SERVICES

FUNDarte Services for the Arts

In addition to FUNDarte’s regular season, we are prepared to collaborate with other arts organizations, institutions and individual artists by sharing our infrastructure and resources thereby aiding in the success of their artistic endeavor. This aspect of FUNDarte is an extension of our mission to celebrate and awaken consciousness of emerging art forms, social movements, ideas and artists. The objective of developing South Florida audiences and building a bridge between the audience and the arts can only benefit from this type of collaboration. By partnering with FUNDarte, other arts entities can take full advantage of our track record, reputation, relationships and resources, taking the artistic project to a higher level of media attention, production value and audience development.

FUNDarte has collaborated as a co-presenter and/or co-promoter for organizations such as: Miami Dade College Cultural Affairs Dept.’s Cultura del Lobo; Miami Beach Cultural Affairs Division – Arts in the Parks; Miami Beach Dance Festival – Momentum Dance Company, Centro Cultural Españo , Miami Light Project, and others.

Co-PRESENTING with FUNDarte

FUNDarte offers professional presenting support services in Miami Dade County for Music, Theater, Dance, Film, Visual Arts, and Special Events for organizations and individual artists whom have the product, but need assistance in getting the word out to audiences. FUNDarte can support any type of artistic production through:

· Venue Scouting and Negotiation
· Pre-production Liaison
· Support for Casting (talent, dancers, musicians…)
· Full production management
· Lodging and Transportation Coordination
· Advance Logistics

…and more

CO-PRODUCING with FUNDarte

FUNDarte’s productions have been critically acclaimed and have achieved an unprecedented level of value in the Miami non-profit community. We have at our disposal the best sound, lighting, design and special effects vendors in the market and established relationships with venues that fit from 100 – 2,500 people. As co-producer, FUNDarte can provide soup to nuts production and production management services for:

· Music (Concerts and Tours)
· Theater
· Dance
· Film/Video
· Visual Arts
· Special Events

With our extensive collective experience, we have the infrastructure, resources, skill and talent to produce a state-of-the-art event , with access to the best venues, sound, lighting, staging and design vendors in the market and the ability to bring everything together to produce a perfect, seem-less event.

 PROMOTING through FUNDarte

FUNDarte owes much of its success to the extraordinary marketing and media relations skills that the organization possesses individually and collectively. FUNDarte’s staff has the experience to design and executive a marketing and promotions strategy to publicize any level of production in Music, Theater, Dance, Film and Visual Arts.
FUNDarte has successfully sold out or nearly sold out venues from 100 to 2,500 seats with repeated success, selling a total of over 35,000 tickets in its first eight seasons and achieving editorial coverage worth millions. Using our skills and resources to support your event or production, FUNDarte can:

· Design a Media Relations Strategy indentifying all appropriate English and Spanish language print, tv, radio and electronic media outlets that reach your target audience
· Design and Media Buying schedule in target media, negating rates and leveraging non-profit status.
· Design a Guerilla/Urban Promotions Strategy reaching the student, artistic and underground segments not reachable through traditional media
· Coordinate the design, production and printing of all marketing material
· Write and/or translate press releases, media alerts and advertising and promotional copy (English and Spanish)
· Service all media outlets and carry out pitching and follow up
· Coordinate editorial coverage, live and recorded appearances on TV and radio
· E-blast to over 25,000 loyal FUNDarte members who attend our performances
· Leverage relationships with other non-profit art organization for an additional 30K e-blast addresses

In our first four seasons, FUNDarte has consistently received extensive editorial support from: The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, The Miami New Times, Diario Las Americas, The South FL Sun-Sentinel, Univision/Ch. 23, Telemundo/Ch.51, Mega TV/Ch. 22, AmericaTeVe/Ch. 41, Plum TV, WSVN (Fox), SBS Radio, Univision Radio, WDNA Community Radio, Radio Caracol, La Poderosa, LaMusica.com, Myspace Latino, FABRIKA.com, to name a few. In addition, our staff has the commercial and artistic background, and awards to prove it, to successfully oversee graphic, audio and visual design elements fro the success of any campaign.