Kansas City, MI Office of Culture and Creative Services, 15 Jul 2016

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From YouTube: NTDF Supported Events - July 15, 2016

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For more information, visit kcmo.gov/ntdf.

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Fringe festival, Casey is back for its twelfth year. It happens throughout Kansas City at multiple venues and is a neighborhood Tourist Development Fund supported event. The 11-day, visual art and performing arts festival is happening later this month and to tell us all about it. Is the executive producer and founder of Fringe Festival Cheryl Kimmy Cheryl. Thank you so much for taking time to talk to us about the festival. Well,.

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Thank you couldn't suelo for providing this opportunity. How did fringe festival get started? Oh goodness, that's a complicated story and I'll try to narrow it down quickly. I am a fan of the arts. Not an artist and I saw all of our young artists, leaving town because there weren't opportunities to produce here so friends said we need a fringe festival. I went to the arts council and they helped me get it off the ground.

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We started with a three-day event in 2005 and now 12 years later, we're an 11 day event and there's music and dance and theater and film spoken word comedy drama. You name it. You can find it on the fringe and how.

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Many people do you expect.

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To have this year last year, our attendance was over 20,000 we're expecting attendance to exceed 25 thousand this year, and those are unique. Visitors are not unique visitors, because some people are what we call our fringe fanatics and they go to multiple shows. A unique visitors were probably over 8,000 last year, so we're we're shooting for ten thousand unique visitors this year. What's.

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So much happening throughout the city. How are you, how are you undertaking this kid? You use volunteers, Oh.

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Always need volunteers at with the 475 productions it takes two to three volunteers: / production, okay,.

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We need an excess of 3,000 volunteer up bodies on helping us and.

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How can people sign up and what are some of the vent benefits of being a volunteer so.

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Volunteers, you can go to the website, wwk, see friends, org and in the menu you can click on volunteer and follow the directions, and we have we train all of our volunteers, volunteers, usher and house manage. We also have folks that sell tickets at the doors then volunteers get to see, shows for free. We pay them with fringe bucks and they use those fringe bucks, then to get tickets to shows well.

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And the festival also is such a great bridge for not just the visual in the performing arts, but also from four different generations, because this is not just an adult festival. This.

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Is for youth as well? It's equally divided about a third is for all ages: their family fare, we have clowns and jugglers and and magic shows and Peppa chose, and then we have equal amount of parental guidance shows and then also our rated shows check all of those ratings, because titles may be deceiving. So you have free.

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Events that are for all generations, yes, and then you also have ticketed events. How can we go about buying tickets.

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The first step is to get your fringe button. Everyone has a fringe button. There are five dollars, it's a one-time purchase and you want to have it with you for all fringe events. Now, kids, buttons, 12 and under we provide those free. We have a special youth button for them. We want to make this affordable for families. Little ones to show tickets are ten dollars for adults, for children, 6 to 12 there, five dollars and five and under are all free we have back-to-back shows.

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This is confusing, for people have never been before we run a most shows or 60 minutes long. We have a 60 minute show we move that audience out. We set up. The next show move the next audience in in half an hour's time and start the next show. So it's back-to-back shows. So a venue will have anywhere from three to six performances in an evening and to.

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Find out about all schedule, information ticket information, and if you want to sign up to be a volunteer, they can just go to your website. Yes, Casey.

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Fringed org, you can buy tickets online. There is a PDF of the program. If you want to see that you can sort by by genre you can sort by by ratings by show ratings, you could figure out just about whatever you want tell them the website very accessible.

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And interactive.

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Cheryl, thank you so much for having us here at your home base and we look forward to seeing what's happening at friend. We look forward to seeing all of Kansas City conversion participate. Thank you so much for having us and congratulations on your 12 years. Thank.

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You come enjoy it's an amazing event. If.

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You happen to be downtown riding the streetcar just hanging out, and you want to find out information about events that are happening throughout the city, including events that are supported by the neighborhood Tourist Development Fund. You can go to the KC City post, kiosks that are located along the streetcar route or throughout Kansas City. You can find out about events such as fringe fest.

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It is happening on july 21st to the 31st and other events that are supported by the neighborhood Tourist Development Fund and that are happening locally, so come by the kiosk and check things out.

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The neighborhood tourist development fund supports local nonprofits that bring cultural, social, educational and recreational activities to our area.

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To learn about additional upcoming events visit KCMO gov / in tdf.