Front Street Cafe & Philly Fringe Festival!
Front Street Cafe is proud to be hosting an art installation in conjunction with Tongue & Groove?Spontaneous Theater, Adrienne Theater?& Philadelphia Fringe Arts Festival.
As many of you know FringeArts is Philadelphia?s home for contemporary performance, presenting progressive, world-class art that stretches the imagination and boldly defies expectation. As the city?s lead experimenter in the arts, FringeArts exposes audiences to unpredictable dance, theater and music performances by accomplished and emerging innovators who are pushing the boundaries of art-making and redefining the artistic landscape worldwide.
The Fringe Festival, presented by FringeArts, is a 17-day, city-wide celebration of innovation and creativity in contemporary performance. Each September, the Festival explodes into every nook and cranny in neighborhoods across Philadelphia with more than 1,000 artistically daring performances, including national and international performances curated by FringeArts, and works that are produced by independent artists and promoted by FringeArts. The party continues late night, every night, with music, food and drink at FringeArts? center on the Delaware River waterfront. This vast assemblage of curated and self-produced innovators offers an unparalleled opportunity to see a cross section of the world?s greatest experimenters at one time, in one city.
Year-round programming is presented at FringeArts? state-of-the-art center on the Delaware River Waterfront?a renovated historic building that also houses a restaurant and beer garden. Each September, the organization presents the annual Fringe Festival, a 17-day celebration that fills the city?s neighborhoods with more than 1,000 curated and independently produced contemporary performances.
For Fringe 2016 Front Street Cafe is the proud host of an interactive art installation.
A Similar Fringe Arts Installation will be at Front Street Cafe, Photo courtesy of Bobbi Block
Tongue & Groove is installing a?Before I Die?interactive chalkboard mural, to be unveiled on Sept 8 at 6:30pm at its groovy location at the?Front Street Cafe?in Fishtown.??For the installation party they will have music from the booty-shaking Brazilian Samba band,?Unidos da Filadelfia! ?And you can enjoy delicious food, beer and fresh juices from the Cafe.
The Mural prompts anyone to complete the phrase “Before I Die I Want To…’
Anyone can add their hopes and dreams to it;?responses from the?mural will be added to audience responses to inspire each T&G Fringe performance.
The board will be?located on the outside-facing wall of Front?St Cafe at?N. Front and W. Thompson Streets.??(leel11.sg-host.com)
Tongue & Groove Theater will have Shows from Sept 9th-24th at the Adrienne Theater
BEFORE I DIE
the performance!
Sept 9 @8pm???Sept 10?@?5pm
Sept 17?@?5pm???Sept 23?@?8pm???Sept 24?@?5pm
The PlayGround at The Adrienne
2030 Sansom St
Responses off the wall will be mixed with audience responses submitted at the theater.
The actors will use these?anonymously-submitted?bucket-list dreams?to inspire a montage of hilarious and?heartbreaking scenes and monologues.
TICKETS for BEFORE I DIE are AVAILABLE THROUGH FRINGEARTS. ?SCROLL DOWN TO PURCHASE.
For more information, video clips: ?tongue-groove.com
Front Street Cafe & Philly Fringe Festival!