The National Trust for Historic Preservation is now promoting a crowdfunding campaign to host some kind of multi-day art-slash-music-slash-sports festival inside the Astrodome, perhaps as depicted in the trippy rendering above shown on the campaign’s online fundraising page. (The campaign is one of the so-called Cities Project projects being coordinated by the National Trust and beer multinational Heineken; other projects around the country getting similar treatment include fundraising for a documentary about the war memorial-slash-swimming-pool in Waikiki, and fundraising for the restoration of some glass sidewalks in Seattle.)

Materials for the campaign (which also has the backing of the Astrodome Conservancy) say the event would “preview the Astrodome’s future use” (assuming no laws that happen to prevent a certain aging Dome from getting remodeled pass in Austin this summer). Details on what such a festival would actually look like are scarce, though some good examples of what not to aim for have been floated recently.

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The current goal is to raise $15,000 by the end of June, though there’s no set date for the proposed in-Dome event. Potential perks for donors include Astrodome art and Bruno Mars tickets.

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• Previously on Swamplot: Friends of Mecom Fountain: 40,000 Yale St. Bridge Bricks Could Use Some Friends, Too; Private Group Now Trying to Crowdfund the Un-Restoration of the Mecom Fountain’s Basin Wall;  New Texas Rules Will Allow Crowdfunded Real Estate Investments for All Starting Next Month, at up to $5K a Pop; A Crowdfunding Campaign To Keep the Wichita St. Mystery House Under Renovation for Another 30 Years or So; Astrodome coverage

Image: Heineken USA