“You Know Me” will explore gender, race & more New work will premiere at Virtual Fringe Rochester, NY – Like so many performing arts groups, the shut-down of all but essential services back in mid-March due to COVID-19 has rendered Rochester’s world-renowned PUSH Physical Theatre jobless. Forced to cancel nearly $50,000 in contracted performances […]
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Free FringeTalk topics include BLM, Comedy, Science & Future of Performing Arts Featured guests: SNL’s Tim Meadows, Maria Bamford & many more Rochester, NY – Rather than taking over more than 25 downtown Rochester venues this year, the ninth annual KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival (Sept. 15-26) will engage performing arts fans from all over the […]
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2020 lineup features 170+ virtual productions Tuesday, Sept. 15 – Saturday, Sept. 26 Rochester, NY – Organizers of the 2020 KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival announced the entire lineup of their ninth annual festival (Tuesday, Sept. 15 – Saturday, Sept. 26) via a streaming, virtual BIG REVEAL press conference this morning. For 12 days, KeyBank […]
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Established live-events company pivots to virtual model New studio provides socially-distanced, safe, state-of-the-art streaming Rochester, NY – Rochester’s Cheshire Audio Visual was quietly enjoying its most successful year yet, producing impressive live conferences and trade shows for national and global brands, while also creating memorable local events for Highland Hospital, James P. Wilmot Center […]
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Rochester, NY – Rochester’s DEEP Arts (formerly Rochester Children’s Theatre) is sharing music videos and accompanying activity packets for parents and children to enjoy while sheltering at home. The professional theatre organization’s latest original work – LIKAH! A Puppy Musical – is the source material for its foray into digital offerings. Written by DEEP Arts […]
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A Song for Our Times: “Whatcha Gonna Do (When the World’s on Fire)?” Rochester, NY – Regional favorite band Prime Time Funk has just released a socially-distanced music video with a message that speaks loudly to current events. The song, “Whatcha Gonna Do (When the World’s on Fire)?,” was originally released on the band’s 2012 […]
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Health & safety concerns inspire a one-of-a-kind Fringe Virtual Fringe show application runs June 18 – July 31 Rochester, NY – Organizers of the 2020 KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival announce that their ninth annual festival will take place as planned on Tuesday, September 15 – Saturday, September 26, but major changes are required in order […]
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I originally wrote and posted this on March 21, a little more than a week after the COVID-19 shutdown. Like my clients – most of whom are artists, art organizations, arts-related businesses, or non-profits promoting events – I quickly found myself unemployed. With Phase 2 of reopening just beginning now, and performances and events cancelled […]
Continue Reading With the necessary social restrictions of COVID-19, many of us are suddenly without income. It’s scary and easy to despair, but I’ve been inspired by my clients, most of whom are artists, art organizations, or non-profits promoting events. With the cancellation of pretty much everything, they – like the rest of the world – […]
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Former YAR artists reach out to area educators at RMSC on March 16 FREE admission & attendees can win a free artist presentation for their school Rochester, NY – Area teaching artists who were once affiliated with the now-defunct Young Audiences of Rochester (YAR) banded together in 2018 as Teaching Artists ROC (TAROC) to […]
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