sold. Therefore, our estimated fundraising total from this event is $3000. We'll see if that actually happens, though; at this point, the idea is still in its early stages, and I'm just a teensy bit anxious about it, even though the Pratham network is really quite big and my mentor assured me that selling 200 tickets would be no problem.
We'll see how it goes. My mentor asked me to type her an email explaining all of the stuff we discussed so that she could forward it to the DCT's director to get it approved. We think that we'll hear back from DCT by the end of this weekend, and if we do, I'm hoping we can order our tickets by the end of next week. Then, once we get them, we'll have almost 2 months to get the word out and sell them all.
My mentor also told me that she knows the director of the DCT personally, and that they had worked with her in the past to coordinate events like this, so that is a big plus for me! At least that way, this idea I'm pitching to her will have some credibility and it'll have a much higher likelihood of being approved with my mentor backing it up.
We also discussed in brief the matter of selling tickets - we plan to buy in bulk 200 tickets and sell them each for $25, giving the DCT $10 of the proceeds for each ticket sold. Therefore, our estimated fundraising total from this event is $3000. We'll see if that actually happens, though; at this point, the idea is still in its early stages, and I'm just a teensy bit anxious about it, even though the Pratham network is really quite big and my mentor assured me that selling 200 tickets would be no problem.
We'll see how it goes. My mentor asked me to type her an email explaining all of the stuff we discussed so that she could forward it to the DCT's director to get it approved. We think that we'll hear back from DCT by the end of this weekend, and if we do, I'm hoping we can order our tickets by the end of next week. Then, once we get them, we'll have almost 2 months to get the word out and sell them all.
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