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About
The Organizers
The Spitfire Tour was originally created in 1998 by a group
of music industry friends who wanted to find a way to further
promote the message behind the music they were involved in.
It was their belief that a speaking tour would be a good way
to generate interest in a number of causes that needed more
grassroots attention. One of these people was human rights
advocate Zack De la Rocha (Rage Against
The Machine), who helped spearhead the project by reaching
out to his activist friends like Amy
Ray (Indigo Girls), Krist Novoselic
(Nirvana) and more. These folks signed up to launch the
first college tour in the Fall of 1998, which turned out to
be a terrific success. More than two years later, Spitfire
continues to tour colleges, but is now a non profit foundation,
and focuses on student activism year-round.
Booking
Spitfire
Spitfire tours to college campuses each year, in the Fall.
In order to appear at your school, we must be invited by your
student government. In addition to an invitation, they need
to cover a portion of our costs in getting there. Although
we are a non profit tour, we do need to cover our costs &
speaker payments (fees which go to their non profit causes).
Although our events are generally free to students, with a
group of 10 organizers/speakers & concert-like production,
this can be quite expensive (up to $15,000). So, if you would
like to see us at your school, what you need to do is contact
your student government & ask them to book Spitfire through
our agent. They usually pay for these types of programs out
of your student activities fees (that $20 you cough up each
semester), so it's your money, and your vote should certainly
count!
Once
your school decides they want to book us, they need to contact
our agent, Sean
at Keppler Associates. If you are not part of the student
government, please don't contact him, as he's quite busy setting
up dates for us. However, you are welcome to contact the Spitfire
organizers, and we will be happy to answer any questions
that you have.
Finally,
if you are a independent promoter, and you are interested
in booking Spitfire in your city, we are doing a few promoter
dates, so please click here!
Sponsoring
Spitfire
The Spitfire Tour is funded in part by student activities
fees, and also from donations from our sponsors. For more
information on sponsorship, please contact The
Spitfire Agency.
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