#DancingtheDiaspora Influencer Content Kit

#VoicesForLiberation Influencer Content Kit

Dancing The Diaspora Performance on May 22, 2021

Hello Esteemed Friend!

We are reaching out to ask for your help in making this 2-hour dance performance with dance groups from all over, representing the African Diaspora: Haiti Creafo Danse (Haiti), L’Acadco: A United Caribbean Dance Force (Jamaica), Jarrel Phillips and Capoeira Ijexa (SF Bay Area), Divas and Drummers of Compton (LA, as seen on AGT), and of course our beneficiary Grown Women Dance Collective (Oakland). Our virtual fundraising concert will immediately bring critically needed support to the Grown Women Dance Collective’s vital Pilates Post-Rehabilitation Joyful Movement Life Skills Certification Program. We are also encouraging support of the arts, internationally and nationally, as so many are hard hit by the COVID-19 crisis. 

Please join our charged-up multiracial volunteer crew in getting the message out loud and clear, to grow the momentum and make substantive change in our country and abroad!

To make it easy to share with your networks and beyond, we’ve provided samples AND we look forward to retweeting, liking, sharing, and engaging with you, and learning from your twists and takes on it. 

This is our chance to make a real impact and rally new support for this needed community work. 

Thank you.

Sample content: Following are sample social posts, an email, and text message you can copy, edit to suit your style, and publish to your networks. On Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, the link will pull up the concert image and headline automatically. The blog post gives more detail about the performers and event details.

Images: Should you need an image for Instagram, a blog post, email, or other use, here is an Image Folder with items to download. 

If you publish a blog post: Please email the link to your blog and any posts about VIA to katie_tupper@yahoo.com so we can mirror it on our blog and link back to yours. 

Resources:

• Sample content: Copy & images for email, text, and social promotion is below
• Stellar link: Dancing The Diaspora Tickets
• Web site: Date, time, list of artists, team, blogs, organizations, reading/watching/listening list, downloadable poster, social links, etc. at http://voicesforliberation.org 
• Press release: Go here

Have questions? Email Katie Tupper katie@katietupper.com

Beneficiary note: The #VoicesForLiberationDancingTheDiaspora official beneficiary is Grown Women Dance Collective. Donate now and please "make it monthly" for bigger impact: donate

Note: Following are sample posts for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn that you can copy and edit to suit your style. Go to the Image Folder to download a square Instagram pic. On other channels, the performance’s image will automatically appear with the post. 

On Facebook, you can tag the 

@VoicesForLiberationDancingTheDiaspora event page.

Add hashtags or tag other artists in the show or others that would be interested!

Instagram Option (only first line shows):

Join me May 22nd 2021 rallying friends to raise funds for @GrownWomenDanceCollective and #racialjustice | Learn. Groove. Give. Commit. | Get your tix: HERE

 #JoinusforJustice #V4LDancingTheDiaspora #V4LIntlDanceFest #Dance4Justice

Other Social Media:

Option 1:

Purchase your tix today! On Saturday, May 22nd, watch 6 amazing dance groups dance for change @GrownWomenDanceCollective and #racialjustice. Reserve your spot now: HERE #JoinusforJustice #civilrights #blackartists #V4LDancingTheDiaspora #Dance4Justice

Option 2:

Join me May 22nd, 2021 in rallying friends to raise funds for @GrownWomenDanceCollective’s work certification program: Learn. Groove. Give. Commit. We change this #Together! Tickets to Voices For Liberation Dancing The Diaspora with amazing performers: Dancing The Diaspora Tickets #JoinusforJustice #V4LDancingTheDiaspora #Dance4Justice #blackartists

Option 3:

Get your spot in a telethon-style performance for @GrownWomenDanceCollective and #racialjustice on May 22nd, 2021 because BLACK LIVES MATTER. Reserve your tickets now for #V4LDancingTheDiaspora: Tickets #JoinusforJustice #Dance4Justice

Option 4:

We are at a critical moment in history with more unity for racial justice than we have seen in generations. Let’s get together, tap our shoes together for what we believe in, and raise money for @GrownWomenDanceCollective and the change we need to see. Join us for a virtual performance to abolish disenfranchisement and fortify Black communities. Saturday, May 22nd, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm PST. Register now! Tickets #JoinusforJustice #V4LDancingTheDiaspora #Dance4Justice

@VoicesForLiberationDancingTheDiaspora  is the Facebook event page. Please RSVP today and invite your friends to the FB event. 

