Program Benefits

Outreach and The Culture Card
Its no secret that many Jews consider themselves cultural rather than religious. Arts and culture programs are a great way to get new faces, or faces you rarely see, through the door. Use this opportunity to welcome new members, recognize older ones and invigorate your surrounding community. Its also an excellent way to energize your youth community, build unity in your congregation and reach out to neighbors in the community, be they potential members or partner organizations.

Programming excellence

KFAR only offers acts it would present itself, so the level of talent is generally very high. Many of the same acts perform in top venues and are participate in well known festivals. Participating acts are selected through a number of factors which bring them to or near Chicago for performances. KFAR knows who is touring and when, allowing us to coordinate with bands’ routings to negotiate better rates. Often, these acts are performing for KFAR itself. No two performances are ever scheduled within a 5 mile radius. Performances fees generally are a third to a half of their normal rates.

Financial Savings

KFAR’s programs and relationship with the talent allows us an amount of financial flexibility. We almost always realize savings, either from the fee or travel expense.

Education

Great cultural programming is difficult to produce and often is reserved for fundraisers. Use SHIRIM programs to bring your community together to celebrate our Jewish heritage and educate them at the same time. KFAR can work with your Religious School or Adult Education team to develop a stand alone lesson plan related to the material being presented.

Kfar’s promotion abilities

In addition to your in-house promotion, KFAR will promote your event in conjunction with its own event, to a proprietary email list of 6,000 Chicago area households, plus a PR campaign. KFAR can also provide preformatted posters and flyers for reproduction, and can provide online ticketing and hard copy services as well.

KFAR’s production services
When hiring talent, most people don’t know a DI box from a Monitor. That’s okay. KFAR has production resources it can call upon to make event production relatively turnkey .