Dear Frank:
YOu know I have a lot of respect for you and for your work. I just want to let you know that we are required by law to have an insurance which, at this point, we can't afford. We have already invested in the rental of the space and the publicity and the mailing from our own pockets.
Maybe if we were a big corporation we wouldn't have to do this. Perhaps if we were the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts or the San Francisco Ballet we would have an insurance already payed for. We would also have an army of lawyers to deal with any trouble. If this was the case, then the artists' expression would be jeopardized, dictated and censored by our shareholders, our funders or by our sponsors and consumers.
We have put a lot of work and love into this festival. Alyssa and I have invested many hours of our personal lives into this. We do this with pride just because we believe in free expression. We believe in grass roots art and we enjoy having people like you being part of this too. We also understand the sociopolitical implications of doing this in times when everybody else is afraid to speak out.
Please understand that one thing you can't ask us to do after all of this, is to put the few things we own in life at risk just because of plain negligence.
Thanks for signing. We appreciate your understanding.
SIncerely,
gal*in_dog
POW! POW! Curator
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gal_in, I understand what Alyssa and you are doing and greatly value it. I have been putting on events for over thirty years. So I know what you two are dealing with. But the legal shit attracts problems, which is why I always have avoided legal shit.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
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