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* Photos above from Fray Cafe 2 in Austin, Texas. What is Fray Day? Fray Day is an annual event brought to you by the storytelling website {fray} that takes place in cities all around the world on the same weekend. Each event features interactive art, featured performers, and a storytelling open mic. For an example, check out what we did last year. Did you know? » Fray Day 6 was worked on by dozens of people all over the world. » Fray Day 4 took place in 2 cities, Fray Day 5 in 10, and Fray Day 6 took place in 11 cities. » All combined, over a thousand people participated in Fray Day 6. Previous events: » Fray Cafe 2 Other stuff: » SF Press Info Donate to Fray Day You can help us by making a donation to Fray Day with PayPal. Thanks! |
August 2002El Paso: New Fray Day Flyer The errors with the old El Paso Fray Day flyer have been fixed. But wait there's more. The NEW Fray Day El Paso Flyer has been posted and you should give one to each of your friends. You dont want to miss this night of interactive storytelling. El Paso: El Paso's Final Line Up Fray Day El Paso is set. Saturday September 14, 2002 at the Bridge Center for Contemporary Art will be an interactive evening with speakers and music. Read on for the details.... San Francisco: Featured Storytellers Fray Day 6 San Francisco is thrilled to welcome back four performers who have both participated in past Fray events and contributed stories to fray.com. They were good enough to fill out our goofy questionnaire, so read on to see what they had to say.... Melbourne: Fray Meeting The Fray Day meeting today went really well with some great ideas being tossed around for interactive art projects all of which sound fun. We are still looking for feature performers so anyone who is interested should definitely get in touch -- don't be shy. I have taken some photos of the venue so will post them soon. Los Angeles: Bios Take Three Here are a couple of more bios of our featured performers.... Clay and Dan are two of the most interesting and offbeat performers you'll ever hear tell a story. Copenhagen: Entertainment! I am proud to announce that the duo Dong/Kofod will be playing an acoustic set of grunge/folk in the pause between the featured performers and the open mic session. Copenhagen: Press release out The official press release has left the building, posters and flyers have been printed and put up at the venue, the music is almost in place and more featured performers are being added to the list. During the next week, posters will be put up at other related places, so watch out for them, if you're visiting Copenhagen cafés and/or libraries. Los Angeles: More Bios Here are the bios of two of the best storytellers in this crazy town. Los Angeles: Download Flyer You can download the cool FD6LA flyer designed by Matthew Marco here. Melbourne: Meeting Melbourne Fray Dayers will be meeting up this Sunday, 25th August, at the venue (Good Morning Captain, 20 Johnstone St, Collingwood) 3.00pm. Anyone interested in having input into this year's Fray Day is most welcome to come along. Melbourne: Gelf'ling We are very excited to announce that Gelf'ling will be playing at Melbourne Fray Day. Mixing elements of spoken work, pop, poetry, alternative, folk and metal. layered upon traditional beats of a middle eastern flavour, Gelf'ling create music that is fresh, exciting and powerful. Washington DC: Call for Volunteers Fray Day DC is fast approaching. We've got a venue. We've got an MC. Now all we need are volunteers. We need folks to set up, clean up, work the concessions booth, and work the door. If you'd like to help out, please contact Michael and me at fray@ratbastard.org. Thanks! Los Angeles: Daveen Music The ultra-fabulous Daveen, will be providing the evening’s transition music and performing a few songs on her accordion. An accomplished pianist and songwriter, Daveen will play her accordion because its fun, and she likes to. Learn more about Daveen here. Los Angeles: First Wave of Featured Bios Here's a taste of who you'll hear tell stories at this year's FD6LA: Copenhagen: Poster available! Check out the Copenhagen promo poster! Also new on the Copenhagen front: Dr. Johan Olsen (known from Danish band "Magtens Korridorer") will perform as a featured speaker, alongside myself and others. An