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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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    Help Pavement Group produce Girl You Know It’s True! by Brittany Barnes

    Support Pavement Group's next world premiere production!

    • 143% funded $7,155 pledged
    • 115 backers
    • Funded Mar 17, 2012
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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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    SOLE SURVIVOR by Ky Dickens

    What is the impact of survivorship on the human condition?

    • 114% funded $20,569 pledged
    • 202 backers
    • Funded Jun 01, 2011
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    Help Natural Gas get to LA! by Ed Flynn

    Help us get to our show in LA!

    • 117% funded $4,117 pledged
    • 105 backers
    • Funded Mar 18, 2011
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    Phonebook 3: directory of independent art projects & spaces by threewalls

    PHONEBOOK is a directory of independent art spaces, programming, and projects throughout the United States.

    • 130% funded $5,216 pledged
    • 160 backers
    • Funded Apr 02, 2011
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    Words without Borders: Afghanistan Issue by Words without Borders

    An online issue of fiction and poetry from contemporary Afghan writers translated into English.

    • 106% funded $7,489 pledged
    • 246 backers
    • Funded Mar 11, 2011
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    The Black Magic Piano by The Black Magic Piano

    THE BLACK MAGIC PIANO is a multimedia piece by filmmaker Edward Symes, composer Doran Danoff, and choreographer Elizabeth Wilkinson.

    • 100% funded $3,000 pledged
    • 45 backers
    • Funded Mar 03, 2011
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    Babycastles & Showpaper: New Indie Games Arcade in Manhattan by babycastles

    Babycastles is an effort to provide a social home for the game development culture that has long been part of New York City.

    • 150% funded $9,008 pledged
    • 223 backers
    • Funded Oct 04, 2010
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    GAMEFUL, a Secret HQ for Worldchanging Game Developers by Jane McGonigal

    Good games make us better and change the world. We’re the people making and playing those games. We need a Secret HQ.

    • 3,248% funded $64,965 pledged
    • 593 backers
    • Funded Sep 29, 2010
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    QiXi: A Chinese Love Story by Peter McDowell Arts Consulting

    Support the legacy of Chinese Cultural Heritage in America by helping to fund this extraordinary spectacle involving nearly 200 performers.

    • 100% funded $5,035 pledged
    • 38 backers
    • Funded Aug 23, 2010
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    THE QUEEN'S SUITE - A young Jazz musicians dream to play to the Queen of England. by Corine Dhondee

    A young jazz musician, Duke Ellington, the Queen, a fifteen piece orchestra, a dream driven by passion and music that blows life's dust away.

    • 103% funded $12,410 pledged
    • 87 backers
    • Funded Aug 31, 2010
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    Match Stefanie Batten Bland's Fellowship award from the Baryshnikov Arts Center! by Stefanie Batten Bland

    Selected by Mikhail Baryshnikov as a Jerome Robbins NEW Fellow at Baryshnikov Arts Center, we seek to match our $10,000 award to create "Terra Firma".

    • 112% funded $5,625 pledged
    • 56 backers
    • Funded Sep 03, 2010
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    Portable Landscape by Joianne Bittle

    "Preserving Mass Extinction: A Portable Landscape" is an artwork installation in a cargo trailer about the Permian Basin of Southwest Texas.

    • 107% funded $3,775 pledged
    • 49 backers
    • Funded Sep 10, 2010
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    Light Up the Chicago Fringe! by Chicago Fringe Festival

    The first annual Chicago Fringe Festival runs this September 1-5, 2010 in Pilsen. 46 local, national and international acts will perform at 8 venues.

    • 114% funded $5,750 pledged
    • 116 backers
    • Funded Aug 08, 2010
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    COSMICISM & CONTEMPORARY FORESTRY From Northern California machines, robots, photos by kal spelletich

    I have a great great show in New York City that opens on August 6, 2010. I live in San Francisco, Ca. I can't afford the expenses of the exhibit.

    • 104% funded $3,137 pledged
    • 88 backers
    • Funded Jul 25, 2010
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    All City - Nigel Hall and the NYC Street Pianos by Guagua Productions

    This summer 60 pianos will be placed all over the streets of New York City. Nigel Hall wants to play all of them in just 7 days. Can he go All City?

    • 113% funded $2,836 pledged
    • 49 backers
    • Funded Jul 05, 2010
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    MUST COME DOWN: a feature-length film by Kenny Riches

    An off-beat comedy about a boy who breaks into his childhood home for mysterious reasons, and a girl who, for mysterious reasons, joins in the effort.

    • 112% funded $11,205 pledged
    • 138 backers
    • Funded Jul 20, 2010
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    The Oldest Living Things in the World by rachel sussman

    I'm researching, working with biologists, and traveling all over the world to find & photograph continuously living organisms 2,000 years old or older

    • 118% funded $11,893 pledged
    • 205 backers
    • Funded Jun 20, 2010
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    Flood Tide by Todd Chandler

    Flood Tide is a film about a group of friends who build a boat from whatever junk they can find and set out for open water.

    • 104% funded $10,406 pledged
    • 167 backers
    • Funded Jul 20, 2010
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