Jazz festival across multiple stages in venues across the neighbourhood. Deepening a sense of place and building a community around live music, with creative collaborations at the heart of it all.
Every contribution will help us keep all or at least a big part of the festival free to attend. We’ll make up the remainder through institutional grants, sponsorship and/or highly subsidised tickets for the festival. On the 12th of July 2025, De Beauvoir Jazz Festival will bring grassroots, homegrown and international jazz to our vibrant neighbourhood in Hackney, London. Multiple venues will host simultaneous performances - day long stages in public spaces to evening gigs in bars, restaurants, local pubs and community venues. The festival celebrates local culture, food, drink whilst supporting independent businesses and community groups. A youth outreach programme is a salient part of the mix. Instagram : @debeauvoirjazzfestival Website: www.debeauvoirjazzfestival.co.uk The money raised from this campaign will be used for planning and producing the festival. We're a Community Interest Company (CIC), and our core team is working on this festival pro-bono.
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Why it's a great idea:
1. Catalyse community connections 2. Introduce new audiences to jazz and make it accessible 3. Economic stimulus for local businesses 4. Emerge as a platform for creative collaborations 5. Enhance De Beauvoir Town's cultural profile + harness the potential of our local neighbourhood spaces 5. Create opportunities for volunteer involvement and employment over time 6. Promote arts education and cultural diversity 7. Foster a strong sense of place and belonging We are committed to making this festival inclusive, safe, and accessible. We want to bring new audiences to jazz and elevate the marginalised voices in jazz, creating a platform that benefits everyone. We have garnered interest from local businesses and community groups and everyone’s been incredibly supportive.
Steps to get it done:
Support us to help cover the costs of having a stellar lineup, great sound, good stages and great venues onboard - so we don’t have to pass on the cost of the same to our audiences through ticketing. Also, please help us spread the word! We plan to run this festival annually and look forward to seeing you there!
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This campaign closes early for us to focus on the sale of tickets to make up our costs. We've also reshaped the festival ever so slightly to ensure we can bring the best of the musicians to the neighbourhood, yet keep our costs more manageable. Your support means everything and the image above paints a picture of what you've helped us work towards. More announcements via Instagram @debeauvoirjazzfestival Thank you. Over and out!
Hello everyone! The Festival has been granted Arts Council funding as well as a grant from Englefield Trust. Both of these help us make big strides towards our overall goal in addition to the money you've backed us with. The money raised thus far enables us to put on upto 8 free events in our overall festival calendar this year. Thank you. There will be paid gigs at the festival over and above these. Each of these gigs, is also now subsidised by this raise and we offer great concessions to ensure everyone's invited. The paid gigs will help us make up the difference towards our overall costs and we hope you'll continue to support us by coming to the festival! For everyone who's backed us on Spacehive, we've got tickets and passes ready to share in proportion to your donated amount. We'll be in touch before the end of April 2025 to issue these tickets/passes to you. If you'd like to pass these on to a friend (if you can't make the festival) or if you haven't heard from us by end April, find us at [email protected] Again. A big thank you. You helped us kickstart this journey and we couldn't have gotten this far without your help. Tickets go live on Instagram this week. Follow us at @debeauvoirjazzfestival
Whoop, 30 people have pledged since fundraising began!
Whoop, 10 people have pledged since fundraising began!
How will the money be spent?Target (inc. fees) £68,385
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Target (inc. fees) £68,385
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VolunteerThe De Beauvoir Jazz Festival was founded in 2024 in De Beauvoir, a charming neighbourhood in Hackney, with blurring boundaries between Hoxton, Haggerston, Shoreditch, Canonbury and Dalston.
Payal Wadhwa is the founder of the De Beauvoir Jazz Festival and lives in the neighbourhood. For the last two decades, she's worked across civic innovation, public realm design, placemaking and for design of products and services. This festival is a way to bring together - not just the many worlds of her own practice but also a formidable team that can help bring positive change to the local area and run a stellar festival.
Pete Horsfall, our Artistic Director, an award winning jazz musician himself, has played the biggest stages of Royal Albert Hall, Lincoln Center NYC, Paris' Duc Des Lombards, The North Sea Jazz Festival, Glastonbury Festival and Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, is a regular guest on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3 and JazzFM and teaches at Cambridge University, Guildhall School of Music and the Trinity-Laban Conservatoire. Deeply entrenched in the world of jazz, he's curating a lineup of homegrown and international musicians that we hope this fundraiser will help us bring to life, plus one that we can't wait to share with the world. More about Pete here. https://www.petehorsfall.com/bio
Formed as a Community Interest Company (CIC) the festival team now consists of Gillian Da Costa, Dinesh Markose, Kyla Taylor and 6+ volunteers with expertise in event production, marketing and content, arts management, legal, finance, placemaking and community engagement.
The CIC's "Everyone's Invited" manifesto https://www.debeauvoirjazzfestival.co.uk/everyones-invited focuses on belonging, inclusion, and accessibility.
We couldn't have got to this point without the incredible support of Hackney Council - our local councillors, the events and culture teams, the markets team amongst so many others. We're also deeply grateful for the support of the De Beauvoir Association, the Women's Institute, all of the venues who are throwing their doors open to host performances as a part of the festival and our growing list of partners, contributing in kind and with energy a festival like this couldn't be run without!
Crowdfunding, grants & sponsorship will keep majority of the festival free. Project costs in reality are much higher than campaign target. Overfunding will help us reduce reliance on other sources.
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