Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:09:43 -0400 From: Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppet cart In Asheville you can busk, but selling, even by suggested price or donation won't fly and you'll get run off or arrested. But there is a open air market where you can pay by the day to sell stuff at specified booths. I am considering both possibilities. Your point on the approach is a good differentiation that I will keep in mind. Frankly I am not real confident that I will be any good at busking. I am a little pesimistic. A friend who has a pretty cool act made $30 in two hours which seems kind of dismal. I want to give it a shot though and see if I can improve on it. I just returned from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival after going to my daughters wedding celebration to a Scottish man. The Fringe is the Disney land of buskers and it got me thinking about the possibilities. I appreciate the advise of those of you who have done it. I think if I can get the selling booth, I'll do better in the long run. The booths are a bit tough to score as there is seniority involved. Asheville has a good tourist crowd but it isn't huge. On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Preston Foerder<preston-AT-pfpuppetry.com> wrote: > I'm a little confused on whether you are going to busk or sell stuff. =A0If > you are primarily selling things your small show should use the puppets that > you are trying to sell, the way a magic store salesman demonstrates a trick > in order to sell it. =A0You gather a crowd and then at the end of the show hit > them with the sales spiel. =A0If you are busking, the sale of the items is > sort of presented as an afterthought. Pass the hat get their money (Alice is > right, always make a joke about paper money or all you'll get is change) and > by the way I have these peepers (cds, dvds, whatever) if anyone wants them > for a suggested price of whatever. In New York, as a busker, you can only > ask for a suggested price (you can refuse anything that isn't the suggested > price)and take the money in your hat or you=92re a vendor and need a license. > They can arrest you or confiscate your merchandise or both. > > The problem is the selling and the busking work at cross purposes. If people > think you're primarily selling things they are not going to want to give you > anything for the show. If they think you're primarily busking than they get > annoyed by the fact that you're too obviously trying to hawk something on > them as well. > > Preston > (15 years on the streets in Boston, New York and a few other places) > > -----Original Message----- > From: puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org [mailto:puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org] > On Behalf Of Hobey Ford > Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 3:42 PM > To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org > Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppet cart > > They are pretty good with it here as long as you aren't selling stuff > or block the sidewalk or cause a nuisance. =A0I will try to do in this > spot where you can buy a day permit to sell crafts, so I can sell > stuff as well. =A0I'll let you know how it goes. > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:13 PM, <puppetpro-AT-aol.com> wrote: >> You are lucky if you can do this without too much bureaucracy -- here, (in > Hartford) I'd either be arrested or put in a hospital. >> I remember seeing "Les Sages Fous" in Syracuse at Open Hand Theater's > festival -- their cart was very imaginative, with lots of little doors and > things peeking out. I cannot find a photo on their website, but perhaps its > somewhere else: =A0http://www.sagesfous.com >> >> Rolande >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com> >> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org >> Sent: Sun, Aug 16, 2009 8:14 pm >> Subject: [Puptcrit] Puppet cart >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> I am messing around with making a puppet cart to busk and sell puppets >> in Asheville. =A0As I've researched the topic I've found some nice >> illustrations =A0and photos on google image. =A0I've never done this sort >> of thing. =A0Any of you? =A0I thought I'd do a series of 3 minute acts >> with a break to sell stuff. =A0I'll probably makke some inexpesive >> limber JKackks and then some higher end stuff as well as Peepers. =A0The >> economy has me trying to find new ways of bringing in income and I am >> going to give it a go. =A0The only experience I've had with busking felt >> slightly likke begging. =A0I figure if I dress nicer than the passers by >> and have a puppet wagon theater that looks spiffy I will viewed >> differently. I thought too that i would do completly different >> material than my "professional shows" like little puppets , toy >> theater and mybe some marionettes. I've started on a wagon stage I am >> attaching a photo of a thea >> ter that is an inspirational starting >> point. =A0Mine will actually be a bit taller and smaller but of the same >> genre. 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