Picked last, or not at all, for the nude kickball team (now being referred to as this year’s festival)? Then here’s your chance to flash your best smile, leg, or cheek for the camera: Vintage photographer and founder of Tsirkus Fotografika RA Friedman is holding The Big Nude Pinhole Shoot as part of this year’s Fringe…. Read more »
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Philly Fringe Vital Stats: Martine Pelletier of the Film Fringe Tour
Film Fringe Tour is in Scotland right now, strutting its reels at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Even fitted with international features that include Runaway, filmed in Bangladesh, and Viette, which explores the divide between a first-generation American and her Vietnamese parents, one real draw is local. The Prep School Negro is a feature-length film by… Read more »
Philly Fringe Vital Stats: Lauren Mandilian
Lauren Mandilian‘s 2012 Philly Fringe Timelines is a product of her current artist residency at <fidget>. A collaboration with dancers David Konyk and Megan Bridge, Timelines combines video projection and dance, a marriage sure to send eyeballs into overdrive figuring out who’s who and what’s what. Name: Lauren Mandilian Where do you live now? My… Read more »
GO SEE us.
Next weekend (May 31–June 2), contemporary dance companies <fidget> and anonymous bodies team up to bring the world to us. Kate Watson-Wallace and Jaamil Olawale Kosoko will perform their new duet, anonymous bodies (yes the title does reflect the name of the company), Jaamil will perform his new solo, other.explicit.body., and <fidget> will perform Subject in Two Parts featuring Megan Bridge, John Luna, Lorin Lyle, Rebecca… Read more »
Today in Distractions: “This is INSANE”
So, last night before I got on a plane to go to icy-cold St. Louis, which, I should note, has a much larger arch than any in Philadelphia, I logged onto the Facebook, where, I found, back to back video links from friends from rather different walks of life, each labeled “This is INSANE.” I’m… Read more »
The Weekender: What You’re Doing and Why
August is finally here, and we’re anticipating the arrival of the festival in several ways… >>>Friday: We’ll be in Old City for First Friday at 5:30 pm tonight, handing out guides to this year’s Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe. Follow us to Race Street Pier afterwards for live music and entertainment at the… Read more »
Biting the Hand That Feeds You? IdRatherBeHere’s “One Man Audience”
IdRatherBeHere is known for poking (mostly) gentle fun at Philadelphia’s foibles with its wildly popular Wawapalooza shows. This year, they’re back with Wawapalooza 5: Under Destruction at the 2011 Philly Fringe. They spare no one: including us! Check out the rough cut for one of this year’s comedic short films, One Man Audience: It’s all… Read more »
Philly Fringe Vital Stats: Charli Brissey
Today, get to know Charli Brissey of the Maeko Film Project, who I haven’t even met yet, but I’m already fond of her because of her stated fondness for whiskey. Artists! They know what’s up. Name: Charli Brissey. Age: 24. Where do you live now? Richmond, Virginia. Where were you born? College Park, Maryland. What’s… Read more »
Philly Fringe Limerick: “WHISKEY AND ELEPHANTS”
Charli Brissey runs the Maeko Film Project and will show her video-dance Weight as a part of the WHISKEY & ELEPHANTS performance at the 2011 Philly Fringe. She writes in with this limerick: An elephant visits her dreams Nothing is quite as it seems They’ve told us all lies “Give me whiskey!” she cries. Come… Read more »
Babysitting Winnipeg: Daniel Barrow Looks Back At The Golden Age Of Public Access
Some kids grow up watching cartoons. Daniel Barrow, a Montreal-based media artist whose practice centers on drawing and collection, watched public access. Yes, that public access, where you can watch taped recordings of school board meetings, PSAs about fire safety and alternative religious programming. But in the 1980s in Winnipeg, Manitoba, public access was a… Read more »
It’s Always Funny in Philadelphia: Wawapalooza is Back for More Laughs
Why is it that the second installment in a series doesn’t live up to the first? I may be treading on dangerous territory by saying this, but Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was the most boring book in the series, ditto the movie version of Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers—don’t even…
Did you know that Philip Glass is This American Life host Ira Glass’s first-cousin-once-removed? That’s probably the least interesting thing that you’ll discover about the life and work of one of the most important living composers if you come to Live Arts’ screening of Glass: A Portrait of Philip in 12 Parts this Sunday the… Read more »Discover Philip Glass and Enjoy the A/C at ICA this Sunday
New Orleans Fringe calling all (poor) emerging artists with weird, wild, fresh or original works
Chances are if you’re reading this, you’ve heard of Philly Fringe–but did you know that New Orleans has a Fringe Festival too? Well duh, it’s New Orleans, the First City of Jazz, and home of the freakiest mass performance art there is! (Mardi Gras) The New Orleans Fringe Festival is taking applications for shows until… Read more »
Chatter Chatter Press Press
>>>The hubbub over Love Jerry is still hubbubing. Maiken Scott reports on the musical’s treatment of a pedophile and his family for WHYY. For our interview with playwright Megan Gogerty and Nice People Theatre’s Miriam White and Nicole Blicher, click here. >>>In Philadelphia Weekly‘s summer guide issue this week, J. Cooper Robb rounds up summer… Read more »
The Weekender: What You’re Doing and Why
Friday >>>First Meet the Artist event of the year! As we’ve been hammering home to you all week long, the fine folks of Elevator Repair Service are coming to our humble home at 919 North 5th Street. Did you watch the awesome videos we’ve been running all week? You’re coming, right? Did you RSVP to… Read more »
