Shrew Crew: Schedule For The First Week Of July

Sorry guys. My computer at home became very sick this week so instead of updating the rehearsal calendar page I'm going to post the rehearsal schedule for next week here.

Monday

7:00 - 8:30
A 4 S 2

8:30 - 10:00
A 1 S 1

Tuesday

7:00 - 8:30
A 1 S 2

8:30 - 10:00
A 4 S 4

Wednesday

7:00 - 8:30
A 2 S 1 (Tranio excused)

8:30 - 10:00
A 3 S 1

Thursday

7:00 - 8:30
A 5 S 1 (Bianca excused)

8:30 - 10:00
A 5 S 2 (Bianca excused)

Friday

5:30 - 7:00
A 4 S 1

7:00 - 8:30
A 4 S 3

8:30 - 10:00
A 4 S 5

Chorus rehearsals have been provided on another post.

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Ticket and Festival Pass Reservations Now Online

People can now reserve festival passes and individual tickets online!

If your family and friends are waiting to get tickets, you can send them to:

www.summerdramafestival.com/ticketreservations.html

If you have any questions about ticket reservations, email Lindsay at sdftickets [at] hotmail [dot] com.

Festival Karaoke??

Sorry all, I know this isn't really technical information, but I wanted to invited the entire festival out to Karaoke at the Snooty Fox this sunday at 10. It is really fun and crazy and I don't have everyones emails to invite. So if you know anyone who is affiliated with the festival in any way shape and/or form (which I KNOW you do) invite them and tell them it will be a blast!! Thanx!! Hope to see you all there with your singin hats on!!

Indoor Venue Confirmed

Hamilton Theatre Inc. studio on MacNab St. behind Jackson Square is the confirmed location for our indoor shows, yay!

~That is all~
T!

SDF Table in the MUSC: Help Needed

If anyone out there is willing to help sit at a table in the MUSC this Thursday June 30th to help promote the festival, could you please email me. We have the table from 9am-4pm, so if you can help please tell me what time you would be willing to help out for.

Also if anyone out there has pictures or anything else that would be neat to include on a "SDF back board" that could be displayed at our table, contact me as well!

Thanks!

-Kasia
niewiakk[at]mcmaster.ca

Shrew Crew: Outdoor Rehearsals

Shrew crew rehearsals will be outside this week.

For now, everyone should still go to JHE 317 - but keep an eye out for a note directing you to an outdoor location. The note will either be on the door or on the big white board beside the door.

Remember to bring sunscreen, bug spray, appropriate clothing, bee sting medication or anything else you normally have with you when you're going to be outside in the sun for a while.

See you soon.

Thanks for the help!

Just wanted to give a big THANKS to everyone who helped donate their junk/time/baked goods to the SDF Rummage Sale Fundraiser today!

In the end we raised $129.83! yay!
We also were able to hand out a number of SDF flyers promoting the festival.

So once again Thanks.. and now time for a nap,


Kasia-been up since 530am-Niewiadomski

Flyers Made for the Garage Sale :)

Yay, we have flyers! Lots of them, too! (roughly 1000)

They are sitting at mine & Jared's house, but I'm sure sure if anyone in the house is brave enough to be there at 6 AM -- anyone able to drop by and pick them up, from those whom will be there at 6 AM?

Rob

ps - thanks to Chris for the flyer help today!

Flyers being printed -- might need a hand

If anyone is available at 12:30 today on campus.. drop by design & copy centre, basement of MUSC at 12:30 -- I may need a hand with cutting them.

Rob

BMOB 2: This Time, It's Not BMOB 1

Well, if Tori's going to advertise other festivals, then I am, too.

One of the two newest Renaissance Festivals in Ontario, the Royal Abingdon Faire, will be opening it's gates for the first time July 23, 2005! (Which is the day after SDF starts. Coincidence? Well, yes.)

There's girls in corsets, guys in tights, awesome food, large quantities of alcohol, real jousting, a human chess match, fire eating, music, magic shows, the court of King Henry VIII, and a whole lot of Shakespeare including Taming of the Shrew. It seems I can't escape that play this summer.

Anyway, it's at the Royal Botanical Gardens here in Hamilton, and is fully accessible by transit. Gates open at 10:45 and there's shows all day long, as well as random things happening in the streets of our pretend village of Abingdon. The Faire runs every weekend and statutory holiday until Labour day.

Yay.

Rummage Sale Fundraiser - TOMORROW!

