About PitchBlack Columbus
PitchBlack is a micro-granting gathering space designed for the supporting and celebration of creative projects that impact local communities.
PitchBlack is a space for community collaboration and the democratic practice of funding local creativity that builds trust and fosters opportunity through crowd-funded micro-grants that impact the community in radically creative ways.
PitchBlack Columbus is brought o you by Artfluential & Maroon Arts Group as a part of the Deliver Black Dreams initiative
Apply to Pitch | Application Deadline April 11, 2022
Visit: www.PitchBlackColumbus.com
*Please note: Applying does not guarantee you will receive a spot to pitch. There will only be 5 pitches selected so please provide as much information as possible in your application.
Important Dates:
- March 28th, 2022: Applications Open
- April 11th, 2022 – 11:59pm: Applications Close
- April 18th, 2022: 6pm -7pm for a virtual call for selected pitchers
- May 1st, 2021: PITCH BLACK from 6pm – 8pm in-person
How the PitchBlack works
01: Invest – Make an investment of $10 or more by purchasing a ticket or boosting the grant through donation. Attend the PitchBlack event.
02: Pitch – Each presenter has exactly 5-8 minutes to share their idea with the community investors and answer 4 questions from the audience about their project. Attendees hear presentations from Four to Five community members leading projects in the Arts, Urban Agriculture, Social justice, Education, Technology & More.
03: Vote – Attendees vote on the project they feel has the most community impact. While votes are tallied attendees are able to network, share resources, enjoy music and art, take pics.
04: Build – At the end of the program, the votes are tallied and the winner goes home with the money raised by the attendee’s investment to carry out their project.
05: Share – Winners will be required to come back to a future PitchBLACK to update the community on the success of their project.
THEORY OF CHANGE
PitchBLACK seeks to build on creatively onto the Kwanzaa principle of Ujamaa. By building a forum for radical communal exchange, empathy, and investment in order to foster communal impact. The fourth principle of Kwanzaa is Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) and is essentially a commitment to the practice of shared social wealth and the work necessary to achieve it. Ujamaa literally means familyhood and suggests a sharing of work and wealth in the manner of a family. It grows out of the fundamental communal concept that social wealth belongs to the masses of people who created it and that no one should have such an unequal amount of wealth that it gives him/her the capacity to impose unequal, exploitative, or oppressive relations on others.