Fringe Lottery Time!!
Every Fringe Festival that belongs to the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals (CAFF) reserves a select number of show spots for the winners of the CAFF lottery. These lottery winners apply to CAFF and choose five Fringes that they want to tour to. This year’s CAFF lottery winners that are coming to the Vancouver Fringe are Daniel Nimmo, David Gaines, and Button Eye Productions (the creators of Die Roten Punkte)! You can catch their shows at the Vancouver Fringe in 2010! Congrats to these winners!
If you’d like your production to be included in the lottery for the Vancouver Fringe, we’ll be accepting applications till November 27 (for the mainstage category).
We encourage Bingo outfits.
The draw will be conducted on Saturday, December 5 at the Carousel Theatre and everyone’s invited! We’ll be playing bingo with the lottery results and dancing to DJ Lizard of Oz till late into the night! It starts at 8:00pm and it’s free! So come on out and see who’ll be performing at the 2010 Fringe!
Bring Your Own Venues are chosen on a first-come, first-served basis and that application will go online on our site on December 9!
$5,000 in 5 Days?? You Did It!!!
You folks are so Fringin’ awesome! We destroyed last year’s total and reached our goal!
It was a crazy week around here, but thanks to you, we raised $5,383!!
Cara Yeats accepting the 2009 Joanna Maratta Award. Photo by Brice Ferre.
We owe it to you for making this our best email campaign yet!! You’ve helped support our foundational and legacy work, such as the Joanna Maratta Award!
Thanks to you new donors, we’re off to a fantastic second quarter century!!
From the artists and all of us here at the Fringe: thank you, thank you, thank you!
P.S. Don’t worry if you didn’t get a chance to give–we’ll still gladly accept all new donations!
Industry Images’ Hot Ticket Program
As the Fringe Festival’s print sponsor, as well as the print sponsor for other arts organizations such as the Calgary Underground Film Festival, the Fernie Mountain Film Festival, and the Saskatoon Reggae Festival, it’s no surprise that Industry Images supports the arts.
In addition to printing pre-addressed grey square postcards so people could easily send their thoughts on the arts funding cuts to Gordon Campbell, Industry Images has recently announced The Hot Ticket campaign in support of local non-profit arts groups.
The back of the Industry Images Hot Tickets will look like this.
Until June 1, 2010 or until 50,000 free tickets are printed, any non-profit arts organization that produces at least three shows a year can take advantage of Industry Images’ free ticket printing!
So if you’re looking for tickets and you think your organization fits the criteria, download this info sheet and application and email Kate Wilkins at Industry Images today!
A Long Overdue Welcome
Back in July, we here at the Fringe had to scramble to find a new Artist Services Coordinator after Andrea Fraser-Winsby was offered a position working in TV. The Artist Services Coordinator is responsible for arranging billets for artists during the Fringe, addressing concerns, ensuring artist get paid from their shows, and pretty much anything that pertains to making sure the artists are kept happy.
Michelle loves our beer sponsor.
When Michelle Leclair turned up to fill the position, she was a godsend! Despite describing herself as being “an overall pain in the ass,” with a history of working in film, Michelle has just the right combination of organizational wizardry and artist wrangling capabilities to fill the role of Artist Coordinator at the Fringe.
Extended Runs=More Fringe!
Lavignia and Louis Riel are back to back at the Firehall.
If you missed The Seven Lives of Louis Riel or Lavignia: A Modern Fairy Tale of Gigantic Proportions at the Festival back in September, here’s your chance to catch them again!
Lavignia stars Tara Travis, who the Winnipeg Sun says “keeps audiences of all sizes hooked along the way with her charmingly sheepish demeanor, exaggerated physical antics, eccentric puppet friends and unexpected guest stars.”
And the Winnipeg Free Press called Seven Lives: “Irreverent? You bet. But tempered with a massive dose of salty humour, Gladstone’s play is, ultimately, a tribute. And a terrifically funny one at that.”
Open now and running until November 14 at the Firehall Arts Centre.
Fringe Flashback
The Hope Slide was at the Vancouver Fringe in 2004.
The Hope Slide
The Hope Slide was at the Fringe in 2004 and was about Irene, who is inspired by the Doukhobor protests, which included naked marches and bombing government buildings in BC in the 1960s.
The Hope Slide stared Terri-Lyn Storey, who played 10 characters. In 2008, Terri-Lyn’s Following Foster won second place in the “Five Minutes to Change Your World” documentary-making contest.
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