A newspaper made for this one night — the room, the date, the setlist, the writing. Every spread opens into a wall poster with real text on the back. For a poet, that is the point: the work is printed at the scale it deserves and the words are the object, not the caption. Run capped and numbered; when it sells out at the table it is gone forever — scarcity is real and dated, so it carries a higher price point than a poster.
Wide Open pays for everything — design, print, shipping. Costs recoup off the top, then the net splits 60/40 in the artist's favor. You write no checks and carry zero risk. For a single night, this is the structure we'd honestly recommend.
You cover production at cost — ~$800 upfront (print ~$300 + our design & production fee, $500 flat for a single show) — and keep everything else. It beats Structure 1 from the baseline up — push price or the % of the room and the whole upside is yours.
Every number is a lever — drag them and the budget recalculates for the night. Capacity is a concert-configuration estimate; true it and everything moves.
Capacity is a concert-configuration estimate — true it against ticketed capacity and the row recalculates. A dated, numbered edition tends to over-index a headline crowd, so the % lever is where to push.
Methodology per our standard model: hall fee on venue sales · 5% shrinkage & CC on venue gross · print costed on volume tiers · excludes sales tax.
The artist newspaper has half a century of collector history — priced like art, not merch.