Saturday March 29th we present The Vagina Monologues-tickets for this benefit show are $15 in advance at the Main Artery-$18 at the door.
Auditions are early March-contact gwynne1@telus.net for details
Saturday March 29th we present The Vagina Monologues-tickets for this benefit show are $15 in advance at the Main Artery-$18 at the door.
Auditions are early March-contact gwynne1@telus.net for details
Saturday, February 15th-roaring twenties themed night of burlesque, fun and frivolity at the Bavaria Centre on 4th in Port Alberni-doors open 8 PM-show is 9-9:45pm Intermission second performance 10:15 – 11:00 PM.
refreshments-munchies-prizes for best costumes
Tickets $22 in advance at the Main Artery, 4969 Argyle St Port Alberni
At the door $25
We’re back! June 20,21,22 2014-applications are now ready -each app must be accompanied with a $50 non-refundable deposit made out to Art Matters Society and mailed to 3652 15 Avenue Port Alberni, BC V9Y 5C6
First come, first served-everyone gets in the Fringe-we accommodate you with a venue, a place to stay and a postering service to help you get the word out about your show.
Stage spaces are available in 30 minute, one hour and one and a half hour time slots. Our main venue is the beautiful Capitol Theatre provided by the Portal Players Dramatic Society. 9220 seats)
For the ’30 minutes’ ‘1 hour’ or ‘1 1/2 hours’ you strut and fret your time upon the stage we provide you with lights/sound and a tech. We also do front of house-we do ask you bring your own backstage help for staging your show. You take 100% of the door.
Costs are $75 for a 30 minute show-you get a 30 minute tech with that
$225 for 2 one-hour shows and you get a one hour tech with that
$125 for a one hour show and you get a one hour tech with that
$300 for two 1 and one-half hour shows and you get a 1 1/2 hour tech.
$175 for a one and one half hour show with a 1 1/2 hour tech.
$75 for a one hour children’s time slot or any afternoon show for children.
These prices are all for our main stage Capitol Theatre-concession and lounge open between shows
Our second venue seats 175 and only available on the Saturday, June 21-
show prices are $50 for 30 minutes
$75 for 60 minutes
-includes tech but lights and sound are basic and the stage is only 10 x 20
Great venue for poets, singer/songwriters/children’s shows-Bavaria Centre
We will have a food court and refreshments at this venue. Time slots are available in-between showtimes at the Main Stage-so no conlficting times.
For a full scheudle of the Alberni Valley Fringe Theatre Festival go to alberni.ca/artmatters . . .it is the Official site and the one that is constantly updated.
Tickets and passes until 4 PM Friday June 21 at the Main Artery, 4969 Argyle Street Port Alberni-debit and credit accepted. While you are there buy a Fringe Bug Pin and get savings at 18 different local restaurants and business locations during Fringe.
After 4 PM CASH ONLY at the Capitol Theatre.
Shows are Bitts of Tease Cabaret, ‘capsules-it’s about time’, MacBethie, Birth of Releasing Light Kreations, Connections, Misha Munroe Sings, Beat Poet Massive, A Crack In My Reality, Standing Up For Myself, Cougar Annie Tales, Ballerinas and The Southpaw, Jake West Circus Act, The Oblivion Series-a not so girlie show, Raven, FringeProv, Take Five, The Actor’s Nightmare, Eye Thoughts of Verse City, Grim.
From fairytale dance to poetry, burlesque, song, stories to one act plays–it will be a Fringe Experience to remember.
2013 Theatre Artist Applications now Available for the new Alberni Valley Fringe Theatre Festival . . . on beautiful Vancouver Island!
Here’s how you can apply:
Contact Artistic Director Gwynne Hunt @ gwynne1@telus.net 250-723-7883
Currently working on a website and it will be available soon!
In the meantime . . .
-APPLICATIONS ARE NOW READY
-WE OPERATE ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED BASIS
-WE REQUIRE A NON-REFUNDABLE $100 DEPOSIT THAT GOES TOWARDS YOUR COST TO PARTICIPATE
-NO APPLICANT IS REFUSED-ONCE YOU PAY YOUR $100 AND SEND IN THE APPLICATION—YOU ARE IN (app fees for $50-$75 shows is $50)
-DEADLINE IS APRIL 1, 2013
-FRINGE DATES ARE JUNE21,22,23 2013.