Saturday June 25th (tomorrow) is the SDF Rummage Sale Fundraiser! It is going on at 46 Newton Ave. starting at 6am till about noon.

Come out and visit or help. There will be baked goods and lots of stuff to rummage through.

See you there!

-Kasia

BMOB: It's Your Festival Line-Up

Just so you know, It's Your Festival line-up has been announced and is on-line at http://www.hamiltonfolkarts.org/itsyourfestival.htm. The Festival runs from June 30th to July 3rd noon to 11pm in Gage Park. If you're in town for Canada Day Weekend, head over and check it out.

~That is all~
T!

PS: BMOB - Blatant Misuse of Blog

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Outdoor Venue Confirmed!

Faculty Hollow is official ours from July 16th through to July 31st, mwa ha ha!!!!

~That is all~
T!

June 14 Festival Meeting Minutes

The minutes from the festival meeting that was held on June 14 are available on the production files page.

Shrew Crew: Fundraising Update

The Shrew Crew has now raised 22% of its fundraising goal.

Shrew Crew: Rehearsal Tweek

Shrews, please check the rehearsal schedule for the rest of the week. There have been a couple of changes.

Let us know if you have any problems with the times.

Ad Sales - Letter Available

A letter which can be sent out to businesses to offer the chance to buy
ad space in our program is now available!

Ask your friendly neighbourhood SMs for copies :)

-Kasia

MMT Move: June 27th

It is official:
MMT is moving their set/staging pieces on Monday, June 27th between noon - 4:00pm.
If you can give them a hand moving, please e-mail me and let me know.

Thanks a bunch everyone!

~That is all~
T!

SDF table in MUSC

SDF will be setting up a table in the MUSC next Thursday (June 30th) from 9am-4:30pm, for promotion/donation collection.

If you can help that day or have anything to contribute (like for display), please email me.

Thanks!
-Kasia
niewiak[at]mcmaster.ca

Reminder: Director Notes Due June 22nd

A quick reminder that Director Notes are Due June 22nd (tomorrow!) . Please send them to Bryan.
Thanks.

Help Needed - MMT is Moving

Okay, a partial truth. MMT (McMaster Musical Theatre) itself is not moving, but as per a request from SOTA they need to move their set from the storage shed ...

I am asking everyone if they can help MMT move their stuff. They will be relocating their worldly goods either Friday (June 24th), Monday (June 27th) or Tuesday (28th) from noon to 4:00pm on either of those days. If you can come out and lend them a hand, drop me a line [MatlsEng{at}hotmail{dot}com]. If there are any set pieces a show would like to borrow, come on out and see what is available - and help move it to Commons (sneeky aren't I? :)

~That is all~
T!

OWS Meet tomorrow

Hi all -- a reminder!

OWS will be meetin at Quarter's patio, 5:30 tomorrow (Tuesday)!

Shrew Crew: Line Help This Week

I'll go to JHE 317 an hour before the first rehearsal Monday - Friday this week. If you'd like some help with your lines or character, please come on by.

Hooray for the MHS!

A big lovely thank you to the wonderful people at the McMaster Humanities Society, who have donated $200 to SDF! Yay!

SDF-Garage Sale: Volunteers Needed!

Sadly, as of right now I do not have any volunteers for the SDF-Garage Sale going on this Sat. June 25th, at 46 Newton Ave :(

If you would so kindly like to volunteer, you can sign up for a 2 hour block of time (or more if you like!).
The times are as follows:

5:30-7am
7am-9am
9am-11am
11am-1pm

I will remain at the sale for the duration of the event and am hoping that at least 2-3 others will help sell with me at all times.

Also If someone out there would like to volunteer to organize selling of baked goods etc, that would be nice too. Perhaps somone would like to host a "baking and poster making party" this Thursday or Friday... just an idea!

If you can help, please email me, or post in the comments!
Thanks!!

-Kasia
niewiakk[at]mcmaster.ca

Good Work Shrew Crew!

I just wanted to tell you guys that you've been doing a really good job in rehearsals during the last couple of days. I know the schedule is pretty demanding for some of you. Thanks for working so hard.

Donation from OPIRG

I just received a call from OPIRG and they are generously donating $100 to the festival!

-Kasia

Remember: Bios are due today!

If you haven't sent your bio to sdfbios@hotmail.com then please make sure you do it today.

Important: Upcoming play premiere at Mac! (help needed!)

