Win Tickets to KOOZA by Cirque du Soleil®!
 You could win free tickets to KOOZA! |
It’s hard not to notice the giant yellow and blue striped tent on Pacific Boulevard. It’s Cirque du Soleil‘s Grand Chapiteau, where they are currently presenting the touring show KOOZA: a clowning and acrobatic extravaganza, which tells the story of the pensive, solitary Innocent and his encounter with the Trickster, the King, and other intriguing characters.
Cirque du Soleil has been creating their shows since 1984, when Guy Laliberté proposed putting on the first Cirque show for Québec City’s celebration of the 450th anniversary of Jacques Cartier’s discovery of Canada. With a little funding from Québec’s provincial government, the show toured Québec. The success led to further tours and the rest is history.
Are you hoping to catch KOOZA by Cirque du Soleil in Vancouver? Well buying tickets to the Fringe’s Opening Night: Appi-Teasers just might be your way in! When you purchase tickets to the Fringe’s Opening Night before midnight on August 31, you’ll be entered to win tickets to KOOZA by Cirque du Soleil! For contest rules and regulations, visit our website, and don’t forget to enter to win KOOZA tickets by getting your tickets to the Fringe’s Opening Night before August 31!
Auctions are Hot.
 Another Silent Auction item is a snowmobile tour from Outdoor Adventures Whistler |
Our Opening Night is always a bevy of amazing auction items! This year is no different. In addition to the exciting Silent Auction packages that range from whale watching with Wild Whales Vancouver to bowling at Grandview Lanes to acupuncture treatments from Poke Community Acupuncture, we’re proud of what we’ve gathered for our exhilarating Live Auction.
Take our Granville Island Getaway package for instance. I know you’re thinking, “gee, Granville Island? How is that a getaway?” It’s a perfect getaway when you have a night’s stay at the boutique luxury Granville Island Hotel and a $50 gift certificate to the Dockside Restaurant (which has one of the most incredible views of the city). Plus, with a couple’s bath robe set from Justin Stitches and a gift basket filled with sensual loveliness from Tart Boutique, known as a “haven of hedonistic delights,” it’s sure to get your juices flowing… but only if you come and bid on it!
Join us September 7 during our Opening Night Appi-Teasers for your chance! Get your tickets now!
Red Bastard Dancing with Bunny Ears on CTV
Not only does CTV fill our much needed desire for So You Think You Can Dance, but they’re one of the few channels that come in with bunny ears! But the reason we like CTV the best is because they’re airing the Vancouver Fringe’s first commercial ever!
 Red Bastard dancing on our YouTube channel. Maybe he should audition for So You Think You Can Dance? |
Eric Davis, a.k.a. Red Bastard, one of the most popular artists in the 2009 Fringe, was passing through Vancouver back in April and we asked him to be our commercial’s star! With a little help from videographer Michael Sider and our good friend Lianna Walden, we shot over an hour of footage to create the 15 second commercial you can catch on CTV, plus two slightly different versions you can see on our YouTube Channel, and a 10 second version that’s playing on the video screens up at Robson and Granville!
Thanks to CTV for the chance at some airtime!
App Time!
The Vancouver International Fringe Festival’s App is now available for download!
 Here is what the app looks like! |
We like to think we’re with the times. And because it seems like every other festival is getting its own mobile event guide, we thought we would get in on the action too.
Powered by Xomo Digital, the Vancouver-based producers of the official 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games mobile event guide, the Fringe’s app is available for free through the iTunes App Store for your iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad!
The app allows you to view the Fringe’s schedule, read info on the artists, buy tickets, find your venues, and plan your whole Fringe experience directly from the palm of your hand! You can even share your thoughts through Facebook and keep up with the latest happenings through the app’s built-in Twitter feed!
So go get it, and we’ll see you out there!
Tasty Treats
 Looks like one of Barry's jobs was killing zombies. You think he did that on a full belly of sushi? |
I paid my 25 bucks and opened up the menu thinking, “Ah… let the unfettered, non-stop eating begin!” But this quickly turned into, “Hey, I better make sure I get my money’s worth!” I mean, if I only eat 22 dollars worth of sushi, then I’m a sucker. Time to start ignoring my taste preferences and paying more attention to the economics of this situation. I’m not an adventurous sushi eater, but the weird stuff is the most expensive, so I had to eat some eyeballs to really get the fiscal most of my experience.
In the end, it was far more stressful than all-you-can-eating should ever be. I had a calculator on the table, for Gods’ sake! Abundance can be exhausting.
