We've gone to quite a few Fringe Central workshops over the past few weeks, and while each has a different topic the one theme that always seems to emerge is how ignorant Americans are. I probably should feel mildly offended, but at this point it's just funny because unfortunately it's so true. Today's lecture was called "What Fringe Next" and was mostly about the CAFF (the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals) Circuit as well as touring shows other international fringes. It might as well have been 'touring in America's a pain because you need to hire people to redraw all of your tech specs so that American theaters will understand you'. Yeah.
I mean, at least the word "Fringe" isn't a trademark here! In Canada, CAFF owns "Fringe" so that people can't start their own independent festivals without going through the association. In my opinion this defeats the original mission and purpose of the Fringe Festival. Not to worry though, people got around it by creating the "Infringement Festival"!
Before the workshop Julie and I went over to Roxy to set up for this morning's Bedtime Solos performance. We were there before Bob, Amy and Jordan and had the opportunity to talk to Steven, the tech who was preparing the stage. As soon as he was done changing the gels and moping, Julie and I went to the back room and began pulling our props and set pieces and building the bed on stage. When Bob arrived he was pleasantly surprised that we had already set up. Having the first time slot of the day is nice as far as set up time, but rough for getting audiences. We couldn't stay for the performance because of class, but at least we were able to be there to help set up.
On our way back we stopped at Black Medicine, this really awesome coffee shop near Roxy on the corner of Nicholson and Drummond.
After a Brighton Fringe networking session, a bunch of us went up to the mile to book a highlands tour for the day after the festival ends. We tried to book it online last night, but it became very complicated with using separate cards and trying to make sure we all end up on the same bus so we figured it'd be easier to just do it in person. Very, very excited!
From there we walked down the Royal mile towards Holyrood to check out some of the shops down further than we usually walk. We found this really cute old fashioned candy shop, some jewelry shops, and my personal favorite: a macaroon shop. Yum!!!
they love me...sometimes.
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