Forums > Social Discussion > Fund Raising-This made me sad

I perform at Rens.
I am a member of a very strong group of "rennies" from my area and we have a yahoo group.

Recently on the group a woman brought up the idea that we pull ourselves together to have a fundraiser for a specific group effected by Katrina, the La Ren Faire and its people, which has been strongly effected by the Hurricane. Many that we know perform there, so it seemed a right good idea.

We are over 200 performers and vendors. Between a charity show and a couple of raffle donations, we could raise a healthy chunk o' change to help our friends at our sister faire. I don't even do alot of charity gigs and I thought this was a great idea.

And I kid you not, the idea was blasted by some of the people who lashed out saying "I go to Rens and this group to escape reality. I don't want to talk about it on here, and I don't want to read about it being brought up here. This shouldn't effect us here." As if we aren't real people with real emotions.

I have never been this disappointed in a group of people that I choose to spend my time with (I have been this disappointed in my family, which is why I word it like that). It was disgusting and heart breaking to me.

I think several of us are going to continue with the event but wow...people still can surprise me, and that got me.

Pele
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