About Us
Hips for Hire is a growing tribe of performing artists, visual media artists, textile artisans, web designers, marketing personnel, and helping professionals seeking opportunities to match these talented artists with organizations, corporations, hospitals and clinics, and other venues where entertainment is the key to a successful event.
Whether you are organizing a small charity function, a fundraiser for a global cause, or just want entertainment for a special occasion, Hips for Hire provides an exclusive directory of performing artists: musicians, dancers, aerialists, trapeze artists, yoga teachers, magicians, storytellers, puppet masters... and now visual and mixed media artists -- essentially anything that involves movement or beauty.
Many of our artists can teach workshops and present their work in various interactive formats. We provide the marketing platform using social networks, blogs, and other technologies to promote artists, which allows artists to focus on creativity instead of technology. Artists get to do what they love; you get unrivaled entertainment and art. We may also match you with appropriate caterers, decorators, photographers and event planners if you need additional help.
A Message from the Founder
Watching our nation - my neighbors, my friends, my community - struggle in a crumbling economy is heart-breaking. My work comes with an assumption of listening to stories about the emotional burden of job loss, depression and anxiety, the loss of relationship that comes with changing finances, and desperation. Though catharsis is a necessary component of recovery, after storytelling and complaining all of us have one thing in common: we want to do something about it.
Additionally, you have all seen video footage of the devastating effects of the earthquake that has turned Port au Prince, Haiti into a pile of rubble. We have seen with our own eyes how moved each of us is to give responsibly. it is as simple -- and as complicated -- as a click away or a text message.
Most of us own a childhood dream or two, and the lucky ones still believe in them even after life tends to jade the best of us. One dream of mine that survived is this: each of us is capable of doing something so wonderful it changes the world. Hips for Hire is my dream: changing the world one move at a time. As a musician, dancer, sometimes writer, nurse psychotherapist and yoga instructor, I believe that art beautifies the world. Imagine if artists could focus on doing their art how very beautiful and meaning-filled our communities will be.
If you are inspired, join my dream: be a sponsor of the arts, invest in Hipsforhire.com, be matched with one or more of our artists, tell me about any grants available, apply to become one of our exclusive performing artists (or recommend one), donate to Hips for Hire by inquiring about our donation options, or just tell me what you like about our idea. Most of all, join a Hips for Hire social network: Hips for Hire for Facebook , Twitter, or Ning. Blog about us. I know you want to! Better yet, if you have your own dream to follow, by all means do it. The world needs all the help we can give.
Founder, Hips for Hire