Are you a Tree?🎄
Time for tickets!
It’s time to reserve your seat for Sunday, March 9 at 2pm at KALW, 220 Montgomery Street. Space is limited. Our January presentation sold out in 48 hours. 🎟️ Here’s the link.
Friends of The Trees, hello!
I have been thinking about trees in storms. Storms are literal flurries of activity. In the wind, electricity, and chaos, trees display their most flexible selves to survive, bending with the whims of the elements, surviving, drinking in fresh rain. What’s more vulnerable in a storm than a tree? In times of risk and uncertainty, they dance.
The Trees, the musical, has weathered a storm of activity over the past two months.
Since October, I have written a new draft, and our music team arranged all the songs, including two new ones.
The creative team gathered to hear it sung through in November, and now I am revising again.
In the eye of this creative storm, we have simultaneously raised $19,000 and received $5,000 worth of grant rejections.
And we launched a website:www.TheTreesthemusical.com
We have been creatively vulnerable. Musically flexible. We have taken risks. And we have not stopped dancing.
We need to raise another $6,000, to reach our goal. To do that, we need more Trees! This musical depends on individual donations from friends and supporters like you. A gift of just $25 makes you a Tree.Be a Tree! Give to The Trees!
📸 Thanks to stage directions reader, Magnolia-level donor, and Founders Grove Member Ken Stram for snapping this shot of me listening to the new draft of the musical in November.
Another way to help us grow:
Show off how very San Francisco, thoroughly queer-sensible, devastatingly ecological, and enviably creative you are by forwarding this email to your friends. Help us reach our branches wide. Help us find more Trees! Here’s a sample message you can cut, paste, and make your own:
Dear [friend’s name] I want to see this eco-homo-erotic musical come to life in 2025, and I thought you might like it too. They are currently looking for $25 donors. Every donor is a Tree! I am a Tree! I thought you’d like to be a Tree too. Together, our donations will make a big impact on this little musical.
And another:
And help us reach more Trees on social media! Please come help my social media fundraising by posting your “I am a Tree” selfies and your Christmas Tree photos in my comments on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn.