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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! |
September 2002Fray: Four new galleries There are four new FD6 Photo Galleries online tonight. Check out pics from Austin, Cambridge, Los Angeles, and Washington DC. More to come! Guam: Wow! An amazingly nice writeup of Fray Day 6 Guam in Pika. Alex Djalali makes the event sound really special and unique. Austin: Photeaux, et al. Well, we had a very nice time at Austin's Fray Day 6. It was very low-key, very laid back, all about the stories. Thanks in triplicate to Ben Brown for holding things together and for telling an excellent story. Also thanks to everyone who shared a story. Some photos of the event are available here. Enjoy! El Paso: it has now come and gone fray day el paso has now come and gone. but we will be posting digtal video of the entire event. but i want to extend a big thank you to everyone who was involved and voluteered. we are greatly appreciative. keep your eyes posted for the video. toby. Fray: Official FD6 Photo Galleries The Official FD6 Photo Galleries are coming online now. First up: Copenhagen and San Francisco. A special shout out to Charlene Wright who took the most wonderful photos at Fray Day 6 San Francisco! Los Angeles: Photos Here are a few selected photos from Fray Day LA that I've posted on my site. All photos by storyteller and entertainment journalist Melissa Lee.... More coming soon. Washington DC: Follow up :) A big thanks to all the people who participated in the interactive art, I am still working on the people font, but here is a sample to give you an idea of what its all about! Copenhagen: Epilogue: Copenhagen As promised, here is the full story of what went down at Fray Day in Copenhagen. Cambridge: Cambridge Fray! Fray Day Cambridge was excellent! The featured storytellers were great as were those who participated in the open mic. Most of the stories were recorded so hopefully we'll be able to share them online soon. In the meantime take a look at some photos taken by Sooz and Jen, as well as some from featured storyteller Shane Luitjens Guam: Pictures from Paradise Someone in our audience took some Fray Day 6 Guam pics. I was able to get one. One! Ugh :-P Tucson: Frayed in Tucson Tucson's first Fray Day is over and we're all happy with how well it went. There was a lot happening in town this weekend but once our event got started we all had a great time and heard from some fabulous people. Pictures from the event and of our interactive art projects will be scanned in and uploaded soon. Can't wait to see how *next* year shapes up! Los Angeles: Storytelling Lives in LA! I am very pleased by the way Fray Day LA ran. The featured performers all gave wonderful performances, followed by a very solid open mic.... Regardless of what you find being offered on TV and in your local movie theatres, storytelling is alive and well in Los Angeles. Thanks to all who performed, helped and watched. Photos will be coming soon. Melbourne: Melbourne Fray Well Melbourne Fray Day is well and truly over. We had less people turn out than we liked but that just meant it was more intimate. Gelfling were just amazing and made many new fans. The story telling started with Rosanna telling about the history of Fray Day and her involvement with Fray. She then read her contribution to Fray's millenium stories. That was followed by Barbara talking about turning 21 and having glandular fever. Many more stories were told -- too many to remember. Will post more later & scan the results of the interactive projects. San Francisco: Fray Day Photos Fray Day 6 San Francisco rocked! Now, I know, I say that every year, but this year it's is especially true thanks to Dealership and From Monument to Masses, our two bands that literally rocked the house. I'm working on getting some photos online, but in the meantime, check out photos from Matt, John, and Robin. Copenhagen: First glimpses The Copenhagen event is well over. It was a great evening of fantastic stories. More details will follow, but for a first glimpse, take a look at some of good people in action! Washington DC: is it over already? it was a fabulous night at fray day 6 dc, not even a tropical storm could stop us, and it was all captured live on video so watch for updates. i wanted to get the word out how much we appreciated our featured performers, maura and kelowna, and let us give a huge shout out to the volunteers who got us out of our venue on time and without a mess! Guam: Frayed... Well, Fray Day 6 Guam has been over for about 15 hours now, and I'm still feeling the effects: still hearing the storytellers in my mind, still seeing all the images of last night, still have a headache :-) ...read on... Washington DC: the day is here! tonight is the big night! Copenhagen: The evening in short Tomorrow the doors to the Copenhagen event opens at 7pm. The first half hour will be for meeting and greeting. Then follows a general introduction to the fray idea, the interactive art project, the musical entertainment and the open mic session. The featured speakers will begin the evening with their stories, which is then followed by the music. After the break, it's open mic time. Tucson: KXCI Interview The mp3 of the interview Maggie Golston and I did on KXCI today is available here (3.3mb). Los Angeles: Lobby Opens at 6:30 We'll be "meeting and greeting" starting at 6:30. There will be refreshments, interactive art and the open mic sign-up sheet. Please arrive early since we plan on starting the featured part of the show shortly after 7.... Also, if you have a digital camera and would like to use it, please bring it along. Thanks. Melbourne: This is it! Only a few hours now until Melbourne Fray Day. Don't forget to get there early so you can sign up for the open mic. Guam: Front Page News Fray Day 6 Guam made the front page of the Entertainment section of the Pacific Daily News. PIKA wrote a short but sweet article on Fray Day 6 Guam. Gotta love mis-quotes. Gotta love free publicity even more. San Francisco: FD6SF in Today's Papers There's a fabulous story about Fray Day 6 San Francisco in today's Examiner: 'Fray' to be you and me. I had no idea I was so foulmouthed around reporters! The event was also mentioned on the front page of the Chronicle Datebook. San Francisco: Open Mic Info Part of what makes Fray Day special is that YOU are invited to tell your story in the open mic. If you're interested in signing up, read on.... Washington DC: Anticipation Growing in DC We are in the home stretch now for Fray Day 6 DC! We are proud to announce that Maura Johnston and Kelowna Vincent will be featured storytellers. We have some pretty cool interactive art projects in mind but can always use more ideas if you have them to offer! We look forward to seeing you all on Saturday night to make the first Fray DC event a huge success! Tucson: Final Poster Design! Here is the final design for the posters and fliers we've been putting up around town. Feel free to download and distribute your own! And thanks to Raphrat for the great design! Tucson: Ch-ch-ch-changes! With a week to go we're shuffling things around a bit. Lost some featured performers, gained some new ones, it's all good in the end! We're excited to add Jef Hamby as a performer and to announce our radio interview on KXCI 91.3 FM during "The Home Stretch" at 5:30pm this Friday the 13th! Cia Romano will be providing event information and Maggie Golston will be performing a short illustrative piece, be sure to tune in! Melbourne: Call for photographers My (not so) trusty camera buggered up last weekend and won't be fixed in time for Saturday night so we need photographers for the Melbourne Fray Day. If you are intending to turn up with camera please mail me so I can sleep easy. Los Angeles: Fray Author Added I am pleased to announce that {fray} author Adam Rakunas has been added to our list of featured performers. You can learn more about Adam here. Guam: Flyers, four kinds
San Francisco: Local link A fantastic writeup of Fray Day San Francisco (and Fray Day in general) is now appearing in local city site SF Station: Storytellers Leap into the Fray. I love any article that includes the phrase "adrenaline aftermath." San Francisco: Marquee tag We put the letters up on the Victoria Theatre marquee today. Get ready San Francisco!
