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Membership for businesses is $125 per year and membership for artists is $35 per year. These costs help our all-volunteer board cover our nonprofits basic costs and entitle you to a few benefits:
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• Send us news or updates about your business so our volunteers can share it on our social media accounts.
  

• Have your events and sales listed on our website and potentially featured in our newsletter!
  Just log into your account, visit our Events page, and submit your event. We'll use these submissions to help promote your business or art on our social media and to our email list.
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• If you're a business, you will be able to participate in White Light Night and Hot Art Cool Nights. While those events do have separate fees that cover insurance, police, marketing, and busses, you must be a member to participate or sponsor.
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• Last, but certainly not least, you help to promote public art and maintain the Mid City Arts + Culture District. To learn more about how to host some of this public art at your business, go here: [insert link here]

That’s easy! If you want to make a general donation to Mid City Merchants, go here: [insert link here]

• If you're a business, make sure you're a current and active member that is logged into their account. From their visit the event page and sign up!
  
  Please keep in mind that registration may not be currently available because it hasn't been opened up yet. Don't worry! Event registration information will become available soon.
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• Some businesses choose to add event participation at the start of the year when they pay their membership. This way, they can either pay for everything all at once, or even split up their payments over several months.
  If you take advantage of this feature, great! When you go to sign up to participate in the event, it will automatically credit your ticket purchase. If you experience technical difficulties or believe you were improperly charged, please email info@midcityerchants.org

• Mid City Merchants does not place artists, nor do we charge artists to participate!
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  Individual businesses select to host artists and may or may not charge a small fee, usually between $35 and $75 per spot. In order to find participating businesses so you can ask to set up there, please visit our map of participating businesses on our event page.

• We are always looking for passionate and dedicated people to join our board!
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  Our organization is run entirely by volunteer board members that are local business owners or artists like yourself. If you think you'd like to be a part of our crew, email info@midcitymerchants.org
  We nominate board members in December and host elections each January.

Your organization’s participation will be promoted on our social media platforms and promotional items. Also your support will go into the Public Art Funds to support the Mid City area gaining 3D art within the community.

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Email info@midcitymerchants.org

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If you are a business that does not have a storefront you can rent out an open space along Government St. through the owner or you can partner with a business that has a storefront along Government St.

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Yes, we will have police officers throughout the event.

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White Light Night is a rain or shine event.

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We encourage you to reach out to your host site as this is different for each location.

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There are two ways you can sign up for a location:

1: If there is a specific location you would like to set up you can go to that specific business and ask to be a part of theirWLN experience. You can also review our active map on our website to learn which businesses will be a part of WLN.

2: Now that you have registered as an artist through our Artist Interest Form, your business is not on our Artist registry,which is shared with all participating businesses. Each host site can then use this list to contact the artist they would like to be a part of their WLN experience.

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All Mid City Merchants will receive the Artist Registry and from this list the Merchant will find all the artists that are seeking a host site.

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Yes

No, you can simply complete our Artist Interest Form and from there you will be a part of our Artist Registry.

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We consider all creatives artists from a tea brewer to a painter and all those in between.

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We encourage you to bring all materials that are needed for the success of your event during a pop up shop. Also we suggest contacting your host site to see if you would need to bring your own table, tent, and chairs.

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The price is at the discretion of the hostsite. Reach out to your host site or potential sites to learn more.

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Serving alcohol is at the discretion of yourhost site and their insurance. Reach out to your host site or potential site tolearn more.

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