Fringe Awareness | Vote to Promote

Want more people to know about your favorite arts festival? Each of has a favorite side of Kansas City culture - now you can share your favorites with the whole city! The first round of voting for Kansas City's Best is underway now, an annual array of awards coordinated by KC Magazine. We'd love it if you nominated us for best festival - that's exactly what we aim to be!

You only have until May 24th to nominate your favorite festival, favorite restaurant, favorite theater, and more. Show your KC pride by signing up at http://citysbestkcmag.com/ and inputting nominations in as many of the 30 categories as you wish. The next round of voting will begin Monday, June 3, 2013 and end on Friday, June 21, 2013, to choose between the top 5 in each category. You can help put KC Fringe in the top 5 favorite festivals, by nominating it now.

 Don't miss your chance to promote your favorite facets of Kansas City! Just so you know, we're nominating you as Kansas City's best audience.

Fringe Artist: iMime Comes to KC

Kristen's Stephens, repeat Fringe performer, is returning to Kansas City with "iMime: There's an App for That." This show is the ultimate low-tech adventure in a high-tech world. This one-night-only performance pulls hilariously from the cyber-world of experience and from Kirsten's wealth of experience in physical performance. Her show is filled with painfully funny visual puns that anyone who uses the Internet can relate to, as she uses her years of training with Marcel Marceau to bring to life "Apps" inspired by everything from online dating to "Angry Birds." Don't miss the show that made reviewers say they couldn't stop smiling.

See Kristen this Friday, 3/22, 8-9pm at the Arts Asylum, 1000 E 9th St, KCMO 64106. Tickets are only $10 for adults, and $5 for youth 16 and under. Fringe button-holders will receive a $2 discount, as will students, military, and seniors.

Artist to Artist | Movement for Theater Workshop
Kirsten Stephens will be providing a full weekend of workshops for Kansas City artists, March 23-24, "Moving Sculptures, Telling Stories."

"The moment you arrive on stage, before you even open your mouth, you have begun telling a story:" Kirsten guides her participants to sculpt movement for more direct, varied, and exact communication with the audience. Kirsten will delve into the techniques of past masters Marcel Marceau and Etienne Decroux (father of Corporeal Mime), and explore the importance of weight, form, rhythm, and breath in creating character, illusion, and story in search of a "more complete actor".

Kirsten's workshops aren't just eye-opening - they are entire-body-opening. Her instruction has inspired performers of all callings, mimes, actors, and more; she inspired Kansas City's own Greg Owsley to develop the juggling routines that he has performed at Juggling Festivals across the U.S. & Europe, and which made him a RAW Art semi-finalist here in Kansas City. Join Kirsten to unlock your own potential for physical storytelling, to seek your own most capable performer.

Fringe button-holders can recieve a 10% discount on the $100 2-day workshop. The workshops will run 10am-5pm on both Saturday and Sunday, in the New Centuries Follies Studio inside the Arts Asylum at 1000 E 9th Street, Kansas City, MO, 64106. Contact Byrd Productions at 816-305-8188 to reserve your spot or go to www.byrdproductions.org. Stay updated on facebook for more detailed directions and suggestions for preparing.

Fringe Fetes Volunteers - Parties to Appreciate!

Greetings, Fringers!

We hope you had a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving. This time of year, we’re constantly prompted to remember what we’re thankful for and how we can be supportive of each other.

At KC Fringe, we’re so thankful for you, the volunteers. Without your time and talents, we couldn’t be the Festival we are today. As the Festival has grown and changed over the years, you have grown with us. You’ve worked many shifts, you’ve come to Fringe events, you’ve even dragged your friends along. Thank you. To new Fringers, welcome aboard!

For the rest of 2012, we are focusing on how we can share our gratitude, and we want to invite you to a few events to just attend and enjoy yourselves rather than work!

iFringe -- KC Fringe offers a free wine and cheese hour to learn about Fringe through stories of how/why people get involved with Fringe and how it helps the arts community. It’s an opportunity to learn where Fringe came from and how it cultivates into a Festival each year.

Thursday, December 6 (Lenexa Location)
http://www.facebook.com/events/100914760076828/
Wednesday, December 12th (Crossroad's Location) http://www.facebook.com/events/286360501483552/

Wednesday, January 9 (Crossroad's Location)Tuesday, January 22 (Crossroad's Location)

RSVP via e-mail IS required. Please send an e-mail to iFringe@KCFringe.org with the date you would like to attend, and we will respond with the venue location and register you to attend. Send any questions about iFringe to this address as well.

Volunteer/Artist Solstice Potluck -- Thursday, December 20th 6-8:00 PM. Join Fringe staff/volunteers/artists at Fringe HQ (2100 Grand) for a potluck dinner to reconnect and celebrate the winter season. Bring a dish/drinks to share, and we will have some drinks available.

Hamburger Mary’s Bingo Night for Fringe -- On Saturday, December 29th at 5:00, KC Fringe is the beneficiary of Charity Bingo Night at Hamburger Mary’s. Proceeds from this event will support the volunteer program directly, so we can have resources to help grow our volunteer base and help train, support, appreciate and retain YOU, our current volunteers! We will play 10 games of Bingo, and there will be prizes for each winner! A $10 donation gets you a book of 10 Bingo cards (stay as long as you want and buy as many as you want!). Bring your friends!

Event Details: http://www.facebook.com/events/368285983261801/
Venue Website: http://hamburgermarys.com/kc/

Hope to see you again soon!

Fringefully yours,
Jill Gillespie
Volunteer Coordinator
KC Fringe
volunteers@kcfringe.org

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