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31st Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival
August 23rd to September 3rd
58 shows, 330 performances, 350 artists, FREE outdoor events for the whole family
Fringe Eve Preview at the 2017 Victoria Fringe Festival
wednesday august 23rd- clockToday at 15:00–21:00Starts in about 4 hours · 17° Mostly Cloudy
- pinShow mapCentennial Square645 Fisgard St, Victoria, British Columbia V8S 2T7
3pm - Event Opens
Beverage & Food Trucks, craft tables, Ticket Booth, Fringe Guides.
Welcome by Bradley Dick and performance by The Lekwungen Traditional Dancers.
Hosted by David Radford & Christina Patterson, Launch Pad Theatre
This FREE event is a perennial favourite among Fringe-goers. The famous and infamous Fringe Eve Preview gives you a sampler of half the shows on offer at the festival. Each show gets just two minutes to win you over. Grab your programs, your highlighters and start making your Fringe picks as you kick back and enjoy a beer or cider, a bite from a food truck and launch the 31st Victoria Fringe. Come one, come all! The food trucks and beverage garden will open at 3pm. The Lewkwungen Traditional Dancers will open the prview at 5pm on stage.
Buy 2-for-1 Fringe Buttons at this event, hit up a roving button seller or stop by the pop-up box office. Keep an eye out for our Board of Directors and their 50/50 Raffle tickets!
Proudly pouring: Phillips Brewing & Malting Co. & Merridale Cidery & Distillery
Food vendors: The EAT Machine and Cholo Taco
*Cash, Debit & Card accepted
Intrepid Theatre respectfully acknowledges that we are located on the traditional and unceded territories,
of the Lekwungen People, now known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations.
FringeKids Fest 2017
- clockSaturday at 11:00–16:003 days from now · 13-19°Sunny
- pinShow mapMarket Square560 Johnson Street, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3C6
Join us in Market Square from 11am-4pm on August 26 for this FREE family favourite, part of the 31st Victoria Fringe Festival!
This action-packed, interactive (and free!) event introduces young Fringers to live performance and unleashes their creativity. Paint the giant cardboard castle, craft your own costume, listen in for Drag Storytime, interactive art projects, watch live music and interactive performances, enjoy the roving costumed performers and more. This inclusive, fun event for the whole family celebrates Fringe in all its forms and its ability to build artistic and cultural bridges.
FRINGEKIDS FEST SCHEDULE
12pm PUENTE Theatre will be performing songs from their rollicking puppet musical, Gruff at the Victoria Fringe
1pm Live-action Drag Story Time with Persi Flage and friends, followed by a Lip Sync Battle!
3pm Great Aunt Kiki's Weird and Wonderful Musical Stories
Aunt Kiki will provide a hilarious and completely interactive story-telling session, taking improv cues from her audience. If you enjoy the ridiculous and laughing still your stomach aches, join the fun!! Warning: possible flyby by a giant Chungalolo (centipede) who followed her home from Zimbabwe in 1989. It's easy to spot; it's a florescent pink! We will keep it at bay by calling out his name at random and singing his blues song very loudly.
Roving performances from Puppet Master Tim Gosley, Fringe favourites The Birdmann and Egg, and Lost & Found Puppet Co..
Featuring interactive crafting activities including mask making, the famous cardboard castle, Nature Sketch with the Robert Bateman Centre, and collaborative canvas painting with Andrea Soos from Integrate Arts Festival 2017 and Poppet Creative.
Intrepid Theatre respectfully acknowledges that we are located on the traditional and unceded territories of the Lekwungen People, now known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations.
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The Chair in Transgender Studies is proud to partner with Movie Monday and UVic’s Dept. of Writing to present a FREE (donations gratefully accepted) film screening of Drunktown’s Finest. Following the screening, director and screenwriter Sydney Freeland will join us via Skype for an exciting live conversation about her film and its subject matter. Check out our Facebook event and let us know you’re coming!
Drunktown's Finest
Sundance 2014 Film Festival Official Selection
What: Drunktown's Finest (Director and screenwriter: Sydney Freeland). Three Indigenous Americans – an adopted Christian girl, a rebellious father-to-be, and a transgender woman – struggle with life on their Navajo reserve. Cast: Jeremiah Bitsui, Carmen Moore, Morningstar Angeline, Kiowa Gordon, Shauna Baker, Elizabeth Francis
When: Monday, Sept. 25th @ 6:30pm. Skype Q&A with director Sydney Freeland after the film @ 8pm.
Where: Eric Martin Pavilion Theatre of the Jubilee Hospital South entrance - 1900 Block Fort Street. Parking in Caribbean Apts parking lot [MAP]
How much: FREE (donations gratefully accepted)
DONATE NOW and support the Chair in Transgender Studies to have more community events like this in the future!
Drunktown's Finest websites: Wikipedia | IMDb | Facebook | YouTube
The Chair in Transgender Studies invites all self-identified trans, gender non-binary, and two-spirit folks to a casual summer drop-in gathering. While it is not exactly a free lunch, nachos and beer or pop are on the Chair!
Who: You don’t have to be a student! Anyone who self-identifies as trans, gender non-binary, or two-spirit is welcome!
Where: University Club - University of Victoria
When: Wednesday, August 30th at 4:00pm.
Why: To provide a casual and friendly space for trans, gender non-binary, and two-spirit folks to make connections and share knowledge.
Please share this invitation with anyone who you think may be interested.
See you there,
Aaron
Aaron Devor, PhD, FSSS, FSTLHE
Founder and Academic Director, The Transgender Archives
Professor, Sociology Department
University of Victoria
P.O. Box 3025
Victoria, BC V8W 3P2. Canada
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Please mark your calendar now:
Mining Justice Action Committee (MJAC) in partnership with the
Latin American Film Festival presents the award-winning documentary film:
When Two Worlds Collide (103 minutes)
Tuesday September 19th UVic Cinecenta at 7 pm and 9 pm
(Regular ticket prices apply)
In this tense and immersive tour de force, audiences are taken directly into the line of fire between powerful, opposing Peruvian leaders who will stop at nothing to keep their respective goals intact.
On the one side is President Alan Garcia, who, eager to enter the world stage, begins aggressively extracting oil, minerals, and gas from untouched indigenous Amazonian land.
He is quickly met with fierce opposition from indigenous leader Alberto Pizango, whose impassioned speeches against Garcia’s destructive actions prove a powerful rallying cry to throngs of his supporters. When Garcia continues to ignore their pleas, a tense war of words erupts into deadly violence.
The film won an award at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and is a riveting account of how an indigenous community struggles to protect its land from the intrusive extractive industry. http://www.whentwoworldscollidemovie.com/
Indigenous resistance to pipe lines in the Amazon have some obvious parallels with the fight against Kinder Morgan’s Trans-mountain Pipeline in BC.
MJAC will host an information table at this event.
You can find this event on Facebook
or go to the MJAC Facebook page and look for the post.
https://www.facebook.com/MiningJusticeActionCommittee
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Social Justice Studies ProgramUniversity of Victoriaweb.uvic.ca/socialjustice/@UVicSJS on TwitterUVicSJS on FacebookUVicSJS on YouTube
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