Main Stage
The Capitol Theatre is home to the Portal Players and is a beautiful 230 seat theatre.
The cost is $250 for two shows which includes basic lights and sound with full stage, front of house and tech support. Guaranteed performance time slots-we book you in at the time you request until the venue is full. This cost is for full one-act plays in the evening. There are 10 spots available. Five one-act plays or equivalent.
For Children’s afternoon slots the cost is $75 per show for a full hour of stage time. Basic lights, sound, tech and front of house.6 spots available.
Fill-in spots for $75 for 15 to 20 minute performance art pieces. Book one and we will slot you in where and when we can. Book two or more and we will guarantee spots for you at the time you want. Singer/song/writers, poets, slam poets, storytellers.
Dance troupes pay the same as one acts. 6 spots available.
Venue Boutique Opportunities
Char’s Landing
Char’s Landing is across the street from the Capitol Theatre and is a quaint re-designed church—seats 100 and is perfect for stand up comics, bands—basic sound and lights with lighting options. Intimate seating arrangement. All times spots are for one hour-you can request ore and the price charged will reflect that but a basic spot is $100. 8 spots.
Main Artery
Down Argyle Street from the theatre ½ block and still in the Rotary Art’s District is a 25 seat venue-store by day, mini theatre by night. Lights, microphone-great for singer/songwriter or poetry slams. $50 per spot. 8 spots.
Steam Punk Café
Still in the art’s district around the corner on 3rd this is a 50 seat coffee shop. 6 spots/$50 per spot and would work well for stand-up, singers, or small skits. 15-30 minutes.
Why attend our Festival?
-It is at the beginning of the Fringe Festivals-a good place to tighten up your show before your tour or work on a piece for other juried Festivals
-Port Alberni is thirsty for alternative theatre and we believe all shows will perform to good audiences.
-we are friendly, billeting is free (while still available
-free passes to all participants to see each other’s shows (if show not sold out)
= Port Alberni is a waterfront community at the heart of the west coast of Vancouver Island. We are situated at the end of a 48 kilometre-long inlet and offer wilderness access/amazing scenery.
Art Matters Society and the Main Artery
Presents Eve Ensler’s
The Vagina Monologues
Saturday, February 9th, 2012
At the Capital Theatre
Sponsored by the
Portal Players
Tickets $15 at the Main Artery, 4969 Argyle Street
Pre-Audition Workshop Sat Jan 12
Auditions Sunday Jan 13th-open to any woman who wants to audition-no experience necessary-only 3 rehearsals.
Pre-Audition Workshop for the Vagina Monologues-theatre exercises, discussion on the play, the history and impact on the world-stage of Eve Ensler’s famous production. Empower yourself! (you do not have to attend this workshop to audition on Sunday but the insight into the play will help with your audition and understanding of the production).Auditions Sunday Jan 13th 1-4 PM –please call Gwynne at 250-723-7883 to book an audition time or email gwynne1@telus.net
Hunt recently relocated to Port Alberni from the Fraser Valley, where she lived for the past 25 years. She was highly involved in creative fields including desktop publishing, writing and the theatre. She recently published a book chronicling the lives of missing women and children in British Columbia and has books of poetry in print. For 14 years, Hunt had produced the community’s Fringe Festival as well as about 15 productions that travelled around the province.
Putting these skills to use to help others is what drives Hunt’s passion for the arts, which she does as the artistic director of the Arts Matters Society. The organization fosters and encourages the arts, and by doing so, raises funds to benefit local non-profit organizations, mainly those which assist with violence against women.
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Font:****When Hunt visited Port Alberni last fall, she learned of the Rotary Arts District and realized she could bring her idea of the Main Artery into fruition.
The cosy, high-ceiling space near the corner of Third and Argyle was available and provides the perfect surrounding for her plans. Hunt’s vision is to provide workshops in creative freelance writing, art play for children, scrapbooking, art therapy and others complimenting the seasons.
“I did Spirit to Heal workshops in Mission for women going through abuse, divorce, death or other tragedies and there is something very healing about working on creative art projects together,” Hunt said. “It allows women to talk and open up. I hope to do those here in the future too.”
