We’re showing the world that busking is an honourable and viable way of making a living.
We’re giving buskers support in the street, protecting their livelihoods in the digital age.
And we’re getting cities to start treating busking as an artistic endeavour, rather than as a criminal matter.
Busking provides work for the unemployed, it furthers careers, it rejuvenates cities, it creates communities. It is the only live performance that everyone can afford, regardless of background.
But, all over the world buskers are increasingly facing fines, arrests and stereotyping.
We’re here to do something about that.
We're not following the traditional business model:
• No ads
• No corporate sponsors
• No branding
• No selling private data
• All our basic tools are free
Instead of going into debt, selling out or hoping a VC sprinkles money on us, we need to go forward by involving you.
For becoming a "friend" you'll receive:
• A regular newsletter with all our "backstage" news
• Recognition on our website
• An annual report of our finances
• A free invite to our annual gala
• The warm fuzzy feeling that you're helping everybody's local busker.
• We’re the largest network of buskers in the world
• We have an always-improving website
• We’ve reached over a million people
• We have 1,000 buskers signed up in 60 countries(!)
• We created a book
• We have a documentary in post-production
• We presented our research to the UN
• We have a mobile app on the way
• We co-produced an international buskerfest in Vancouver
• We have raised over $20,000 in donations (from people like you!)
More pitches in more cities with more buskers performing to larger audiences. That's what we're working towards. And we can only get there with your help.
We're a company, not a charity, because we want to make quick decisions, be nimble, beat whatever corporate competition comes along AND stand on our own two feet without depending on grants for the rest of our lives.
And yet, we don't want to be motivated purely by profits. We have a social mission – and a promise that we will always follow it.
Read more about our Social Mission here:
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