Robert Fogarty is the director of Evacuteer.org, an organization that works to ensure 30,000 New Orleans residents without transportation have evacuation options during storms. Through a street performance experiment called the Real Bucket Challenge, Fogarty and volunteers raised $173.28 which they aim to turn into $30,000 online to fund public art that serves as neighborhood evacuation meeting points. The performance involved body painting, panhandling, and attracted 130 donors, highlighting the lack of evacuation access for over a third of New Orleans residents after Hurricane Katrina.

1. ROBERT X. FOGARTY
Director, Evacuteer.org
Twitter: @evacuteer
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2. Me in Real Life.

3. This is actually me....
And I’m the director of
Evacuteer.org, an
organization that
works every day to
ensure 30,000 New
Orleanians without
access to reliable
evacuation
transportation know
they have a way out
during a future storm.

4. theMAGICBUCKET.org
Can we turn $173.28 from a New Orleans
street performance into $30,000 online?
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Online Community Details:
www.themagicbucket.org
Twitter: @evacuteer

5. The Real Bucket Experiment:
Jackson Square and
Bourbon Street, New
Orleans’ French Quarter
1 Day, Saturday 10.23.2010
1 Street Performer (me)
8 volunteers
3 hours of body painting
6 hours of panhandling
130 donors
2 sandwich board signs
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$173.28: Total $$$ Raised
$1.30: Average Donation

6. By the numbers: Fights | 1

7. By the numbers: Kisses | 2

8. By the numbers: Liberties taken by
woman old enough to be my mom |
Stopped counting at 10

9. So why are we doing this?

10. Some Reminder Numbers
• 25,000: Number of
Residents stuck at
Superdome and
Convention Center
• 1,000 + : Deaths,
primarily elderly and
disabled
• 36 percent: Residents
who did not evacuate
stated they were stuck
in New Orleans due to
lack of access to a car.
• $37,000: The median
income in New Orleans

11. The City Assisted Evacuation
Plan

12. Example: Neighborhood pick-up point
notification marker

13. HOwThe Future: Public Art serves as neighborhood
landmark and evacuation pick-up point location.

14. How much does the Future cost?
30k. Per Piece
(estimate: Arts Council of New Orleans)

15. Funny Numbers
Match the real
bucket online
donation:
30,000 /
173.28 =
173
Magic Donors
to Reach Our
Goal
Average real
bucket
Donation =
$1.30
23,000 Donors
to Reach our
Goal

16. Be Magical. Like Vanilla. Happy Halloween
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