Saturday, 28th February 2009: DIY Femme Fest 2009

shahrizal says:

Thanks for the kind enquiries dear friends, we really appreciate the
opinions as well.

As for the ticket price, we actually already had thought about this before.
But then we had to decide on a donation or entrance fees based on the
average fees of regular DIY shows around in Kuala Lumpur right now. As we
ourselves really wanted/was hoping that we will able to lowered it down in
future, this deeply thought consesus decision was made based on the current
cost, expected cost, unexpected cost (low turn-ups, broken equipments,
increase of current or expected cost) and also the facts this is not gonna
be a one time event but also targetted to held yearly with other events and
different projects in between to be sustained. As requested, we already
uploaded our current financial statement so far on our blog at
thecoathangers@wordpress.com, with the hope to make it as transparent as
possible. Above all, as we always practiced with all the past shows we’re
involved with personally, we dont mind to negotiate if any short of cash
gig-goers happened to need discounts.

As for the questions; we already had 2 benefit shows; from 1st benefit show
we got RM384 including the sales we got from our personal’s new and 2nd
hand stuffs. And from the 2nd benefit we got RM125 (from the tickets) and
another RM125 (RM25 topped up by one of us making it RM150) goes to
Ricecooker. Making it RM509 from both benefit shows. The total collection
that we got so far including from our distro (a collection of new/2nd and
some donated stuffs), Bintang Kertas zine and a donation is RM1791. And the
expected expenses is so far is RM1964, but not yet added with various
pending costs that we’re working hard to reduce. We maybe looks like a bit
of shortage but that is something we had to work out. More details on that
also could be found at our blog.
And for the DIY Femme Fest 2009 details. Other than music, you also could
expect our zine, few workshops and an exhibition of freeform arts as
promoted on our flyer and as updated on our wordpress and myspace blogs. We
already discussed on the itenary (particularly regarding timing for each
slots) but only be could be finalized when we get hold of the participant’s
drafts on their planned workshops. But basically, the fest were planned to
start at around mid-day (with a band first, followed by a workshop), the
workshops gonna be in between bands performances and the exhibition will be
going on through the whole event.

With all respect for Ricecooker website as a place to share informations
and healthy discussions, we would appreciate if any questions, opinions,
suggestions or thoughts to be emailed directly to us at
diyfemmefest@gmail.com instead of this comment thread. We certainly rather
avoiding unnecessary conflicts and make peace with everyone, and we really
hope that everyone would understand our humble requests. Or for friends
that knew us, you always could call us or meet up in person. With this very
limited capacity of man/women-power that we had here, we will give our best
to meet what you might had in mind or to explain if needed. Any positive
and encouraging inputs from you all, would be a great help for us to be more
mature and progressive.

We hope this would answer your kind questions. Sincere and humble apologies
from us if we couldn’t meet everyone’s expectations but our best efforts
working on it are assured. Again we would like to request that any
questions to be directed our email at diyfemmefest@gmail.com or you always
could call us up.