Project description: introduction of near protocol & nxm community to 1 million youth
I’m a youth coordinator and pastor of a youth church. I’ve been a creative art director for over 5 years teaching kids, teens and youths the creative art both in dance, music, drama, spoken word and even fashion/Tailoring. It’s given me a far & in-depth reach of young creatives across Lagos state, rivers state, Edo state and southern Africa.
I have a caring heart for young people and I pay extra attention to them always looking to see a positive change in their lives and being the youth pastor of a church with at least 1000 membership strength hosted weekly, one concern of mine for the past few years has been how to equip & empower most of them and provide everyone with a place/platform for them to express their creativity without limitations.
Live with INEC youth ambassador
Frank Edwards being made INEC youth ambassador
https://www.nairaland.com/2102531/frank-edwards-bags-inec-youth
On set with a senior church pastor
Addressing an audience of 1000 youths on-site and about 3000 connected live via internet
With the discovery of the near ecosystem, I see that there’s so much potential for greatness if they all become a part of it and that brings me to the basis of this project proposal.
In the next 1 month, I’d like to have a series of major events that’ll reach out to at the very least, over five thousand [5000] young creatives in Lagos in the first event and Thereafter, within the period of 6 months, we aim to reach no less than 1 million youths across the whole state through series of events. They’ll be empowerment/creative events that’ll showcase music, dance, spoken word and exhortations In which the near ecosystem will be introduced.
Live on stage addressing an audience of about 100,000 people on-site and millions online which was broadcasted in several languages on several tv stations, showcasing in music and spoken word at the Tafawa Balewa square Lagos Nigeria during TOTAL EXPERIENCE 2016
Strategy:
The debut event project tagged (phase 1) will be broken into 2 stages.
Stage 1 : publicity and content generation.
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This stage will kick off with bringing together most of our church members both active and non active to a venue we will use for content creation and weekly rehearsals towards the show-day. It’ll consist of at least 200 young creatives fully vibrant in their crafts which include dance, music, drama and spoken word.
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During rehearsals, they all will be introduced into the near eco system and wallets should be opened for the interested majority.
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Meanwhile, production of publicity materials will commence with printing of fliers, banners, branded t-shirts and face caps etc of which members of the church will go out daily for massive publicity and penetration into every street and block on the Lagos Island. We have every street and catchment mapped out for thorough sweep.
Ground troops During one of our recent massive Street campaigns
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through massive one-on-one publicity, data collation of everyone reached will be generated and used for follow-up to constantly remind them of the event and any questions they’ll need answered about the event.
Stage 2: The event
- by this stage, we will be inviting very popular artist who will be coming to perform to a craving audience. We will capitalise on their fan-base and online followers to drive up publicity
- we will be driving up publicity reach through online campaigns with bloggers, influencers, and all of social media platforms. Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, telegram etc. And by the day of event, through physical and virtual publicity, minimum of 5000 people should have heard of the near protocol, NXM community and the web3. A call back center will be active and running to answer calls from both online publicity and one on one invitations.
- We’ll begin decorating venue for event and getting little costumes And props for the performing acts.
- on The D-day of event, we aim to host minimum of 2000 people on-site and onboard no less than 1000 people on that same day. While onboarding is going on, we will host them with drinks and snacks in branded nxm bags.
Funding scheme: Milestone based.
Metrics for measuring success: database will be generated through one on one publicity. A team of at least 30 people are on standby for this. They’re workers in my church and are dedicated to whatever project we undergo.
Phase 1 Goals:
• introducing 5000 youths to the NXM community to provide them a platform to explore and express their creatives
• onboarding Min 1000 youths and creating wallets for them all.
• create a telegram group and possibly a dao for gospel creatives as a church community is already in existence and will just be introduced into the near eco system.
I believe the potential here is limitless and I’m open to ideas & support from everyone to take it to the next level.
NFTs:
Every art put together and performed on that day of event will be captured in stills and minted. We believe that the event will be historic and no moment should be forgotten as every historic moment will be captured and minted into the NXM mintbase store.
@Hawwal will be invited to address the audience on NEAR ECO SYSTEM, COMMUNITY, BLOCK CHAIN and all It entails.
Time Duration:
phase 1 is estimated to take 3 weeks duration.
Promotion:
I will be using social media influencers for promotion, along side bloggers.
For first phase, Requesting a sum of $1,868
$509 for publicity items: banners, fliers, t shirts, face caps
$150 for online promotions with bloggers & influencers
$70 for rehearsals logistics
₦300 for booking fee for invited celebrity artist
$100 for soft drinks and snacks while onboarding is going on
$234 for the onboarding and activation of Near wallets.
$500 Event hall rent for day of event and studio rent for dress rehearsal
PAYOUT: SHOLASPARK.NEAR
This project is not new to us as we have pioneered events like this, hosted subsequently, every year and I believe the introduction of near protocol/community to the people I lead can positively impact their lives and in turn, give them the opportunity to impact lives and community also
Recent event in the past
