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  • The Jump Update... We are Back!

    An update for El Gran Salto (The Jump)

    Aug 19 2018

    Hello my friend! 

    Sorry for being so absent this last months regarding the updates to our project "The Jump" (El Gran Salto) around here. I got news... We are back!!

    Two years after completing production, we are glad to announce that we are starting postproduction as I write to you guys. Fortunately we were granted the Mexican tax credit stimuli EFICINE, with with we will be able to complete the film!

    Right now I'm in Monterrey Mexico having a couple of meetings with our music composer Bernardo Flores while still working with our editor Aldo Osorio to get our best final edited cut for the documentary. 

     Thanks so much for all the love and support you gave us two years ago when we launched our fund surfing campaign. I´ll never forget that because of you this documentary will be available to everyone very soon. Back on track I promise I´ll make my best to keep you up to date with all news regarding post-production. We are aiming to have the completed film by January to start a good festival run.

    Love,

    Jorge Porras / Director 

     

     

     

  • Your rewards will be with you soon!

    An update for Help Save the Bedminster Winter Lantern Parade

    Jul 23 2018

    Hello lovely backers

    I hope you are enjoying this glorious weather - I know that the #bemmylanterns team are.

    We are so super excited and super grateful to each and every one of you, so thank you for making the 2018 Bedminster Winter Lantern Parade happen.Plans are underway and the project will be starting in September!

    But! To other super important things! 

    Your reward(s)!

    The team is fixing the logistical bits and pieces out, and will be in touch via email very soon to sort out getting your chosen Reward(s) to you.  You will receive an email during the next week, so keep an eye out from a message from info@bwlp.org.uk. 

    Thank you again for being so brilliant.  Go ahead and give yourself a high five.  

    You deserve it.

     

    Love the #bemmylanterns team x

     

     

     

  • Thank you Thank you Thank you

    An update for Bristol Shakespeare Festival

    Jul 15 2018

    The fundraiser is closed for this year . Thank you so much to all of you who donated you are all fantastically kind and generous .  Your funding went to support our in- house production 1599 A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE  and to kickstart a new educational project.

    Well done for helping to bring the bard to Bristol and for being our favourite Bristol Bard Buddies - Enjoy the rest of the festival :)

  • Some good news and another terrible meme

    An update for Help Save the Bedminster Winter Lantern Parade

    Jul 8 2018

    Crivens!  Time has flown by and we are only one week away from the end of this epic Fundsurfer. 

    Here’s the good news

    Thanks to the generosity of the people who donated the awesomesauce Rewards, and the kindness of the splendid people who donated hard cash, we made the target last week.

    Phew!  And yay!

    But there’s some bad news

    As previously mentioned, we’re rinsing the #bemmylanterns account to make ends meet this year.  We’ll have zero. Zilch. Zippo.  Nothing in the bank to give us the whiff of a hope for future Lantern Parades. 

    But here’s the extra good news!

    We still have 7 days and we still have some superfantasticwicked Rewards for you to choose from, including:

    • Coffee & cake at the Milkshed
    • 1 hour Pilates lessons from Bristol Pilates Studio
    • A visit to the heartfm studio breakfast show
    • Bundle of 3 book by paul.j.newell
    • Hot or cold drink after the Parade
    • Milkshed venue hire
    • And of course, the 2018 lantern kits which will get you into the actual 2018 Parade! Woop!

    So lets get on this!  Help us secure the future of the Bedminster Winter Lantern Parade and bag yourself a treat while you’re at it.

    But where's the terrible meme? (said no-one ever)

    Here you go.  You're welcome.

  • No I am Shakespeare!

    An update for Bristol Shakespeare Festival

    Jul 4 2018

     

    Fantastic Globe selfies and great reviews , can only mean one thing, 1599 is here!!!

     

    Audience Reviews

    Great show exploring one of the most important and eventful years in the career of Bill Shakespeare - playfully combines the past and present to explore what might have inspired As You Like It, Hamlet, Julius Caesar and the building of the Globe. Loved the gender-swapped roles - especially the female Shakespeare! Enjoyed the in-the-round performance culminating with a magical building of the Globe Theatre itself.​

     

    1599 is a witty and amusing suggestion of where Shakespeare’s incredible works may have come from. 

    The performance was engaging from start to finish.

     

    We can't wait for you to come and enjoy the best seats in the house :)

    But please do continue to spread the word about our fundraiser and 1599 A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. We want to go on to develop new shows, encourage creatives and bring and engage the word of Shakespeare to EVERYBODY!!

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • A really important update (and some football references - it seemed topical)

    An update for Help Save the Bedminster Winter Lantern Parade

    Jul 2 2018

    I don’t know what to say.  I really don’t.

