King Oo-Bank & Queen Jar-Dan: Crowdfunding A New QR Code Project
The Brighton QR Code Treasure Hunts
In September 2011, I set up the Brighton QR Treasure Hunt website along with Marie from the The Brighton Treasure Hunt Company. We ran our first event for the Digital Festival 2011 in Brighton which was a great success. Visit Brighton were a fantastic support and the Brighton Dome kindly gave us the use of the Founders Room. The feedback on this quirky QR Code event from our participants was excellent and we raised over £600 for the Rockinghorse charity.
Spurred on, we ran another event for White Night 2011 with the winning prize of a swanky hotel room, donated from myhotel. Funding to run the treasure trail as a free event, was granted from Brighton Council and over 500 participants signed up to join the treasure trail on the night. “Exceeding our expectations” is an understatement – we were thrilled at the response!
“Jed & Tilley V King Oo-Bank & Queen Jar-Dan”
So we’re planning on returning with something even more special and quirky for the Brighton Fringe Festival in May 2012. Jed & Tilley, the heros of our story are on a mission to save Brighton from the evil King Oo-Bank & Queen Jar-Dan, who want to take over Brighton and change it forever: and believe me, this will be a living hell to the good people of Brighton if it happens.
This truly interactive 3 hour event will have participants searching, singing, dancing, dressing up, acting, cracking clues in QR codes, live tweeting and putting their ‘make and do’ skills to the test.
To make the event a reality, we are seeking crowding funding from the arts funding website “We Did This”. They are a little like KickStarter and say in their manifesto:
We will build a popular movement to support and transform the UK arts sector; a new alliance between artists and their audiences to take control of arts funding.
Marie and I are hoping to raise £1000 to pay for the hire of a venue over 4 consecutive Saturdays during the Brighton Fringe Festival to hold a Dragon’s Den style product presentation that will save our fabulous city from the evil King Oo-Bank & Queen Jar-Dan.
Find out more about our project and the event over at the Brighton QR Treasure Hunt website and Facebook page. To become an arts support and donate to our project, visit our project funding page on the We Did This website.