Copenhagen: The time is nigh The flyers are out there, a handfull of featured speakers are lined up and everything is about as ready as it can get. Now we just have to wait and see what stories will be told. San Francisco: FD6SF poster updated
San Francisco: Final Featured Storytellers I'm totally stoked to announce a few final featured storytellers, including internet superstar Justin Hall, Oprah's buddy Heather Champ, bestseller Laura Fraser, and retired bank robber Joe Loya. Read on for the nitty gritty.... Fray: Listen up! Fray Day is one week away, so it's time to start practicing those stories! Looking for inspiration? Give these past fray events a listen and get ready to rock: Fray Cafe 2, Fray Day 5, Fray Day 4, Fray Day 3, Fray Day 2. San Francisco: More Featured Storytellers Three more featured storytellers have signed on to perform at Fray Day 6 San Francisco, including Bay Area troublemaker Jack Boulware, slam poet Justin Chin, and last year's open mic emcee Brad Graham! Read on for more info.... Austin: Austin Flyers Austin flyers are here! If you're in the Austin area and are planning to attend the show, help spread the word by printing out and distributing a few flyers. Tucson: Music! Some of the crew from AZsessions, a weekly live jam session broadcast over the Internet, are going to grace us with their DJ skills before and after the spoken performances at our event! Specifically, johnny birkinbine [jcat], scott gustafson [emmfour] and dan taylor [indigo] will be spinning. Woo! Maybe we'll even convince them to, y'know, talk! Tucson: Featured Performers Here it is, our confirmed list of Featured Performers! (descriptions as available): Steve - from old-time Hollywood stuntman stories to PVC panties and drag queens, he's really seen it all! Los Angeles: Boob Tube Bios Here are two more bios from a couple of people (who also happen to be a couple) that you might recognize from the boob tube. Austin: Austin Performers Howdy from Austin. Here's a quick "featured performers" update for you: You know that Ben Brown is emcee, right? Well, he is (rock!). And his winsome wife, Ani Moller, is a featured performer, along with Austin rock goddess Ainjel Emme and the always gentlemanly Tim O. Thompson. Show begins at 7:00pm with Sophie Raymond, a guitarist, vocalist and songstress from Australia. Storytelling begins around 8:30pm. And flyers are on their way.... Los Angeles: Fray Day Sneak Preview The Art Coalition, who'll be helping with the interactive art for Fray Day, is having an art opening on Saturday, September 14th. Along with the art and wine, they have offered to let Fray Day Featured Performers give a sneak preview of Sunday's event. Grand Rapids: Downloadable Poster
Melbourne: Feature Storytellers Fray Day Melbourne is pleased to announce the first of our feature story tellers: Sean Hegarty is the author of Sonata for Unfinished Yelling, an online journal that recently won several imaginary awards. He's lived in 47 houses and visited 36 countries, and is still trying to work out why. And local writer, Barbara Kerr who says: Barbara Kerr is nobody. Who are you? If you are interested in being a feature storyteller for Fray Melbourne we still have some spots left so don't be shy. Cambridge: Volunteer Opportunities -- get involved! We're looking for people to conspire with who can help make the upcoming event at the Cambridge/Central Square YWCA a memorable experience for everyone who attends and participates. If you can help out in one or more of these areas, email Jen Langley and I at fraycambridge@yahoo.com. We look forward to hearing from you! The $5-10 sliding scale entry fee will be waived for all volunteers. Cambridge: Fray Day Cambridge Posters Help spread the word about Fray Day Cambridge and download one of these PDF posters in either color or black and white. We borrowed from Derek's SF Poster for the design. The posters would look great at your favorite cafe, music store, bookstore, college campus or wherever else you hang out!
Melbourne: Posters We are planning on flooding the town with posters this week but can't be everywhere at once so be a chum and either download the poster or contact me to get some hard copies. Stick them up in your local cafe, pub, library, laundrymatt, where ever. |
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