The waiting game is a funny thing. After the mania of balancing spreadsheets, costing artist fees, rent, paint & insurance fees, things have been really really quiet.

The JB Seed people seemed genuinely happy with our application getting us onto the shortlist… but since then it’s been eerily quiet, and I’ve been getting a little fidgety.

 

 

 

So today I sent them a little email just asking when we’d be likely to hear back, and their response was quite awesome!

“We’ve decided to grant you money for ST5K. Congratulations! We really like the project and can’t wait to see how it turns out!!”

What does this mean? Well it means that instead of running the entire festival on $300 as we did last year, we’ll have a couple of thousand dollars to put towards advertising, inviting some awesome artists to get involved, paying for council permits to paint murals and cover a huge amount of paint!

Its pretty exciting, but a little daunting too.

THANK YOU JB SEED!

I think we might need some extra help to pull this thing off.

Anyone interested?

Si.

After sending in our JB Seed grant application pretty much on the deadline, its been barely two weeks… and then this morning we got this email back:

“Congratulations!
You are on The JB Seed Art For The Public shortlist.

In order to decide who will be successful in this years round of funding we would like to consider your application further.
Please consider the following list of questions and formulate your responses – these responses are to be received by us (via email) on or before 5pm on Monday the 29th June 2009.”

Awesome!
We don’t completely suck.

Fingers crossed…

Simon.

In our spare time we don’t like drinking in bars, listening to music, pasting up characters… no, in our spare time we love sitting in dark rooms writing grant applications.

This week Matt & I have spent dozens of hours getting grief from our girlfriends, as we sit writing the JB Seed grant application. I think we make a reasonable team, Matt is the figures genius and makes sure our budget of paint and artists balance, while I crap on in 1,000 words or less why we’d put their money to great use. Then I crack the whip on Matt again and he re-works my rough-as-guts words into a symphony of grant writing gold.

The final application seems to have come together quite well, and its actually made us come up with some pretty decent new ideas of how to spend money efficiently on a great festival.

I’m secretly optimistic, but then, I’m pretty sickeningly optimistic about everything.

Long live ST5K 2010.

Simon.