Steampunk Festival needs your help

While the 2016 Springfield Steampunk Festival was SO MUCH fun and enjoyed by all who attended, it, unfortunately was not financially successful.

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While the 2016 Springfield Steampunk Festival was SO MUCH fun and enjoyed by all who attended, it, unfortunately was not financially successful. Due to unexpected poor attendance and very minimal donations on our Friday-Free-Locals night, we are in the red. If you loved the festival, whether this year or last, and want to see it continue to be a yearly event, we desperately need your help via donations. Our festival organizing team has learned from this year and would love to jump feet first into planning another amazing festival for 2017; we have so many great ideas. However, we can’t begin to work on next year’s festival until we wrap up 2016, which means paying the bills. Our festival has brought the community together and it feels like our festival attendees and volunteers are our steampunk family. We hope to keep the community we’ve created strong and connected with more steampunk events for years to come. We will continue to work towards making Springfield an amazing place to live, work and visit; but we need your help. We are a small group of volunteers planning this festival and even a smaller group burdened with this financial debt. We can’t manage it on our own without help from you. Please donate anything you can to help the festival get back in the black and please share this GoFundMe page with all of your steampunk and Springfield fans. We humbly thank you for your help. ==================== Following are the different levels of giving. Please give what you can. ==================== Level 4 $10 - $19 You will receive our gratitude! ==================== Level 3 $20 - $49 You will receive our gratitude and a special place in our hearts! ==================== Level 2 $50 - $99 You will receive our gratitude, a special place in our hearts, AND a limited edition 2016 Steampunk Festival commemorative poster signed by the artist, Aaron Weinstein.