Well, another week passes and “the Art of Evolution” is doing just that, evolving. Some of the initial ideas seem to be in the process of becoming extinct, such as the dressing up as Darwin one, but we won’t mention that any more. Some of the other ideas have progressed, and this week I want to announce a couple of new beasties to the menagerie.

NEWS
The “help us evolve” raffle. If you have looked on the website recently you may have noticed the “win this picture” icons. Exhibitions cost money to do properly, and to help us raise funds for framing, publicity, and paying staff on the night, I decided to raffle one of my paintings which will be framed up nicely and given away at the opening night. It is important to me to make the show as big as possible, as the more interest we can drum up, and the more professional it looks, the more interest we are going to get for our charity picture auction, and the Kindergarten days. The idea is simple, we ask people to make a donation of any amount from 1cent upwards by clicking on the paypal “Donate” logo here, or by bank transfer, and in return they get invites to the sponsors show, their name on the sponsor board at the exhibition and the chance to win the framed original picture. We are already getting an amazing response, thanks for your help everyone.
A Flying start. We’re going to start distributing flyers soon. This was nearly disastrous as Mrs B found a typo in the main title of the exhibition after I had sent it to print. Fortunately, 5000 flyers ( thank you www.Goodflyer.de ) are soon to be spreading themselves around the country.
What a CARry on. In early april, we are going to have a campaign launch with our magnetically stickered cars, watch this space.
Thanks to Frau Seefelder from the Landsberg Stadttheater, for all your support and letting us use your logo to promote the event
Thanks to www.Meinestadt.de for all the publicity you are generating already
Thanks to http://www.bavaria-satellite.tv for your continuing help.

Ideas in Evolution
The big brush. At present, I intend to build as big a paintbrush as I can, probably about 5m long and have pictures taken of it painting the house, and maybe tied to the car for driving around.
Live Painting. In August, I want to do a live painting event in Landsberg, painting outside, in oil, to drum up a bit of interest in art in general and the show in particular.
TV show. We have finished filming a short interview and will be touting it round tv companies to try and get a reality tv show thing going.

We still need sponsors or help with sourcing the following, if you know of anyone who can help, please get in touch.
wine
plants and flowers during the show
framing
catering
Advertising
Transport of guests and the pictures themselves to and from the show.
Helpers for distributing flyers in as many places as possible.
If we can keep the momentum on the campagne, this is going to be HUGE.
And that’s about it for news this week. As always, please help the show by telling everyone you know about it. If you know anyone with a website who would like to swap links, please put them in touch. You can also follow the shows progress on the following websites etc.
Exhibition News, pictures and dates. We are currently on the front page of their advertising. Thanks www.Meinestadt.de for all your help.
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Cheers for now,
Evolvingly yours
Derek