Sponsorship

 Every Non-Profit Organization needs Sponsorship. We need you to help make things happen. Promoting Street entertainment in our City Of Nanaimo helps The Beat Of The Street to bring tourists and artists to our city. Halifax has a huge busking festival that brings in millions of tourists dollars, as does Edmonton and many other cities in the East.  The West coast has been missing out on a marvellous opportunity to promote Arts and Culture through Street Entertainment. Busking is big business throughout the world. 

The Economic Benefits to the City Of Nanaimo

  In 1985 the City of Edmonton held its First Street Festival. At that time there were two volunteers with a vision. Partnering with the Edmonton Downtown Business Association and the City of Edmonton, a street festival was organized. This was the first festival of its kind in North America.Today there are over two hundred volunteers at this festival and two paid staff. Since 1985 there have been over four million visitors to the festival. Artists from all over the world including jugglers, magicians, aerialists clowns and street musicians have come from all over the world to the City Of Edmonton. The festival is proud to have 70% of its performers from Canada. Their motto is 4 million visitors averaging 42.5 smiles a day. That translates into a lot of ice cream sales, meals in restaurants, and visits to downtown businesses.Having Newcastle touted as a camping venue for the festival benefits first Nations and The Pickle Boats. Perhaps we will have out of town boating traffic as well. It took 25 years and many volunteers to get Edmonton to the amazing place they are now.Victoria is considering a Street Entertainment Festival as well. They could be linked for even more economic benefit The Beat Of The Street Society held its first festival in September of 2009. We had 65 local artists performing to an enthusiastic audience that included seniors, young adults and families. The event was a success considering that we had no funding   Imagine what we can do with your Sponsorship!  

This year The City of Nanaimo through a Festival Grant from Parks, Recreation and Culture has given us a grant of $785.00.

This money will help pay for expenses for artists.We are most grateful. Real Estate Webmasters has given us in kind sponsorship by providing Domain name as well as hosting and designing this website. They have also committed to a $1500.00 cash donation to make this festival a success.Great community spirit! Thank You! We still need sponsors to help us with other costs. We are happy to provide you with our estimated budget for the festival. Contact  Cathy quiensgambit2@shaw.ca In kind sponsorship is appreciated and needed.   

  Top Hat sponsorship $1000.00 gets you a large banner at the festival Black Tie Sponsorship $500.00 to $999.00 medium size banner. Open Case Sponsorship Less than $500.00 small banner. All sponsors will be promoted through local media, our website, Nanaimo Information Forum and other Busking sites worldwide.