Month: February 2016

Donate Funds to Ritual Art Troupe

Currently, here are the ways to donate funds to the Ritual Art Troupe (you can also volunteer time or donate venue, food, materials or equipment or donate scripts):

    • By check:

      The best way to donate to the Ritual Art Troupe (no fees) is to write a check to “Ritual Art Troupe” and mail it to: 

      Ritual Art Troupe
      304 Winfield Street
      San Francisco, CA 94110-5512
      USA

    • By credit card:

      GoFundMe–

      Donate

      You can donate using a credit card on GoFundMe (2019 winter holiday promotion fee is 1.9% + $0.30) by clicking on the Donate button above. This table shows some examples (using “non-profit” GoFundMe transaction processing fees): 

      Gross DonationFixed Fee% FeeNet Donation
      $5.40$0.30$0.10$5.00
      $10.50$0.30$0.20$10.00
      $51.27$0.30$0.97$50.00
      $102.24$0.30$1.94$100.00
      $509.99$0.30$9.69$500.00

      Paypal–

    • You can donate using a credit card on PayPal (fee is 2.2% + $0.30) by clicking on the Donate button above. This table shows some examples (using “non-profit” PayPal transaction processing fees):

      Gross DonationFixed Fee% FeeNet Donation
      $5.42$0.30$0.12$5.00
      $10.53$0.30$0.23$10.00
      $51.43$0.30$1.13$50.00
      $102.56$0.30$2.26$100.00
      $511.55$0.30$11.25$500.00

      Project designation:

      If you would like your donation to go to a specific project of the Ritual Art Troupe, such as Orchestra of the Moon, The Opus Project, Theatre Makers Meetup, or True of Voice, please write the project name on the memo line of your check or, after you click on the Donate button above, type in the project name “If restricted, please specify project:” field.

Donation receipt:

If you would like to receive a receipt for your donation, please include a note with your legal name (used with the IRS) and email address.

Donor recognition:

If you would like to be recognized as a donor on our website, please email us giving us permission to do so and specifying the name under which you would like to be recognized. And please send lots of good energy to the folks on our donor list.

Tax deduction:

Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by U.S. law as indicated by our IRS 501c3 tax exemption letter.

Early Drafts of New Woodblock Prints for Orchestra of the Moon

Here are a few examples of some quick drafts I recently made of blockprint art related to my new project, The Orchestra of the Moon.  Blockprint is a new art form to me, and the lettering is especially tricky, yet I kind of like the results.  It was fun to just start carving stuff on an old piece of wood and see what happened.  I now have a better idea of how I want the design and lettering to go together.

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The horizontally oriented design was the first one (you can see the lettering was really scratchy and faint.)  Still, I think I like it the best, and will use it as the basis for another, more serious block in the near future.

The two vertically oriented images represent two different stages of carving on the same block; the face came first, and then I carved it out to just show a full moon.  The face was a little too goofy for me, whereas the face in the first block has a slightly benign, slightly eerie quality that I thought was nice for the Man in the Moon.

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The Orchestra of the Moon is a Portland-based early music band,  which was started as the house orchestra for my puppet theatre, as well as to bring the joy of early music to audiences who might not otherwise be exposed to it, for example, the pub crowd.