For those workshops, Hunt introduced participants to the art of wax dolls and altered books. She said she saw a similar ability for self-expression to shine through while working with senior citizens on storytelling and those with brain injuries taking part in improv theatre and poetry readings. As such, she has set up a stage area to provide the local performing arts community with an outlet for their talents and plans to hold regular evening performances.
Already a member of Portal Players Dramatic Society, Hunt has met many local performers but knows there are many more creative artists that may be looking for space to sell their work.
Along with paintings, photography, music, intricate polymer clay bracelets and other jewelry, she welcomes consignments from other artists. She stands by her view that art is best nonjuried and is open to a variety of mediums.
“Art comes in so many forms,” she said. “It is such an amazing way to express yourself and it can be so healing, so I don’t believe we can judge others’ work.”
On the retail front, Hunt strives to provide items that have not been available in town, including specific paints and brushes, soap and soap making supplies, wax and beads. She looks forward to meeting even more new people, as her first impression of the city was its friendly atmosphere.
The grand opening of Main Artery takes place on Saturday, Aug. 18 with a drop-in scrapbook session at 1 p.m. and two radio plays taking place at 8 p.m. Drop by 4969 Argyle Street to see what the store has to offer.
© Alberni Valley Times 2012
I’m busy workig on my ‘memoirs’. I’m not going to thinly disguise my life story as fiction so I know I am headed in the ‘write’ direction. Since I finished my book Rampage:the pathology of an epidemic I have not been writing. I haven’t even been writing and producing plays so it is time to start a new project. After reading The Glass Castle (which is similar to my childhood story)I thought that I have overlooked the day to day experience in my writing. I always focus on the dramatic or the ‘big’ tragedies but my life growing up reads a lot like the above mentioned book. I will also write a new play this year . . . I have to.
Creatively for now I am working on producing and directing The Vagina Monologues March 24th at Matsqui Centennial Auditorium in Abbotsford. Tickets are $20 and will be available at A & D Music on Montrose (there will be other locations TBA) BUT if you bring a pair of new or gently used women’s shoes you can purchase a ticket for $15.
We need the shoes for our March 25 Memory March with a focus on a Shoe Memorial. Display of shoes with murdered women’s names from BC starts at 11 AM. Speakers and vigil at 1 PM in the Civic Plaza behind MCA. This event is to honour the over 4,000 missing and murdered women and children on The List in the book Rampage.
Our non-profit Art Matter’s Society could use some help organizing these events-email me at gwynne1@telus.net
Who said winning doesn’t matter? Well, I did, five minutes before I won. I went to the Arty Awards (sponsored by the Abbotsford Art’s Council) on Saturday night and didn’t think I would win a Literary Award because 3 years ago I won the Outstanding Instructor Award–really, I didn’t think I could win twice but I am glad I did.
The Literary Award means a lot to me-all the years of writing, teaching writing, working at being a writer . . . feels like an award well-deserved to me. I pretended I was sick for 3 weeks when I was 14 and stayed home from school to write my first novel. Over the next almost 50 years I have been a working writer; editor, publisher, freelance writer, journalist, playwright, poet.
I have taught children, youth, people with brain injuries . . . and I have promoted, mentored and been a writer all of my life. When they called my name I felt very proud. The three years I spent working on my book Rampage;the pathology of an epidemic were the hardest writing years of my life. Who said winning doesn’t matter . . . it does!
After we published my book; we published my husband Dave’s book of poetry Knee-Slapper and my poetry collection bruises and bad haircuts. We have three viable and interesting literary works that will look great in our new art’s centre in Port Alberni . . . can’t wait to get there, can’t wait to move on. It feels like creatively I have gone as far as I can in the Fraser Valley. But wait . . . don’t write me off yet (that is what you do to writers, kill them with cliches like write me off)–we are producing The Vagina Monologues one more time (shows number 19/20) March 24th and doing the Memory March on the 25th in Abbotsford and I am sure there is a lot more to come whether we move by next May or not.
That is one of the wonderful things about being a writer—it doesn’t matter how old you are, it is never too late to start and you don’t have to retire. Metaphors be with you!