[NEohioPAL]NEWFANGLED PRODUCTIONS invites you to THE STARVING ARTISTS' BALL

[Newfangled Productions]

Hello!
It’s that time of year again! It’s time for Newfangled Productions’ biggest fundraiser of the year – The Starving Artists Ball - and we hope you can attend. This past year we’ve been quite busy. Here’s a recap:

1. Sexual Perversity in Chicago – We started the year off with Josh Douglas’ production of David Mamet’s breakthrough play Sexual Perversity in Chicago which got some great reviews and sold old every night. Part of its popularity came from Douglas intermixing a jazz singer into the mix of characters, adding pointed commentary on the action of the play with songs ranging from the likes of Johnny Cash to Frank Sinatra to Frank Zappa. 

2. Linda Kahn: Creativity, a Healthy Defense - Linda Kahn combined dance, text and her personal experiences into a special lecture / performance on using creativity to overcome grief and loss. Her lecture featured two of her acclaimed dance pieces to highlight her speech and helped demonstrate how she had overcome her grief healthfully and effectively through her choreography.

3. A Newfangled Halloween - Four members of the Newfangled board of trustees created a special performance for a group of 54 kids for the Goodyear Branch of the Akron Public Library. Stories, games, coloring and Halloween carols (yes, there are such things) made up this fun event.

4. Newfangled’s Leaf Tour 2003 - Newfangled Productions gets down and dirty for our fall fundraiser. The Newfangled Board of Trustees (plus the occasional husband - after all, isn't that what they're for?) brave the elements to make the lawns of northeastern Ohio a leaf-free place for a low, low price.

5. Bums: A Musical – Under Construction - Local authors Jess Meyer and Mary Collins have devised a devilishly delightful experimental musical comedy. At least, we think that's what it is! Newfangled sponsored a special workshop performance of this new work. This free performance was followed by a discussion session with the authors, a discussion panel and the audience. Long live the beaver!

6. Purim Carnevale – This wonderful collaboration brought Newfangled Productions, Ensemble Ciaramella and The Cleveland Museum of Art together. Musician Anna Levenstein, playwright Omri Yavin and director Megan Elk created a wonderful combination of period Commedia dell'Arte text, music and dance based on the first Hebrew play, A Comedy of Betrothal by Leone de Sommi.

7. Beat the Heat - Read! - Newfangled Productions returned to the Akron Public Library's Goodyear Branch for another fun morning of games, music and stories. We taught the kids some summer dance moves, read "The Rainbow Fish" together and then they decorated their own fish which they traded with their friends.

As you see, we accomplished a great deal this year and we want to thank you for your support. We have many more plans for this coming year and we hope you can attend our special fundraising event. Newfangled Productions is a non-profit organization and most of our annual funding comes from The Starving Artists Ball, so please help us to continue our programs by attending. We hope to see you there and throughout the course of the year!

Sincerely,
Oliver Corrigan
Artistic Director
Newfangled Productions

P.S. Check out our website at http://www.geocities.com/newfangledwebsite.

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Newfangled Productions, Inc.
invites you to...

The Third Annual Starving Artists Ball
a gala to benefit the fine arts

FRIDAY JULY 16th 2004
7:00-10:00 PM

The Viking Vineyards
268 Old Forge Rd.
Kent, OH 44240

Newfangled Productions, Inc. is a nonprofit creative arts production and education company. We seek to serve the community by setting a new standard of excellence in the creative arts that is accessible to all people. Every project that we undertake must serve the community through education and entertainment and make every effort to reach all of the people in that community: the rich, the poor, and the in-between of all ages, races, and ethnicities - including prisoners, the homeless, the disabled, and the infirm. The company is run by a board of directors and a volunteer staff.

We hope that you will join us for our annual fundraising event. Dress is formal but not black tie.

See you there!

The Newfangled Board:
Oliver Corrigan
Josh Douglas
Megan Elk
Catherine Loya
Jennifer Justice
Jamie Russell

Tickets are:
$10 ----- Student
$20 ----- Adult
$35 ----- Couple
$50 ----- Patron*

* Patron tickets are Couple tickets that include 2 season tickets to our 2004-2005 productions.

Please e-mail us at:

newfangled at email.com

with

Name:
Phone:
E-mail:
Type and number of tickets you would like to order:
(We will contact you when we receive your e-mail to arrange a payment method.)

or

Send checks made out to "Newfangled Productiosn, Inc."
directly to:

Newfangled Productions, Inc.
1648 Queen's Gate Circle #23
Cuyahoga Falls, OH
44221-5384

(Do not send cash. We will call you when we have received your payment.)


As members of the artistic community in northeastern Ohio, there are many opportunities for you to use your talents as we continue to become more active and help create something unique, exciting and worthwhile in this area. There are many dynamic and talented people around here who together could make a great contribution to this community (and perhaps make a few bucks yourself!). If you feel this applies to you, please contact us.

Newfangled Productions, Inc.
1648 Queen's Gate Circle #23
Cuyahoga Falls, OH
44221-5384

(330)940-2521

newfangled at email.com

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