Our first fundraising effort raised $80 for SWAP Hamilton through a silent auction that I ran at the Erotic Arts and Crafts Fair, presented by Come As You Are Co-Operative, on February 11, 2023.
Reading from the in-progress Vibrating Tarot deck at The Taboo Show in Toronto on the weekend of October 13, 2023, allowed me to donate $250, which was half of my proceeds, to Maggie’s Toronto, on behalf of Vibrating Tarot and The Taboo Show.
Charitable donations are a part of this overall project because I believe in the work that I see others doing around me and I want to follow their actions and lead others by my own example.
As per the Vibrating Tarot licensing agreement that I’ve signed with all of the different companies involved, I’m not permitted to reprint my Tarot card designs and sell them in any other format than the deck of cards and the colouring book.
This means that anytime I make artwork to raise funds for a charitable donation, the permissions surrounding each particular item will have been brought to fruition separately and independently of the Tarot deck product and it’s original contract.
I will only be working with certain images that feature products from companies who want to move forward with this element.
My goal is to make regular instalments to a series of art where I will depict each Tarot image by using a pyrography pen on wooden canvas.
Sometimes, I will donate the art to silent auctions that are being run by organizations who have done this before.
Sometimes I will raise the funds myself through a raffle, and then donate the proceeds to a charitable organization.
Each time a donation is made, it will be recorded here.
We'll be going live with our crowdfunding campaign after all of our licensing agreements are signed and I am working to make that happen as soon as possible.
We're aiming to crowdfund in May 2025.
For now, the best way you can help us out is to please join our mailing list at the following link:
Crowdfunding with BackerKit Pre-Launch Mailing List
BackerKit was the only crowdfunding platform to put their support and their enthusiasm behind our project during a time when other crowdfunding platforms were turning us away because of our relation to sexual wellness.
Please join our mailing list at the link below to ensure that you get notified about the crowdfunding campaign that will help fund the first edition of Vibrating Tarot.