[Alt-sheff-organising-group] Opera in Sheffield - Alt-Sheff or not Alt-Sheff?

[Alt-Sheff Collective]

Hello folks,

I'm not sure about this can one or two people reply with a bit of  
decision-making guidance please?
(Quick semi-mutual decision needed please, becase it starts in 9 days)

Here's what's been sent for listing on the website
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After their huge success with La Bohème at Graves Gallery in 2014,  
Opera on Location return to one of their favourite composers and bring  
Giacomo Puccini’s much loved classic Tosca to life at the recently  
refurbished Abbeydale Picture House. Written in 1900, Tosca is  
undoubtedly one of the world’s greatest operas and is considered  
Puccini’s first exploration into realism. Focussing on aspects of real  
life, Tosca draws upon human emotions including love, jealously,  
anger, loyalty and loss to create its heartbreaking story. All  
accompanied with the ever stunning music of Puccini, it is impossible  
to deny the sheer majesty of this opera. Bringing Tosca to  
prohibition-era America, this production sees Tosca and her lover  
Cavaradossi caught in the middle of gang warfare. Whilst trying to  
protect his friend Angelotti, Cavaradossi puts himself in danger and  
is hunted down by the malevolent and corrupt detective; Scarpia.  
Knowing Cavaradossi will never betray his friendship, Scarpia focuses  
his attention on Tosca and uses his position to blackmail and  
psychologically torment the young singer until she tells him what he  
wants to know. After bargaining all that she has to save her lover,  
Tosca is forced to do unspeakable things to make sure that both she  
and Cavaradossi survive the night, but will it be enough? Originally  
opened in 1920, the Abbeydale Picture House provides the perfect  
setting for the performance. Incorporating some of the intended  
features of the cinema, such as live music, bespoke projections and  
moving imagery, the opera will be brought to life in the art-deco  
setting and will take inspiration from 1920s Sheffield, which has been  
dubbed England’s ‘little Chicago’ due to the violence in the area at  
the time. Join Opera on Location for a musical and visual delight that  
will stir emotion in even the hardest of hearts. This production will  
be sung in English.


I think either:
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we can put it online with some write-up about drug prohibition and  
manipulative gangsters relevant to today's society ...

OR
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We can decline to list it, but seend an email something like this:
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Thanks for telling us about the music event on XXXXXXX......
We regret that it is not the sort of item we would put on the  
Alt-Sheff website. We have discussed this as a co-operative, and  
obviously what you're doing is really good but we don't list gigs  
except certain benefit gigs (socio-political, environmental, etc.) If  
we did there are so many it would divert attention (and our time,  
which is entirely voluntary) from our core aim in running the website.

So, thank you very much for thinking to submit the event for listing  
on Alt-Sheff, really sorry to disappoint you but we hope you can  
understand why we would not choose to list it, and best wishes for the  
event.

Best regards,
Alt-Sheff collective
www.alt-sheff.org

PS in case it's any help, these are some Sheffield events listing  
websites that we sometimes refer to, perhaps you might get the gig  
listed here:-

http://www.welcometosheffield.co.uk/events
http://www.sheffield.towntalk.co.uk
http://www.sheffieldmusicscene.co.uk


Any comments welcomed :)
Cheers,
Jonathan