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local business that can use your help.   Please read about their situation.

Company: Wildflower Cabaret
Contact: John Seaberry and Sky Cash, owners/operators
Box Office: 970-541-0772
Email: impresario@wildflowercabaret.com
Web: www.WildflowerCabaret.com
For Immediate Release

Wildflower Cabaret launches Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign, seeks $40,000 to put cabaret theater in downtown Loveland
April 9, 2013 – Loveland, Colorado.

Wildflower Cabaret, a professional cabaret and entertainment production company based in Loveland, is launching a Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign beginning Monday, April 8 and ending Saturday, June 1. The company seeks to raise $40,000 to build a professional performing arts space in downtown Loveland that can support cabaret shows, comedy, musical theater, original works by regional artists, and children’s theater workshops.
Until recently, Wildflower Cabaret occupied an event center south of downtown Loveland. Last November, the owners of the event center approached Wildflower about revitalizing the failing business and providing live entertainment. Wildflower owners John Seaberry and Sky Cash accepted the offer and turned the operation around with a rejuvenated bar, kitchen and entertainment including original cabaret shows, stand-up comedy and drag queen bingo. But after irreconcilable differences with a business partner, Wildflower was forced to leave the space, losing almost their entire investment, and leaving the stage dark after only three months.

When the theater closed in February, Wildflower attempted to go mobile and searched for already established venues that would take in the existing shows, but struggled fitting the shows into these venues’ schedules and service format. This struggle has proven the need for a permanent home in Loveland where Wildflower can bring original theater and cabaret to a town that is already significant in the arts. The Box Office is turning away several phone calls a day for two shows they
have been advertising since January, and has had to refund thousands of dollars’ worth of promotional pre-sales through Living Social and other advertisers. With the company’s original investment lost, Wildflower is launching a crowd-funding project on Kickstarter.com to open a new performance space in downtown Loveland.

How It Works
Kickstarter is a funding platform for creative projects, including music, art, dance, technology, design, films and, of course, theater. If people like a project, they can pledge money to make it happen. Funding on Kickstarter is all-or-nothing. So if the project succeeds in reaching its funding goal, all backers’ are charged when time expires. If the project falls short, no one is charged.

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