A Great Satisfaction

For the past couple of months I have been preparing for one of my biggest performances I have ever had as an artist. The "Calle Ocho block party" is known as the biggest festival in the world. Where they close about 20 blocks and setup several stages along the street to hold musical acts. It is said to have an attendance of over 50,000 people. So this was huge for me. I had a big problem though; I didn’t have the money that I needed to pull off a competitive performance that all of the other artists performing would have.

So I decided to use the skills that I have learned so far in my master’s degree. I decided that I was going to find some sponsors to help me out financially. I had a perfect plan. My plan was to find sponsors that would help me out financially to cover the costs of the band members, the dancers, the transportation, the videos for the actual performance and so on. In return, I made t-shirts that had my information in the front of the shirt and on the back would show everyone that sponsored me in the event and their information.

My idea seemed to be a pretty good one and actually worked. I was able to raise the sufficient amount of money that I needed in order to cover all of the expenses for the show, and more than that. I then printed the t-shirts and gave all of the sponsors a few of the so that they can have them and see what we did with their proceeds.

After doing all of this work, I really learned something out of it all. I learned how to implement all of the skills that I learned in school in a real world scenario. That was great feeling, and a personal satisfaction for me.