official press release is underway. Tucson: Poster preview Here is a preview of our poster. I'll make it available for download after we make a couple more tweaks. Big props to the Raphrat for this design! San Francisco: Attention San Francisco Press I've created a page specifically for the San Francisco Press to help explain who we are and what we're up to here. Los Angeles: Featured LA Tellers Announced I am very proud to announce the Featured Storytellers for Fray Day LA. Read on.... San Francisco: FD6SF Postcards The new Fray Day 6 San Francisco postcards are here! Check 'em out.... Copenhagen: Venue Announcement Copenhagen will host the only Fray Day 6 in Northern Europe! I am pleased to announce that this will take place at Märkbar on Sunday the 15th @ 7pm! Fray: One month and counting! With Fray Day one month away, we now have our final list of the 11 participating cities! Read on to find out where they are, and how you can get involved. Cambridge: Hannum Hall at the YWCA I stopped by the YWCA in Central Sq., Cambridge the other day to take some pictures of the freshly painted Hannum Hall where Fray 6 Cambridge will be held! Cincinnati: Cancelled. Unfortunately. Fray Day 6 in Cincinnati has been cancelled. Please accept my apologies for any disappointment this may cause. Tucson: weekly meets and updates First of the updates coming in! Diane Bombshelter of KXCI radio has confirmed as out emcee! Our list of featured performers is filling out nicely! We have our poster and flier design! We'll be having more updates after each of our weekly meetings from now on. Stay tuned for pics of the venue and our poster. Los Angeles: Flyer/Features Are there any graphic artists out there who want to tackle the FD6LA flyer? Derek already has a few templates to get you started. This is a fine way for you visual artists to get involved with Fray! We need to get cooking, so let me know ASAP…. Also, the featured performer slots are almost all booked up, but I am still looking for any Fray authors who want to perform. Let me know…. Thanks El Paso: Fray Day El Paso Flyer This is the Flyer for Fray Day El Paso. Feel free to download it and distribute it wherever you'd like. This event will rock you like a hurrucane. Melbourne: Meeting Melbourne Fray Day organisers are meeting on Sunday to get things happening. Contact me if you want to get stuck into the nitty gritty. Austin: We have Venue! Austin Fray Day has a location - finally! We'll be at Cafe Mundi, 1704 E. 5th St. Their motto is: Hard to find, easy to love. It's a great place with plenty of outdoor space. The show will begin at 7:00pm with Australian singer Sophie Raymond. Storytelling will begin around 8:30, and will be led by the inimitable Ben Brown. More details soon! Cincinnati: Cancelled? If I don't hear from anyone on this by Monday, I am afraid I will need to cancel the venue. Help if you can. Thanks. Los Angeles: Fray Day LA on Sunday This year's Fray Day LA will be held on Sunday, September 15, from 7 to 11pm at the Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Complex in the NoHo Arts District. The evening will feature a wonderful array of featured storytellers, followed by the traditional open mic. {fray} author Lance Anderson and Beverly Mickins are producing the event. Check back soon to find out ways you too can get involved. At the very least, we hope to see you there. Melbourne: Flier Ericmonkey has created a fab flier to advertise the Melbourne Fray Day. So what to do with it? Download the file, print out a copy or two and take it along to your local cafe, library, bookshop, school, work or anywhere else that is appropriate and ask them to stick it up. It's as simple as that and we can paint this town Fray! Grand Rapids: The Beautiful Wealthy Theatre The Wealthy Theatre, constructed in 1911, will host this year's Fray Grand Rapids. I stopped by and took some photos of our beautiful new home. Take a look. Grand Rapids: Venue Announcement! All of us in Grand Rapids, Michigan are thrilled to announce that we will be hosting Fray Day for the third year running! We're back with a brand-new venue, some veteran story-tellers, and a bunch of very cool volunteers. Join us on Saturday September 14th at the Wealthy Street Theatre - doors open at 6pm and the stories begin at 7pm. |
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