Celebrity Help and Music for the Event

Hey everyone!

It’s Chelsea again. In my last post I mentioned that I was going to be working on sending letters to celebrities to see if we gain their help with raising awareness and money for our cause, and I’m going to elaborate on some more of my thoughts here. My first issue is where to send the letters to. Now, I can actually mail out letters to the address listed for fan mail, or I can send messages through the artists Facebook accounts. I was thinking of using Facebook because it ensures that they’ll get it faster and we could get a reply faster as well; also I think they’d be more likely to see it there. I know agents are responsible for reading a lot of their fan mail for them, but hopefully we can still get them to see it and get an actual reply.

There’s also the issue of who to write to. Some people that I know would appeal to the kids at the festival would be people like Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, and Justin Bieber. However, we might be able to get a greater response from a celebrity who is maybe from Florida or has worked with charities in the past. I’m currently researching that right now. This may include people that would be unknown to the kids at the festival, but widely known by other age groups. Do you think it would be a good idea to appeal to them as well? If another celebrity could donate signed items or money; come to our event; or publically speak about it to the press, it would tremendously help with raising awareness. Although our primary target for the festival is children, our primary target for raising awareness is everyone, and this could help.

Also, I know we thought about having celebrities donate signed items to auction off and raise money, but what about donating some of these signed items to the children with cancer? I think that would really make their day—to get an autograph from their favorite celebrity. Maybe we can interview the kids at the hospital and ask who their favorite celebrity is and see if we can get something donated to all of them—or, at the very least, a few of them.

Another idea I had is in regards to having live music for the festival. I don’t know if any of you know Maria Garcia, but she runs a music webzine, http://www.straightuprandom.com/, and interviews a lot of local (and even non-local) bands. If you guys wanted, I could talk to her and see if she knows of anyone who would like to perform at our event. I think having live music could draw in more people and help us raise even more money; However, it is primarily a kids event and I’m not sure if it’d be a good idea to have music that wouldn’t appeal to the children at all. We could just make a playlist of music they’d like and play that, alternating with kid’s karaoke instead. Or, maybe we can do both. We can have a band come and play for a little while and then have kid’s music and karaoke the rest of the time.

Honestly, we could probably have a whole separate event to raise money and awareness by having a few bands get together and perform—a sort of concert for charity. This could appeal to teenagers and even adults and further our awareness and raise a lot of money. I know we’ve already got a lot going on and it might be too much to try to have a whole other event, but if you guys are interested in the idea, then I can look into it. These were just a few questions, suggestions, and concerns I had in regards to all of this and I thought I’d see what everyone else thought about it. So please comment with your opinions on all of this. Thanks!

—Chelsea