    As I may have hinted yesterday, I was a bit nervous about hitting our target in the next two weeks.  That was a bit of an understatement.  I had about the same tension levels as Peter Schmeichel during yesterday evening’s penalty shootout between Denmark and Croatia.

    What I didn’t expect was today’s news, which made me feel like this:

    (and I might have used some of the “Language” than observant lipreaders might have spotted during his happy outburst)

    For, today we received a donation, which has meant we have only hecking well hit the target!  And that means, unlike poor Denmark, victory is ours! Ours!

     

    That's right!  You heard it!

    The Bedminster Winter Lantern Parade 2018 is on!  That’s right!  It is on! You are the first to know this news because you, you awesome people you, are the reason why it will be a thing.

    Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to each and every one of you!

    But the story doesn’t end here. 

    Not by a long shot.

     

    We’re through to the next round!

    We’re going to be able to put on the Parade this year, but it will use up all of our Emergency Super Back Up Cash Stash that we have in reserve to keep our collective heads above water.

    Anything that we raise from here on in increases the chance of there being a 2019 Bedminster Winter Lantern Parade (I can’t believe I’m saying that!), so lets keep the momentum going.

    We still have a host of lovely rewards available (including some super treats I had been keeping to one side just in case we needed a big push), so you know what to do – keep on sharing and hassling friends, family and perfect strangers to donate to keep the Bedminster Winter Lantern Parade shining!

    And I'm out of football references.  Thank goodness.

    Thank you so much, folks!

    love from the #bemmylanterns team x

     

  • We're learning from our schools

    An update for Help Save the Bedminster Winter Lantern Parade

    Jul 1 2018

    We love our schools!

    14 days and £1,165 left to go.  I’m not scared.  Are you scared?  I’m not scared.  OK, a bit scared.  But hope is currently outweighing despair, thanks to the news we’ve had this week about what some of our local schools have been up to.  First up, the amazing PTFA at Holy Cross Primary School came up with the cracking idea of selling ice creams – huge thank you to Marisa Dee and your colleagues! We cam’t wait to see how much you raised!

    Yesterday we got the brilliant news from Sharon Redfern:

    “Last week Luckwell Primary School was transformed into Luckwell Town, with children acquiring new skills and learning about finances. At the end of the week, parents could exchange money into pounds to spend at Luckwell Town. Luckwell School has chosen to donate the £250 raised to the Bedminster Lantern Parade” 

    Woop!

    And then I got a knock on the front door and it turns out that Ashton Gate Primary School have been fundraising too.  Beech Class and the PTA team raised over £150 in ice cream sales, and also held a dress down day in support of the Lantern Parade.  We look forward to seeing how much they’ve raised too.

    So what are we learning? 

    We're learning just how how flipping fantastic all the kids, parents, carers and teachers at our school are. 

    It means so much to us all that you are doing to keep the Bedminster Winter Lantern Parade going.  Without you, we’d be totally stuffed!

    Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts.

    We’re not out of the woods yet, so keep on donating and sharing like crazy.

    We can do this!

  • The last push!!!

    An update for New Album - Songs For Rojava

    Jun 27 2018

    Hi folks

    Just a quick update to let you know there are only four days left on this crowdfunder, and I'd really appreciate it if those who've already contributed could give it one last push on social media. Please share the link to this crowdfunder and encourage any friends and comrades to support the project so we can make sure Songs for Rojava reaches the widest audience possible. Once again, thanks for all your help and support so far.

    Peace and solidarity 

    Lee

     

     

  • 1599 in Rehearsal

    An update for Bristol Shakespeare Festival

    Jun 21 2018

     

    Hello Bristol Bard Buddies  

    Thank you again for your generous pledge

    1599 is now in rehearsal !  - So look forward to enjoying your VIP seats  and checking out your Elizabethan Goody bag 

    Please continue to spread the word about this fantastic fundraiser for the Bristol Shakespeare Festival and give others the chance to enjoy all of the fantastic rewards on offer :)

     

     

  • I do love a good Bon Jovi moment

    An update for Help Save the Bedminster Winter Lantern Parade

    Jun 19 2018

    and at eleven minutes past ten this evening we had the one I'd been waiting for. 

    Get ready....drumroll......

    Thanks to you lovely donors, we hit £1,970 this evening and I am jumping around my living room, pointing my fingers into the air hissing "yessssssssss!"

    We've been watching the fundometer closely and gnawing out nails for the past few days, and we are so incredibly pleased by your responses so far.  Bon Jovi pleased, in fact.

    All we need to do now hammer that second half, and we'll have the 2018 Lantern Parade after all. So get sharing and pestering your lovely friends, family, colleagues, neighbours, random strangers and we'll get there!

    Take my hand, we'll make it I swear!

    (sorry - quite excited over here)