About the Underground...
Hello, and welcome to the indiegogo page for United Underground Entertainment. A local production company based in Chico, California. We started down this journey just a few months ago with hopes of bringing the unique culture of festival entertainment to our town of Chico. As spring semester of 2015 came to a close we devised a plan to make that dream a reality. Pooling our unique talents together we organized a small scale festival in downtown Chico called Chicoachella. The event was an absolute success, raising over $1000 for a local artist charity fund. After such a drastic success we knew we couldn't stop there and so the idea for the Chico Downtown festival was born.
All of us here at UUE want to bring a full scale festival to Chico, California, and with the recent growth and collaboration within the local music scene, we think that the town is more than ready for just that. There's just one problem with all of this, we're all college students and have bank accounts to reflect such.
That's where you, the sponsors, come in. Our goal with this campaign is to raise funds to purchase enough equipment to be able to fully operate our own stage as well as promotional equipment to start spreading the word about United Underground. We are already planning four major fundraising events for next school year as well as a myriad of small scale fundraisers. These events will both raise money for our large scale festival, to be held in spring of 2016, as well as promote local artists in our very own Chico scene, but, they can't happen without proper equipment. They can't happen without you...
So this call goes out to every family member, friend, coworker, teacher and mentor that any of us have ever had. The name is United Underground Entertainment. The number is $15,000. Help us get there and you will be oh so handsomely rewarded.
What We Need And What You'll Get
- For this project to be fully funded we need $15,000. Of that 15,000, about 10,000 will go to purchasing all of the equipment that we need to run a stage at a live show as well as purchasing video equipment to create new multimedia content. $2,500 will be used to get UUE merchandise production off of the ground. (Get ready for UUE sunglasses, stickers, T-Shirts and more). $1,900 will be helping us pay all of our final business taxes and filing fees with the IRS, Butte county and the city of Chico, as well as purchase our first three months of venue insurance. The last $600 will be sent to indiegogo as their percentage for helping us start our crowd funding journey through their platform.
- For donating to our campaign you will be rewarded with things such as UUE merchandise, CD's from supporting UUE bands or even a stage named in your honor if you are feeling extra generous.
- Since we have chosen the flexible funding approach, should we not be fully funded then all of the money we have made will be used for further charity festivals in Chico as well as establishing a fund to assist local artists.
Why Are We Doing This?
-We are very excited to put Chico back on the map as one of the premier music locations in California. We are very excited for this project to get funded so we can get working holding more charity events for local artists as well as get into some artist development. We also can't wait to start working on our year long project of a full scale festival in Chico.
Risks & Challenges
- It could be easy to discredit us all as college students who are too young to be undertaking a task this large. After all, festivals take time to build up. But rest assured that when you donate to us you are donating to a group of committed individuals whom are all constantly working to learn more and more from our mentors in the music industry. Some of us are even volunteering at large scale music festivals this summer to better learn the ropes of concert promotion and event planning.
Other Ways You Can Help!!!
- Every single dollar makes a big impact to this campaign but even if you aren't in a situation that leaves you able to donate you can still help us out by sharing this page, following and supporting us on our social media, sharing the word about United Underground Entertainment and coming out to any UUE event that you can make it to throughout the year.
