Better Left Unsaid TV and The Clyde Fitch Report present
FringeTALK
an interactive live-streamed Town Hall on the occasion of the 15th
Anniversary of The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC)
Sunday, January 9th at 9pm
In 2011, The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) celebrates its fifteenth anniversary. To mark the occasion, on Sunday, January 9, the first of many special events will be offered: FringeTALK, a live-streamed town hall event during which anyone from anywhere in the world can ask anything about the festival via Twitter or Facebook and/or our built in chat room. To join the event, just log on to any of the following sites on January 9th at 9pm:
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www.ClydeFitch.com -
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http://betterleftunsaid.tv/fringetalk/ Co-produced by Better Left Unsaid TV and The
Clyde Fitch Report FringeTALK will be facilitated and moderated by
Leonard Jacobs of The
Clyde Fitch Report, who'll pose questions submitted by viewers to Elena K. Holy, FringeNYC's Producing Artistic Director. Questions may be submitted in advance of the event by sending an email to FringeTALK@gmail.com prior to the event. During the event questions will be taken in real-time via various social media using the hashtag #FringeTALK.
On September 10th, 1996, approximately one year before the first ever New York International Fringe Festival, its founders held an open public Town Meeting to discuss the idea with their community and peers. The event was attended by more than 300 people, and greatly impacted the course followed in creating FringeNYC. In fact, many of the original volunteer staff members for FringeNYC were identified at that initial gathering, and the results were considered to be a mandate from the community regarding starting a fringe festival in New
York. The event was so important to creating and defining the spirit of FringeNYC that a Town Meeting of all participants has been held in each successive year.
According to Elena K. Holy, Fringe NYC Producing Artistic Director, “FringeNYC remains committed to being both accessible and transparent, and FringeTALK joins that commitment with 21st Century technology in an unprecedented virtual Town Hall, fitting of both an organization dedicated to INCITING art, CULTIVATING community and CREATING new American theatre and a constituency of alumni, audience, and staff that has grown tremendously over the past fifteen years. We would love to have an actual town hall meeting, but that, of course, would require
Madison Square Garden!”
Better Left Unsaid TV - A cross between a play, an online video and a live streamed event, Better Left Unsaid is poised to break new ground in the way that it merges theater, technology and social media. Performed in front of a live audience, Better Left Unsaid will be shot with multiple cameras, mixed in real time, and streamed live to the internet so that anyone, anywhere in the world can watch the show and interact with it. Better Left Unsaid is produced by Joey Brenneman, director of The Timing of a Day, (Best Ensemble, FringeNYC 2010) and actor, Kathryn Velvel Jones, producer of 35, the first scripted web series to stream live to the internet. . Playing January 21st -February 6th 2011 live on stage - and on a computer near you! Tickets are available now at http://betterleftunsaid.tv Better Left Unsaid, by Joey Brenneman. 8 Lives, 8 Secrets. How Well do you know the people you love?
The
Clyde Fitch Report (
www.clydefitch.com) -
Leonard Jacobs is a writer, editor, blogger and critic with roots in arts, entertainment and culture. He is founder and editor of The
Clyde Fitch Report, a nationally recognized blog covering arts and politics; he is a former national editor at Back Stage and, before that, was founding editor of the website Theatermania.com. He currently contributes to a mix of digital and print publications, including the Huffington Post. Follow his Twitter feed @clydefitch
The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) - the largest multi-arts festival in North America, will present the 15th Annual Festival from August 12th - 28th, 2011. Each year the festival presents programming by nearly 200 of the world's best emerging theatre troupes and dance companies in 20 venues in downtown Manhattan. Attendance at last year’s festival topped 75,000 people, making it New York’s fifth largest cultural event (just behind New York International Auto Show, Tribeca Film Festival, New York City Marathon, and New York Comic Con). In November 2007, FringeNYC was honored by Mayor
Michael Bloomberg with the Mayor's Award for Arts & Culture “for its phenomenal leadership in showcasing the best and boldest theater and performance by both established and emerging artists. The New York International Fringe Festival is renowned for presenting work that reflects the excitement and energy of the contemporary theater world - locally, nationally and abroad.” Previous recipients of the award include
Woody Allen, Celia Cruz,
Stephen Sondheim,
Wynton Marsalis, The Tribeca Film Festival, Mark Morris,
The Public Theater,
Chita Rivera, and
Edward Albee. FringeNYC has been called "the scrappiest, most inclusive festival in the city" (New York Times) and "the premiere meeting ground for alternative artists" (The New Zurich Zeitung).
