The Psychedelic Puppet Show Non-Profit is a decentralized community creating educational, fun, and creative content around psychedelic science, therapy, history, cultural practices, and spirituality. Last spring, we launched the project with a conversation between Paul Stamets and Rick Doblin on the possibilities of psychedelics in helping us create a happier, healthier, more actualized global community. It has received over 120,000 views on YouTube and hundreds of thousands of social media interactions. See the intro clip here: https://youtu.be/w8P45-Nv2SI.

The show was conceived at the Canadian Psychedelic Summit last summer as a web3 platform and community where creatives are matched with storytellers, working together to share their psychedelic knowledge and experiences with a global audience. With this Gitcoin round, we aim to raise funds to create our community DAO.

The creation of our DAO is an artwork and a form of governance for the community that allows you to vote on which projects receive seed funding. Once an episode is complete, a creator-focused revenue-sharing model will support more seed funding through a treasury and reward creators for their work. We are preparing to launch our alpha season and create a global competition for new episodes and artworks, which will serve to create the content for our first NFT collection. NFT holders will be given access to behind-the-scenes show events and guests and will serve as the voting body for which episodes are funded and created.

Support during this Gitcoin round will allow us to work with Long Tail Financial, a web3 consulting group, to create a next-gen DAO for creators.