Topic: 2009 Long Island Fringe Festival

 WOW !

I see you found me on here...

A BIG Thank You, back to the "Suck it Easy Band".

We are looking forward to having you.

Oh, and the tickets will go on sale in  JUNE......

You can become a FAN of the Long Island Fr _ _ g* Festival on facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Experience-Long-Island/92711466044

FR _ _ G* APPLICATION ALERT ! -

Deadline is past. You are living on borrowed time……if your application is in route don’t worry…..If you haven’t sent it in yet……CALL US……………..We will hold on as long as possible….but, time is over….LOL….ACT NOW or live with the regret….. We don’t need anymore applications, but, if you already had your heart set….don’t fret, CALL.

Visual Artists & photographers, 2D & 3D, have a little more time, because of the amount of exhibit space, but, hurry.

Thank You all again, I am so appreciative. We ARE going to have a BLAST.............

A call to Entertainers

Actors-Dancers-Musicians-Writers of Poetry & Plays

Visual and Techno Artists-Sculptors-Puppeteers

Creatives of any type

fill Out the Form

Are you ready to participate? Do you have enthusiasm and chops? The Long Island FR _ _ G*, is coming. It is the crest of Long Island’s live professional avant- garde entertainment wave. How did it happen? The collective buzz about the Long Island arts scene was,” What can we do to make a really BIG splash?”The answer is the long overdue Island phenomenon Experience Long Island, the FIRST Long Island Fr _ _ g* Festival. We need you and you need us. Together, we present a diverse, talented and unified artistic showcase. Our goal is to wow and inspire the festival attendees. Our venues plus your talent equals an unparalleled theatrical weekend and one that will makes the audience rave, “encore...encore”.

The hub of the festival is the world class stage at Tilles Center for the Performing Arts and will include 15 varied spaces on the C. W. Post campus. The Fr _ _ g* Festival heralds the lead into the Tilles seasonal performance schedule. Promotion and marketing will be professionally supported. The bottom line is this, fill out an application.

The performance dates are: September 25-27, 2009

The location is C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville New York and Tilles Center for the Performing Arts.

Applications are due by January 30, 2009

To get your application go to either www.debbydoll.com or www.freewebs.com/longislandfringefestival  and if you have any questions

 e mail fringe@debbydoll.com or call 516-931-6849.

You heard all this before, but do you know the background? FRINGE is part of a larger historic entertainment cycle. Once upon a time, in 1947, the Edinburgh International Festival was born. It was the post-war initiative to re-unite Europe through culture. With little media blitz, the festival proved to be so successful it brought in more performers than the physical space allotted. Eight theater companies showcased the first alternative theater event to the very large and appreciative audience. The first Edinburgh Festival became the benchmark for all subsequent International Fringe Festivals. The primary key for each success story was simple. Please the house, give excellent quality and provide diversity in the creative arts. Join us today and help create the next exciting chapter.

 The Long Island Fr - - g* Festival is here now and we hope

you will join us.

A little background about what a Fringe is......

The Edinburgh International Festival was launched in 1947 as a post-war initiative to re-unite Europe through culture. The Festival proved to be so successful that it inspired more performers than there was room for, eight theater companies turned up uninvited with the aim to take advantage of the large theater crowds and showcase their own, more alternative, theater. It got its name in the following year (1948) after Robert Kemp, a Scottish playwright and journalist, wrote during the second Edinburgh International Festival: ‘Round the fringe of official Festival drama, there seems to be more private enterprise than before …I am afraid some of us are not going to be at home during the evenings!’. Since this time many different versions of the Fringe Festival have proliferated around the globe and have flourished by showcasing the many styles of creative arts.

The current economic situation calls for the same approach to reuniting through the arts. We will not be dissuaded from our goal. There are so many arts organizations on Long Island and there is little interaction between them. Many of these organizations have asked, "What could we do to make a really BIG splash....?", well, we are bringing a fringe-like festival here to Long Island, an opportunity for all of us to join together. One of the few remaining areas that cannot lay claim to being a part of the Fringe phenomenon is Long Island, a place that is home to one of the largest populations of creative individuals in the United States. The idea of presenting the First Long Island Fr _ _ g* Experience is very exciting and a project that is long overdue. FR _ _ G* could be a great way to show our collective stuff to the world. Bigger and more prestigious than an Art Fair, Art Show or theater performance on it’s own, the Fringe will incorporate all performing arts disciplines and more in a weekend of creative energy that will open the door way and put Long Island on the map as a cultural hub.

Fringe has spread through out the world and I believe that a fringe-like festival could aid in Long Island becoming a destination place...at least once a year,as we open our doors to the world of imagination.

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