A Fringe wait list spot opened up… five days before Tech 😅. And so here we go:
The 33rd Annual Minnesota Fringe Festival runs August 6th-16th; on five of those days, I’ll be performing This Body, This Fruit at Mixed Blood Theater. You can buy tickets right now!
Thursday - 8/6 - 5:30 pm (BFF performance - BOGO)
Saturday - 8/8 - 1:00 pm
Friday - 8/14 - 8:30 pm
Saturday - 8/15 - 10:00 pm (BFF performance - BOGO)
Sunday - 8/16 - 7:00 pm
The show won’t be as well-produced as it was at the Phoenix Theater - as with every Fringe show, we have fairly significant constraints on available tech and how long we have to load in and out (10 minutes! It’s not a lot!).
But it’s me, it’s This Body, This Fruit, and it’s still A Thing You Want To See If You Can. And I’m not saying this will be the last time this show will be available in this shape…but I’m not saying it’s not, either 😉.
In other recent news, my short film “unbelievable” was selected for the Eagan Film Festival! Second film this year, in fact, to be selected - the first was my collaboration with @kevmillvpp (the Visual Poetry Project) on Black in Deep Red (Rothko 1957), selected for the Hello from Fargo Film Festival. (He did the spectacular work on the visuals; I supplied poem and voice.)
You can buy tickets to the Eagan Film Festival, which runs over two days in late September (25th-26th), at Eagan Film Festival Tickets. My film will be in the “You Betcha! Minnesota Shorts” segment, Friday, September 25th at 5pm. (The best deal is the All-Access Pass, which gets you into all kinds of movies both days.)
This month’s Better Things, coming up on Tuesday, August 4th, at Moon Palace Books, will be a Gathering & Open Mic (instead of the more usual 5x5 Reading). We’re going to have discussions and activities centered on Black August — what it is, where it started, and what it means for us now and in the future. For this event, masks are required and will be available on site if you need one. Snacks will be provided!
Is anything else happening in August?
I kinda hope not.
I mean, if someone offered me a gazillion dollars to read a poem somewhere, I’d probably do it, in part because I’m curious what a gazillion dollars looks like (a single bill with a portrait of I. M. Kidding on it?), but…real talk? I’m looking forward to some rest.
How did Fringe go?