Hi everyone

The Department of English is holding a conference at Mac in early/mid July, which will include the first Canadian staged reading/performance of "The Convent of Pleasure", written first in 1668 by Margaret Cavendish, one of the only female playwrights of the era. Actors, crew, and other volunteers are needed. As I understand it, the lines will not require memorization, and costuming will be very limited. This is more of a staged reading than a full production.

It will be directed by Gweno Williams from York St. John College from York, UK. This event is being organized by English grad students.

Please email me at porterrg [at] mcmaster [dot] ca and I will get you in contact with the correct people -- I would recommend your involvement if you have a smaller role in SDF or want some stage performance experience in front of a small audience.

Shrew Crew: Chorus Percussion Practice Files

To the Shrew Crew Chorus:

Steffen has created some small sound files to help you practice your percussion. Click here to find out more.

Shrew Crew: July Schedules Due Friday

If you are shrew cast or crew, please email shrewcrew2005@hotmail.com your July schedules by Friday at 5:00 PM.

If your schedule will not change, please email us to let us know.

If your schedule is impossible to control or know that far in advance, please give us your best guess (let us know it is a guess) or give us any information that may help us create the July schedule.

One way or another, everyone should be sending an email about their schedule to shrewcrew2005@hotmail.com by Friday.

July will be a difficult month to schedule. We're trying to come up with solutions early.

Thanks for your help everybody.

Shrew Crew: Lines Help

I'm going to go to JHE 317 an hour before the first rehearsals on Tuesday - Friday this week. If you need a hand with your lines, come on by.

Please use this opportunity if you need more time to memorize or understand your part in the play.

If you're doing well with your lines, but have a bit of time and would like to help, please consider dropping by once or twice this week to give your castmates a hand.

CNH Display Case

Hi everyone!

Lara Grünthal, one of the original SDF organizers back in year 1, has obtained permission from the Dean of Humanities to make use of the display case outside the Dean's office. If anyone has materials from previous years (props, photos, programmes, etc) that they would like to lend, please email her at grunthal [at] mcmaster [dot] ca. Please indicate in the subject line that it is regarding the SDF display case.

Thank-you!

Rob

Shrew Crew: Fundraising Progress

The Shrew Crew is trying to raise $1000 for the festival by July 15.

Check out our progress by clicking here.

If you'd like to help fundraise for the festival, email Kasia at niewiakk [at] muss.cis.mcmaster.ca.

Festival Meeting - June 14th, 5:00pm JHE A114

There will be a festival meeting tomorrow at 5:00pm in JHE A114. Please come prepared to give a full update on your activites over the last month. To all directors, SMs, coordinators, executive and chairs - if you cannot attend, please e-mail Tori before 3:00pm Tuesday. Please include a brief update in your e-mail.

The Agenda is listed under comments. If there is anything that needs to be added, please let Tori know before 4:00pm on Tuesday.

~That is all~
T!

Costume Meeting For Shrew Postponed

There were some conflicts with the costume meeting time tonight, so I've postponed it until Thursday, June 16 at 5:00 PM. It will still be in JHE 317.

Sorry for the change. Please pass this info on to anyone who expressed interest in coming but may not be checking the blog.

Shrew Crew: Schedule Up To June 30

Bryan worked really hard and finished the rehearsal schedule up to June 30.

Email shrewcrew2005@hotmail.com if there are any problems, but please try to avoid any problems.

The schedule is available on the padua site.

We need your "junk"!!

Hi All

unfortunately I had very few responses to the last email sent out about the idea of having an SDF Garage Sale as a fundraiser. I'm hoping that people had just forgotten to reply or something along those lines..
We now have a tentative date and a location! So maybe this will help people have a better idea if they can help out.
The date we are going to shoot for will be Saturday June 25th (early morning to afternoon) and the location will be 46 Newton Ave. (home to Alex White.. Thanks Alex!!).

So next the most important element to a garage sale is having something to sell, this is where we need EVERYONE's help!
I am asking all of you to look around your homes, your friends and family's homes for some unwanted "junk"...
If you feel that you can make some sort of donation to this garage sale then PLEASE email me and tell me so I know if we have enough to hold this event (specifics are not needed, just "yes i can donate a few things/a bunch or things" etc.)

Also if you can volunteer at the actual garage sale send me a reply!

Perhaps each cast may want to decided on a day where members can bring their donations to one of their rehearsals and I will arrange to take your soon-to-be-someone-else's-treasure away.(If you have any larger/heavy donations other arrangements can be made).

So please please email me with some responses, I like emails :) and I like your "junk" even more! and even more than that I love people who volunteer to help with garage sales!

Hope to hear from all of you soon,

Kasia
niewiakk [at] muss.cis.mcmaster.ca

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Costume Meeting: Shrew

Thanks to the guys who have volunteered to help with costumes for Taming of the Shrew! I really appreciate your help.

We're going to have a meeting to talk about costumes on Monday, June 13 at 7:00 PM in JHE 317. (This is also up on the shrew crew rehearsal calendar.) If you can't come, please let me know and I can try to keep you in the loop.

If you'd like to help with this but haven't emailed me yet - that's ok. Just come to the meeting on Monday. You don't have to be in Shrew to help.

Thanks again!

Bios (Reminder)

Hello Everyone!!

I am just posting to remind everyone involved with the festival that your bios for the festival program are due on June 15. Yes...that is one week from today.

As of now, I have received 2 bios and for a festival of this magnitude that is a very disappointing number.

Please send your bios to sdfbios@hotmail.com, no later than 11:59pm on June 15th.

If there are any questions or issues, feel free to post a comment or email the sdfbios account.

Bryan

Looking for a lawn!

The Fundraising Committee would really love to organize a garage sale to raise money, but to have one we need a location, and have not had any offers yet. So again we're hoping that someone out there would be able to offer some sort of location for us...even volunteering a friend's/acquaintance’s lawn would be acceptable! Please respond to this message if you can help us out, or send an email to the SDF address.

Thanks! Hope we can make this event happen

-Kasia

Reminder: Commuter Challenge

To all those who signed up for the Commuter Challenge, please remember to fill out the e-mail form the ACT office sent you yesterday.

If everyone who signed up fills it out, we will have the highest participation, which will lead to more free food (mmmmm.... food....).

~That is all~
T!

Wanted: Plain Print Sheets

Trojan Women is looking for 3-4 plain print sheets to be tailored into stylin' Trojan-ware.

If you have any plain print sheets lying around that you could donate, (twin or double is good, queen size would be great!), please e-mail me.

~That is all~
T!

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Coins & Bottles

Just a reminder that if you'd like to donate a coin jar to the festival you can bring it to any Taming of the Shrew rehearsal or drop it off at Jared's house and we'll roll it for you.

If you've got beer bottles you'd like to donate and you live in the area, fill out this form and we'll try to pick them up for you.

Costume Design & Creation

If anyone is interested in helping with costume design and creation for Taming of the Shrew, please email Jared by Thursday.

Thanks Mrs. Fotheringham!

Thanks to everyone who came to the shrew crew line party on Saturday night - and a special thank you to Bryan and Steve's Mom, who sent us so much great food!

Blatant Misuse of Blog - Help!

I am moving tomorrow (June 4th) and am looking for a little assistance to help me relocate my stuff. If anyone feels so inclined to give me a hand tomorrow, we're starting at 9am at 169 Arkell Street (just off of Cline Ave. S.) . I thank you in advance.
Tori

Shrew Crew: Rehearsal Locations

Please meet in JHE 317-319 for shrew crew rehearsals from now until June 14 - unless otherwise specified on the rehearsal calendar.

Fundraising Meeting May27 - Minutes

Meeting minutes are available from the Fundraising Meeting on May 27th. If interested in a copy, please e-mail me.

~That is all~
T!

Commuter Challenge-Free Breakfast Friday (June 4th)

For those who have signed-up for the Commuter Challenge (contact Lyanne if you want to and haven't), the wonderful pin you got is your ticket to a free pancake breakfast outside the Student Centre this Friday between 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM served by Peter George himself.

If you're going, make sure to thank him for supporting us!

~That is all~

T!

PS: Please remember to fill out the e-form that the ACT office sends you! The group with the highest participation gets a free dinner! More free food for 30 seconds of your time. Not too shabby!!

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Buskerfest in Dundas this weekend...

One more message to everyone --

Friday night opens up Buskerfest for this weekend. I encourage casts to get together and head to Dundas for some great performances. Myself and a few others will be there that night for the open street swing-dance from 6 to sunset. If you ask nicely, you might even be able to get a free lesson or two...

Sponsorship from the Centre for Peace Studies

Hey ho everyone!

A big thank-you goes out to Peace Studies, who has contributed $500 to our festival!

The alumi reunion planning is going very well. We have an invitation list that is currently just over 280 people, and will grow to more soon as word gets out. Alumni Association is being very, very helpful with this.

That's all for now!