Dear Loves,

This Saturday April 18th, we invite you to experience a truly spectacular Gala to benefit the spring production of our musical FUTURITY (going up in May at Joe's Pub.)

Festivities start at 8pm sharp...

 

Dress to impress. $25 At the door.

8pm - 11pm (Times are sharp. Auction ends at 10:30.)

983-A Dean St., Brooklyn NY 11238

If you'd like to donate art or goods email: thelisps@gmail.com

If you can't come but want to support the cause please make an online tax deductible donatation to The Lisps HERE via our fiscal sponsor The Field.

RSVP HERE on Facebook.

 

Some of you have been fans of The Lisps since we
started recording synthy pop songs in our home-made studio in the South
Bronx. You may have seen us play at the Sidewalk Café, or at one of our
birthday parties, on the hudson river, in a basement, or even that one
time we played at the Fire Museum (yes, there is a Fire Museum). If you
are in a band, you might have witnessed us screaming at each other
backstage, or on stage, or on Youtube. Perhaps your girlfriend gave you
our CD, or you daughter put us on a mix tape, or maybe you heard us on
NPR, or saw us in the L magazine. Maybe we bought vast quantities of
Fritos and coffee from you at a gas station in El Paso. Perhaps we
crashed on your floor and accidentally used your toothbrush.

What you may not know about us is that we are not JUST a band
that performs live and records albums, although we love doing both
those things. We are each other’s family and community and we consider
ourselves life-long artistic collaborators. We are not just musicians, but
actors, poets, publishers, composers, writers, painters and inventors,
and we are committed to developing and creating projects together that
are both band-related and in support of our individual artistic
interests.

As some of you may know, The Lisps recently performed
our first original musical, FUTURITY, at the Zipper factory in January
2009. Our two sold-out performances received critical acclaim, interest
from theater producers and various music and pop-culture publications
and we were immediately offered runs of the show at various venues in
New York.

In the coming months, we are performing FUTURITY at The Public Theater’s
Joe’s Pub, recording the music from the musical, designing FUTURITY merchandise, and recording a new Lisps album, in
addition to playing regular gigs. We are so inspired to continue the
work we've been doing and we cannot do this without your support.
That’s why why are humbly asking you for a donation to our cause. We’ve
never asked for donations before because we’ve always been bumbling
along the path
well traveled by indie bands. But now we are aiming to
make a big leap. We have one foot in the theater world and one foot in
the music world and we need your help to make our radical and original
approach successful.

We are setting an ambitious fundraising goal of raising 8,000 dollars in 2 months. Just $20 from each of you and we will far exceed our goal. Your money is going towards our FUTURITY production budget. This includes costumes, lights, pay for our actors, musicians, and artistic team, rehearsal space, documentation, transportation, administrative costs, and publicity. If we exceed our goal, the remaining money will go towards recording the music from FUTURITY.

We realize in this difficult economy that many of you
don’t have much money to spare on luxuries like art and music. But we
believe that art is a necessity, and not a luxury, and especially in
these difficult times, we need art. We need art to enliven us, to
inspire us and to remind us to feel more, think more, and do more.

Please take a moment to make a tax-deductible donation of $20, $50, $100, $250 or any amount. You can donate online at HERE via our fiscal sponsor The Field or via check (instructions below). If you cannot afford to donate 20 dollars don't worry: any amount helps.

For those of you in New York, PLEASE COME TO OUR FUNDRAISER next week April 18th 8pm-11pm. There you can party with us and make your contribution in person.

Making music and performance is our life’s work, our challenge and our joy,
and we challenge you to become actively involved in that process by supporting us with a donation. We will be extremely grateful and you will have made a great investment.

We love you,

Sammy, Cesar, Jeremy and Eric