ArtsFest is a celebration of Central Florida arts and culture that takes place for 10 days over four counties. Presented by Bank of America, ArtsFest includes hundreds of FREE arts and culture events held in various locations throughout Lake, Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties. ArtsFest provides you with a taste of everything the arts community has to offer in your own backyard!
This will be the 20th year of Orlando Fringe, so apparently the theme this year is a 20 year reunion. Fringe is hoping to have people come in past Fringe t-shirts to the Shakes to get a massive group photo. They did something similar a few years ago for the "protest" theme, and the shots came out great.
From Beth Marshall:
We will be taking a long shot group photo in front of Orlando Shakespeare Theatre (812 East Rollins St.) on Mon. Feb. 7th at 4:30pm.
The look of this shot will be that of a group class photo in a highschool yearbook.
We want YOU to be a part of this event!
Here's how you can help...
Bring yourself, your friends, kids, spouse, partner, pets etc... and pose for this shot.
Come dressed in either past Fringe T-shirts, past show t-shirts OR a highschool archtype such as (Goth, punk, geek, jock, teacher, prep, etc...)
I am a child of divorce. And remarriage. And then another divorce, and more remarriages and more divorces.
Watching my mother blunder through so many pairings was beyond difficult. I promised myself I’d never be like her. If I ever married, it would be “for real”… to someone I loved, someone I would be proud to publicly declare half of myself and half of all that I would ever become in life.
Instead, I married Brian.
I don’t love him. I barely know him. I’ve shared nothing with him, excepting our convictions, over the past 11 months.
Any two loving people who want to build a life together are entitled to whatever protection of that shared life the government is willing to give. The fact that our government only provides this security to male-female couples is an exercise in oppression. It is more than wrong, it is an insult to all proponents of love and commitment in our country.
Some people seem to think that my marriage to Brian was a lark. A joke-lightly entered into and now lightly left behind. That’s the problem with watching a performance like this: the real drama isn’t easily perceived; it’s not lit up on a stage or scored with moody orchestration that tells you how to feel. It’s secreted away in the hearts of the performers.
Marrying a stranger was a sacrifice. If I ever marry for love, it’ll be tarnished. By marrying Brian and now, separating, I’m just like my mother. I’ve given up my personal conviction that marriage is a lifetime commitment. And though I believe I offered up that sacrifice to a greater cause, it doesn’t alleviate any of the pain I feel right now.
This performance was nothing but a token for the suffering of same sex couples who, by virtue of the very relationship they wish to publicly protect, are denied the rights and securities granted so easily to opposite sex couples… like me and Brian.
Contact Equality Florida and donate funds or time to promote the end of this injustice in our home state. Write your State Representatives and Senators to let them know that it’s past time to add protections for same sex couples to our constitution.
Eric Marden, and Ryan Price uncover a new "Iron Triangle": Vision, Time and Skill. The talk turns from taking straight jobs to giving your fun projects deadlines, circling back to amateur production and new forms of publishing.
Jake Strawn (Himerus) joins Mike and Ryan to talk about the latest Drupal news, particularly surrounding the recent release of Drupal 7, some of our favorite new features, and the Drupal 7 release parties worldwide.
At yesterday’s Enzian FilmSLAM I ran into filmmaker Ali Imran Zaidi, who told me he’d been working on a web series here in Orlando called One Minute People. I have embedded Episode 1: Jessie here to get you started:
Imran is hoping to shoot a second season sometime soon. Maybe if you give them a PayPal donation it could speed up the process.
Use the button above to donate to the One Minute People production budget.
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