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Joshua Dumas

Chicago, IL

Joshua Dumas is a composer, musician, writer, artist, etc, in Chicago. Impossibly distractible, he plays in bands, writes music for theatre and dance and film, gives readings, makes books, and tries to be curious and kind...

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    Fable Festival by Vintage Theater Collective

    Vintage and Edgewater Arts present Fable Festival - 12 unique, new works based on international fables over four days in May.

    • 112% funded $1,351 pledged
    • 29 backers
    • Funded May 17, 2012
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    19th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival by Bryan Wendorf

    The longest running underground film festival in the world, CUFF exists to showcase the defiantly independent filmmaker.

    • 102% funded $5,140 pledged
    • 155 backers
    • Funded May 12, 2012
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    Help Cross Record make a full length album! by Emily

    Cross Record is the musical project of Emily Cross. Help her make a full-length album!

    • 101% funded $8,618 pledged
    • 99 backers
    • Funded Feb 18, 2012
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    New Year's Weave by Dee Clements

    To make a collection of hand woven, hand dyed textiles for the home & body.

    • 106% funded $3,768 pledged
    • 89 backers
    • Funded Feb 06, 2012
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    Lightness & Darkness: A Print Experiment by Nicki Yowell & Taleen Kalenderian

    A multidisciplinary print project exploring dualities via essays, prose, photography, illustration, music and film.

    • 103% funded $2,066 pledged
    • 28 backers
    • Funded Jan 28, 2012
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    FJORDS by Manual Cinema

    FJORDS is a live-scored cinematic shadow puppet show based on the poetry of Zachary Schomburg.

    • 118% funded $4,734 pledged
    • 122 backers
    • Funded Dec 18, 2011
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    Curriculum-Based Rock Music For Kids by Matt Baron

    I write songs to teach with at two Chicago schools. The enthusiastic response from my students & colleagues inspired me to do do this!

    • 108% funded $6,041 pledged
    • 149 backers
    • Funded Dec 16, 2011
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    Woman School: a Modern Farce by Vintage Theater Collective

    Vintage Theater proudly presents the world premiere of Woman School, a new adaptation of The School for Wives by Moliere.

    • 148% funded $370 pledged
    • 15 backers
    • Funded Oct 12, 2011
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    Wandering Souls Production of "Reflections..." by Becky Peters

    New plays from individuals in care at Saint Elizabeths Hospital will tour to DC's homeless shelters, senior centers & public arenas.

    • 105% funded $5,250 pledged
    • 100 backers
    • Funded Sep 21, 2011
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    Chicago Fringe Festival run of LITTLE IVORY FINGERS by Sid Branca

    "Little Ivory Fingers" is a solo performance piece by Sid Branca to be performed at the Chicago Fringe Festival in September 2011.

    • 142% funded $855 pledged
    • 30 backers
    • Funded Aug 21, 2011
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    Chicago 8: A Small Gauge Film Festival by Chicago8fest.org

    Chicago 8 is a small gauge film festival that is dedicated to exhibiting experimental works on Super 8mm film.

    • 144% funded $1,440 pledged
    • 38 backers
    • Funded Aug 21, 2011
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    The Wild Plan: a new kind of national theatre tour by Ben Gansky

    The Wild Plan is a new way to produce and tour theatre across the country, creating shared experiences of wonder for communities.

    • 103% funded $3,621 pledged
    • 80 backers
    • Funded Jul 25, 2011
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    The Cleo Project - a short experimental video by Kate Raney

    The Cleo Project is a short video that explores the complex negotiation between performing femininity and embodying the self

    • 103% funded $2,278 pledged
    • 43 backers
    • Funded Jul 11, 2011
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    Debut Album From The Lawrence Peters Outfit by Lawrence Peters

    Country and rock stalwart Lawrence Peters is completing a record full of good times, heartbreak, and old-skool country mayhem.

    • 148% funded $7,446 pledged
    • 164 backers
    • Funded Jun 15, 2011
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    Launch Letterpress & Offset Printing at Community Printshop by Spudnik Press Cooperative

    Spudnik Press Cooperative embarks on an epic mission to expand the boundaries of community printmaking!

    • 123% funded $4,537 pledged
    • 132 backers
    • Funded May 15, 2011
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    Pocket Guide to Hell's Haymarket Reenactment by Paul Durica

    Attn., workers! Pocket Guide to Hell announces a full-scale historical reenactment of the Haymarket Affair, on its 125th anniversary.

    • 120% funded $1,805 pledged
    • 40 backers
    • Funded Apr 28, 2011
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    HELEN by Ellen McLaughlin by Vintage Theater Collective

    Join us to discover why the gods have shipped Helen of Troy, the most notorious Starlette in history, to a three star hotel in Egypt.

    • 123% funded $1,230 pledged
    • 22 backers
    • Funded May 02, 2011
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    The Handshake Media Project by Dan Duffy

    The Handshake is dedicated to publishing conversations, interviews, short fiction, and both literary and photographic essays.

    • 112% funded $5,619 pledged
    • 158 backers
    • Funded May 14, 2011
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    Francesca Esmé's Debut Album by Francesca Johnson

    This project is to help in the completion of my first album! I'm raising the money to finance

    • 131% funded $3,281 pledged
    • 98 backers
    • Funded Mar 14, 2011
  20. Steve Eck and the Midnight Still:The latest album on vinyl! by steve eck

    Put "Drag It Out, Burn It Down", the latest album from Steve Eck and the Midnight Still, on vinyl.

    Funding Unsuccessful (04/24/2011)
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    The Last Cosmonaut by J. Van Auken

    He can never die. He will live forever. He is the last cosmonaut, and this is his story.

    • 240% funded $6,000 pledged
    • 145 backers
    • Funded Feb 26, 2011
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    Mucca Pazza is shooting a dance film! by Mucca Pazza

    MARCHING BANNED will be an Experimental Dance Film throwing a bombastic musical experience into an otherwise unassuming Urban setting

    • 135% funded $5,424 pledged
    • 137 backers
    • Funded Apr 03, 2011
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    The Last Night of the Barbary Coast by katy bell

    The Last Night of the Barbary Coast is a theatrical production based on the legendary tale of a young woman's journey to the Wild West.

    • 114% funded $4,021 pledged
    • 69 backers
    • Funded Feb 01, 2011
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    Sustainable Theatre Project and The Life-Cycle of Seller Door: A Play of Consequences by Sustainable Theatre Project

    SELLER DOOR is a new comedy about a Barker, the people he gets to go through a door and what happens to those people after they go through the door.

    • 101% funded $3,535 pledged
    • 104 backers
    • Funded Jan 24, 2011
  25. Americanitis: A DocuHorror Feature for the Age of Anxiety by Americanitis

    Six friends lock themselves in where their friend vanished 10 years earlier and begin to unravel from their own anxiety and neurosis.

    Funding Unsuccessful (02/16/2011)
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