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Worth the price of a cinema ticket?

Shows like this are spectacular and memorable, but of course hugely expensive to mount. This event involves a company of sixty French performers and technicians, twenty musicians, and a huge crew of British technicians and stewards. And our costs have risen steeply because of the exchange rate, which has fallen from 1.42 last autumn to 1.18 now.

Artichoke is funded by the Arts Council and we raise significant funds from other trusts, foundations and businesses.  Much – but not all – of the cost of this event has been met by Liverpool ’08, but we are still short of our fundraising target.  If you enjoy the show, or want to support what we do, please do consider making a donation, even if it’s only the price of a cinema ticket. 

As a charity, we can recover tax on your donation too, so this is an efficient way of supporting Artichoke’s work and enabling us to mount ambitious events that are free to the public. 

Thank you