Subject line options: 

• 💃🏾 Join us for Justice on May 22nd Performance 
• #JoinusforJustice Livestream Performance May 22nd!
• The steps for justice are stomping loudly May 22nd! Join us!
• Invitation:  Voices For Liberation Dancing The Diaspora Livestream for Racial Justice May 22nd!
• Watch Voices For Liberation Dancing The Diaspora on 5/22 & give to a cause you believe in!
• Don’t miss this! Livestream Concert for Racial Justice 5/22/21!

Dear friends, 

I’d like to invite you to a telethon style virtual dance performance with 5-6 amazing dance groups performing for the important work of the Grown Women Dance Collective. Dancing The Diaspora is a two-hour performance that starts at 7:30 p.m. (PST) on May 22nd.

#JoinusforJustice — be part of the Voices For Liberation movement by sharing, inviting your friends, and rallying support for lasting change. 

To learn more about who’s showing up to “Dance the Diaspora,” please click here. 

Are you in? 

Best, [Your Name]

Option 1:

Join us for Justice May 22nd for the Voices For Liberation livestream. 5 to 6 international and national dance groups “Dance The Diaspora” for the Grown Women Dance Collective work training program! Tix here

Option 2: 

Check out this line up with 5 to 6 national and international dance groups on 5/22! A virtual performance to raise funds for Grown Women Dance Collective’s work-training program - join me! Get Your Tickets Here!

Option 3: 

Hope you can make it 5/22 to the Voices For Liberation livestream “Dancing The Diaspora” - with 5 to 6 international and national dance groups raising funds for #racialjustice - Get your tickets.

Option 4: 

Hi! I want to make sure you’ve heard about a telethon-style virtual dance performance with 5 to 6 international and national dance groups supporting racial justice. It’s on 5/22 from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm PT. You can RSVP here - Count you in?

Option 5: 

Hi! There’s a virtual dance performance to support Grown Women Dance Collective showcasing 5 to 6 dance groups - it’s online on 5/22 from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm PST. It’s only $8 and all proceeds and donations go directly to Grown Women Dance Collective making a real difference during this critical moment in history. RSVP here. I look forward to seeing you there!

[Add a personal intro about why you’re interested]

The Dancing The Diaspora performance is a telethon-style event that will livestream on Saturday, May 22nd from 7:30PMpm to 9:30pm PST to raise money for the Grown Women Dance Collective (GWDC) Pilates Post-Rehabilitation Joyful Movement Life Skills Certification Program, created by Tonya Marie Amos. This incredible dance performance idea, came about from a local SF Bay Area choreographer, director, actor, and community organizer, Gary Stanford Jr., who dreamt about bringing together dancers from all over, to raise awareness and support for programs that improve the lives of Black people. From his personal connections with our beneficiary, GWDC and Tonya Marie Amos, together with Voices For Liberation, we were able to collaborate and develop a vibrant and celebratory Dance Festival, on May 22nd, Dancing The Diaspora. 

The telethon style event will provide low-cost high quality entertainment and just like an old fashioned telethon, attendees will learn more about Grown Women Dance Collective (GWDC), their visionary work certification program, the dancers and the African Diaspora, as well as have the opportunity to donate to GWDC and the artists, directly. Dance performances by our beneficiary Grown Women Dance Collective (Oakland), Haiti Creafo Danse (Haiti), L’Acadco: A United Caribbean Dance Force (Jamaica), Jarell Phillips and Capoeira Ijexa (SF Bay Area), and Divas and Drummers of Compton (LA, quarter finalists on AGT).

The performance is only $8 per ticket — simply register on here to livestream it on May 22nd.

Voices For Liberation is an effort of passionate multiracial artists and community members to increase immediate and ongoing donations for organizations on the forefront of racial justice and protecting Black lives organized completely by volunteers. This performance benefits the Grown Women Dance Collective. Find Voices For Liberation on Facebook, Instagram, and at www.voicesforliberation.org.

Thank you!