16/08/2026
🦝 FIELD CALL // THE RACCOON IS BOOKING FALL 2026
The field calendar has openings.
Slightly Feral Media is booking select Kansas City, Lawrence, and Topeka live music, event photography, venue documentation, performances, festivals, and other strange gatherings for October, November, and December 2026.
Several dates have already been claimed. The raccoon is looking for the rest.
📸 EVENT COVERAGE // SMALL SHOWS LEAVE EVIDENCE, TOO.
For selected events in the Lawrence, Kansas City, and Topeka areas, photography coverage is currently available in exchange for admission/ticket cost being covered.
Farther away? Gas or mileage may need to be included depending on distance.
You receive a professionally edited gallery of 25-30 photos (per band if there is more than one playing) with permission to download and use the photographs for personal, social, promotional, and commercial purposes with proper credit to Alethea Mehdipour / Slightly Feral Media.
Local bands. Opening bands. The young humans spending their free time rehearsing, making flyers, selling tickets, hauling amplifiers, and trying to convince twelve more people to come hear the thing they made matter. Drag. Burlesque. The gloomy old musicians who have played every room in town, watched half of them disappear, collected enough stories to fill several questionable memoirs, and still keep showing up to make space for whoever comes next. Fundraisers. These are not background characters. They are the culture. The raccoon would like evidence.
🏚️ VENUE FIELD STUDIES // THE BUILDINGS REMEMBER THINGS.
I'm also selecting a small number of Kansas City-area, Lawrence, and Topeka music venues for long-form documentary features.
This is not a venue review. And it isn't simply architectural photography. The raccoon wants to investigate. The stage everyone recognizes. The loading dock nobody photographs. The green room. The booth. The stickers. The scars. The strange architectural decision nobody has been able to explain since 1987. The humans who know which breaker absolutely should not be touched.
And especially: the stories I cannot find on Google. Who played here before anybody knew their name? Who has worked here forever? What disappeared? What survived? What does the crew know that the audience never sees? Why do humans keep coming back to this particular room?
Participating venues receive a professionally edited gallery for private, promotional, social, and commercial use with proper credit, along with a full documentary feature published by Slightly Feral Media.
Liberty Hall will be the first. The buildings that hold culture deserve archives, too.
🦝 PROMOTIONAL SPECTACLES // SOMETIMES NORMAL IS INSUFFICIENT.
If you've been watching what Slightly Feral Media has been creating with The Dead Bettys, you have already witnessed what happens when the raccoon is permitted to have... ideas.
A Promotional Spectacle is not generic content. It is something we build around you. Your band. Your event. Your humans. Your story. Your particular flavor of weird. With some Laverna the Rockin' Raccoon flare.
The objective is to create something that makes another human stop scrolling long enough to ask: "What the hell is this?" Photography, video, reels, storytelling, campaign concepts, suspicious props, unnecessary amounts of fog, we determine what the situation requires.
Promotional Spectacles require considerably more planning, production, and editing, so I will accept a limited number each month. These are paid projects, with pricing based on what we're actually creating. You don't need to bring me an elaborate concept.
You can bring me: "We have a show. We need humans to notice it." The raccoon can begin there.
🎃 IMPORTANT FIELD ANOMALY // HALLOWEEN IS OPEN.
Somehow, October 31 is currently available. A goth-adjacent raccoon who documents metal shows, drag, burlesque, strange humans, dark rooms, and culturally suspicious behavior has no Halloween assignment.
This appears to be a clerical error.
Please correct it.
🎃 October — Limited availability
🦝 November — Booking
🖤 December — Booking
WHY THE RACCOON KEEPS DOING THE THING
Slightly Feral Media isn't trying to build a collection of pretty concert photographs. We're documenting the people, places, rituals, infrastructure, and strange little ecosystems that make live culture possible. Documentary anthropology of live culture through the field notes of an unusually observant raccoon. Maybe a photograph helps a local artist find their next opportunity. Maybe a gallery helps a venue promote the next show. Maybe somebody keeps one photograph for the rest of their life.
And maybe fifty years from now, someone goes looking for evidence of what Kansas City live music culture looked like in 2026 and discovers that somebody bothered to preserve it. The artists were here. The venues were here. The weird little Thursday-night shows were here.
The raccoon collected evidence.
📩 WANT HER TO INVESTIGATE?
Please send me a direct message rather than only sending a Facebook event invitation.
SEND TO: Laverna the Rockin’ Raccoon, Alethea Mehdipour, or Slightly Feral Media.
Event invites are difficult for me to track, and an invitation doesn't tell me you're actually requesting Slightly Feral Media coverage.
DM me:
• Event / venue
• Date
• Location
• Event link, if available
• Event Coverage, Venue Field Study, or Promotional Spectacle
No formal pitch required.
Tell the raccoon what you're building.
Field notes in progress.
The culture is leaving evidence.
The raccoon intends to collect it.
Slightly feral.
Entirely capable.
— Laverna the Rockin' Raccoon 🦝🖤
Slightly Feral Media
