Bates Area Civic Association

I have to put in a pitch for the Fringe Festival which starts next week and is the funnest experimental non-juried theater festival. I volunteered a bunch at it last year and intend to do so again. I’d love to get the neighbors going. The venues are very near us! on the 600 block of New York Ave, and also on same block of L St. Check the schedule. As it starts up I’ll blog about what are hot shows that people are talking about.

09′ FRINGE FESTIVAL PREVIEW Get your sample dosage of DC’s annual celebration of the preforming arts this Wednesday, July 1st! RFD – BACK ROOM 810 7th Street, NW 7-10pm FREE & OPEN TO ALL* *you have to be 21 FEATURED FRINGE PRODUCING GROUPS Ravishing Rose Music, Let’s Sing Gospel 101! Shark Tank Players, Uncorseted Zehra Fazal, Headscarf and the Angry Bitch I Like Nuts!, Captain Squishy’s Yee Haw Jamboree Jayanitka Dance Company, Lila: The Love Song of Radha and Krishna John Feffer, Krapp’s Last Power Point Riot Actors of Washington, Riding the Bull Polly MacIntyre, She Moved Through The Fair J.T. Burian Theatricals, Irish Authors Held Hostage Nu Sass Productions, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Trio, SOUP! 11:11 Productions, May 39th/40th Open Drawer Theatre Company, Please Listen: A Musical Chaos Dog & Pony DC, Bare Breasted Women Swordfighting Brent Stansell, My Fabulous Sex Life 4&9 Productions, Slow News Day Doorway Arts Ensemble, Herbie: Poet of the Wild West 21st Century Productions, 2 Shorts in Black and White Patricia Krauss, The Escapades of Farty Johnson Starving Artist Theatre, Thou Shalt Not Kill: A Collection of One Acts Mixrun Productions, The Real Adventures of Tom Mix Georgetown Theatre Company, Jack the Ticket Ripper Mather Theatricals, Pepe! The Mail Order Monkey Musical FRINGE SHOW LISTINGS You can sort by venue, time of day, genre, name of group… Each show has their own page – it is easier to get to know all 125 shows this year… Festival Box Office FORT FRINGE 607 New York Ave., NW Opens on July 7th @ noon Paper Guides will hitting the streets of DC July 1st. FAST. mothership music track of fringe Training Factory. workshops for patrons and artists. INTERESTED IN SEEING MULTIPLE PERFORMANCES?P.S. you get one free button when you buy a pass! Consider buying a Fringe Pass to get two benefits at once: flexibility and savings. ALL ACCESS PASS – $300 See as many shows as you want with an All Access Pass.PURCHASE HERE 110-PROOF PASS $110 This flexible pass will get you 10 tickets to whatever shows you want to see. Ten friends can go to one show or a couple can go to five shows or you can get one ticket to ten different shows. PURCHASE HERE SIX PACK $75 This flexible pass will get you six tickets to whatever shows you want to see. Six people can go to one show, three people can go to two shows, or one person can go to six shows! Cool, huh?! PURCHASE HERE FOH-TY – $50 This flexible pass will get you four tickets to any festival production you want. Use it to bring three friends to one show or to go out and see four different shows. PURCHASE HERE FRINGE BUTTON – $5 The Fringe Button must be worn in whatever fashion you choose, to enter any Fringe venue. Don’t forget it is good all year for discounts at local shops, restaurants, museums, and theatres. PURCHASE YOUR FRINGE BUTTON BRING A CD TO THE PREVIEW FOR THE FREE STORE. THE PERSON WHO BRINGS THE BEST CD will win a free button! THE FREE STORE This year at the Fringe Festival, we’re happy to present THE FREE STORE. It’s a store where-you guessed it-everything is free! This community project is funded 100% by the people, for the people-that means that you bring clothes books and music you no longer use down to THE FREE STORE, and you can take any clothes, books and music that you can use. It’s part of our commitment to promoting recycling and reuse. +++++++++++++++++++++ Find THE FREE STORE on the first floor of the Trading Post @ 1013 7th Street NW. Open July 9-26 Closed on Mondays & Tuesdays Wed/Thurs/Fri. 5pm – 8pm Sat/Sun 2pm – 8pm Learn how to be a Green Audience or Artist. Got something to give to THE FREE STORE? Cool! Contact Sam Goldblatt, Environmental Fringe.Officer. goldblattsam@gmail.com BALDACCHINO GYPSY TENT BAR Located in the big parking lot at FORT FRINGE 607 New York Ave., NW. Follow us as build the THE BALDACCHINO GYPSY TENT BAR on Facebook. OPEN JULY 9 TO 26 Wed – Fri 5pm – 1am Sat – Sun Noon – 1am Join fellow Fringers in the Gypsy Tent before, after and during shows. Get the latest buzz and Festival shows and events…by simply being there. Tasty beers, wine & food for sale. Don’t forget that all proceeds from the bar benefit the Festival and Fringe Artists! © 2009 Capital Fringe Festival. We are generously supported by: Downtown DC BID, PNC Bank, Pepco Energy, Douglas Development, TheaterMania, The Onion, The Decider, Washington City Paper, WHUT, WAMU, The Washington Post Company, Council of the District of Columbia, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Charlie & Jane Fink Foundation, The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Meyer Foundation, Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, MARPAT Foundation, Philip L. Graham Fund, and the Fringe Family of Donors – if that is you thanks!